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  1. mellody
    wow, that's weird! i mean, 10 euro per year really isn't that much. in germany we have to pay 10 euro per quarter since several years - so if you need to see a doctor once per quarter, or even just need follow-up recipes for a medicine you always have to take (e.g. the pill), you have to pay 40 euro per year. they invented that to keep people from going to different doctors with the same illness - now if you want to go to more than one doctor per quarter, you need a form signed by that one doctor, or you'll have to pay the 10 euro again for the other doctor. i've even seen in the media not too long ago that they're thinking about charging 10 euro per visit in the future - really hope they won't do that, cause i'm sure they wouldn't stop it at a maximum of 40 or 50 euro per year! so well, if i was a pessimist, i'd say the german health system slowly goes towards the US one. but since i'm an optimist, i hope they'll never let it get that far, and am happy that it's still so far from it. btw, for the UKlers, what about the uk health system, don't they have financial problems too? or do you have to pay so much more taxes for it than we do?
  2. mellody
    yes, that could be a reason too - but in addition, they generally get more money per privately insured patient than for a NHS insured one, so it might be worth for them to work overtime for that. some doctors will even find a lot of (unneccessary) things to do with you if you have a private insurance, whereas otherwise you're just treated as a number and aren't supposed to take up too much of their time. (talking bout the german conditions here again ). i personally don't mind if they're fast, as long as they help me get healthy. guess it's mostly a problem for older people who used to see their doctors as their therapists and were just happy to have someone to talk to. humanity sort of fell by the wayside when the insurance companies had to start saving money. but i still prefer this to having to sell my house (if i had one ) for a treatment!
  3. mellody
    in germany we have the health insurance listed extra among the taxes on our payslip every month, so i always knew that and how much i was paying for it. and you also have different national health insurance companies, which used to charge different percentages of your salary (meanwhile it's the same for all, but they have different bonus systems now), and also offer slightly different services, so that choice makes people here be aware of their health insurance. it's often a big topic in the media too - we pay more and more for it, and get less and less, like, having to pay for certain things now, which used to be free. because the insurance companies are always short of money. medicine is expensive, and of course also the doctors want to be paid well. there are lots of discussions about it in germany. but altogether, i'm quite happy with the health system here, especially if i read what mika says about what it's like in the US. i also have to pay for private insurance now that i'm self-employed, but i know that with the monthly amount i pay, i will get all the treatments i need if it's necessary. about the other thing, yeah, i guess you just don't know what you'd really do or want unless you are in such a situation. but i hope none of us will ever have to make this experience.
  4. mellody
    just read the article, and of course agree with what has been said here, that it's very touching. and i totally agree with his conclusions about health care systems. just 2 things that confuse me a bit. first, this sentence: "We have never grown up with health insurance and my sister as a UK resident is proud of the fact that she did not need to." he just said before that they do have a health insurance in the uk? or does he mean PRIVATE insurance in this case? that's the only way it'd make sense to me... and second, the fact that he said you shouldn't exist on your own, but then that when he saw paloma, he didn't want her to know he was there. on the first time reading this, i must say it shocked me. if i'd been in paloma's situation, i'd have wanted to see and have my hand held by someone i know and love, instead of just all those unfamiliar faces of firemen and ambulance. thinking about it more closely though, i can think of several reasons why he preferred to hide. maybe he wasn't able to stay calm enough, so he would've scared her more than helped her. and/or another family member was already by her side - surely 5 people right there would've been too much. or since she isn't me, she indeed might've preferred to see none of her beloved ones there, and mika knew this. whatever... so of course i don't blame him, i'm sure he did the best thing in this situation. it just confused me when i read this, and i had to think for a bit to find what reasons he might've had for that.
  5. mellody
    i heard about this song last week, and wanted to post it... well, no surprise that it's already on mfc! i prefer this live version though, the comedy aspect comes across a lot better there imo: (happy ending at 1:25) i think what they did there is genius, especially in the end when they mix several songs on top of each other. and of course i love it that they included mika!
  6. mellody
    that last thing might be a language problem for me, in my ears it sounds very harsh, because i connect it mainly with the original(?) meaning, and would translate it into something like whore/slut. but i just looked it up on leo.org again, and also found some german translations that sound less harsh... "zicke" would probably describe it best for what mika wrote - and you're right, if i translate it this way, the word fits a lot better. still, i don't like it if someone judges over others so quickly and then makes it public. it's more about the principle for me than about what mika wrote, because like i said, we'll never know who that girl was. but that is one way how bullying can start. someone quickly builds a negative opinion about someone else, and makes it public in a group. that other person will never be able to join the group, because everyone is already prejudiced before they've even talked a word with them. so, about the girl, in other situations she might be the nicest person on earth, and not impolite at all. but who knows, maybe she already has a bf but gets chatted up by 3 guys per day, and if she reacts nice and polite, the guys would take that as an offer to go on. if you've made that experience a few times that guys just don't understand a polite "no" (indeed there are still too many guys who think that a woman means yes if she says no ), you might just be more direct to the next one who chats you up. @marylin: LOL!!
