The beginning: 2006 I will be one more year old... 22!!! I love double numbers...hehe...

So, what do I expect from coming year?

Career:
- To re-sign Kraft, Delphi accounts. Also be able to sign some another account for AIESEC USA... probably CISCO

Personal:
- To see my family much oftern
- to move out from NYC

Health:
- no health problems

Sports:
- Championships by Bayern, Galatasaray and Germany

I am excited for WSC and 2006!!! Can't wait to interact with membership again...  ¶ 4:09 AM 4 Comments

  The end: 2005 So... 2005 is over... How do I remember this year?

Career:
- WSC 2005 where I was proud of being President of AIESEC Bay Area
- Resignition from Presidency
- Joining National team in AIESEC USA

Personal:
- singleness but ability to bring my feelings back
- missing family - homesickness

Health:
- no major health problems except wrong cancer diagnosis

Sports:
- total disaster in terms of unsuccessful perfomances by my teams: Bayern, Galatasaray, Turkey, Germany, Azerbaijan, Neftchi  ¶ 3:59 AM 0 Comments

  Intro... Here it is... My adventures in Egypt... It took me 30 hours to get there (20 hours waiting in Zurich) and 15 hours to come back... Amazing 8 days!!! I feel re-born and totally pump up for 2006!!!  ¶ 3:57 AM 1 Comments

  Day 1: Sadness and Happyness...
After long travel, I finally arrived to Egypt. Gannat and Kaitlin picked me up from the airport. We went to my hotel first... I gave them their gifts that I brought for them from USA... It was a bit sad for me at that time... but it is all good now...

I was also sad because, my life is based on "things I HAVE to do" than "things I want to do"... If it was up to me, I would have loved to travel and see as much as possible in this world... but I have to do somethings else in my life...

A little later... I became happy again... I was happy for what I have and where I am. I easily got over my sadness and enjoyed food with Gannat and Kaitlin...

I also met Mike, Maha and some other people on the same day as well...

PS: I brought the wine back... I think we will drink it, one day...  ¶ 3:50 AM 0 Comments

  Day 2: Meeting my grandfathers...

Second day, Gannat took me to Egyptian museum, Mohammad Ali palace, Al-Azar Park and so on...

Actually my day started with going to Sales meeting with her...It is so different than what we are doing over here in USA...I mean sales..

Then we went to Egyptian Museum. Total shock for me... This museum is probably one of the world's most important museums but it is managed so poorly. Basically, items were thown out there as if it is shopping center... I am sure they can build 2 more museums and put some of those items there... the security is ridiculus. I supposed not to have camera and so on... I easily managed to squiz in my bag pack with camera and so on... The items can easily be stolen as well. The security cameras were made in times of Nikolai... Basically, very disappointing... BUT BUT BUT...

I saw my grandfather there... RAMSES the third... The mummy... he has exactly same nose as mine... YEAAAAAAY!!! I was so happy seeing him...I wanted to hug and kiss him right there but he was protected... Ah...lollll...

After egyptian museum, we went to Mohammad Ali Palace... Palace of my real grandfather... Mohammad Ali is Turkish general who ruled Egypt during Ottoman Empire... Basically, modern Egypt history starts with him... I loved the place and also visited the mosque he built...GO TURKEY!!! GO EGYPT!!! Long live TURKISH-EGYPTIAN RELATIONS!!!

We ended the day with sister-bother romantic dinner at Al-Azar Park...  ¶ 3:33 AM 0 Comments

  Day 3: Dreams coming true...


On my third day, Maha and Gannat took me to pyramids... It was amazing... I remember I was looking at those great buildings from TV or on pictures... And now...unbelieveable... I was next to them... I was actually even entered to Kheops...Amazing... Human being were able to build such huge structures... I think, everybody must see them... for sure... to see Pyramids and Sphinx was my dream... Thanks Gannat and Maha for making it happen...

By the way...Sphinx had weird nose... French actually destroyed it during the war... Ah French... french...

