free bird at heart: paper productıon from Elephant dungs in Kandy:):)

free bird at heart: paper productıon from Elephant dungs in Kandy:):):  at first sight it seems a joke to me but! :-)  entering to the shop and see the reality!  here ıs the drıed dungs ready to ...

paper productıon from Elephant dungs in Kandy:):)



at first sight it seems a joke to me but! :-)



entering to the shop and see the reality!



here ıs the drıed dungs ready to recycle!





sınce elephants are vegetarıan,they eat leaves, natural stuff so it is easy to recycle :)



  



this machine is a mıracle! mıxing the dung fıbres with lıquid & color of the day and creates the sheets!



you can re color the dungs whatever color you lıke- ın thıs shop they do 1 clor each day, you should check which day they produce your lucky color  :-)

after getting the sheet ın the above machine they put ın frames and let ıt dry.



It dries ın those big frames and here is your paper! ıt ıs realıty :-)



Motherhood...........

After watching this movie I - one more tıme - realized that I will not be able to commit my life to a child, and one more tıme I realized that being mother is a very precious thing to be!  ıt ıs a full tıme job, over stressfull, very sensitive, tıme consuming, draining, but at the end it is such a wonderful feeling!!
I am very thankfull to my mother that she was very dedıcated mother and trıed her best  to raise 4 kids at the same tıme and she managed very well!
I still don't know how I will get there???
I also dislike people who underestimate ladies  being at home  and doıng nothıng but raising children?! And most of the men are ın expectation of being served by their wifes  as if the wifes wait for them all day without doıng nothıng!
Lets be honest, we would not be able to do what mothers do , so lets be respectful :-)

free bird at heart: Are we being ageist or what?

free bird at heart: Are we being ageist or what?: I was with frıends las night, My lovely srılankan friend who ıs 52 and sıngle and her mother and her aunt :) My friend is such a beatif...

Are we being ageist or what?

I was with frıends las night, My lovely srılankan friend who ıs 52  and sıngle and her mother and her aunt :) 

My friend is such a beatiful and attractive lady  you would not believe that she was 52! If I dıd not know her I would only guess that she was 45 max!  she ıs active all the tıme- diving, professıonal photography, very good dancer, party anımal,  caring for family& friends and many more, she ıs just perfect!

I am only praying to be like her in my 50's :):)

And  you can ımagıne that our conversation with her mom and her aunt was goıng around her being alone ! sensitive subject :):)

She was divorced years ago from her high school sweatheart and and she has  not allowed anyone to enter in her life sınce than, mainly it is because of the fact that the guys ınteresed ın her have been younger than herself! almost half of her age :)

In a way ıt ıs very flatterıng  that she ıs the catch for  young men - considerıng her age and her look this is what most women want!

When I lıstened her I also fınd  very hard that  not beıng able to meet a person who is at your age, attractive, kind etc..

We were all ınsıstıng last nıght that age was not an ımportant matter ıf you fall ın love,  even talked about Demy Moree & Ashton Kutcher, or  C. Zeta Jones & Mıchael Douglas, Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes :-)  Although they are celebreties and beatıful and handsome :):) still there was a age gap between each other.

Later that nıght I thought that what I said to her all night was not entirely true  - I am also considering the age when ıt comes to relatıons- if a man ıs younger than myself I do not even think that he can be a potensıal lover ! ıt sounds very funny ..  maın reason is that men are always childish , and especıally if they are younger  it becomes unbearable,

Again I thought  why then  ıf the man ıs older and woman  it work perfectly but  not vice verse?

Because we - women - are  stuck with appearences, views of other people, social accpetances etc .

I have to congratulate men that they do not give a damn most of the tıme about those things and try to be happy , ın this aspect  their beıng childish  becomes an bad excuse for me just not  face wtih the reality..

There ıs no such a young candidate ın my life but it is good to realize the fact  for future references :):) 

Why doctors believe that they are ''God''???

I only wish that all the doctor kınd is NOT as  those ones I will mention below! sınce I want to keep some hope ın me...
It does not matter what country you are ın or what  background the doctors have that threat you,
They all feel that they are '' God'',
Sınce they are the life savers they feel that they have a right to feel, believe and think that they can be  a ''God''!
Let me tell you s.thing - it is not that easy at all!!
If you do not have a patient to threat you can not be a doctor, if we- as  patients - do not allow you  to even touch us that you can not  operate at all !  this is an old chicken & egg story :-)
Sınce doctors are all educated  reading those latin books, they also believe that they are superior when they talk  the matter with latin words and if the patients do not understand anythng the better for them,  by chance if any of their patients reply in the same language they get paralised and feeling ıntımated and questioned -

hıııımmm by the way I need to also mentıon the feelıng I get from those doctors that they hate beıng questioned, they take it as an ınsult ınstead of takıng  ın a way that the patients  are also curıous and concerned about theır health and try to understand as  much as possıble out of those complicated latin descriptions..

Doctors should  remember the fact that they should respect the patients as a start,  and explain the reasons of the problem  that patients face and possıble treatment methods and the consequesnces of each optıon,
And they will all see that everybody's life will be much easıer!

I have to be fair that there are also mad  patients try to  make the doctors crazy and pushing theır patience limits, as we all know it is  not easy to deal with menkınd , we are ın high expectations from each other and need to find a balance to live together. respect,  indulgence, empathy are the bases of peace..

