Good, long day here.. my talk went ok.. the event was great. Met many nice folks from IBM and our clients. learned quite a lot…

Wireless is down in the hotel, so I’m doing this over my phone connection.. so gotta be a little short..

Beautiful spring here… and Attaturk is in bloom everywhere 🙂

 

started the day with grape juice/orange juice mix .. the traditional cohn drink for super strength.. to give me strength for my talk.. it sort of worked.. ;-0

the ibm event was GREAT.. over a 1000 folks, mostly clients.. i love talking with them.. listening to them.. the show was kicked off by a band..

then Isabella, the contry GM gave a good talk.. after her John Pi, then me..

 

as I milleed around.. i found several old friends include Jale and her team.

Reha..

and my good friends from Comms..

 

I even got to meet Nihal’s husband.. who turns out to be a client of ours !

 

after a long day (I worked a good part of it in a quite room i found)   we went to egap’s place to drop our stuf. Her place has a grat view of the bosphoros and the blue mosque.

inside her house where most women would have rock posters or something.. she had.. you guessed it.. Attaturk pictures !!

we then headed out for the team dinner in the hitoric section.. it was a great meal.. all finger food..

 

Seda and Aytek hamming it up..

 

Artul (i can never spell his name.. he’s so awesome) took us on a quick tour of a nearby mosque..

then back to zegnaps to pick up her stuff.. We met her mom.. She’s a breast cancer survivor and cancer awareness activist for an international cancer advocacy group. She was great to get to know !

on the way how, Aytek took us to a Hookah bar… very cool !

 

Ellena (from Spain by way of Czech republic) and Scot (from Vermont by way for the Czech Republic) give it a try..

it was very cool.. tasted like apples !

 

ok.. Very late.. and I have tons of stuff to still do.. More tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

 

-me