The day continued with dinner at Gannat's parents... Amazing family... I met her father, mother, both sisters and brother in law. Actually, next day, one of Gannat's sisters had a baby and I became UNCLE since I am Gannat's brother!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

Amazing food, great conversation... Thanks to Gannat... by the way, on the picture you will see how Kaitlin learns to eat Egyptian food.

I also met Shadi - Kaitlin's boyfriend... I was clearly last person he would have wanted to see...hehe  ¶ 3:19 AM 0 Comments

  Day 4: In da JAIL!!!


No no... it is not a joke... and it is not re-make of 50 cent's song "In da club"...

I was really arrested!!! On my way to DAHAB!!!

For what? For forgetting my password in Cairo... Basically, I spent like 1 hour in da jail. After checking my visa information with immigration, they let me go... But where???

I missed my bus and I had to spend 10 hours until next bus arrived... Was it boring? Hell no!!!

I became friends with every police at the office...We played football, ate together, danced and spoke a lot broken English and Arabic. I even teached them american way of greeting and so on. We were very sad when the bus came... Every soldier and police hugged me before I sat to bus. The highest ranked cop wrote a message on a paper for me so that, so no police can mess up with me when I show them the message...They were even sms-ing me until I left Egypt...

Where else this can happen??? Amazing, right???

I love Egyptian people... Really!!!  ¶ 3:05 AM 0 Comments

  Day 5-6: Enjoying 5 star vacation in Dahab...


Basically, after all that hassle, I was able to come to Dahab in the end... I spend 2 great days with Eugene that I met at the bus... I pretty much did everything that I could have done in Dahab... It was amazing... I stayed at 5 start Hilton for just $70... I biked, played pool, rode on the desert bike, ate a lot of food, smoked shisha, enjoyed sun raise and sun set, read books...pretty much everything... I met so many amazing people... I will definitely go there again...  ¶ 2:58 AM 0 Comments

  Day 7: Alexandria - best city in Egypt


I went to Alex on my 7th day... Amazing city... Just like Izmir in Turkey... A quite, nice city next sea. Library and palaces were amazing... I met Selma on train and the Bahaa - VP ICX of AIESEC ALEX greeted me at train station. In just 5 hours Bahaa and his friend showed me all the beauties of the city with Bahaa's 200 chiken power car...

Basically, if I live in Egypt, I will definitely choose Alex...  ¶ 2:50 AM 0 Comments

  Day 8: The Farewell: - Mission completed...

It was raining in my last day... exactly like my first day...

I spent 8th day shopping... a lot of soveneurs for myself, friends and family... and all of it cost me around 100 dollars... Thanks to Gannat I saved a lot of money... it is exactly like in Turkey... But I loved the fact that, I was able to get some discount for being muslim... hehe...

Towards the end of the day... Gannat "organized" farewell party... Jessica, May and her cousing joined us (Maha, Gannat, Nadia and me) at Khal Khalili... I had my favorite drink, grape shisha and expensive 10 pound shavurma...

The most important event of the night was...::: A HUG!!! A HUG that I recieved from GANNAT!!! Yes yes yes... Mission is completed... I got a hug from Gannat!!!  ¶ 2:42 AM 1 Comments

  Summary and special thanks goes to...



YES!!! I will be back... one day... very soon... to Egypt again!!! and and and... I will speak more arabic... I promise...

Egypt is really amazing country with amazing people... I really had great time... but it would not have been so good without Gannat, Maha, Kaitlin, Bahaa, Jessica, Eugene and many more...

Thanks a lot... Especially biggest thanks goes to GANNAT!!!  ¶ 2:28 AM 5 Comments

  Gummy bears and dots Super tasty American candies... greatstuff...first American candy that gets A+ from me... I am lovin it...

thanks Kaitlin...  ¶ 11:25 PM 1 Comments

  Week of excitement...and countdowns... I don't remember when I have been so excited for any week as much as I am excited for this week. First I am flying to Detroit tomorrow for team days... Wednesday is a day when I present AIESEC-Kraft exchange program to Kraft representatives and we will be re-contracting with them. Kraft is like a baby for me... I am so excited about its development and I am sure Kraft account will be much larger account in less than a year...

