Do you like giving and receiving presents?
Oh i love it! So i thought i could open a thread, where we can share gifts with friends and loved ones. Whether they belong to this community or not, it would be great to learn someday that there is a present waiting for them here, at this corner of the cyberspace

So here i go...

This is my present to... oh well, I wont tell u!

-I want you to offer me something….a present…
-Anything you want
-Anything? Do you promise?
-Yes I promise
-It is difficult to find
-I don’t mind
-It’s expensive
-I don’t care
-It’s rare
-Even better
-It’s dangerous
-I m not afraid
-You might burn your hands if you touch it
-I ll become water to extinguish the fire
-It might slip off your fingers and fly away
-I ll catch it again
-It may go very far away
-I ll go after it
-It may get lost in the sky
-I ll become a bird to look for it
-It might dive into the sea
-I ll become a hook to catch it
-It might hide in the dark
-I ll wait for the dawn
-But it might get wounded till then
-I ll bring the stars to spread light earlier
-It’s so small, you wont be able to catch it
-I ll ask from an ant to help me
-And what if it is big as a house?
-I ll bring a crane
-And if it is big as a mountain?
-I ll bring a crane bigger than the mountains
-Is there one?
-I ll make one
-Where did you learn to make cranes?
-I didn’t learn
-Then?
-I ll learn
-How?
-From the books
-What if it’s not in the books?
-I ll find the old man who makes cranes
-What if he is dead?
-I ll find another old man
-Whom?
-The one who knows all the herbals
-All the herbals?
-All the grasses and the small flowers of a field. He knows the magic they hide
-And how will he move the mountain?
-Not him, I will. He will give me herbals to drink, to become strong enough to move the mountain
-And me? Will you be able to lift me up as well? To embrace me?
-Always
-Now!
-Now! Come! What do you want?
-I want you to offer me something.
-Anything you want. Just ask
-Anything? Do you promise?
-Yes I promise
-I want…. I want something that you can’t find, anywhere
-Let’s make it ourselves
-How?
-How would you like us to make it?
-I don’t know
-Lets make it with walnut timber and golden nails
-No, no it’s not like that
-Lets make it with feathers and crumbs , with drops and tickles and lets put a tuning key on it, so that you can wind it up
-No, no! I don’t want a key
-Why not?
-Cause I might lose it
-I ll hang it on your neck
-I might get lost too
-I ll come to find you
-What if you can’t?
-I ll make it
-What if it is dark?
-I ll light a candle
-What if the candle melts?
-Until then I ll have found you
-If not?
-I ll keep searching until I find you
-For how long?
-FOR EVER!
-What does forever mean?
-That I LOVE YOU!
-And what will I be doing until you find me?
-You can sleep
-Where?
-Under a pine tree
-Where are the pine trees?
-Everywhere
-Are there lions everywhere?
-No
-Where are the lions?
-In the jungle
-Is it near? The jungle ?
-Very far away. On the other side of earth…
-So they can’t come here?
-Never
-Do u promise?
-Yes I promise
-I forgot what forever means
-It means that I love you
-How much?
-Up to the sky
-Yes, yes. May I sleep now?
-Yes
-Will you hold me?
-Yes
-I want you to offer me something
-Anything you want
-Anything? Do you promise that?
-Yes I promise…..

interesting gift hea???is not it friends???

Hey Ramayan!
Instead of commenting on my present, why don't you offer one to somebody huh?

a gift???im not good at chosing and i dont have so much things to give....

heheheh

CIMRI!!!

I am a friendly person...but doesn´t offer my friendship to anyone at any time...
So to those I have offered my friendship – I hope you value me and my friendship the same way I value you – and that is highly! Because I know that being a friend will cost – both to you and me...and I can only talk for myself – that I am always willing to do what I can to be there for you when you need me!
That is the best gift I can offer to you, my friend!

best gift maybe forgiving someone who love...or mmm apologizing for ur faults....aslan i saw u very melancholic today???

wad happened dude

A gift to Xanthea who is feeling sick
Get well soon...

sophie mou thatis lovley of you and made me smile
thank you xxxxxxxxxx

and this is for Aslan

aslan ve kaplan

was the real couple as gorgeous as it looks here?

hehehehe sophie...im sure u wil never find a pic with a wolf.....heheheehhe

And this is for Sibel mou!

Nafplio

I think a small dose of memories could cheer her up a bit

ramayan thank you for ya wishes got so muchhhhh to do and feel soooo ill but i wll survive
thanks again

hey guys, ive been reading the forum and noticed lots of young girls have been commenting on the fact they have turkish boyfriends, i am NOT opposed to this due to the fact ive been to turkey 3 times and am going a 4th this june, but everytime ive been there ive met a turkish guy who is sexy and wants to marry me. most of these people only want a visa,and know us girls will get flattered and might agree to marry them, but some are genuine enough, for example, in july 2005 when i went i met lots of turkih boys and men who paid me lots of attention (which i loved) and i really took 2 1 of them who i still keep in contact, yes, he works in a little bag shop in the summer but this is not his life he studies philosophy, psychology and russian at uni and is going to make something of himself. he is planning to visit me after the summer season this year as he is doing his exams when i go in june, and he has plans to get engaged and finally married after he does his national service in 2 years time. im really proud of him but i really want to warn you that most turkish people are really sweet and go out their ways to satisfy u, but some are quite dodgy, a few men (around mid 30s) kept trying to look down my sisters top and up her skirt, and shes only 12 i mean this is repulsive, but i dont have anything against the place, its amazine and i love it there. good luck to all the girls who have there long distance relationships and i hpe all goes well, but please please be careful. Luv mandz XXXXX

So, all you girls in love with Turkish men, this was Mandy's present. A friendly advice for all of you

**** cleaning up the mess in her thread***

yes we all frends and i feel loads better today xxx

loook xanthea der is nobody who dont agree with me....we all with u...care urself well...and run...