  7. mellody
    dunno if someone said it yet, no time to read through all those pages... but apart from the fact that i really like the column and the topic he chose, i must say it makes me a bit angry that he puts this label "bitch" on the brunette, just because of that quick moment he observed. there can be a thousand reasons for her reacting like that - and mika of all people should know what it can do if you judge a person too quickly. ok, i guess this behaviour is just human, but it's one thing if you think it to yourself, maybe say it to a good friend, but it's another thing if you write it in a magazine column. even though we'll never know who that brunette is, it is not a nice thing to do. but maybe that's just me. apart from that, i find his thoughts about the whole online dating thing really interesting. that experience he made with the myspace person... he definitely has a point there. i've started online dating about 12 years ago, first in chatrooms, then on friendship- and dating-sites (never dated anyone from myspace/facebook though...) - and sometimes, especially if the guy lived in another town, we wrote so many personal e-mails and chat-messages that it already felt like a relationship although we hadn't even met in person. it really accelerated things, and when we finally did meet in person, we both weren't disappointed, because we knew we had so much in common. at first. but then you get to know each other in RL, and realize it doesn't work. on the other hand, i've also made this experience in RL, completely without the internet. the concept of "love at first sight". you immediately have feelings for someone, and because your feelings are so strong, you think you know this person, and if they also tell you that they have feelings for you, you think that their feelings must be as strong as yours. but i think it's very, very rare, that 2 people immediately fall for each other in the same way, and that it stays that way if they get to know each other. but i guess it's very common amongst (mainly female) teenagers to feel so strongly for someone else, especially if they do get a certain feedback from them. it doesn't have to be completely one-sided, but if your feelings are a lot stronger than the other one's, you still have a problem. i've learnt from my mistakes, and want to get to know someone now before i start a relationship. personally, not online. but the internet is still a good place for the first contact, it's easier there to get in contact than it is in RL. ok, that was the first thing... would like to comment on other parts of the column too, but gotta leave now. :rolls_eyes: RL is calling.
  8. mellody
    :lmao: thanks very much. i almost fell off my chair laughing. hmm, that article sounds interesting, and i can totally relate to that topic - almost all my boyfriends so far (definitely all the serious relationships) i've met over the internet. not all of them on dating websites, but most... and i'm very curious to read the whole article! damn, i really should learn italian... and i love it how his stalker side comes through again, i can very well imagine him sitting there and googleing for people, to find out everything about them!
  9. mellody
    klar, ist ja auch nix dagegen einzuwenden. gut zu wissen, dass die seite für neue fans noch was zu bieten hat, und daher nicht komplett für die katz' ist.
  10. mellody
    ich dachte du stehst vielleicht mit penniman im kontakt, sie orgainisert ja das cover, hast du ihr denn mal ne pm geschrieben? klar steht der private gig auf youtube, aber ich meine PROFI-aufnahmen, es waren mehrere kameraleute mit profi-kameras vor ort. grace kelly wurde ja schon veröffentlicht auf vimeo, aber wie gesagt, angeblich soll es auf mikasounds auch bald einen vlog darüber geben. ja, mit den YT videos hast du leider recht. aber zum glück gibts ja web-proxies, mit denen man das umgehen kann. eine feindschaft gibt es nicht, aber das ist halt die offizielle seite der plattenfirma, und leider ist es der plattenfirma zum großen teil sch... egal, was mika so macht, und was seine fans wollen. mit promotion für sein letztes album haben sie sich nicht sonderlich angestrengt, und wie MissPie schon sagte, sind die infos auf der seite ein witz, und allen lesern von MFC und mikafanclub.de schon längst bekannt, wenn sie dort veröffentlicht werden. wenn mika grad ein neues album oder dvd rausbringt, gibts auf der seite ein paar bilder und videos, vielleicht mal ein gewinnspiel für konzertkarten - und das war's. über die offizielle internationale mikasounds.com seite gibt's aber auch genug zu lästern, obwohl viele infos draufstehen und die sich generell deutlich mehr mühe geben damit als die in DE. naja, von großen plattenkonzernen zu erwarten, dass sie sich in irgendeiner weise kundenfreundlich verhalten, ist wohl einfach zu viel verlangt. :rolls_eyes: http://www.mikasounds.de
  11. mellody
    klar bin ich die! ja, die "tolle" offizielle deutsche mika-seite kenn ich. die war der grund, warum ich mikafanclub.de gestartet hab. aber ein paar nette bilder und videos sind immerhin drauf, das stimmt. die interview-videos sind aber auch auf mikasounds.com bzw. bei http://www.youtube.com/user/mikasoundsblog in mikas vlog zu finden. wär toll wenn er mal wieder einen vlog veröffentlicht. angeblich soll es ja demnächst vom magic numbers gig einen geben, hat irgendwer von den kameraleuten dort behauptet.
  12. mellody
    haahaa, i love the videos! in the first one, where he's like "YOU weren't there for the picture!" (i'd have been like ":shocked: OMG what did i do wrong?!" for a second, if it had been me, LOL! ) ... and the 2nd one, i first was like "aww!" when he went to the baby, but the look on his face afterwards is just hilarious! maybe he wasn't happy about the fact that the baby kept on crying although mika stroked his/her cheek!
  13. mellody

