His story…

Born in 01.12.1958, in a poor family with 2 brothers 1 sister, and 1 brother deceasing 2 months old, leaving a great suffrage to parents. Mother was a strong character, a mighty woman. Father was more withdrawn, a lower profile. Maybe that’s why they couldn’t get along, and the grandmother took her 4 children, and moved to my city, Istanbul.

Challenging it was for her to raise 4 children, living alone and working. Of course you couldn’t be a perfect mother like that, which 3 out of 4 children quit elementary school, but only one was determined enough to work to earn his earn money and study at the same time, Mustafa Kemal Imrek.

He worked his way through Istanbul University, Mathematics Department, continuing with 2 masters, mathematics and marketing at the same university.

He continued a career of consultancy, a sales consultant for internationally recognized companies such as Nestle, Danone, BP and many more. He brought new sales systems, he invented new concepts, he set up new strategies. He made many companies rise up, and he trained many people and awarded a career to them, having many students now working as CEO’s or managers of those companies. He worked for companies, institutions, factories and much more for more than 30 years, being the best in his position in Turkey. He worked in more than 140 enterprise, with 5000 managers, 3000 related personnel.

He didn’t only work, but he also wrote books that will keep his name forever, 7 books about business, sales, leadership, management, and so forth. Books that everyone can read and learn, books that he left to this world as his contribution for generations.

Great father, honest, direct, loyal and determined, for his family and for his work.

A hard character, a unique personality like every genius, every smart person, having his own way and style, that most wouldn’t comprehend, leaving countable people to remain and be his true friends.

He thought me to be honest always, always think good, even to those who think bad of you, he would say ‘ to those who throw stones at you, threw back roses ‘. He always thought me to work hard, harder than the most hardworking one. He told me always to serve people right and be a good person, so good things come to me.

I try to follow what he teach me, and every time, I see how valuable it is, what he thought me in life.

He spared his money to send me to the best schools in Turkey, he never hesitated one penny for my education and for my future, because he knew, education was the main thing that makes a man successful.

Yesterday was my birthday, 22.12.2009, I am 23 now…

Mustafa Kemal Imrek, born in 01.12.1958, deceased on 22.12.2009, the day I turned 23. He had stomach cancer, and we knew, but he died the day I was born. He gave me life…

Mustafa Kemal Imrek, great teacher, writer, consultant, husband, friend, relative, brother and father.

Mustafa Kemal Imrek, left 7 books, thousands of successful people, a loving wife, hundreds of successful companies, and most importantly, a successful son in this world as his signature. Its not important how long we live, its important how we live. My father died young, but he left things in this world that few other men did.

I m proud of him, always was, and always will be. He is the main reason that I m who I am right now and who I ll be. A guy who he was, is and will be proud of.

I don’t mourn for his death, but I celebrate the great life he had with the wonderful achievements he did and great things he left behind. I ll study more, I ll work harder, I ll take care more of the people around me, I ll value my friends more, I ll love my girlfriend more…

I ll make my family, my friends, my country and my world more proud.

For the memory of my father,

I love you.

Rest in peace.

Your son,

Percin.

How to understand if a girl falls for you?

We always see in magazines some articles about ‘ How do attract your partner ‘ or ‘ 10 steps to be attractive ‘ or ‘ How to have a good date ‘ Now I ll write something similar, but purely for fun reasons, also combined with my experience and the things I saw.

I ll write about ‘ Ways to understand if a girl likes you ‘. It can help guys as well, even though I m writing it for my own entertainment. So enjoy reading it.

First of all, you can’t make a girl like you, but you can always increase your chances by being good-looking, well groomed, funny, intelligent, etc… etc… But I ll not talk about that. So, if a girl likes you for any reason but you are not sure if she does, here are some tips to see if she is interested in you or not.

For example:

1- The one that laughs to whatever: If a girl likes you, she would laugh at whatever you say, even the most stupid joke. When you talk about something and make a ‘ joke ‘, regardless how stupid it is, she will react with a laughter to support your joke and seem like interested.

2- The one the laughs first: Amongst a group of friends, when you say, or try to say something funny, she will be the first one that laughs to be visible. She would laugh even if no one laughs.

3- The one that always has her ears on you: When you are in a group, if you say something, not directly to the girl but just to everyone, even if you say it with the lowest voice, she will recognize you said something and ask you what did you say, or she will hear it anyway and answer to you, even though no one else heard it.

