Category: My Life
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🌿 The Shocking First 9 Days of My Keto And Intermittent Fasting Diet: From Overwhelm to Breakthrough
I’ve never been the kind of person who quits. At least, that’s who I was before I moved to New York at 24. Back then, I was always thin. The one who could eat anything, and when the balance of my regular weight shifted, I simply took care with what I ate for a couple…
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Living in Greenpoint 5 Pros and Cons
Moving to New York is one of my best decisions ever. I left my cool advertising job in Istanbul and moved to New York after my boyfriend was located here. That’s a quiet love story, which you can read here. But I am talking about living in Greenpoint with pros and cons. It has been seven…
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Motherhood: How Do I Do with Twins?
There is one question I have been asked more than ever for the last 2 years. How do I do it with twins? Honestly, I don’t know. I don’t even have time to breathe, relax and think about it. Even though my twins are 2 years old now, I always feel like It has been…
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New York’a Hangi Vize Türüyle Geldim?
New York’a geliş hikayemi bir önceki yazımda kısaca anlatmıştım. Peki ama nasıl geldim? Hangi vize türüyle geldim? En kısa yoldan buraya gelmenin yolu nedir? İşte bu kez, bu yazımda size biraz da bu konudan bahsetmek istiyorum. Fatih’le anlaşıp New York’a gelmemin kararını aldıktan sonra en hızlı ne şekilde oraya gidebileceğimi düşünmeye başladık. En kolay öğrenci…
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Yurtdışında Yaşamak İsteyenler: İşte Benim New York Hikayem
Yurtdışında yaşamak isteyenler malumumuz her geçen gün artıyor. Hal böyle olunca sizinle yurtdışındaki yaşam hikayemi paylaşmaya karar verdim. Bazılarınızın halı hazırda bildiği üzere ben Amerika’ya aşk uğruna geldim. Evet aklımda tekrardan yurtdışında yaşamak (kısa süreliğine de olsa öğrencilik yıllarımda Avrupa’da yaşamıştım. Başka bir ülkede yaşamak fikri aklınızdan hiç çıkmıyor yeterki bir kez bile olsun tadına…
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Here It Comes My New Year Resolution for 2019
I’ve just finished reading my previous year’s resolution. I think I did a great job on that list. It supposedly was for college kids, and I realized how good it was. Because I enjoyed reading it at this age. And I am kind of surprised how wise I sounded. Yet here I am still with…
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How do I move to New York from Istanbul in 2011?
I don’t know why I haven’t talked about on this subject ever. I mean I talked about this million times to my American friends but not here. That’s very weird actually. In this beautiful spring day, I’ve decided to talk about my story of moving to New York. Let’s hear me how do I move…
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My Twin Girls’ 7 Favourite Items in 7th Month
I’ve just realized that I haven’t talked about the girls for a while. I share them on my Instagram from time to time. If you want to keep updated with them, you can check @umaybike (Umay & Aybike) account on Instagram. But I am more a private person when It comes to my babies. But I don’t…
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5 New Year Resolutions for College Students in 2018
Writing about new year resolutions something I’ve done since 2010. So I decided to approach differently this year. Why not give back to others? This is how ended up writing on “5 New Year Resolutions for College Students in 2018“. Do I keep up with my promises? Not all the time. But even writing about…
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Twin Nursery Project for a Small New York Apartment
This is a very special project for me but It is a very hard one. Because I wasn’t ready until the very last minute. I call it “twin nursery project for small space”. Because It really is a challenge. When I was in my last months of pregnancy, we haven’t still found our current apartment.…
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My Lost Pregnancies and Story of Successful One
Yes, I’m pregnant. It’s very interesting for me to share one of the most intimate things of my heart, of my family with the whole world. I have struggles to talk about my personal life openly from my blog. Because even though I share my daily looks and my daily routines with my followers, this is very…
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Coffee Talks with Newest Yorkers: Gabriel Hamsi
I know I know I am terrible at doing some of my scheduled things. Unfortunately, this is one of those things of mine that I have to reschedule over and over. Of course, I am talking about my video series “Coffee Talks with Newest Yorkers” which is supposed to be in every two months. Because of terrible…
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Organizing Beach Wedding in Turkey
