Election/Halloween/Music-Nov.5.2004
Quite a lot of things have went on the past few weeks. Let’s see…the ELECTION. I haven’t been bombarded with media coverage so aside from the occasionally watching British CNN and checking canada.com, I haven’t kept up with the daily nitty-gritty of election04. Well, anyway so I guess it was expected.
Daylight savings time, gotta hate that. Yup it gets dark at 5:30 on this side of the globe too. Ramadan is halfway through. We had a holiday last Friday, Nov. 29th, the day Turkey was established and ceased to be the Ottoman Empire. And so the Turkish flags are being proudly displayed as well as the images of dear Mr. Atatürk. The end of Ramadan is in two weeks and we will have 2 days (15/16) off, so a 4 day holiday, woohoo. What Turkey doesn’t have though is Halloween. So I’m curious to hear who y’all were and what y’all did for this great festivity. My next Halloween will definetly have to have a Turkish theme though…..belly dancer? Damn, those outfits are HOT!
An interesting thing happened to me yesterday….I started to like Turkish pop. Ya just like all of a sudden, funny how that happens. I never disliked it, but I didn’t love it, it was just different. I heard a familiar song on the Turk music video channel and really liked it and then proceeded to watch this channel and liked ALL the songs they played. It was a great moment. I’m even so ambitious as to hope to be able to sing along at the discos in a few weeks. So who were these great artists….check it out:
Mustafa Sandal
Serdar Otaç
Kenan Doğulu
Tarik Mengüş
Ceza
Abidin - (ooo who by the way lives in my neighborhood, Ataşehir, and my host family has seen him a few times at the local grocery store, guess I gotta start going for ‘groceries’ more often hehehe)
Tarkan – and of course I can’t have any kind of list without the almighty Tarkan!
Gülşen
For those of you familiar with the Turkish pop scene and want to add to this list, bring it. I’m especially keeping my ears open to Turkish rap…
Monica
Daylight savings time, gotta hate that. Yup it gets dark at 5:30 on this side of the globe too. Ramadan is halfway through. We had a holiday last Friday, Nov. 29th, the day Turkey was established and ceased to be the Ottoman Empire. And so the Turkish flags are being proudly displayed as well as the images of dear Mr. Atatürk. The end of Ramadan is in two weeks and we will have 2 days (15/16) off, so a 4 day holiday, woohoo. What Turkey doesn’t have though is Halloween. So I’m curious to hear who y’all were and what y’all did for this great festivity. My next Halloween will definetly have to have a Turkish theme though…..belly dancer? Damn, those outfits are HOT!
An interesting thing happened to me yesterday….I started to like Turkish pop. Ya just like all of a sudden, funny how that happens. I never disliked it, but I didn’t love it, it was just different. I heard a familiar song on the Turk music video channel and really liked it and then proceeded to watch this channel and liked ALL the songs they played. It was a great moment. I’m even so ambitious as to hope to be able to sing along at the discos in a few weeks. So who were these great artists….check it out:
Mustafa Sandal
Serdar Otaç
Kenan Doğulu
Tarik Mengüş
Ceza
Abidin - (ooo who by the way lives in my neighborhood, Ataşehir, and my host family has seen him a few times at the local grocery store, guess I gotta start going for ‘groceries’ more often hehehe)
Tarkan – and of course I can’t have any kind of list without the almighty Tarkan!
Gülşen
For those of you familiar with the Turkish pop scene and want to add to this list, bring it. I’m especially keeping my ears open to Turkish rap…
Monica
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