#096 Tsar's Riddle

A Tsar had taken prisoner a rebel leader. The rebel leader's daughter went to the Tsar to beg him to spare her beloved father. She was a beautiful girl, but the Tsar looked at her with mixed feelings.

“I will free your father, and what’s more I will marry you,” he said to her, “If you are able to solve my riddle. If you fail, your father will die and you be forced to marry my stable boy.”

“Agreed,” said the girl, “what is the riddle?”

“You have to come back to me neither dressed nor naked,” said the Tsar “neither on foot nor on horseback, neither with gifts nor without gifts.”

The girl went away and thought hard. The next day she came before the Tsar wearing only a thick fishing net, so that she was neither dressed nor naked. She was riding on the back of a large dog, so that she was neither on foot nor on horseback. In her hands she had a quail, which she released in the Tsar's presence, so that she had come neither with a gift nor without a gift.

Tsar, who admired clever people as much as he admired brave ones, kept his word. He freed the rebel leader and married his beautiful young daughter.

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Author: Unknown

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#092 Queen Of Arabia And Three Sheiks

Maura, who like to be said of as the most beautiful and powerful queen of Arabia, had many suitors. One by one she discarded them, until her list was reduced to just three sheiks. The three sheiks were all equally young and handsome. They were also rich and strong. It was very hard to decide who would be the best of them.

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One evening, Maura disguised herself and went to the camp of the three sheiks. As they were about to have dinner, Maura asked them for something to eat. The first gave her some leftover food. The second Sheik gave her some unappetizing camel’s tail. The third sheik, who was called Hakim, offered her some of the most tender and tasty meat. After dinner, the disguised queen left the sheik’s camp.

The following day, the queen invited the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She ordered her servant to give each one exactly what they had given her the evening before. Hakim, who received a plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if the other two sheiks could not share it with him.

This Sheik Hakim’s act finally convinced Queen Maura that he was the man for her.

“Without question, Hakim is the most generous of you,” she announced her choice to the sheiks. “So it is Hakim I will marry”.

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#056 The Legend Of Princess Manorah

A story told and passed on through generations since the Ayutthaya period and which inspired a poem by King Rama V of Thailand. 

Kinnaree Manorah was a princess of Thai legend and was the youngest of the seven Kinnaree, daughters of King Prathum and Queen Jantakinnaree. She lived in the mythical Mount Grairat kingdom. The Seven Kinnaree appeared as half woman half swan. They could fly or shed their wings to change to human form as they pleased.

Within the Grairat kingdom there was the great Himmapan Forest in which lived strange creatures, unknown to human realms. In the middle of the forest was a beautiful lake which the seven Kinnaree loved to visit regularly on the auspicious day of Panarasi (Full moon day). Nearby, the lake, an old hermit practiced his meditations.

One day, a young man named Prahnbun, was strolling in the Himmapan forest, saw the seven princesses at play at the great pond. Prahnbun, stunned by the beauty of Manorah.

He thought, "If I can catch her and present her to Prince Suton, son of King Artityawong and Queen Jantaivee of Udon Panjah the Prince would surely fall in love with her. But how will I be able to catch her?"

He knew of the old hermit who meditated nearby in the forest and he decided to seek advice from the wise old man about his plans. The hermit told the young man that to catch the Kinnaree would be very difficult, as they would fly away if anyone frightened them, but that there was a great dragon living deep in the forest that might be able to help him. Prahnbun thanked him for his advice and raced off to see the dragon.

The great dragon was not happy to hear Prahnbun's plan but was, eventually persuaded by Prahnbun to give him a magical rope with which he would be able to catch Manorah. Prahnbun thanked the dragon, hurried away to the pond with the magical dragon rope.

He crept up to the pond's edge where the Kinnaree were playing. While the Kinnaree were all happily occupied with their play at the water's edge, he struck; throwing the magic rope around the neck of Manorah and caught her so tight, she could not escape. Her sisters fearful of being caught themselves; all took flight and flew away to safety.

Prahnbun then secured Manorah's wings to stop her from flying away and lead her away through the forest heading back to Udon Panjah to present her to the Prince Suton. 

The Prince happened to be riding through the forest when he came across Prahnbun with his prize. The beauty of Manorah instantly charmed the Prince and when Prahnbun told him that he had captured Manorah for him, the Prince was delighted with Prahnbun's good intentions and rewarded him handsomely.

The Prince returned to his Summer Palace in the forest with Manorah where their love for each other blossomed. When the Prince told his mother and father the whole story, they were very happy and immediately arranged the wedding between the Prince and Princess Manorah who returned to the Udon Panjah palace where they were married and lived happy ever after.

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#055 What's Needed In : Love - Relationship Is Number 1

When you are in a serious relationship, you have to put relationship above your personalities. It should be at the top of your priority pyramid, not others.

