AKVEREN ŞİFAHANE

This need to volume up the liquid in my body for the last two days (COKE!!)..the excessive level of liquid loss...countless trips to the loo..the lack of appetite to eat anything..the pain in the tummy...feeling cold the whole time.. even still today..has left me physically drained...excessively not soooo myself....so why am i here?? hehehehe i am BORED from lying n entertaining the not so nice feeling i have ...

I am dreaming of drinking my iced coke...Cant..till iftar time.. oh..didnt i tell u? nowdays...i am decreasing my intake of Coca Cola... instead.. we r buying more n more of this...

Yup..COLA TÜRKA... to see the advertisement...click here

Better support the local company right? After all..if Merve(halil's niece), a Cola cola expert in the family can at times mistake Coca Cola for Cola Türka..then..i think Ülker is doing just fine in their production of Cola Türka...

Anyway..this talk of water reminds me of a shop i saw last week in Kadıköy....remember somewhere near the Kadıköy cami..we saw this one shop...the name: AKVEREN ŞİFAHANE..this is their pamplet..can u guess what kind of shop it is?
Yup! it is a shop selling only n i do mean selling only FRESH SQUEEZED FRUİT JUİCE!!
In the world where carbonated drinks is the vogue..this kind of shop is totally welcomed..i squeeze fresh fruit juice for my hatice n baddin at home..but to find a shop like this..is very very *cool* indeed!! The kids were thirsty at that time... so we went into the shop, sat inside it while waiting for the kids to finish their drinks..

The prices of the juice differ from one juice type to another...If i am not mistaken.. one plastic cup of orange juice is 1YTL..which is cheap because the orher day i went to buy the same amount of juice from Bariş Bufe in Bağdat Caddesı..i ended up paying 4YTL for that small plastic glass!!! ..carrot juice, apple juice...1YTL....I was tempted by the pomegranate (buah delima..aka nar)..that reddish colour... so i asked the guy to pack 2 glasses (put in a plastic container)..n brought it home....we had that for iftar..the taste?? hmmmm... let us just say...add in another sweet juice..ie...orange or carrot juice inside the pomegranate juice coz by itself as a juice alone....it is really bitter!!..(THOUGH VERY BENEFİCİAL)..All in all...Hatice finished 2 glasses of orange juice while baddin drank one..

A lot of people flocked the shop to drink the juices...U may ask...People? Drinking? While everybody else is fasting????..

Well..yeah... that is the truth of the fasting month in here.. to feel the spirit of the fasting month...u should know where to go...If u walk at the elite streets... normally...u will feel sad..at least i do feel sad...I cant help the feeling coz everywhere on the street... u see people openly smoking... openly eating n drinking.. n i am talking about people of all ages...young ..old...male..female...esp the young ones.....restaurants n cafes will be packed esp during weekends n lunchtime...openly eating n drinking...i cant help but to say to myself...*is this what the future will be like?*...i mean these people r the next generation we r talking about...they will steer the wheel for the generation after that...will generation next has no respect for the holy month as well? I mean..ok..*u dont want to fast...that is ur choice.*..the hisab... the calculation of deeds is between u n ur creator...but at least respect the month, right?

On the other hand... if u go to camiis...the mosques...that is when u feel...n say to urself..*ahhhhhhhh.... this is what this holy month is all about*.. my favourite is Eyub Camii..

This Cami is named after Ayub (Eyub) Al Ansaari... Remember when Rasulullah first moved from Mekah to Madinah during hijrah? He stayed at Ayub's house... The story i heard from halil was... Eyub wanted to die in war....so even though he was sick at that time, he still mounted his horse (or was it camel?) n headed to istanbul... he died here n was burried in the Eyub camii compound.....U can visit his grave still.. people still flock the grave to read an ayat or two...

Back to fasting...If u go to the mosques...sejukkkk hati... u feel calm n blessed n proud to be fasting... over there people flock the cami area..Last year for example... when halil, the kids n i went for an iftar at the eyub cami...u can see a lot..n i do mean...a lottttt of people everywhere...the cami authority even put out mats outside the camii for the people to sit on for their iftar...outside the camii area, there was also a big iftar cavdır (iftar tents) to give away food for the poor... the que was................. we didnt wait in the que of course...we bought köfte from the restaurant nearby for the kids as ı had packed sandwiches from home for halil n i...u be there is to feel the spirit...it is soooo very nice to be near a mosque..(i think Keng Bey would agree...)for the iftar...thousands of people were there...the prayed the maghrib there..n probably terawikh as well... it was some sort of a celebration...the crowd..lights... the sound of quran reading...To be there made me feel...yes.. i am proud to be a muslim...:0)

I just pray to Allah that my kids will be among those who will fast once they grow up...this year they have not started yet... halil n i agreed that hatice will start next year... while baddin will start the year after that...please pray for my kids...pray that they will be good insans... who will obey the call of their religion..No parents want their kids to stray from the right path..Ya Allah..please protect my kids...


Thank You for hopping by..Hope to see U again next time....