The Queen of Kaz

Corporate New Year party!!!!

2008-12-29T19:10:00.021+06:00

Hello to every one,
I guess all of you missed me so do I.
Again sorry I am busy busy lady with a lot of activities going on, you can see from the pictures. On Friday, December 26 th we had corporate New year celebration party, I would like you to see all my colleagues and please join my journey!

We have rented a house with 2 stories, closer to the mountains, the weather was super. On that we had some snow; you can imagine how wonderful it was.

How do you like these two ladies, aren`t they cute?

Ok, they are Nargiza and Anel both of them from Sales Department!

Ok now a bit names: Almaz- plant manager, Aizhan- business controller, you know Nargiza, Yerzhigit-R& D, me and Elmin –driver,
Ok now second row: Sveta Tate- tea lady, Sveta- marketing manager, Karina- office manager.

Almaz being a start around the girls!!!!

Since we rented a house, we had to cook and prepare everything by ourselves, so you can see I am always in charge of everything, I guess today I am not shy!

I would name this picture the queen of kitchen, hurray!

Here is Nurlan, he is from my department, very nice guy who can make shyshka kebabs.

Come to Almaty I would aks him to serve you with unbelievable kebabs.

Dishes, dishes too bad that we don`t have dishwasher as alot of my friends have in the States :)

Ok, now the most popular person of the party and our office in general Lubov- Chief accountant.

The people who organized this party for us had nice games, and gave a lot of gifts.
We had a competition that who has the biggest belly, well Sveta, our marketing manager got the first place, very funny to see her.

I would like to share also good news, I was nominated to the title “the soul of company” and I won this title. Look, it made me so happy!

Dancing with my boss Mr. Cemil Alkan

We had a big snow fight, unfortunately didn`t have camera on that time but you can see the results.
After snow fight: Merkhat my direct boss the head of logistic department and next to him our production manager, a very ambitious lady from my office miss Nurgul!

There you go, Mister Ender Ozaaty, head of Sales department.

Very excited as you see!!!

Dear all, Happy New Year, I love all of you. Even if you are very far away from me. Each of you very special for me, Hope God helps me to see you on day, All the best wishes in 2009! Thanks for being with me.

I had guests

2008-09-19T16:46:00.013+06:00

Last week a friend of mine Asel with her mom came to visit with me from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. It was exciting to see them over here, taking into consideration the fact that they have been here a few years ago.
Of course we had to go sightseeing around Almaty.

The first place we had to visit was Kok-Tobe. From that hill you can see the town like it`s on you palms.

We took tiny air tram to get there.

I invited another friend of mine Almaz; he also lives here in Almaty, all of us studied together in one group.

Asel and Almaz decided to take a fast coaster thingJ. When Almaz offered to Asel to take a ride she even didn`t think about the consequences. After riding both of them we very stressed, it seemed to me that the coaster was fast and it took their breath and made them scared. I guess it our age it`s fun to ride this type of thing.

I love this picture; I truly believe that we are all Sassy!

Look at this I beacme a mom!!! Ha-ha-ha!

Just love it!

Next day we went to the mountains, famous place Medeo with ice skating rink.Asel`s mother hasn’t been there and always dreamed of it, well now she dream came true and you can see from the pictures.

Asel`s mother stayed only 2 days and left to Bishkek.
I hope she liked being here, as least I tried to do my best for her to feel good about Almaty. Asel stayed a week in Almaty. I am looking forward to see her back.

Another wedding party!!!

2008-08-27T16:09:00.007+06:00

Hey everyone,
This month I took part in second wedding party and what I want to say it feels too good to see my friends having families and new changes.
This time I was invited for a wedding party of Cholpon and Azat. Well it`s funny story how we got to know each other. One of my best friends Asel, the girl in olive dress has good school friend Meerim, the girl in black dress. So, all of us used to hang around.
Meerim is married almost 3 years, now Cholpon got married, I guess it`s our turn to have family and whole bunch of kiddos.

from right to left Meerim, Asel, Cholpon and me!