4- The one that you ll always bump into: When you are in a party, and if the girl is interested in you, however crowded the party is, you will always bump into her every now and then, and will have a conversation. Is it a coincidence that are bumping into her all the time? No

5- Asking questions back: When you are having a conversation with a girl you like, its normal that you are trying to find out more about her, asking ‘ what do you study ‘, ‘ what are your hobbies ‘, ‘ do you have brothers or sisters ‘ etc… etc… But, if a girl is not interested in you, mostly she won’t ask you these questions back or will ask out of politeness. But if she is interested in you, she will ask you back to know more about you too.

6- Looking at the frame: This is a very simple but a very real point. Just take out your camera in a group, where the girl you like is in and take a spontaneous picture. When you look at your picture, you will see the girl looking to the camera, probably being the only one. This is true if she likes you of course, because she has her eyes on you and realizes that you are taking a picture. So mostly it will be only her posing

7- Looking at you after a joke: This time it’s not you who makes the joke, but in a crowd, if someone makes a good joke and if everyone laughs, you will see the girl looking at you, to check your reaction and see if you are laughing as well. Because if something is funny for her, she would like you to agree with her.

8- Joining you in whatever condition: It’s normal that you want to meet a girl alone if you like her. And you invite her, texting her, or e-mailing, or calling. If the girl doesn’t like you, she will find any excuse to avoid it, such as ‘ I have to study ‘, ‘ My friend from Paris is coming ‘, ‘ I have another meeting with friends ‘ etc… etc… But If the girl likes you, she will come to meet with you at any cost, even if she has the hardest exam tomorrow, even if her friend from Paris came, or she would cancel her meeting with her friends to meet you.

9- Keeping company: Normally, with people who don’t know each other so well, they would sit for 5-10 minutes together, and then they would either leave, or stay out of politeness. But if a girl likes you, she wouldn’t mind sitting with you for hours, and hours

10- Jealousy factor: If the girl who likes you see you talking and intimate with another girl, of course she wouldn’t dare to intervene or judge you, since you barely know each other. But she would come to you in a short while after you finish your conversation with the other person, and you can see that she will try to find out if you have something with that girl or not.

11- Always looking at you: This is a rather obvious one. If a girl likes you, you can always feel her eyes on you, wherever, whenever.

As I said, I made this solely out of fun, and it does not determine anything But I also have to say I have seen and experienced such things.

Enjoy!:)

Minaret construction banning in Switzerland

Starting from the explanation on the word ‘ Democracy ‘, a power elected and enjoyed by people, either by them or from their electees. And yes, a referendum is something that is as democratic as it may get, but I see a controversy here and ask a question to myself ‘ Is it democratic to abolish the democratic right of people from another religion practice their religion under a common roof? ‘

And I m sure if the referendum on banning the construction of the minarets is successful, then many people in Switzerland, – which is a traditionally tolerant country about religion – will be dismayed. Many groups have managed to get their wishes pass this way or that way in the past as well, such as the Irish ‘ No ‘, which was accepted later on, the election of the former polish prime minister Kaczyński ( I don’t remember meeting one Polish person who was happy on his election ) and so forth…

So it doesn’t necessarily mean that these decisions are taken by majority’s wishes or in the spirit of democracy, but also on extreme lobbying or unfortunate circumstances. And I m sure this is the same case with Switzerland. Actually this is the first time that a European country has voted directly on Islam and the practices of Muslims. Proposed and pushed forward by the anti-imigration, rightwing, populist “Swiss People’s Party”, the referendum has, as intended, triggered months of debate and an unofficial ban on building minarets.

While Islam is the second biggest religion in Switzeland with a percentage of 4.3% and there are only 4 minarets in the whole country out of 200 prayer houses, this referendum pushed by ‘ Swiss People’s Party ‘ is nothing but a symbolic act for the sake of xenophobia. I also wonder how democratic is it or how much it contributes to the freedom of expressing opinion from ‘ Swiss People’s Party ‘ to put minaret posters looking like missiles, which surely offends the Muslim population.