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Theresa and Tim had been in a relationship for a year. Maybe love had blinded them, they always had quarrel over petty matters, but they did not break up.  Actually they were sweet when things were just fine.

                                                               

Girls, as usual, were more emotional about everything. One day after work, Theresa quarreled with Tim because Tim had a different opinion about something. It was just a simple problem. Theresa insisted that if Tim loved her, he would agree and support all her opinions and her doings.

That day too, Tim was also having problems with his job as the business was not doing well. He was afraid of getting fired, but he did not talk about this as the quarrel had started before he could share with Theresa.

The quarrel got worse. They did not talk to each other all the way to Theresa’s home. Theresa walked in front of Tim as if they were strangers, but Tim would not leave her alone to make sure she got home safely. After Tim had seen Theresa entered her home, then he walked home.

At each other home, the quarrel still continued. It got out of control.

“You don’t love me, you even argued about the way I do my things. Other people who love me will do anything for me; they even would die for me!”

Suddenly the phone was disconnected. Until the next day, Theresa did not even call Tim as she thought she was not wrong at all. In the midday, she got a call from police saying that Tim had passed away. She was really sad and regretted everything she had done, but it was too late, Tim will never come back to life.

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When you are serious in your relationship, you have to lower down your ego, emotion, and everything that are harmful to your relationship.

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Author: Anfransen Wijaya

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#002 Geek's Way Of Romance

Everybody knew that I was one of the prettiest, sexiest, most gorgeous , bla bla bla in the whole university...I was a traffic stopper to be exact...I loved being the center of attention...But many of those perverts thought that I was a B*tch...since I wore sexily..

(Dressing sexily does it mean a B*tch ? Think twice ! )

Some of those perverts even ever asked me how much a night...I hate those people...Even though I was not a virgin anymore; I still believed that a mr.right would come into my life. I lost my virginity to a guy which I believed that he would be my future husband. But after having sex with me he,he told everybody that he had my virginity...I was so angry with him...We broke up a few days afterwards...but whatever happened, 'Life Goes On’, I believed that...

"Hey,Lanna, how many guys are in your list ?" asked my friend.

"Let me see...each day I can change boyfriend for a month..hahaha."

"ahh expected of you...then how about that guy, Jerry ? the guy from chemistry class ? he seems to like you a lot , how many times did you reject him"

"I don’t know how many times. He is nice, but he is a bit like bookworm, I'm afraid he is not romantic enough for me.."

"Then why don’t you accept him ? he will do anything for you I think. He is crazy over you.."

"Hahaha...actually I date him now...but don’t tell anyone okay!! "

"Really? haha...now our princess is no longer available...when did you accept him?"

"Last week when he helped me with my study.. That's why I did well for today's paper.."

"Ahhh no wonder...hahaha..."

I accepted Jerry last week...When I went to his house to study...I wanted to know too, whether he would do something nasty to me before I accepted him as my boyfriend. And in the end he didn’t do anything nasty...he taught me well until I understood every single bit of my subject...It didn’t mean that I made use of him...Seeing him so willing to teach, in the middle of studying I asked him whether he still liked me...he told me that he still hoped to be my boyfriend...So I said 'yes' to him...I was a bit shocked...the first thing he did was not giving happy or shocked expressions...instead he looked at his watch and wrote down the time...he said it was important for him to know the time when happiness came into his life...

My lecturers were all shocked to see my improvement...They were all wondering what had been happening...Soon...Most everybody knew that I was in the relationship with Jerry. I hated the girls that thought I made use of Jerry...I also hate those guys who looked down on Jerry...

I was hoping that those jealousy and Jerry being looked down will only lasted for one week...but it didn’t end...It continued after a week...So I planned to change Jerry's appearance, changed his way of dressing, hairstyle , and so on...Jerry was not really willing to change his style...He said that he hoped I loved him not because of his appearance. I was a stubborn girl...We quarrelled that time...I tried to take a step back. Maybe it was not right to do so too...

5 out of 7 days I studied at Jerry's place...He did change my life...

Exams period had come...Both of us studied well and passed the exams with flying colours. My parents were happy that they wanted to see Jerry that had been helping me throughout my exams...I invited him to a dinner at my house...I asked him to dress well...But in the end he came with his 'normal' dressing...Luckily my parents didn’t look down on him...especially my father...he liked a low-profile guy...my father told his story how much he had sacrificed to get my mom's heart...It was a great night...at least my parents liked him too...

some of my close friends did not do well in their exams...One of my closest friends, Emi, asked me to ask Jerry to teach her....So I brought her along to study with Jerry...But in the middle of study my mom asked me to go back to look after my house since my parents suddenly wanted to visit their friend who suddenly fell sick...So I left my friend and Jerry..

The next day Emi approached me with a sad face...I thought something happened between them...

"Lanna,sorry...."

I was so shocked. I thought Jerry did something bad to her..

"We......"

"I..."