Just a bit info regarding the wedding. I came to Bishkek one day before the wedding in order to get ready. So in the morning we went to Cholpon`s house and after that the groom arrived with some friends to pick up the bride and us.
They had an official registration of the marriage. It was very exciting and touching moment. And after that we went to have a trip around town and mountains before the main celebration in the restaurant.

The cake was so tasty, you can see it!!!!

After the party it`s always good mood filled with happiness and joy.

CONTRATULATIONS!

A wedding party of a good man!

2008-08-08T10:56:00.005+06:00

On Saturday August 2, 2008 a good friend of mine Azamat from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan got married to a nice girl Rakhat. I know him since 1999; we studied at the same University and at the same group as well.

This year Rakhat graduated from the University. A few words about bride and groom. They have been dating since 2006, I believe it`s enough to have plans for the future. They are very nice looking you can see it from the below picture. I was very happy to see them filled with love to each other.

Wedding party had good show program, with good songs and dances. Unfortunately, I have only a few pictures to share with you, but hope within a few days I will post more.
On the party almost all friends of mine participated besides 2 main ones. They are Anvar, who is in China now and Nikolai, he is on Moscow. Guys we were missing you.

I would like to thank Azamat and Rakhat for a nice party!

New hair styles

2008-06-23T14:09:00.007+06:00

I am here to share with you some pictures of my nieces. Now they are on a summer vacation. They live in a village with my parents.
I promised them to make new hair styles and that event took place yesterday. The girls were excited; they have been looking through the famous magazines to find the style they want to have.

So finally we went to my hair stylist. And have a look for the results.
This is Alina my oldest niece, she is 13.

The other one is Dana, she is 10.

They liked the new styles, and I was happy for them.

Team building event!!!!!!!

2008-06-12T16:45:00.022+06:00

Hello everyone,

On June 6-7 th our company organized a team building event to the employees.
Event took place in Alatau sanatorium; I should say that the area was wonderful.After lunch we had seminar where all out business units made presentations regarding all the activities and final results of the sales for 2007 and showed new targets for 2008-2009.

Here is the picture of my colleagues in front of the sanatorium

Waking by the pond

After that we went out side and all the interesting activities started. We were divided into 10 different teams, and each team had its own color, so my team had orange color and we called ourselves as Tangerines. It was made so we can differentiate each other.

A lot of competitions were organized for us, so here I was helping to a colleague of mine not to fall down.

Look at this person, he is my boss. On that day he behaved like a kid, at work he is serious, I just love this picture. I think it`s hilarious, what do you think?

Nice game, at fist you knock at your own knees and after that at your neighbors. Look we were all enjoying knocking, especially when we had to make it very fast.

My turn was coming

Hello from the winners!!!! Hurray!!!

All Henkel employees

After games we had one hour to get ready for the dinner.
Now I was ready to have dinner, you can it!

Dinner was very nice. Showman prepared a good entertainment program for all of us.

Show man asked 14 volunteers to come to him and they went to prepare something special. After 30 min, we were in shock from what we saw. They were all dressed and made a wonderful performance.
That`s all from me for the time being!

thanks for your attention!!!!

Fresh stawberries

2008-05-12T18:02:00.004+06:00

Hi everybody,

There are a lot of things going on in the office; I and my colleagues stay late working, so a bit busy and feel bad not being able to post often. In a short period of time our plant is going to run, therefore everybody just busy as it can be.
Today one colleague who used to work with us brought some fresh strawberries. I took a picture; it was so nice to have fresh berries during working hours. I had a break for 10 min to eat them up yummy!!!!

Russian Easter.............

2008-04-28T10:48:00.003+06:00

Yesterday Russian people celebrated Orthodox Easter. I guess the tradition is the same for all the Christian people to color eggs and bake some tasty Easter cakes for this event, but Russians celebrate Easter later than people in Europe and America. Today I came to the office and noticed yummy things in the kitchen. Our Chief accountant prepared this……………
I thought it looks very nice and tasty, so I decided to share with you.
Don`t be jealous!