To sum up, a ‘ democratic ‘ decision would violate laws on religious freedom. And would breach anti-discrimination laws can not be democractic. There are many reasons to be against this law, such as tolerance, Middle East trade prospects and fears of a radical Muslim backlash – but thousands of ordinary people are likely to take a more disinterested view: why shouldn’t Muslim prayer houses have minarets? In my country, Turkey, there are many churches and no one minds of the ringing of the bells, because it symbolizes that other religions can also practice their religion, which is true democracy.

EU shortens its phone number

Once upon a time, Henry Kissinger, the famous academician and former Secretary of state of the USA asked ‘Whom do I call if I want to call Europe? ‘

This question was indeed a good indication on Europe’s lack of external visibility and how Europe ( specifically EU ) should function when it comes to maintaining external relations and foreign policy. After the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty ( http://europa.eu/lisbon_treaty/index_en.htm ), two new positions were adopted in the new EU framework, which are the President of the European Council and High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, which are filled by Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, and the latter by Britain’s Baronese Catherine Ashton amongst many candidates including Blair, Balkanende, Milban, Juncker and many more…

This move was made to encourage EU’s multi-institutional build up, the bring a face to EU and as Kissinger said ‘ a number to call ‘ especially on the communication towards third parties.

It’s hard to estimate whether that was a necessary move or it just brought more complexity to EU’s already complex supranational system, with 3 pillars and institutions and many other sub-actors.

It is also a question whether these two ‘chosen‘ ones are the appropriate ones for achieving the aim of these two positions, while the two names are rather ‘ mild ‘ and ‘ mediating ‘ characters that works behind the scenes, rather than strong figures and faces that are on the stage, such as Tony Blair ( not that I m personally in favour of him ). And since the president of European Council will chair the meetings of European Council, there is also a need for personalities that will equal strong political figures like Obama or Clinton. This is not a bad thing, but this also means that Van Rompuy is rather oriented in communication amongst EU member states and mediation, rather than showing a strong stand towards third parties, such as USA, Russia, China etc…

EU made a step more on acting as one body, but it is also a fact that it cannot act like a state, so even though Symbolism is important in politics and social architecture, third parties shouldn’t expect too much from it.

Yet, projecting power on 27 governments is a very difficult task, which other strong countries don’t have to deal with, so in the long term, a conciliatory person may prove useful in the long term.

It is quite obvious now that there weren’t a consensus between what should these positions represent, a powerful figure to stand for Europe, or a conciliatory person to build cooperation and consensus amongst member states? That’s why, there are many frustrations amongst EU citizens for the selected candidates, even though they may be qualified people, their backgrounds and personalities don’t fit to some people’s opinion for a president of the European Council or a High Representative. If you ask what I would rather preferred, I can tell you it’s not the names whom I prefer, but more the decisiveness of the EU on what kind of candidate is needed, if a mediator or a leader that is?

Now there is a new challenge in EU’s path, choosing the executive commission, while it is already late because of the delays in the ratification of EU’s Lisbon Treaty.

Me, myself and cooking…

If you ask my colleagues from last year, or to my mother, they would confirm that I m not amongst the best cooks in the world, but they would also confirm what a swift learner I am.

After spending 1 year in a house where I had to cook once a week to 7 people, I got the basics of cooking quite well, and now I m quite handy in the kitchen, yet not close to perfect still. Also some of my colleagues from last year helped me out a lot with cooking, being my su chefs when I cook, giving me practical tips and nagging me whenever I made a mistake.

Right now I m living in a dormitory in Leuven, where 16 people from all around the world resides, with different habits, cultures and different tastes.

Every Thursday there is our community meal, where two people from the group cook for the rest of the group. And this week was my turn.

My Indian cook-mate unfortunately had his dutch class the same time, so we decided that he would do the shopping, and I cooking. I told him what he needed to buy, and he did it, more or less, for example not buying tuna, not knowing what a tuna looks like, coming from a non-meat eating Hindu culture.

So with not full materials, but adequate, I started my cooking adventure, alone, for 16 people.

The menu was soup ( ready of course ), pasta with 3 different sauces, boiled vegetables, banana and pineapple with milk and ice cream as dessert. Quite varied and sophisticated I must say:)

I started with the pasta’s and sauces, trying to reach every single one of the pots, but sometimes failing, with spilling of the overcooked pans. Also cooking tomato sauce was the biggest mess, while all the oven was covered with tomate sauce. After 1,5 hours, the food was almost ready, with everything spilled everywhere, more like a war zone than a kitchen. Also the pasta was too much in quantity, that there was no filter big enough for it, so I had to put it partially, put the filtered pasta on a plate, and put the rest of the pasta in the filter again. Dealing with all these left me dirty with sauces all around me and burned many times. I also felt like I burned the pasta and the vegetables, but wasn’t quite sure.

