Holiday of the year = Turkey

Pictures of turkey can be checked out in my friendster account coz i cant be bothered to upload them here. my email is aisyahhassan@hotmail.com


Im not going to be very detailed bout this trip..just about what i feel i should share. and what i feel like sharing. It didnt start off good for me. I was very upset with the fact that i was alone, without aliah or hanim, and the only kids that came along were all siblings so it was hard for me to include myself in their clan. they're my neighbours even. Isma, 27 ; Aizat, 23; Amira, 19; and Aqilah, 14. Ive never talked to them before. As everyone sane in this world know, its very lame and very boring to only have to spend time with ur parents during a trip to such a great place. So i pushed myself to be extra friendly and shameless and started talking to them. It started off in bahrain. I talked to the brothers first coz they had to sit next to me during dinnertime. Aizat is my sister aliah's fren so it was easy. Thankfully, these siblings are seriously funny and relaxed kind of people. So at the airport on the way to istanbul, i talked to aizat coz the others were missing. In istanbul on the way to bursa, i followed them on the ferry and thank god i did that. That was the starting point of our frenship. I didnt even hang out with my parents and stood on the deck in the cold with them and took photos with them as well. Hahaha...In bursa, that night, i caught up with them while they were getting ready to go out. Yes, i managed to menyibuk. I saw aizat getting out of the room wearing his winter jacket and followed by his sister wearing her muffler. I asked whether i can follow and so i did. hahaha...was fun tho. and so the frenship continued on, i hung out with them most of the time but aizat was my constant bodyguard. lol much. they're really funny. i like the way they treat each other. Isma is the ketua menyakat, aizat makes really crazy n hilarious jokes, amira is more straightforward and aqilah is the crazy one coz shes the youngest.

It was winter in turkey and it was seriously cold. even with long johns. but i liked it a lot. lovely weather. it didnt rain that much except in ankara, the capital city. the countryside was so gorgeous i couldnt put my camera down. haha. i saw snowy mountains but unfortunately we missed the snow. the wind in cappadocia was the worst. my god. it was practically blowing me away! haha. we saw the whirling dervishes, which only now i know is a holy ceremony. its boring. i almost went up the hot air balloon but thank god i didnt coz one woman did and broke her ribs. another woman dislocated her collarbone. and it was too cold after all. hmm. the blue mosque was gorgeous, and so was ayasofea. personally i prefer ayasofea's interior. but i like blue mosque's exterior. haha. the ruins of hierapolis was nice. I think that was one of the prettiest views. The topkapi palace is huge too. Nice place. Near the sea and stuff. The trees were more than 100 years old and there were cute cats everywhere. There was a diamond called spoonmaker diamond coz it was found by a spoonmaker. its 86 carat. me and my bodyguard ended up merayau to other places. lol much. I kept on losing my parents so i didnt really bother to find them. I prefer to think of it as giving them a break from me. haha. In the underground city, we had to squat to get thru the passageway. haha...shopping was okay. turkish lira is almost the same as usd. the grand bazaar was huge. 4000 shops. what do u expect?? but they dont really sell my kind of stuff. just the typical souvenir stuff. but it was fun anyway.

This trip would have been a disaster if i hadnt made any friends. Being friendly has its advantage. But now i feel sad that we're back in malaysia and back to our old lives. honestly, i didnt even miss malaysia or jb. i guess its coz i felt as tho i lived in a fantasy in turkey. not having to think, to care, to worry..and now..its just back to life. back to boredom and heavy burdens. I will never forget the memories ive made in turkey. Never. =)