Promised picture

2008-04-23T16:40:00.003+06:00

Quick note,
Today some friends from Bishkek sent me a picture I missed while posting about Dayana`s birthday. You can see the whole members of my table, we danced Lambada, it`s Brazil dance. I would like to thank the guy who wore a skirt, I think he look just pretty!

Dayana`s birthday party!!!!!!!

2008-04-22T12:08:00.019+06:00

I had wonderful weekends. I was invited to the birthday party of my friend’s daughter in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the babie`s name is Dayana. My friend`s name is Sophia, we studied at the same University but the specialties were different, we took courses of French language together. So 2 years ago she got married and lives now in Bishkek, so little bit of history, she married to a Korean guy, his name is Sasha. They organized everything pretty cool. There were around 130 people. As they explained to me for Korean people it`s very important to celebrate the first birthday, so that’s why there were whole bunch of relatives and friends.

Here they are Sasha, Sophia and Dayana
Baby was scared at the begining, but later on she did a great job!

They prepared a slide show, starting from Dayana`s birth till nowadays, it was pretty exciting.

Dayana, Sophia and me

Good friends

Baby looks like an angel, don`t you think so?

Sophia, Ulan, Asel, Jyldyz and Zhazgul

As you can see from the pictures the table was full of delicious things,
I loved ribs with potato rolls

The most interesting thing for me was that they decided to be usual in organizing this party. They got some dresses from the theater and people from each table got their tasks. For example my table got the task to dance Lambada, it is very popular brazil dance. We got to wear skirts on top of our clothes and had some beads. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a picture of me being on that dress, but some friends of mine promised to send me some, so I could share with you all.

And other people got tasks like to sing like Abba band, Michael Jackson and so on.

Local Star Michael Jackson!!!!! Cool guy, he did a good job being a mega starfrom the USA!

Indian dance, lot`s of fun,

Uzbek famoust band "Yalla"

This couple asked me to take a picture of them, I think they look cute.

Ulan and Zhagul

Would like to tell you that was not the all info and pictures I would like to share with you,

It means to be continued, check my blog in a couple days.

P.S. Shasha and Sophia thanks for everything, we all really enjoyed the party!!!!!!

It`s a tradition to be at the airport.....

2008-04-14T11:53:00.003+06:00

I love airport very much,
You will ask why?
While working for the adoption agency, we used to go to the airport to meet and see of the adoptive parents. It was always interesting to meet new people and hard to say good bye to the people with whom you worked for some period of time.

On Saturday I went to the airport because a friend of mine from Kyrgyzstan flu from Almaty airport to Beijing. His name is Anvar; we studied together at the Slavic University in Bishkek. Now he is going to work for Shanghai Organization of Collaboration. He concluded a contract for 2 years. I was happy to see him in Almaty; we got to spent a few hours until his flight. He was sad because of new challenges in his life and I was keep telling him that it`s good to have new stuff in the life.

Today I heard from him, he arrived ok, and already missing home.
Well the only thing I can wish to him is to take all the adventures on his way and enjoy them.

Anvar, all your friends and family will be waiting for you.
Cheer up!
Life is good!

My friend`s trip to the USA

2008-03-27T10:26:00.015+06:00

I have nice pictures to share with you.
I got permission from Bulgyn to post her pictures from the USA trip. I guess I could of done it earlier, well I should take into consideration that God said it`s never late. So come alone with my story.
Bulgyn traveled a lot around the USA and explored new places and new people. It`s pleasure to talk to her about the USA. There are many things that I have learned from her.
She brought so many books describing the places she has been to. What an experience, frankly I am jealous, even though I was in the States too.
So, would like to introduce you the Rosendahle family: Doug- papa (father), Toni – mama (mother), Codi – cool, sassy girl and Cole – little man with stylish hair.
They invited Bulgyn to the States, and made everything that she had fun. I think she was really lucky to stay with the family like Rosendahle.

