Hele_Noor

Hi! so nice to meet you! yay! you certainly are a lover of MIKA

your introduction was most refreshing!

 

much love!

 

Suzanne in Canada!:wub2:

Hi Suzanne in Canada! Thanks.

You misunderstood. I am a lover of MIKA's MUSIC but not a lover of MIKA. So relax and sleep well, no danger from my side

I could be MIKA's elder sister... elder-elder:naughty: or his mother if we consider the possibility of me as a teenage mother (I'm joking) But seriously speaking the point is I never fall in people I don't know personally. How can I be sure that he's not like a little hitler when out of limelight??, mh?! Sry, tried to make a joke, again Ciao Suz, hope to hear from you soon again!

Hi Hele_Noor! And welcome home, I'm very happy that you finally registered. I loved your intro, and I think we have a lot in commun, I really hope we get to know each other and eventually become friends. Thank you for the nice things you say about us MFCers. I think you're right: there are wonderful people here:thumb_yello:

 

BTW, isn't the Concert For Bangladesh a blast? I got it as soon as it came out in DVD and simply blew me off my feet (George Harrison is one of my eternal loves:wub2:). Anyways, welcome again and have the time of your life in here.

Hi BlackQueen! Thank you for your sweet words and it's good to know you think we are a kind of soul mates Concert for Bangladesh IS a BLAST. I have CD, no DVD

Welcome

Hi Gasha! Are you from Serbia? A friend of mine has his company's branch office in Beograd. He travels a lot between Beograd and Tallinn and says Serbia is a beautiful country.

Tiny world, mh?

That was the most complete and thorough introduction ever!

 

I'm glad you're having a good time! Welcome!

Hei, did you really read it through?!

Poor you!

And thank you!

Sometimes I wonder when newspaper editors say that people are not used to read long articles any more so they have to give them more pictures and less text. (Of course, I'm not speaking about my today's bulla, that was a bit toooooo long, that's true )).

Do you know something I don't?

yeah, I'm a witch Oh, what an ugly word

hello hele:wink2:...

 

nice to read you:thumb_yello:...nice to see you HERE!

Hi sunshine! What a lovely name you have!

And thank you!

What a lovely introduction, Helle!

 

I think you'll enjoy it here, really!

 

dcdeb

Thank you dcdeb! You know, I am already .

But I knew it. Remember, I had been spying for a while, not daily but still

Hello and welcome to the MFC!

 

Thank you for the long and interesting introduction, I’m sure you will like it here!

Thank you sienna! Hope didn't bother you. But anyway you did'nt have to go it through. My problem is, I don't know how to make a short. Sometimes I'm like a lawyer to whom every detail seems very important for the whole picture

Blimey am I famous?

Thanks:blush-anim-cl:

Yes you are! And soon they'll (perhaps MIKA:wink2:) put you into another song and you will have no way out from that. So better be prepared to that very big moment, which may come tomorrow morning

welcome! i can c u put quit some time into that didnt u?? goodjob! and welcome!

Thanks! Yeah, I have my moments:roftl:

Sometimes I can't stop and words just flow out, but sometimes I can be silent too... month or a bit less

Greetings and salutations Welcome to our world:naughty:

I know you! You are the girl from that vid. My favourite vid of MIKA. And you are a Star!

Wow! What an intro! But what took you so long to join us?

We don't bite! Well, not much anyway!

 

Welcome, welcome!

Thank you for your encouraging words! I know you are friendly.

I am a newcomer who had been spying (not much, actually, just some threads but then from the very beginning to the very end ) around MFC about two months and last week couldn't help and registered. Must say that according to what I have read here made me a fan of MFCers. I love how you support each other and who nice you are to each other. I admire Avoca's patience while coordinating Mika's birthday gift worldwidely , I enjoyed how anxiously people were waiting news from his gig (can't recall exactly, but I think it was Brixton gig). I read those threads in April when it all was over but still got excited like I'd been there with you, then. And suddenly it occurred to me that MFC was like a reality show but much more real than those TV "reality" shows with produced concept. MFC even has its stars and you know who they are! You are amazing and you are unique!

I found MFC through Mika when I googled about him. But the way how I discovered Mika was a strange coincidence. I had no idea who MIKA was until one night last March, a week before I was going to take a flight to Lebanon. So I sat at the computer to check the news from The Daily Star Lebanon when, suddenly, they played Mika’s “Relax” on the radio. I got really surprised because on that radio station they mostly play classical music and jazz/rock classics, but as I liked that song instantly I wanted to know who was the singer. May sound weird, but I really had no idea who Mika was (and you may tease me, if it pleases you ). Unless I watch music channels seldom I do follow the Brit Awards. However, this year I somehow skipped the Brits – still wonder how on earth's?! - or otherwise I would have heard about MIKA then. (Only now, when I’ve got Mika's DVD and have seen all his videos it occurred to me that I actually had seen his “Love Today” video and didn’t like it. I still think it is … not as merry as the Big Girls’ vid. But I like LT song, specially when live performed)

After I heard Mika’s “Relax” on the radio I googled “Mika” thru the internet and found his interviews in Youtube and when said he was born in Beirut I became attracted. Due to my travel plans I was opened to learn every little piece of new information about the country. By that time I had read about Lebanon but had quite a hazy picture about the people with only two exceptions: first Lebanese I had ever met was a man half-Greek and half-Lebanese, as he said, with whom I had came across in diving club near Aqaba last October when I stepped on sea urchin. That man had set me back on my feet. My poor foot looked like a cactus and it was really bad but about 30 minutes later, after quite a nazi treatment (there was no option) all pain had gone and I was able to continue my holiday as nothing had happened and I am very thankful to that guy for that. Second contact with Lebanese was when I had a chance to see Rabih Mroue’s piece “Make Me Stop Smoking” and I liked it. Hope to see his play “How Nancy Wished …” and the film with him and Catherine Deneuve “Je Veux Voir” which was presented in Cannes lately, one day.