This is for all my turkish and greek friends...

TÃœRK-YUNAN ŞİİRİ by Bülent ECEVİT

sıla derdine düşÃ¼nce anlarsın
yunanlıyla kardeş olduğunu
bir rum şarkısı duyunca gör
gurbet elde istanbul çocuğunu

türkçenin ferah gönlünce küfretmişiz
olmuşuz kanlı bıçaklı
yine de bir sevgidir içimizde
böyle barış günlerinde saklı

bir soyun kanı olmasın varsın
damarlarımızda akan kan
içimizde şu deli rüzgâr
bir havadan

Bu yağmurla cömert
bu güneşle sıcak
gönlümüzden bahar dolusu kopan
iyilikler kucak kucak

bu sudan bu tattandır ikimizde de günah
bütün içkiler gibi zararı kadar leziz
bir iklimin meyvasından sızdırılmış
bir içkidir kötülüklerimiz

aramızda bir mavi büyü
bir sıcak deniz
kıyılarında birbirinden güzel
iki milletiz

bizimle dirilecek bir gün
Ege'nin altın çağı
yanıp yarının ateşinden
eskinin ocağı

önce bir kahkaha çalınır kulağına
sonra rum şiveli türkçeler
o Boğaz'dan söz eder
sen rakıyı hatırlarsın

Yunanlıyla kardeş olduğunu
sıla derdine düşÃ¼nce anlarsın

Londra, 1947

and translated

TURKISH-GREEK POEM


You become aware when you feel homesick
That you are brothers with the Greek;
Just look at a child of Istanbul
Listening to a Greek epic.

We've sworn at each other
In the free manner of our language.
We've drawn knife on blood
Yet a love lies hidden in us
For days of peace like these.

What if in our veins
It were the same blood that flows?
From the same air in our hearts
A crazy wind blows.

So generous like this rain
And warm like the sun.
The armfuls of goodness of spring
That surge from within.

Our hostility is like a drink
Distilled from the fruit of the climate
As harmful and as tasteful as any drink.
From this water from this taste have we sinned.

A blue magic between us
And this warm sea
And two peoples on its shores
Equals in beauty.

The golden age of the Aegean
Will revive through us
As with the fire of the future
The hearth of the past comes alive.

First a merry laughter comes to your ear
Then some Turkish with a Greek accent.
Nostalgic about the Bosporus
And you remember the Raki*.

It is when you are homesick
That you recall you are brothers with the Greek.
London 1947
___________________________________
*Turkish national drink, Raki, is similar to the Greek Ouzo

well done sophie....

good gift for turks and greeks...

Dear Sophie, you deserved a gift too Actually, two gifts from me:

Gift one:

http://www.pbase.com/dosseman/antalya_turkey

Gift two:

CLENCHED SOUL ~ Pablo Neruda

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

* * *
(Maybe administration could also give you a gift and make this topic visible in New in Forums)

What can i say matia mou? You know exactly how to touch my heart! First Antalya and then this

'I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?'

You are a precious friend. Thank you

Dear Sophie, the pleasure is mine
Besides, kardoula mou, you started first...

i wana give a limitless internet connection and a laptop and a limitless electricity


best thing as a present

hey sophie mou???why u r so selfish its a gift for everybodybut i can add u the beginning of the list if u insist much

ok dont cry....i added u...and wana add aslan too...bcos she also need dis...look she is not around for a few days...heyyyyyyyyyyyyy aslan wer r u???????????

...I am here, dostum...never far away...never close enough... ...thank you for your gift...wish you all the best!
...miss you too!

A gift to Lyndie, our evil moderator for her ...th birthday. Happy birthday dear!

Your present

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYNDIE
I have made you a very special cake . There will be someone inside to jump out of it..who could it be? (You can be sure it wont be a "flat bellied fluff ball" hahaha.
Enjoy

I LOVED MY PRESENT SOPHIE
THANK YOU SO MUCH.



Thanks Ramayan for your greetings. Thanks Aenigma for your cake offer!

I'm not sure I really understand this thread, but I got a present and tomorrow, when I am recovering from my birthday drinks, I will send presents to EVERYONE!!!

I had never seen this thread before. But you know what they say Sophie.. never trust a Greek bearing gifts We alll know what happened in Troy
No, no kiding, another amazing idea, Sophie!! Really a sweet gesture to everyone who was ever been given anything

Lyndie dear, a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY and may this year be even sweeter than the ones that already passed

Ohh and i'd like that package as well Ramayan, so that i can give it to Kadir who always has internet-connection-trouble

to my dear filenada.
Hadi canim, let's start planning!

To bliss...

Hurry back!

Finally.......
I am here my dearest and lovely friends.Thank you so much.
If only you all knew how hard was to be away but you were with me all the time and it was greatest present for me.
I love you all!!!

Welcome back Bliss...

My friends, I want to thank you
for being in my life.
I know I can reach out to you
when I'm troubled,
I know I can share
my joys with you,
and I know our friendship
is built on heartfelt caring
for each other.
Your friendship is a precious gift,
I will always be grateful for.
Thank you all for filling my life
with so much happiness.
Remember I'm always here for all of you,
To listen, to encourage you,
to share your hurts,
and celebrate your successes.

May this and every day bring you all
joy and happiness.

I love you all and thank you again for your love.