Bulgyn`s birthday party took place also while she was in the States. Look what a nice dinner they had, I love this picture and hope you also do.
Before I went to the States I always dreamed to see an ocean, and I got to see it. The family I stayed with took me to Florida for the spring training of Cardinals; well well it was something incredible. We were at West Palm Beach; my first experience on Atlantic Ocean was like a fairy tale. I hardly could breathe, it was nice to be filled with good emotions and happiness.
I think Bulgin had the same feelings.

Look the girls on the Pacific Ocean Beach, good pose!!!!!

Bulgyn visited with a few families she worked with as I informed you before. Well this is a group picture of some of them.

This picture is fabulous, I have an idea, today I will tease her that she found her love even if he is a statue. She would be mad, well I am trying to be smart …… you know it, don`t you?

Nice dresses

What a wonderful view to the ocean, Bulgyn brought some shells from the ocean to Kazakhstan, it`s pretty neat to have it as a souvenir. One more interesting thing, when she gave me one of the shell and asked me to put it next to my ear, I heard a sound of ocean, it was surprising to me but it the same time some type of peace felt in my heart. I am so thankful to have good memories about the States and now a friend of mine also does the same priceless memories for the whole life.

Bulgyn`s arrival to Kazakhstan

2008-03-26T11:44:00.006+06:00

Hello hello from Kazakhstan,
I am getting very busy with my school and work at the moment. I meant to post some pictures but there is always but world.

Well, you may ask what`s on?
My reply is the following:
A good friend of mine Bulgyn finally arrived home after being almost 7 months in the States, wholly molly you would say, I think the same. She had a wonderful time being on the other side of the world. We used to work together with Bulgyn at the adoption agency, and she had a chance to travel to the States and spend some time visiting with the families she helped during their adoption experience in Kazakhstan. One more interesting thing about Bulgyn, she always dreamed to visit the States as all the girls who worked with us, but she had a special requirement ………. she wanted to stay in California, don`t know why but it was all the time when you ask her where she would like to go in the States she would say California !!!
I guess God heard her desire and allowed her to visit with a family from California. My comment is dear friends we should always think positively and wish, I believe our thoughts can be realized by God or Universe.

I missed her very much and the news of her arrival made me so happy. Originally she supposed to be in Almaty on March 16th, but due to the plane breakage she landed on March 17th. So, we went to the airport to pick her up. There were Bulgyn`s father, bother who is 10, me and our friend Zharkyn. At that day there were so crowded at the airport, 4 flights landed almost at the same time and we were looking at the people coming to get their luggage, while waiting we even made a competition who will see Bulgyn first. Well, finally I saw her coming and waving like crazy, she was also looking in order to see us through the crowd and when she finally recognized us, she dropped her carry on bags the middle of the room and run towards us. It was great to see her, she hasn’t changed much, for some reason I expected her to gain some weight but no way, she has gotten even thinner.
I didn`t have a camera to take pictures, but there was my cell phone, which was very handy, so I took a few pictures of her at the airport, but the best one is this.
Have a look, Bulgyn with her folks.
I would like to thank all the American families, who helped her to get an opportunity to explore America; you are very sweet and nice people.
Wish you good luck and hope if you get chance to get back to Kazakhstan, we would be happy to meet you and help you over here as well.

Going to the Almaty night club……… for the first time!

2008-03-06T11:42:00.012+06:00

Hi, it`s me again.
On March 8 th, we have International women`s day celebration, I guess we can call it mother’s day! So, I would like to congratulate all the mothers, sisters, daughters and all the cool girls with this nice spring holiday.
Well getting back to my last post I promised to tell what I got for my birthday. There were a lot of surprises coming from the States. As I told you Sonja made a big pack for my family full of gifts for X-s, additionally to that ones, she sent me pretty necklace with 5 butterflies, they are symbolize Sonja`s 5 kids, she has the same necklace as me.
Now I have 5 kids under my heart, it`s so pretty you can see the pictures.
Also, I got nice earrings from Sonja`s parents, I am so thankful for them, the colors are so good and it can go with any kind of outfit.
Another big surprise, I got from one of the dearest families to my heart the Hendricksons and the Ellises. It is also a necklace with beautiful garnet eyes (I dunno how to call it). I am happy to have it, thanks very much for your attention and such a nice gift.