So Mika as an intelligent thinker and an excellent story-teller fits perfectly to the little collection of “my Lebanese” through whom I'd put together a picture of the country. That night I spent maybe an hour listening the interviews with him and mostly skipped his music except those which were in interviews because I already knew that I would need to buy his album or singles or, better, all of them, anyway.

Next day I went to the music store to buy Mika’s music, but they told me that his album had been sold out and new delivery was on a way. And they had no singles. I got really disappointed and wondered what was the point of a music store that didn’t have music people want to buy. Unfortunately, on that day nor the whole week I couldn’t find time to go for an extra hunting. So, the last night before leaving for Beirut I downloaded some music from internet to my MP3 player I could listen them as during a flight you have not much to do anyway. I know it wasn’t a nice deed to download and now, back home again I’ve been cleaning my karma by buying Mika’s singles and album versions all over the world and replacing the downloaded tunes with originals in a good quality:naughty:

So, I listened his songs from the very beginning to the very end and then kept listening again and again. I like Mika's music and the lyrics of his songs even more and in this context I can say I am a fan of him. I admire his talent to create tunes and to write lyrics and to put them together and perform the result in a way so as if you listen it you’ll see visions. Even Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie becomes alive when performed by Mika. I never liked the song until I heard Mika’s version and only then discovered that Hips Don’t Lie was actually a dialogue between man and woman (a la tango dancers on the floor). When performed by Shakira it is mostly a song about Shakira’s bellydancing.

But now I’ve got a problem. Since I listened Mika’s songs first time properly on a flight to Beirut and mostly while driving about Lebanon his songs when hearing them now get me back to some beautiful areas in Lebanon and I want to go back but ,as seems, can go only next spring. And in order to cope with this I try to listen other artists. Yesterday’s mail brought George Harrison’s and Friends album of live concert for Bangladesh 1971. I truly need to make a break for a while, or I am getting sad.

So that's a full and true story how I feel about MFC , how i found Mika and a bit about myself, too. Many thanks to those, who were patient enough to go it through and promise I won't make so long posts never ever again

first welcome to the MFC and second welcome to the lebanese thread ! everyone here is friendly and we all love lebanon...each one on his own way...i travelled a lot and honestly lebanon IS the country that most represents the world...it's just a smaller world...people from different religion , ethnic group , language , accent , colour of skin , nationality...and i'm not saying that because i'm lebanese but it's a fact. I hope you enjoyed your stay there. Are you thinking of returning there ?

Thank you cubitus! Can say nothing about ethnic group, language and accent since I don't speak nor understand Arabic (only a few words). Speaking about color of skin I was quite a surprised of meeting ashes blond lebanese. Lebanon is like a collection of small countries. Quadisha valley is absolutly an equivalent to Switzerland! I think I behaved as a Japanese tourist,taking loads of pictures. In Quadisha nature is so beautiful it can make you cry.

Byblos is like a town of Crete or Amalfi coast in Italy, Baalbek and Tyre remind the old part of Amman in Jordan. And a part of Tripoli and Sidon were very Middle Eastern But we also saw the other side of Tripoli when we found a lovely jazz cafe with lovely paintings on the walls and which was full of people (oh, can't resist to cafes fulfilled with people and the murmur of their voices when they're having a good time) That cosy cafe as well as the whole block seemed to be as from Beirut. One of my favourite places was the campus of AUB. There was a truly good atmosphere, a free atmosphere. And people look so smart:thumb_yello: Thanks god I don't have to compete with them to get a job:roftl:

Yes, we have discussed about the idea of going back to Lebanon next spring and do things we couldn't do this time because of a lack of time. 10 days flew too quickly

So if you have ideas about the places we could see of things to do,speak it out, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks Hele_Nour, it's a lovely "1st" post!

I am glad you enjoyed Lebanon... and thank you for your sweet words..

Only someone who has been there can really tell how wonderful Lebanon is..

Thank you racha . Hopefully they will spread their good word:wink2:

Hi! Can I join your thread? I'm not a Lebanese, but I'd been to Lebanon recently and have been lurking around in your thread since I came back from. I am sorry for that but pls believe me I had throughly good intentions

It didn't feel right for me to join in so far I read that some people who'd like to go to Mika's concert were still hesitated about Lebanon.

I'd like to say to them that if you have no plans for your holiday,yet, and you have a chance to buy the tickets, then take your best friends with you and make a trip to Lebanon. Don't take it just as a concert, but try to stay there for a week, at least, and make it as a holiday trip. You won't regret and your friends will say thank you to you. My friends did. Now they keep asking me when will we return :)

Sry, now I've used more words than I initially planned - but I had to speak it out