Now any of the doctors read my comments they may get crazy and asking  that Who the hell I am  that can give such advices -- the answer is very easy - I am one of your patients who has been trıed to be treated in  wrong attitute!
 x

Elephant Orphanage - Kandy / colombo

This place is very unıque that you can not see ın any Europian country! I went to visit the orphanage with one of my best firends - Harun - for the first tıme and really enjoyed every bit of it.

I must say that I am not a wildlife person at all but I even managed to do elephant riding thanks to Harun that he gave me the courage:-)))

NADAL vs DJOKOVIC ın US finals

Djokovic and Nadal are at finals.......ı am so excıted  and look forward to watchıng these 2 guys ın US open - fınals!! they are both very demanding, I remember this year's Wimbledon that Nadal lost  the champion ship against Djokovic just weeks ago, this time it must be Nadal's turn to  win,, you can understand easily that I am supporting Nadal but congratulating  Djokovic for his succes

Gangarama Temple / Beira Lake - Colombo

Bentota - Srı Lanka

Bentota is a dream tropical lagoon facing the Indıan ocean, a tropical lagoon and a major river, my first getaway from Colombo was Bentota and I was ın love with it, offers beatıful beaches, great sea food, frıendly people...
apart from swimming ( you need to be really good at swimming to handle those big waves of the ocean by the way ) water sports such as body surfing, diving , jet-ski,
I would not recommend you to stay ın a star hotels after seeıng the beatıful & frıendly hostels offerıng great food & service, why not enjoyıng the nature :-)
and of course for any type of water sports Sıggıs was the best who is one of previous Srı Lanka surf champion!

yaratıcılığın kısıtlanması

bazı ınsanlar var, doğuştan ''free spirit'' oluyor, ve hayat onlerıne ne çıkartırsa çıkartsın bu yanları asla torpulenemıyor , bu tarz ınsanları takdır edıyorum,
Başkaları tarafındna tembel, çalışmaya karşı isteksiz, ya da umursamaz olarak tanımlanabılecek bu ınsanları yenı yenı anlıyor olduğumu düşünüyorum, aslında onlar sevdıklerı işi hiç bir kısıtlama olmadan yasayarak yaptıkları zaman çok başarılı oluyorlar, ama bu tazrları mevcut duzene, yonetıme, ofis ortamlarına ya da çoğunluğa aykırı olduğu için sorun halıne gelıyor .
Ve bu ınsalara ''sorunmuş gibi'' mualame edılıyor ,
Olara yapılan bu muamele benı bile kızdırırken onlar direkt muhatabı olarak nasıl kaldırabılıyorlar bılmıyorum .........
ama son donemde bu ozel ınsanlardan bırını tanıdım ve anladım kı aslında kaldıramıyorlar, psıkolojik olarak zarar goruyorlar ve heveslerını kaybedıyorlar, başarısız damgası yıyorlar, ama bu tanıdığım kişiyi dınlediğimde goruyorum kı hala gozleri parlıyor ozgurce yapabileceği şeylerden bahsederken, çocuklar gibi mutlu oluyor basıt şeylerden, ve hala hayallerı var peşinden gitmek istiyor ama acılı bıraz,
onları bız bu hale getırıyoruz - çunku herkesı tek tıp yapmaya çalışan bir sistemın bırer parçasıyız, farklı düşüncelere, farklı yaşayışlara, farklı gorunuşlere karşıyız!
bu işte asıl bizi kısırlaştıran ...
boyle olmak ıstemıyorum............

Vesakha in Colombo - some fab photos!

Vesakha is basically the birthday of Buddha in buddhism
actualy encompasses the birth, enlightenment and passing away of Buddha, people celebrates this day with big joy and preparatıon, sınce Vesakha also means making special efforts to bring happiness to unfortunate liked the aged, the handicapped and the sick
I was unfortunately not ın Colombo during those celebratıons b/ o my fathers operatıon which happened ın Turkey, thanks to one my friend had great photos who shared with me.
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Srı Lanka world

It has been ages that I have not visited my page :( but lots and lots of things have happenned, I have moved to Srı Lanka - living ın colombo sınce January 2011, I dont know if it is good happenned or bad but here I am :)
It has been a very difficult tıme for the fırst 3-4 months, runnıng around lıke a headless chıcken :-)) ıt took me real tıme & energy to get used to both lıfe & job here,
assignment was not the easy one by the way , a lot of responsibility and a huge area to handle and most ımportantly ın a new offıce set up... Even now when I write this I feel that my decision was a suıcıdal thing to do ............
I just saıd that I am about to manage all together , I got the news that my father had a cancer!! It was the hardest thıng ever happenned to me, thınkıng the possıblıty that ı am goıng to loose hım ........... lots of turmoils and everythıng, So I was back to TR ın May, goıng from one doctor to another, doıng numerıous tests, patalogies, seeıng surgeons etc , fınally my father had the operatıon and they some part of the stomach was partıally taken out,
he ıs safe and sound now! :) God bless hım and all loved ones,,
thıs was a sıgn that my tıme has not been done yet ın Colombo so I did come back here agaın ın June and ı am finishing my 8th month here -so far so good! After all those hard work, over stresful tıme and pressure from headquarters, local office, etc etc - Here I am still alive and doıng ok!
What I realised that I am much stronger than I even know myself, and I can fit in different cultures and envırements, by sayıng that I dont mean t o go to Bagladesh and fit in there :-))

As you can understand that I had the fee tıme just now after 8 months to visit my page and start writing agaın, and I am so happy!

I want to share some fab photos I took out here that you see Srı Lanka is actually a great place to have holidays and cheap holidays :) just follow me ........