Shining so bright! Love it!

So, let`s get back to the main point of this post. On Saturday one of my colleague from Cosmetics department had a birthday, so I was invited over too.
The celebration took place in a nice club called Assorti (restaurant +club).
When I heard that it`s gonna be in a club I was a bit upset, I thought that the music will be loud and we won`t enjoy conversation, but I was wrong, she invited everybody to 20-00 p.m and music started to play at 23-00 pm., we had good time for the girls talk and dancing, so we killed two hares at ones, some one must be confused with this saying. (People who worked with me know this joke. P.S Miss Pamelitta and Christa) OK, now English equivalent to kill two birds with one stone.

Look at this wonderful dish, called "Hunters catch" with different types of game-birds. It was so good!
Gulmira, the girl who had a birthday!

We had so much fun 12 girls from different department of my company (Cosmetics, Detergents and Adhesives).

Dancing girls!

I would like to thanks Gulmira and other girls for a wonderful time.

Do you wanna see some gifts, come along…….

2008-02-12T08:39:00.000+06:00

On the weekend, I went home to visit with my folks. And another reason was to deliver goodies to the kids. The Wilson family I worked with, made X-s gifts to my family. They are very busy family with whole bunch of activities going on around them and their kids.

Gavin and Sonja have 5 kids; you can imagine how much work and energy it takes them to keep up with the kids. But they are following up with everything and trying to take part at any event in kids life. While I was in the States, our relationship became closer and I am happy to meet this family and see how they live and how much love and joy they give to the kids.

Well, I got the package from the States last week, and since then, all the kids of my brothers were calling me everyday and wondering when I am going to deliver the goodies! So on the weekends this event took place.

I have two brothers, both of them are married. The oldest one has two daughters Alina -13 and Dana - 10. The second one has tree kids: 2 boys and a girl, Nauryzali - 9, Nurali 13 months, Ayana -6.

My father and mother got gifts from the Wilson`s too. He loves the smell of the cologne!!!!! Trying to be shy, but in reality he is far away from shy person. He is a good father and grand father.

Gavin and Sonja put the entire gifts into special sock; it was fist interesting thing to see. All the kids were excited to see what they got. I wanted whole family to be around when they open the gifts, but the kids were not willing to wait till everybody come, so we started to open.

Alina was fist one. She got a lot of interesting and useful things. But the most exciting was to get tennis shoes. They look so cool, I call them "burning shoes", look how it shines:)!!!!

My mother got also her gift, it was pretty cosmetic bag with make up inside. A few months ago she was asking me to get one, but of course I said ok and never get her it. Thanks to Sonja, you can see my mom being happy.

Our baby boy is serious by nature; it was interesting to see his reaction.

His favorite thing from the gifts became a sippy cup. Since the moment he saw it, he would have it with him everywhere.

Ayana got so excited. She was running around all the time, trying to sneak and have a look what was on the box.

Dana was fast to wear the shoes and checking out what she has got.

She loves pink color, and got pink tennis shoes, it fit her very well, and all day long she wore them.

Nauka looks silly on this picture.

Hey guys you should hear this orchestra, all of them loved the flutes.

On behalf of my family would like to say many thanks to the Wilson family.
About my gifts and people who made them I will post next time!

Again 16.......:)

2008-02-01T11:49:00.000+06:00

Good day friends,

Didn`t have lots to say lately till yesterday.
It was my birthday, cool I am getting older like a babushka J J J! People were asking me about my age so I said 16 again, cool age even if it`s 10th time.

In the morning when I came to the office the office manager of our company Anel my close friend took me by surprise. She brought some flowers and cards, but the most exciting was her cutting from construction paper some letters (in order to have a word- combination “Happy birthday”) and gluing it to my desk. So have a look at the pictures.