I got more curious about what had happened

"I finally understand the chapter !! HAHAHAHA !! Did I scare you ?"

I was so relieved...at least my belief towards Jerry was true...he would never do something bad...

"Yeahh...I was just curious...When u went home....he suddenly said that he wanted to go to the kitchen to serve me a cup of coffee...I thought he was gonna spike me in the coffee so I followed him to the kitchen...I don’t know....In the room inside the kitchen there were a lot of chemical tubes...I didn’t know what he was up to...But after doing his business in that 'room' he served the coffee..."

“He always checks the time too, weird”, I added.

I didn’t know that Jerry had such a room inside his kitchen, It had been more than a year I was with him, Inside his house, but he never told me...

I was so curious...I couldn’t sleep at night wondering what was inside the room...

(Is he a terrorist?)

That thought got into me...I didn’t want to be stressed by my suspicion.. I went to Jerry's house. It was 1am...When he opened the door I rushed to the kitchen...but the room was locked...

"I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE THIS ROOM !!" I shouted at him...

"OPEN IT FOR ME NOW!! "

"There’s nothing inside...inside are the unused furniture and other unused things.."

"SINCE IT'S UNUSED THINGS THEN OPEN IT FOR ME! "

"Please calm down first...It's really nothing...I'm afraid it's too dirty for you to see..."

"DO YOU HIDE A MISTRESS INSIDE ? A SLAVE ? DO YOU PLAN TO MAKE A BOMB ?  I JUST WANT YOU TO OPEN IT FOR ME.."

"I'm sorry Lanna, but I just can’t open it for you now”

"FINE U DONT WANT TO OPEN IT RIGHT ??"

Jerry didn’t respond...

"I TOLD YOU EVERYTHING...EVERY SINGLE THING, BE IT GOOD OR BAD THINGS...I THOUGHT U WON’T KEEP ANY SECRET FROM ME TOO..." I cried...

"Please understand me Lanna...I will let you know when the time is right.."

"THERE'S NOTHING FOR US ANYMORE...WE ARE THROUGH..."

I ran out of his house...I was so hurt...I thought he would just tell me what was inside...but I was wrong...I cried the whole night...He called me thousand times, He went to my house but I didn’t want to see him...He sent me an SMS...

=Lanna...I'm sorry that I couldn’t show you what's inside...I beg for your understanding. I’m doing a big research. Just give me a week okay?? Just a week...I love you...Please understand me...=

I didn’t go out from my house for a few days...I had no appetite to eat...I didn’t go to school. I stranded myself on my bed...Crying...Hoping that Jerry could give me an explanation...I didn’t understand why...But I did love him whole-heartedly and actually didn’t want to end our relationship...

Every single days I only received his SMS greeting me good morning, good night and some funny messages...he didn’t even call me or came to visit me...

After a week...Jerry called me...I had already lost hope of him...I didn’t pick his call...He recorded a voice message...

"Lanna....Please come to my house tonight at 12...My life depends on whether u come or not tonight...I love you so much...please come...."

At first I didn’t want to...but after hearing the recorded message again and again...I thought it has no harm to go there...at least we could still be friends...at 11.30 I left...

I reached Jerry’s house and knocked on his house door...

I was a bit shocked...The person in front of me didn’t look like Jerry...The guy inside the tuxedo fitted with a bow tie...cool hairstyle and a pair of black shining leather shoes..

"Did you ask me to come here just to see that you have changed? That you could find another girlfriend with your new look? “I walked away with annoyance...

He chased me and grabbed my hand...

"Please go inside first...."

I entered his house reluctantly...

Once I entered his house...He turned off the light...

"Why did you turn the light? Are you gonna fuck me? "

*SNAP!!*

Suddenly light came from the left side of me...I turned my head...I cried when I saw where the light came from...It was a happy-cry...I couldn’t believe it myself...I couldn’t stop crying...There was a big aquarium with 'MARRY-ME' shape...It was glowing..

"My one week research that I told you was the creation of that aquarium and the creation of the new me..."

I turned to look at Jerry...He was holding a ring...

"Would you marry me,Lanna?" he begged with his feet on the ground...

"No, before you explain to me all the things u were up to..."

Jerry explained to me...that inside the room were chemical tubes with Fluorescence Liquid...He filled one of the tube each day according to how long he was with me. He told me that the total of his most wonderful time spent with me was 221 days, 19 hours and approximately 53 minutes before the big quarrel. He told me the chemical process was called 'Chemiluminescence'...This one week  Jimmy had been filling the aquarium with fluorescence from the tubes.

After Jerry’s explanation I accepted his proposal of marriage...I was very happy...It was such a great proposal...I trusted him that he was a good guy but I couldn’t believe that he could do something so romantic. I should never have lost my belief on him...But he had forgiven me and we got married officially a few weeks later...

-FIN-
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Author: Anfransen Wijaya 
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