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08 Mar 2006 Wed 10:39 am |
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Quoting MissHelen: What about New Year (with the attendant yıl başı ağacı - isn't it some kind of surrogate Christmas with presents for the children (a relatively new thing, I think)...?
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especially new year ..eeee i dont like dis idea...if we think widely..never changes with new year hea?just a month finish and another one starts..and we celebrate this crazily..wads the difference between 31 and 1?but yes for christians its a religius celebration...im respectful..instead of celebrating im just wishing a happy life till the last day...
i prefer giving meanings to the days and moments...others meaningful things maynot be so meaningful for me..i prefer giving my own meaning..
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 11:21 am |
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Quoting ramayan: Quoting MissHelen: What about New Year (with the attendant yıl başı ağacı - isn't it some kind of surrogate Christmas with presents for the children (a relatively new thing, I think)...?
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especially new year ..eeee i dont like dis idea...if we think widely..never changes with new year hea?just a month finish and another one starts..and we celebrate this crazily..wads the difference between 31 and 1?but yes for christians its a religius celebration...im respectful..instead of celebrating im just wishing a happy life till the last day...
i prefer giving meanings to the days and moments...others meaningful things maynot be so meaningful for me..i prefer giving my own meaning.. |
For Christian people Christmas is a religious celebration, but celebrating the New Year isn't at all though!!
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 11:26 am |
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What I meant was - in Turkey it seems like Christmans (December 25th, folks!) has been adopted by the Turks, but moved to the 31stDec/1st Jan.
* Christmas Trees
* Father Christmas (thanks Coca Cola)
* Tinsel
* Presents
etc...
It is a religious festival for Christians (with special Church services and songs - carols) but the new Turkish yıl başı celebrations are entirely material, as far as I can see.
Very surreal - I was in Capadocia for NYE last year (2004-5) in a bar surrounded by drunken Turkish twenty somethings with Santa hats on and tinsel round their necks!
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 11:46 am |
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my new year,my valentine is different...i dont care else..but of course im respectful...
everybody's day for them 
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 11:52 am |
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I agree. Valantines Day means nothing to me - it is a day when we are TOLD to get something for someone we love. I would rather have wild flowers picked for me at a wonderful moment, than expensive red roses sent on v Day because it is expected 
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 12:05 pm |
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Bu arada, today is international women's day 
Just saying..
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 12:23 pm |
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As a British woman living in Turkey - I shall feel duly honoured as An International Woman...
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(What about National Women?)
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 12:50 pm |
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Quoting MissHelen: As a British woman living in Turkey -
Hey lucky you . Do you work there or married there, or BOTH? |
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 12:55 pm |
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I was working here - left that job, start another in a month - I have a lovely boyfriend, with whom I have been living for the past 10 months, but no immediate plans for marriage.
Fact!
H.
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 12:59 pm |
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08 Mar 2006 Wed 01:43 pm |
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Quoting ramayan: Quoting MissHelen: What about New Year (with the attendant yıl başı ağacı - isn't it some kind of surrogate Christmas with presents for the children (a relatively new thing, I think)...?
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especially new year ..eeee i dont like dis idea...if we think widely..never changes with new year hea?just a month finish and another one starts..and we celebrate this crazily..wads the difference between 31 and 1?but yes for christians its a religius celebration...im respectful..instead of celebrating im just wishing a happy life till the last day...
i prefer giving meanings to the days and moments...others meaningful things maynot be so meaningful for me..i prefer giving my own meaning.. |
i agree with u , but sometimes there is people that we love and care about like to be special to us , whatever the way is by a gift or a flowers or by words , the only one thing that matters is to remember them .so these days are only for making refresh.
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