I haven`t planned to celebrate other then in the office. It`s a tradition to have some get together around the colleagues. It went very nice; people were joking around and wishing me so many wonderful things.

It`s always touching to know what people say about you. Sometimes people say that it doesn’t matter what people think of you, but I am sure it matters, because you can see yourself only from your tower and when you know the opinion of the others and if it`s very positive, it gives you more energy and some how helps you not to fall down and cheers you up.

After celebrating at the office me some colleagues went to the theater to see Kazakh performance named “Aiman -Sholpan”. It`s very old Kaz story about two twin sisters.
I had a nice time.

Hope I will have more exciting moments to share with you,
Take care,

Nazym

Happy New Year..........

2008-01-03T14:27:00.000+06:00

Hej hej as Swedish people would say as a greeting!

Life is getting very busy with all kinds of things. Finally I am over my educational session and ready to work work and work.

Before starting to share with you all the details from my life let me congratulate you with Merry X-s and Happy New Year. Wish you all prosperity, well-being, impressive successes and new triumphs. Let the approaching year be the happiest and most successful for you, and bring you and your relatives success and excellent mood!

On December 29, our company organized a corporate party for a New Year celebration; it went in a very interesting and warm atmosphere. Table was full of food as you can see from the pictures and the owners of the restaurant invited some showmen to part in the event. Our boys prepared some special gift for the girls if they sing or tell poems, so I was also on that boat in order to get a gift and I did, please have a look!!!!!!

My boss in the middle, next to him Gulsim – Financial Director and me, on the back Plant Manager Almaz and our Lawyer Olga

Hot belly dances made everybody warmed up and dance non stop. I loved to dance on Oriental melodies, I think it`s a part of my nature and my colleagues were also making wild dances.

I was pretty much surprised to see a yogi man, he presented a tremendous show, with blowing fire out of his mouth (not sure about English equivalent of it). Then he broke a bottle and laid on it, the stuff was made of nails. He was a super star of the night.
All my colleagues - very nice people

Happy girls

After eating good food and wild dances I was ready to leave and get some rest.
Next day I went home to my family, we had wonderful family celebration.

Again Congratulations!!!

Happy happy birthday my sweet mom!!!!!!!!

2007-11-19T12:34:00.000+06:00

Hi,
I am sorry for not making any post lately, due to some circumstances. November 10th was my mom`s 50th birthday party. We celebrated it pretty good. There were around 30 people: relatives and friends. It was good opportunity to see all the family get together. I remember being in States the Hendrickson family I stayed with used to make this kind of celebration each month and congratulate the members of the family who had a birthday each month. I believe it`s so nice to have good occasion.

Let me introduce these are my parents: papa Omarbay and mama Kuldan!!!!!!!

My father got her a very nice bouquet of flowers.My nieces and nephews made special concert program for my mom. It was very special, Alina my oldest niece sings pretty well, she was singing and organizing the younger ones to make performance. She is in the center.Dana my youngest niece prepared a poem for my mom and danced like crazy, she is good at belly dance. Look at her, she is precious.It was like really belly dance, our relatives put some money, it made her very happy.

My second brothers son Nauryz also decided to make something special to his grand mom, so Alina inveted a dance for both of them, it turned out good, everyone was happy to see kids dancing and entertaining adults.

So, here I am with my father and mother

I wish my mom to stay like this always being young and beautiful, she is very nice and sweet mother with big heart full of love to her kids!

2007-10-12T14:13:00.001+06:00

Good day everybody,

I would like to share with you some pictures.
Around two weeks ago, I had a guest from Germany.

Her name is Nastya, she is 12 years old, and she is my boss’s daughter. She had a vacation and her father asked if we can go to the village so she can see life in a village.
The trip was very good. We found out that Nastya really likes to ride a horse; her desire was catching for all of us.

I used to ride a horse when I was 10 years old, and since that time I haven’t ridden a horse and and and I loved it a lot, it kind of funny that person can forget how exciting it might be riding a horse.
I have good advice for all of you all to ride.