Finally eating time came, and my dorm-mates started gathering, after writing on the board what is on the menu, I let them start. Yet, I couldn’t eat out of excitement because I was looking at people’s faces after every bite, checking what their reactions would be, pleasure or disgust.

Unlike my cooking process, the eating process was quite good, and people were quite happy with what I managed. Girls even talked what a good husband I would make and guys asked me how I can make such good pasta.

At the end, one polite friend thanked me publicly, and I got an applause from 16 people for my cooking, and I got an applause in the first time in my life out of my cooking ‘ skills ‘. In my life I was applaused by 1000 people too, but when you are applaused by your cooking, it is unique:P

The ice creams at the end made it even better, and everybody withdrew back to their rooms happily.

When I said goodbye to the remaining ones, their respond was ‘ good cooking mate ‘.

I was happy:)

Love actually

It is funny that how much things like phones, or internet, especially nowadays Facebook is affecting our lives, since we started using these actively. With friendships, contacts, businesses and of course, relationships. Isn’t it funny how a social network device can strengthen, weaken or promote a relationship, like its something public. Isn’t it funny how relationships sometimes depend on being published on facebook, and what it means to couples, or to people around them. As in many things in human life, this is also a cause created by human beings, determining a relationship online. I wonder if relationships were as complicated in the past as they are today.

A relationship, or love we may call, is one of the biggest mysteries in life, that cannot be, and in my opinion, shouldn’t be solved. Is love about pain? I don’t think so. Is it about sharing, of course that is a part of it. But for me, love is a big fire, that gets stronger and weaker by everything that’s put inside, effort, jealousy, passion, history, future, friends, positions and many many more. Once its put down, its really hard to burn it up again. But also, there is this tiny bit of a sparkle, that holds everything together, and without it, whatever you put inside, the fire of love will die away. And we can never explain what is this small thing that keeps the love going or dying.

I sometimes wonder if I am a good boyfriend, am I giving enough, sharing enough, loving enough and more. I hear many things from many people, from me being, easy going, kind, polite, gentle, beautiful, clever, caring to selfish, hasty, negligent and more. With every experience I have in terms of relationships, I try to learn and I learn new things, about life and about relationships itself, and every time. I talk to many friends about relationships, and I hear thousands of different opinions, and ideas, and filtering everything I hear from people’s experiences and adding more and more to my own perspective. As you know, many people talk about ‘ the one ‘, the person who we will someday meet and be happy forever. I never knew if I should look for ‘ the one ‘, or not. I see many people believing in it, but I don’t know if I will ever meet ‘ the one ‘, or if I already met. I ask myself, if I m a guy with feelings and emotions, or if I m a guy who likes to play with girls and break their hearts, but then I ask myself, If I am the latter one, why am I crying for the ones I love.

One of the things I have found out with me recently is that, when I start something, and If I really believe in it, it starts like a bomb, very intense, very hasty and very quick. And that mostly leads to quick consumption of the relationship. I see that relationship is something you really should digest and go step by step, enjoying every little step you take, and enjoying every second in it. When you live a relationship skipping some parts, then it may be too late to get those parts together, which holds the relationship.

One of my friends told me ‘ you never know how much love lasts, but I m jealous when I see couples happy for years, sometimes 40-50 years, never losing the sparkle in their eyes, always with enthusiasm, doing things like they never did it before, and loving each other like they never loved each other before. What is the secret of it? I have no idea. I wonder if we ask those couples what is the secret of it, I m sure they will have some sentences to say, for example the guy can say ‘ every day I m putting a flower to my wife’s bed ‘, or something similar, which is a little gesture but means a lot. This may be a symbolic thing that makes the couple believe in the love, but I m sure there is much more than that, and this flower, that is on the bed every morning, is the symbol of this whole fire, that we call ‘ love ‘.