Organizing a wedding is a difficult job. Organizing beach wedding in Turkey was even more difficult—maybe not all of Turkey. A developing summer city in Turkey is a better phrase, indeed. I can’t believe It has been 4 years already. When I was not married, I used to ask people how long they had been…
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2017 Resolutions and How to Remain True to Them
I hate writing about resolutions. But I can’t live the idea of being without a list. So I do my resolution lists every year no matter what I accomplished the previous year or not. This year I also wrote about my previous year summary. It is basically what happened in 2016. Resolutions of 2017 -After…
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My 2016 with Bad Sides and Good Vibes
2016, Here we are. Another year yet come to end. 2016 was an interesting year for me. I think it is better to write my achievement and my disappointment about this year to summarize and to draw a picture of this another year of my life. I want to start to things are disappointed for me.…
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A Silk Road Tale by Fazil Say
Fazil Say is my favorite classical music virtuoso. He is one the biggest artists in his time. Because he is not only a performer but also a composer. Can you imagine that he composed his first piano sonata when he was 14 years old? I barely started to write my first stories, at that age,…
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Coffee Talks with Newest Yorkers: Melissa A. Martin
I finally complete my new Newest Yorker interview. I promise to do this videos every month but I was so busy during October and Arriana was so busy for November and I was kind of being lazy to pursue one of my friends to do this coffee talks with me. I was being late to…
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An Eid, A Newborn Baby, A Wedding, The Ultimate Istanbul Vacation
Here I am again going to Istanbul. This time just for 10 days. I am going to attend one of my best friends’ wedding in Istanbul. You may know Deniz from some of my IG photos or not. Actually, this isn’t very important. The thing is she is my friend from college and we both…
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Coffee Talks with Newest Yorkers *
I was thinking about starting this video series for a long time. I attempt to do by myself months ago for the first time. It was kind of disaster in terms of my editing and camera skills. When I was lucky enough to find Arriana, I was so excited about finally doing my youtube videos.…
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Midi Skater Dress in Washington Sq. Park
I was shocked when I woke up to rainy and gray day. Nobody can stop me to wear my favorite skater dress, neither rain. We had such a great time on Sunday with friends. We are all from Turkey and We Turks love our traditional Turkish breakfast. So we decided to go long time favorite…
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Fazıl Say and Chamber Symphony
It was beyond magical. When: Saturday, Where: Carnegie Hall Who: Fazıl Say and Orpheus Undoubtly Fazıl Say is the greatest composer of Turkish Music. I was so proud to be there in that magical night. When I was a little girl I was reading this book and the main girl from the book was invited to…
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Why I Start to Go to College Again?
To whom read my blog regularly knows exactly about my life. And they also know about my new exciment about starting college once again.
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Better Than Fashion Week? A Upper East Side Whole Foods
Finally Alaska Fashion Week (a.k.a. New York Fashion Week) is over. It couldn’t be more awful than this. The weather was insanely cold! I couldn’t get out myself more than 3 days. Hence I feel like I missed the city’s most beautiful times, people from all boroughs with incredible stylish looks. I really like the…
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October 29th and Ataturk
I want to talk about Ataturk little bit today because this day is the greatest day in my homeland back in Turkey! It is Republic Day. After Ottoman Empire’s 624-year rule over, Turkish people ends monarchy with the help of the greatest leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk*. I am thankful him so much for so many waysfor…
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Istanbul is My Favorite City. Where is Yours?
This is the first time, I visited Istanbul after I started my blog. If you don’t know that I am originally from Turkey and before New York I used to live in Istanbul for 6 six years. I went to college in Istanbul later, I found my first job in this dream city. I was there…
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Happy Eid
Most of the people know about Christmas or Hanukah. I actually become more aware of Hanukah after I moved to New York. Still I am not fully knowledgeable about it. I am pretty sure you have no idea what the Eid is? Also called Feast of Breaking the Fast, the Sugar Feast, Bayram (Bajram), the…