SWEETIE
MOM, FENER
(Publication
Date: May 14, 2007)
I’m looking at my computer monitor, and it just sits there in front of me, emotionless and meaningless.
“Tell me, monitor, what should I write now?” I say, and it, once again, is emotionless and meaningless…
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Well, my mind is all over the place; the weekend passed with a jumble of mixed feelings for me.
First, the Eurovision Song Contest dealt a blow!
Kenan Doğulu’s song “Shake it up şekerim” came fourth in the contest.
Okay, I wasn’t expecting great success from this song, but the other countries’ songs weren’t exactly fantastic either.
Besides, we’re not so naïve as to think the voting was conducted entirely honestly.
“Anyway, Kenan Doğulu did quite well; at least he finished ahead of the Greeks.” I think that’s probably the most reasonable way to look at it; on the other hand, it’s also a fact that nobody takes the Eurovision Song Contest seriously anymore.
The second big bombshell of the weekend was Mother’s Day!
On one side, my mother of 27 years; on the other, my mother-in-law, who has been my mother for two years; on another side, my dear wife, who has been a mother for four months; and in the middle, me.
Now, what am I going to do?
I started with my dear wife: We celebrated Mother’s Day by buying her a lovely gift on behalf of our dear son; well, after all, we’re a family now, too.
Then I called my mother, wished her a happy Mother’s Day, and prepared a lovely surprise for her: Using the internet and webcam on my computer at home, we showed her her grandchild as he looks now.
What gift could be more precious than that?
In the midst of all this confusion, I saw my mother-in-law, who had been with us for a week, off to Istanbul on the morning of Mother’s Day; would you believe it, we’d forgotten to wish her a happy Mother’s Day while she was with us. We called her after she got to Istanbul.
Just as I thought the weekend was coming to an end, Fenerbahçe clinched the championship!
As a Galatasaray supporter, I was hoping Beşiktaş would win the championship, but Fenerbahçe clinches it instead; do you know what that means?
It means congratulating a team, even though I really don’t want to, that deserved the championship in every way.
It means setting aside my attitude of “Anyone but them.”
I’ll say it plainly: if Fenerbahçe had won the championship last year, we could have said there was something fishy going on; but this year Fenerbahçe really did earn the championship it deserved.
I wholeheartedly congratulate Fenerbahçe and its supporters, and hope they do not continue this same success in the years ahead.
That’s more or less how the weekend went.
Also, I’ve started publishing on my website the interviews from the Sinekritik pages that appear in your newspaper, Vatan, on Saturdays.
My curious readers can find all the interviews published so far through the “Once Upon a Time” link on my website, www.cemkar.net.
By the way, I often get the same question, so let me answer it here.
About the piece I wrote last Wednesday under the heading “Sivriler,” both my friends and my readers (by email) ask, “Cem, what happened to ‘Sivri Kerim’?”
I think “Sivri Kerim” is still alive, friends. I ran into him in the room the other evening, but I couldn’t quite make him out; you know, they all look alike!
The important thing here isn’t “Sivri Kerim.” It’s a name I made up for one of my parts because it rhymed; what really matters, as I wrote that day, is that the municipalities free us from this torment we’re enduring as soon as possible.
Both the mosquitoes and the ones who fall in cubes (the useless ones) keep making our lives miserable.
I hope our municipalities are working on this issue.
By the way, please don’t let this work be fobbed off with spraying chemicals into the air on our streets!
It’s because of this spraying that we have so many mosquitoes in our homes!
The jackals come into our homes because there’s pesticide outside; they’ve figured out how to escape it, but we haven’t figured out how to get rid of them.
I wish our municipalities success in their efforts…
See you on Wednesday… Be respectful in traffic!
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