I am also very excited about my trip to Egypt. I will be doing a lot of research about Egypt while I am in Zurich. Goal is to discover this amazing country as much as possible.

LIFE IS SO BEAUTIFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!  ¶ 12:14 AM 1 Comments

  You... You are judging me wrong... Again!!!  ¶ 12:09 AM 1 Comments

  Egyptian General Consulate in NYC Funny story...

Yesterday I visited Egyptian Consulate for my visa application. At first, I had hard time to open the door and the doorman talked to me pretty harsh while opening the door. He thought I am American. So, I entered and he asked for my Passport. Seeing my Azeri passport and my arabic name, he completely changed and he started to be amazingly friendly to me... After registration, I went to Window number 1 for application. The size of my photo wasn't exactly the size they were looking for. But they didn't mind... they didn't even look at my itenary... and they photocopied my visa for free while it wasn't free...They just approved my visa right there and asked me to come later same day to pick it up...

next to me, at the Window number 2, there was american woman... she was getting questioned for everything... why, when, how, for how long is she going to Egypt and so on... Woman looked pretty pissed and I was enjoying the "power" of my nationality, religion and my arabic name... haha...

So, who told that American passport is the best? hehe...

but weekdays these guys there work from 9 am until 2 pm only . great job, isn't it? Get paid a lot, work only 5 hours per day and have diplomatic protection and passport...

I already started to love EGYPT!!!  ¶ 2:15 AM 2 Comments

  AIESEC is amazing... I just came back from Global village that was organized by AIESEC Baruch. It was amazing... I represented Azerbaijan and Turkey as usual. Next to my table was Armenian and Georgian table...We had a great chat with a guy who was from Armenia about conflict we have between two countries and amazingly enough he was so open minded... I met a lot of Armenians but never met somebody who would be so open minded... After a good chat, I ate Armenian food, drink Armenian drinks... I mean... look what AIESEC did to me... A month ago I was in Armenian church, now feeding myself in Armenian way... and even one of my best friends currently is Armenian-american... Trust me this is not normal...

we can all live together, peacefully...it is POSSIBLE!!!  ¶ 2:03 AM 1 Comments

  Late Night Alumni - Empty Streets

This lyrics and song totally tells what I am going through... Openning your heart is good... but it can always get hurt...BE CAREFULL!!!

check this great trance out: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mischa84/emptystreets.mp3

Late Night Alumni - Empty Streets

the city feels clean this time of night just empty streets

and me walking home to clear my head

i know it came as no surprise

i'm affected more than i had guessed on what was said

if the smile's not meant to be, if the heart's not ready to open

if we make it i won't see it's broken

if the smile's not meant to be, if the heart's not ready to open

if we make it i won't see how it's broken

it's the quiet time before the dawn and i'm half past making sense of it, was i wrong?

should i claim to give it all ** in a world where not much ever seems to last long

if the smile's not meant to be, if the heart's not ready to open

if we make it i won't see it's broken if the smile's not meant to be, if the heart's not ready to open if we make it i won't see how it's broken
how it's broken (3x)
(repeats) if the smile's not meant to be, if the heart's not ready to open

if we make it i won't see it's broken

if the smile's not meant to be, if the heart's not ready to open

if we make it i won't see how it's broken
how it's broken (repeats)

  ¶ 9:09 PM 48 Comments

  Salam Aleykum Egypt Ok...Got my ticket, got my visa...Inshallah I will be arriving to Egypt on 17th of December...I can't believe, I am going to Egypt... I am so excited...

Also super excited to see my sister from Egyptian mother and father...

and Kaitlin...

Egypt here I come...  ¶ 8:16 PM 2 Comments

  Vote: Heart or Brain??? If you liked somebody and you are confused. Hearts says go for it (don't give up), while brain says forget about it (move on). Which one would you listen to?  ¶ 7:31 AM 6 Comments