If love was something tangible, then it would be worked in a laboratory, but love is like life itself, you can’t hold it, but you can feel it. It is a big mixture of everything, it has and doesn’t have boundaries at the same time, there is no time limit for it, you never know who you will love, where or when you will fall in love. The last time I fell in love, I never would have expected with the person, with the time, or with the place I fell in love, but isn’t that the beautiful thing about love? You never know. When you feel the loneliest, it comes to you. But it is also spoiled, to go away from you when you feel the most confident and happiest. It is like a baby, that needs caring and effort, or it wont grow well, or it will leave you. What I think about love is, as long as you are as natural as yourself, love will be there around you, and it will find you, maybe only once, maybe several times. But life is too short to be prideful, doubtful or jealous with love, because If you are truly in love, none of those matters. Similarities, differences, faults, doesn’t matter, only love matters.

So ‘ love actually ‘, matters.

For my loved one…

Prison & Work

IN PRISON… You spend the majority of your time in an 8×10 cell.
AT WORK… You spend most of your time in a 6×8 cubicle.

IN PRISON… You get three meals a day.
AT WORK… You only get a break for 1 meal and you have to pay for it.

IN PRISON… You get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK… You get rewarded for good behavior with more work.

IN PRISON… A guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK… You must carry around a security card and unlock and open all the doors yourself.

IN PRISON… You can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK… You get fired for watching TV and playing games.

IN PRISON… You get your own toilet.
AT WORK… You have to share.

IN PRISON… They allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK… You cannot even speak to your family and friends.

IN PRISON… All expenses are paid by tax payers with no work required.
AT WORK… You get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.

My first day in my dormitory

It is exactly 24.00 when i started to write this.

Yesterday night, i moved from Brussels to Leuven, after an exciting trip with my good friend, Manos.

Today i woke up at 09.00, actually woken up by the former room owner, who wanted to show his ex-room to his new girlfriend. He was happy that he didnt get a punch in his face to wake me up like that:)

Joke aside, i was happy to be woken up so early, so i have a full day to explore around. Knowing the center of Leuven more or less, i d rather walked around my dormitory, which is 3 km away from the center, but this is quite a long distance in Leuven standarts.

I woke up, and checked the sports center, where i really plan to spend a lot of time this year ( got a bit of belly ) and shopped for my first breakfeast ( brunch more to say ) in Leuven. After buying some food and an ethernet cable, i came back and enjoyed my food in my forest, river and castle view dormitory.

Afterwards, i saw that university organized some nice sports activities for the day, and i left with my sports outfit and joined the football activity, playing 2 seperate matches for 4 hours. Apart from doing sports, it was my first steps for making new friends:P In the team, there were people form everywhere, but mostly Italians:) And its always fun to play with Italians, with words like ‘ que cazzo ‘ or ‘ vaffanculo ‘ flying in the air.

After the match, walked back, checked mails, did some work and then attended the dormitory introduction meeting at 20.30, where they bored me to death with all the rules and bla bla’s. It was essential actually, but sometimes, too much details. Afterwards, i got up to my room for 2 mins and went back. Somehow when i came, people were in a circle and needed someone to lead them. So i took the lead, with my habit of leading the groups, and started doing some activities, which they really liked and integrated better. Btw, my dormitory has people from all origins, from Etiopia to China, from Belgium to India and much more.

It will be a new year with lots of new things, but with my leading of the group tonight, i saw that i am coming into a new life with the experiences i gained from last year.

Thats why every year will be better than the previous one:)

It just started…

Cicu

Your friends are the ones that stay with you forever. Especially about close friends, even if you don’t see each other for years, nothing will change in between you when you meet again. That’s the beauty of friendship. However, with relationships it doesn’t work that way, while mostly you live your relationship more intense than friendships and things like distance, loss of enthusiasm and time in between are factors that can easily damage relationships.

I am 22 years old, and actually I started dating with girls quite late (around 18). I had few serious relationships, yet, there is a person, who deserves a place in this page, and much more.

My longest relationship so far, Cigdem Ertikin, a girl whom I had the chance to meet in my local in AEGEE. Chasing after her for some months, finally I managed to trick herJ, that ended up as my longest relationship so far, 2.5 years.  We lived together, we travelled together, we did many things together as normal couples do.

What makes this relationship more special is how the situation is now.

We broke up some while ago, and a brake up is never pleasant of course. But that’s not what I m talking about.

What makes the situation really special is how we treat each other now.

