Those Turkish Beliefs..

Key under the pillow:
if you put a key under your pillow at a place you stay for the first time, you will see the girl/the guy you will marry in the future.

Kiss the girls twice :
if you are kissing a turkish girl on the cheeks, be careful that you kiss the both cheeks (not one or three times) otherwise the girl will be a widow in the future . (though it is very difficult in belgium. it is either one or three)

Slippers straight :
be careful that your slippers dont turn upside down when you get them off, otherwise someone is going to die in your home!

Dreams :
If you see a girl's thing*, in your dream, a male you know is going to die.. and if you see a boy's thing* in your dream, a female you know is going to die!

Rice on the plate:
If you leave rice on your plate after you finish eating, your fiance will dump you before getting married.

most of these are made up by my grandmoms or granddads i guess and all are related either marriage or death..

and these are coming from my Recep (my dad) :
if you bite your nails, you wont have a child in the future.
if you drink too much Turkish coffee, again, you wont have a child in the future.
as you see, It is all about being fertile or not.. :) and i do them both. all the time..

dont know why but i still believe most of them, my favorite is the first one.
i still practise it, the result is : all black.. :)

Old Friends.. New Friends.. Amsterdam

last weekend was my 3rd time in Amsterdam..

First one was in '99, when i was at high school.. Our HASAL made a trip to amsterdam, the last place a high school student should go..

The memories that are left in my mind from those days: Koekie, Tim... falling from the stairs. breaking the arm.. renting a bike.. having the best night of my life with 3 special friends (they know who they are :) ) ..Apollosatraat.. leidseplein.. the night that guys escaped from the fire stairs having their 'first' experiences in Red Light.. (cok mu sey acikliyorum yahu?) :)

Haha.. it is already 7 yrs now and there's still the same thing with the air of this city.

Second time, I was there with Pinar, just a couple of hours in Amsterdam after getting bored in Rotterdam.. nothing much to do, just to chill out.. mostly in Dam.

this time, Kamila, my Polish and me .. visited historical & touristical places of the city of course :)
best thing was to catch up with Pen pen, the mother of my children. I had to leave her and our three kids (b,s,g) but as i saw, i havent missed anything in the last couple months. She is as sweet as when i left..

in fact that was the first time when i had the chance to tell what i've been hiding inside for last couple of months. and she could understand me well..very well.. like always. sometimes i am very much surprised by the fact that how much alike we are..

i know it is lameeee.. but what was not lame about amsterdam was.. we repeated the thing we always did while visiting a new city. but it might be very nice to disclosure it here.. it happened in canberra, and now it was amsterdam.. but unfortunately we couldnt find any straws to send it to the old team.

next time, next shop i hope :)

so that was it..

and this weekend it was Bike, next weekend it is going to be Bahar. i think it is happening to me as well : as they it sunscreen : `the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.`

Olcaaaay

I always keep the best for the last :) I havent mentioned another Turk I know here, in fact she is the most beatiful and the sweetest one in the gang. Among the other hairy, dark, Turkish guys I know she reminds me that there are still some beautiful Turks here. hahah! But unfortunately i dont have any pic of her to show you (allah kahretsin! :))

Thanks god, she moved to the next office (Turk Turk'u ceker!) and everytime I come to work, and every time I leave, I feel soo happy to practise my Turkish with her :) Although she thinks that her Turkish is not that good, she speaks better than any other Turkish ppl who live in Turkey. She even knows sormadan gorme :) Yuru be Olcaaay! :)

Next time I post about her here, there will be more pictures and more attractions insallah, (hopefully the delicious dinner she will make :) )

ps: haha, dont worry she is not my manager or anything but just wanted to write about her 'cause she is 'baldan tatli' ;) really :)

Working Days...

Hi all,

It's been more than 1 month, and it is time to give news from the office..
here is the aiesec gang :

Isabel : Brazilian, - the best to have the girl talk (Brazilians, Turks, Brazilians, Turks etc etc. ) & the most hardworking in the whole company..

Irwin : little Indonesian, and mio maestro d'italiano.. can speak every language on earth, Kesin bunu da anlayacak zaten..

myself : that is what i really do at work :)

Hahah, that is all for now..
Cheers,
Tugba

Flower Carpet Brussels

In every two years, the most famous square of Brussels, Grote Markt is covered by thousands of begonias in the mid of August.

http://www.flowercarpet.be/

As the event was not that long, and it was only once in every 2 years, we decided to go that place after the raki nite. Nice & definitely worth to see but half an hour was more than enough..

You can see how gentle and nice these 2 Turkish guys are looking in front of thousands of flowers..

Brussels.. with the Turks..

day by day, I am getting used to my life in rainy & cloudy & grumpy brussels.

I moved to my new place at rue de mot, near schuman. right between european commission & parliament buildings.. my new housemates are all interns as well, kamila from poland (dhl), leon from china (dhl), marianne & lise -2 norwegian chicks doing internships in Norwegian Embassy.

I will post their pictures very soon..

I also got in the Turkish community of course. As they say 'Turk'un Turk'ten baska dostu yok.' :) I found some Turks like usual. Bora & Onur.

Bora is a DHL trainee, I know him back from Aussieland.. He was a trainee in SA Water with Selin, i heard of him a lot before..

Onur is working in Electrolux, upstairs 'kapi komsusu'. He is an engineer -the smartest in the gang :)

I mostly hung out w these guys since I came here, being a real aiesec person, interacting with many many different cultures (!).. When we are together, all we do is drinking, eating kebap, eating pide, shopping at Gazi Migros,(gaziye kurban olurum bee) drinking again..of course where there is a turk, there should be a raki..

Below is our 'cilingir sofrasi' with our Turkish Raki, of course the music background is Ibo & Orhan Baba..

Next target is to rent a Turkish movie, I propose Tosun Pasa or Sut Kardesler..