    klick doch mal auf den link in meiner letzten nachricht, dann weißt du es. :wink2: dort dann einfach oben auf "new thread" klicken.

  14. mellody
    tztz, und dann traust du dich hierher?! ich glaub auch net, dass wir in diesen 7000 posts irgendwas weltbewegendes besprochen haben, was man unbedingt lesen müsste.
  15. mellody

    hey, finds toll dass sich hier grad lauter neue mitglieder aus deutschland anmelden! :biggrin2: wenn du magst, stell dich doch kurz mal im introduction board vor? :wink2:http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=3

    liebe grüße aus münchen

  16. mellody
    yes, you poor poor girl that you had to sit through that. of course WE love it, and i also really hope they'll publish it all... i just fear they might not share our view that it's these little "mistakes" that make it so special.
  17. mellody
    who made that t-shirt-necklace for him? it's amazing! i don't think they'll post the songs he totally messed up. so will we get to see any of it then? thanx for your detailled report christine! and everyone else again too! it's great to see that all the 6 winners are mfcers! i'm still a little bit jealous and sad that i couldn't be there, because i'd loved to have seen a mika gig in that atmosphere, completely acoustic, fans sitting on the floor around him, requesting songs... - but having seen the videos, i actually think that i wouldn't want to swap it for my 2 fave gigs so far, the little radio gigs in munich and hanover in 2009... it was different of course, but as close as you can get to a living room gig, if you don't win one. i really hope he does that radio stuff again for his next album, and in many countries, so everyone gets a chance to experience a mika gig in such an intimate atmosphere.
  18. mellody
    aww, melachi is sooo cute! i'm normally rather a cat person than a dog person, but she's so beautiful, really adorable! thanks again everyone for the photos+videos!
  19. mellody
    thank you everyone for your pix+vids+reports! i'm happy that so many mfcers got to go to the gig, and are willing to share their experiences with us. btw, who made that t-shirt necklace for mika? love it!
  20. mellody
    i think she means on sendspace (or another data upload site), not on youtube.
  21. mellody
    just finished watching sephira's video... aww, i LOVE this version of SITM! and lol, it was to be expected that someone would ask him to play the new songs he tweeted about! loved his reaction! but pfft about not playing one foot boy... if he says he wants suggestions, why doesn't he play them then?! but maybe later... can't wait for the other parts!
  22. mellody
    mika and you together in one room would be too much awesomeness for anyone to handle. but IF i win the lottery, i'll think about it.
  23. mellody
    nope, it was on the love today cd single, and LT wasn't even released as a single in germany. thanx for the videos nanou+sephira, and for the reports suzie+sephira! sephira, looking forward to see your other videos, sounds like you filmed it all if you didn't stop the camera for nearly one hour... can't wait to hear all the talking and funny moments! such a great experience, just mika in a living room at a grand piano, and 20 fans sitting around him on the floor. i really have to win the lottery, to be able to afford this experience too one day! i miss the fluffy curls, but i like this haircut better than the mop of curls on his head and the short hair in the back... and about the earring, i don't particularly like it, but i don't mind it either. anyway, he looks fantastic!
  24. mellody
    awww, sounds great! i hope you have some of those funny moments on video...
  25. mellody
    thanks for the pic nina, so happy for you that you were there! how many songs did mika play, do you have a setlist for us? what did he say, any funny moments? can't wait for your videos!!
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