Right now I m in Turkey to visit my family, and I was in Canakkale for 3 days, and I stayed at Cigdem’s place, because I lived there with her for 1 year in the past, so I m used to staying there. The only difference was, that I was sleeping on the sofa now:)

It was the first time I saw her in person after our break up, but we have talked quite a lot after that online or by phone, and I knew that we will continue our chats, jokes and meeting our common friends when we meet. I was right. When we met, we spent all the time together, catched up, talked about our relationships after our breaking up, and met our friends and had fun alltogether.

Today before I left for Istanbul, I felt like we really are an example for ended relationships, a real example of how you should remain after breaking up. Before you are lovers, you should be friends, and then love should come. Because if love goes away one day, you can continue in the basis of friendship.

I was proud of myself and of Cigdem about our achievement in that sense, that not many couples manage to do. Yet, as I said, I wasn’t wrong, while I was sure that it would be no different than this, while Cigdem is also a very realistic, smart and qualified person.

I really am sad for people that had ‘ great ‘ loves and now not talking anymore, or end up hating each other. Because life is too short to do that.

Cigdem found love again, and I m really happy for her. She had found a guy that I really see that she loves him and is happy with him.

After you read this, you may ask ‘ Is Percin still loving her ? ‘

Of course I love her, and I ll always love her. I love her as my friend and companion to share something when I need to.  And I m very glad she found someone who is in love with her:)

I would like to thank Cigdem for making me proud and happy, once again.

Parents

Something that we always have, but not always appreciate.

You always have the chance to lose a friend at an instant, or a girlfriend. But with a parent, it is rarely the case that they give up on you.

I think thats why that people are more negligent with their parents than with anyone else, because parents will be there, whatever we do. We know that its not a big risk if we neglect our parents, but we know that its a big risk if we neglect other people, because we can lose them easier. That is one of the selfish part of the human beings.

As in every relation, both sides have expectations from each other. Parents expect their sons to be successful, well behaved, respectful and so forth. Children expect their parents to be supportive, flexible, understanding and so forth.

I really dont know what makes a good child, or good parent. I know that every child has problems with parents, for many different problems.

I had very different parents, whom didnt have the biggest love marriage, but more based on logic, so i wasnt raised in a great love environment. Towards me they were very loving, but towards each other, not as much. They were different characters, and had differente opinions. The good thing about this was, they were never angry at me for the same reasons, so they never united on getting mad at me, but when one of them was angry at me, the other one was defending me. But the bad thing about this was, there were a bigger variety of topics that they could get mad at me.

They were great parents, and i m always greatful for what they did for me. The schools they sent me, the places they took me, the love they gave to me, the things they thought me.

I think i have become a good combination of my parents. My father is a more work oriented & logical person, while my mother is more human oriented & emotinal woman. My father is hardworking, disciplined, very witty, a great lecturer and well planned, yet lacking in empathy, human relations and decision making. My mother is emotional, humane, a good communicator and mediator, a very open personality but lacking in determination, directness and selfishness ( i think every one shall be a bit selfish, because if you give too much, people want more and more ). Thats why i m saying, i think i m a good combination of my parents. The nice thing is, they are both beautiful:)

I love them of course, but after high school, i was sure that i wouldnt want to live with them anymore in the same house, so i moved to another city for my university studies. And it turned out better, because being away, i was avoiding stupid arguments caused of living together, and this way, we knew our worth better, while a person you love is more precious when he is far away. And when we met, we had a lot to catch up and talk about.

Now its harder, since i m further away, but i tried to go as much as i can ( 4 times in 6 months ).

I also had hard times concerning my parents. My mother had cancer about 8 years ago, yet she survived it quickly due to early diagnosis. But still it was hard to see her head shaved and with low morale. The harder thing is, my father, who also has cancer now and was diagnosed quite lately, and giving a harder battle now. The worst thing is, this happened right after i left for Brussels, first i heard my father puked when they brought me to the airport, and in one month, i got the news that he has cancer. He is still fighting it, and i believe he will manage. It is quite hard to be far away, busy with your mind at them all the time.

I think i gave them the best present by being successful and respectful towards them so far, because they always tell how proud they are of me, and this is my biggest reward in my life.

Parents are always there, but they wont come back once they are gone. So make sure you spend enough time with them before its too late.

:)