My nieces Alina and Dana

Dana loved to ride a donkey,

I think she looks cool!!!!!!

Gulzada and me
Alina and Nastya

Have a nice flight Bulgin.......

2007-09-18T09:33:00.000+06:00

Hi again,

Very short note, today my good friend Bulgin went to the USA to visit with the families she worked with. I am very excited for her, it was one of her dreams, and finally she gets to see America. I wish her safe flight and hope she will be surprised traveling to the other side of the world. I am sure she would love it :)

Bulgin with her sister Narkes

Team building party!!!!!

2007-09-17T10:32:00.000+06:00

Hello to everyone,

I would like to share with you some pictures that have been taken on the team building event for our company. The main purpose was to teach us to work and act as a real team going through difficulties and finding ways how to solve the problems.

This time it was just easy games, but next time they promised to make complicated games. The event took place in an area not far from Almaty on Kapshagai River, the view was pretty good.

Here you can see me with my colleagues walking to the resort area.

It was really great, we had whole bunch of activities including different games all the activities took place on the beach. The weather was super and we really enjoyed being out.

We were divided into five teams and each team had its own tasks to accomplish.
So here you can see my team members, I like them all, and we had a lot of fun working together and reaching our target.All Henkel team

We also had time to swim and take banana ride.
At the end of the day, we had wonderful dinner with a lot of tasty food and wine.
There were a lot of people coming from the regions and representatives from various departments and business units. We got to know each other and became good friends.

Thanks for visiting my page,
Hope you are also having fun,
Bests, Nazym!

Friends!

2007-08-15T14:34:00.000+06:00

I was off work for almost 10 days; it was good to take some rest and with a new energy continue to work. All these days I was at my parent’s house having fun with my brothers` kids. Today I am back to work. It`s hard to believe how time goes by you don`t even feel it.

Before I left I had a get together with my pretty good friends Bulgin and Vika, they used to work together with me for the adoption agency. All of us were translators. Right now we work in a separate places, funny thing is all of us work in construction business, it`s a priority number # 1 in Almaty.

We went to a mall and supposed to have pizza, but ended up having some pasta and beer, it was good though. We talked and talked about our American families and kids. We are proud to take part in the adoption procedure and helped little ones to find sweet homes and loving parents.

I guess job for the agency made us to be close to each other and each family’s problems became our own problems. I am thankful that I have such friends like Bulgin and Vika, who supports me all the time.

You girls are awesome!

Wedding of Aigul, my chief accountant

2007-07-30T16:44:00.000+06:00

Hello to everybody,

Sorry for my disappearance for a long time, as usual busy running around with whole bunch of tasks.

I quite busy weekend. Well let me start, as I mentioned couple of time in my emails to some of you, our chief accountant got married. The wedding ceremony took place in Uzbekistan. We had 7 people going there. It was quite experience for all of us. The way supposed to take 14-16 h, we took a bus and in Taraz (name of the city) our bus was broken what a pity thing.
Good thing was we had men with us, who immediately acted up like our saviors, well they hired a taxi and all of us continued our journey to Uzbekistan.

Big shock for me was going through the customs, there were so many people walking back and force, but finally we managed to cross it and there we were in Uzbekistan. Our chief accountant’s husband his name is Bakhodir met us and welcomed to Uzbekistan. They rented very nice apartment for us, which was very sweet from their side.

So speaking of wedding well, there were two wedding at the same time; two brothers have decided to get married at the same time. Auigul our chief accountant’s name, she was pretty. She was all excited to see us being in Uzbekistan.

The wedding was a bit different then we have here, I am sorry all the time making comparison’s I believe that it`s pretty good to make some type of structure to see the other cultures. So in Kaz wedding you have a lot of people making speeches and drinking for the health and wealth of the new couple, in Uzbekistan people dance non stop, that shows their appreciation and respect to the new family. One more fascinating thing was if they see you dancing good they come to you and give you money. So we did a lot of dancing and some of my colleagues got chut chut of money. For people who do not know chut chut is in Russ mean a bit. So, we had so much fun dancing and kind of competing with our Uzbek relatives.

