Tag Archives: more istanbul

Tuesday night – more istanbul

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 🙂

 photo mar1213009_zpsa1086466.jpg
 photo mar1213018_zps6642d5b4.jpg
 photo mar1213023_zps5ac9e5ac.jpg
 photo mar1213028_zpsff4ade90.jpg

 photo mar1213082_zps71894a37.jpg

 photo mar1213111_zpsf70ec617.jpg
 photo mar1213032_zpsf07f9db4.jpg
 photo mar1213033_zps71d362f3.jpg

 

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

 photo mar1213046_zpsfb9faaf7.jpg

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..
 photo mar1213055_zps55dbed11.jpg

then Isabella, the contry GM gave a good talk.. after her John Pi, then me..
 photo mar1213057_zps07dcc894.jpg

 

as I milleed around.. i found several old friends include Jale and her team.
 photo mar1213059_zpsd0c9c6c4.jpg

Reha..

 photo mar1213063_zps28ce898f.jpg

and my good friends from Comms..
 photo mar1213066_zpsae27ac25.jpg

 

I even got to meet Nihal’s husband.. who turns out to be a client of ours !
 photo mar1213067_zpsdee69d45.jpg
 photo mar1213074_zps847f4289.jpg

 

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.

 photo mar1213088_zps15f2c0eb.jpg

 photo mar1213096_zpsebfa9368.jpg
 photo mar1213098_zpsb45c717d.jpg
 photo mar1213099_zps7037acaf.jpg

inside her house where most women would have rock posters or something.. she had.. you guessed it.. Attaturk pictures !!
 photo mar1213090_zps126dafd5.jpg
 photo mar1213091_zpsf76fff4d.jpg
 photo mar1213092_zps583919fa.jpg
 photo mar1213093_zps15db5c45.jpg
 photo mar1213094_zpsab7dade8.jpg

 photo mar1213100_zps7c8cb850.jpg
 photo mar1213103_zpse49b3ea4.jpg
 photo mar1213105_zpsf8d0c4c1.jpg

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

 photo mar1213117_zps9c5625a9.jpg

 

 photo mar1213142_zpscfdccd3d.jpg

Seda and Aytek hamming it up..
 photo mar1213120_zpsee6d9d5f.jpg
 photo mar1213124_zpsa4e091b7.jpg
 photo mar1213125_zps4f638ab5.jpg
 photo mar1213130_zps849038a4.jpg

 

Artul (i can never spell his name.. he’s so awesome) took us on a quick tour of a nearby mosque..
 photo mar1213134_zps7a6caf03.jpg
 photo mar1213136_zpse12c178d.jpg
 photo mar1213139_zps49ae5e1e.jpg
 photo mar1213141_zps0ecde3d4.jpg

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 !

 photo mar1213145_zps1172b813.jpg
 photo mar1213146_zps929f528e.jpg
 photo mar1213149_zps4e789cc2.jpg

on the way how, Aytek took us to a Hookah bar… very cool !
 photo mar1213155_zps9c5309f4.jpg
 photo mar1213156_zpsef92076b.jpg
 photo mar1213159_zps78a6b4ca.jpg

 

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 !
 photo mar1213162_zps7ebd1bcc.jpg

 

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

nite all, nite sam

 

-me