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Pachalafaka

Portuguese guy moves to Istanbul, learns turkish and lives the new culture.
Um português em Istanbul
Bir portekiz İstanbul'da

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Location: Türkiye

2005-03-26

The turkish flag everywhere

Since 4 days ago the turkish flag seems to be everywhere. First I thought it was because of some celebration date, but no, it's the result of a mass demonstration after an incindent that has been passing on the news every day now. The video shows 3 kids (about 13 yeas old) stepping on the turkish flag and dragging it throught the floor.
This resulted in many demonstrations through the country in order to manifest respect to the flag. I see the flag in many house windows, on mini-bus windows and on the corner of almost every tv channel!


A bus stop.

2005-03-21


Sultanahmet and the Golden Horn, from the Galata Tower.

2005-03-09

Wanderlust top cities

I found this text at ABIG about an english magazine Wanderlust that ranked the most beautiful cities of the world. Even though the text doesn't seem completely correct (they talk about Lisbon being in Belgium) it seems that Lisbon and Turkey were ex-aequo on the 3rd place. Uau!
Anyway, if any of you has this magazine please carify the ranking for me.

2005-03-04

I got a job!

After 2 months looking for a job I finally got one. I sent 40 CV's, received interest from 4 companies and finally received 2 job offers.
I decided for a company that isn't too far and has an interesting big project starting. I'll work as a software developer in the same business area of my last company in Portugal. I'll start my new working life (from 9h to 18h) during this month.
So the life of student/tourist/borga is finishing........................................................................ snif snif

2005-03-02

The Numa Numa dance is cool!

For those that follow the blogs around the web you probably allready saw this video. It's a big success and all because of blogging.
It's really fun to watch, it's a Romanian music that I've heard many times here in Turkey, every time I watch it I just want to dance along!
They say that the video changed him for the worst but I don't think so, since he seems happy to receive all the visitors in the original site.