The town from the beginning was fascinating for me; I have heard a lot about it, but this time to see everything on your own was another story. The weather was very hot on that day, it`s almost like you are in Africa, at least it felt like that.

Tashkent is the capital of the country, very famous city in the Great Silk way road and very neat city for tourists`. The architecture of the town is very beautiful, it`s absolutely different then we have here in Almaty. Of course people are also quite different. They have very pretty open markets where you can find anything you would like to eat, drink and so on. The sizes are pretty much shocking.

Next day we have decided to make a side seeing around the town, which I loved. We had only 2 h before leaving, so we were in hurry. Of course we had to eat something local and very tasty. So Uzbekistan is very famous for it`s pilov, it`s rice with meat and a lot of carrots.

We found nice place, called Central Asian pilov center, where in 1 pot you can see 100 kg of rice, amazing isn`t it? It was very very tasty even though we were stuffed we continued to eat again and again. I took some pictures of that place, so in future if someone would like to go to Uzbekistan, please stop at that place you never forget it.

Then we stopped by the so called “Toshkent Disney World”. The have there rope-way on top of which you can see what’s going on in the city.

You can also see the beauty of it from the pictures.

I apologize that everything is not in that order I wanted but it`s first time when I did posting without Sonja`s help, I think it`s ok. Next Time I will try to be more careful,

You guys take care,

Love you all Nazym!

Great weekend...

2007-07-03T09:18:00.000+06:00

Hello everybody,

Sorry for being outttttttt of Internet for a while,
I didn`t have Internet access for the last week.

I was at home for the weekend, One of my colleague went to Shymkent and offered to drop me off at home and then on the way back picked me up. It was very good, I feel a bit tired because I have been working like a horsy helping my mom around the house. Anyway it was great to see them and spent some time with them.

My second brother and his family was there as well, I played with my younger baby nephew, he is very cute, but some times throw fits, when I say oy Mama Mia, and sometimes scream like crazy crazy. He got a bit sick may be that`s way he was not happy from time to time.

Now I am at work we going preparing a seminar which takes place on Friday, today I have printed out a lot of materials in a different formats, for that.
As our boss said it`s gonna be a psychological training for employees, it helps to team building and so on.

I got a lot of tasks and working on that project hope it`s gonna turn out good.
For this event we are renting a conference room in a hotel, and tomorrow I will go to see what stuff I need for the decoration of the room.

Well I promised you last time to tell out my weekend, so as I told you before we had a head of our lab in here.

We took her to the mountains to show the beauty of Almaty, she was very impressed to see it, remember we went to Medeo ice-skating rink, well we went further to the rope way, it consists from 3 level and you be on the top of the mountains, we took all 3 of them.

It was unbelievable; you can see the pictures. The wind was blowing into our faces; I had so much fun walking there. We were 5 people 2 two boys, the chunky one is our quality control guy, and other one is head of R&D department, both guys are very young, they graduated University this year, our company is making a lot of training for them, I believe that they gonna be good at their jobs. Then the lady from Germany Hildegard, then me and Gulzada, who is an assistant to German boss.

Then in the evening we went to Ramstore to have some pizza.
Next day on Sunday we went to the water fall, it`s like 70 km from Almaty, I didn`t know about that place, it was absolutely gorgeous you would love to be there. I went under the water even tough I was not prepared for that. I felt like you know a new born baby, the water was so cold and hitting my head, it seemed to me I was released from all bad things from my body.

On the way back we had a pick nick and then stopped by the fishing farm, it amazing how many people were there. So that`s all from my life for now,

You guys have a nice day,

Enjoy the pictures,

Kisses to everybody,

Take care Nazym!

Welcome....

2007-06-29T11:39:00.000+06:00

Welcome to my site. My friend Sonja is helping me get it started so I can keep you up to date on what's going on here! :) I hope you come back often!