pascale_geneva

I did see the camera crew as well as Adam and a drone!! 
It was a magical concert 💥✨🌟⭐️🌈♥️🥰🥰🥰

18 hours ago, holdingyourdrink said:

In London 2022 there was one person who queued the evening before. They queued a total of 23 hours and told Mika during the show, his answer: “23 hours? I’m honoured, but….. WHY!?” 

I remember. It was so funny 🤣 

It looks like him 

20 hours ago, mellody said:

As I thought, the ZDF report was aired today, with the headline "Mika turns 40". They gave a little summary of his career and of course talked over his voice in the interviews, as always on German TV.  He just said something like that he wants to see the places he visits and that he started early with performing on stage and earning money gave him a sense of value, and then that he did TV in Italy, France, now UK, and "maybe maybe" some time also in Germany. I won't hold my breath for that, but it was nice to see him on German TV again today.

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/leute-heute/leute-heute-vom-18-august-2023-100.html 

Probably only available in Germany  but I'll try to record it & post it here.

What a (good) surprise 😮 

8 hours ago, Valerie L said:

Thursday is the only day of the festival that is sold out… ☺️ Is it a coincidence ? Everybody wants to see Mika ! 
For me it will be the first time 😃🤩🥳

You won’t regret it ❤️❤️

4 hours ago, mellody said:

GLAAD Pride talk between Mika and Calum Scott:

 

 

I truly enjoyed this open conversation. I hope we’re going to have more of these 😍

It would be nice if Mika sang "Le Coeur Holiday" with Soprano. But I doubt it  

BTW I found out about the line up weeks ago just by calling the organiser. But I didn't post it since I don't visit the MFC website very often. Sorry about that 

See you all (just a few MFCers)  there very soon! 

Underwater 

Sharky is only interested in one thing 🍗🥩🥞😂😂

18 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

Finally found time to go through my photos of my trip to Chester Zoo!

 

And here we have Mika's camels!!!

 

And there's not one, not two... but three!!!

 

 

 

A couple of close ups!

 

Mystery 3rd camel, who are you? 🤔

 

This one is Becky! She has a sore hump that won't heal properly but she is fine!

 

 

 

And the adopters sign!

 

 

 

While watching the camels the weather was fine but as soon as I left them to go see the lions it started raining so bad! 

 

Mainly stuck to the indoor enclosures while I was there, but I wanted to pass the camel enclosure again before heading out but they'd all gone inside by then 

 

Really surprised as well that the gift shop had no camel merch whatsoever! Little bit gutted about that.

 

But I did buy this at a charity shop! 😁

 

 

I had a good time there (despite the weather), it's well worth the visit!

Thanks so much C.J. 🙏 A shame that Mika doesn’t know yet 🙁It’s about time he found out😂 Four months only until his next birthday !! 

22 hours ago, crazyaboutmika said:

Awesome  Take pics please

20 hours ago, TinyLove_CJ said:

 

There will be so many pictures!

 

 

I will give this a go! 😁

Wow 😳 

9 hours ago, mellody said:

 

That gives a new meaning to "racing camel",  lol!

Yes indeed lol! 

TEHU goes skiing on sand 🐪😂

Hi everyone 👋

I saw this in the Swiss press. This must come from a UK newspaper as there has been quite a bit of bad publicity there especially on social media regarding the Swiss skiing resorts not having enough snow during the Xmas holidays. In fact it wasn’t the case in high-altitude resorts. Right now it’s actually snowing! The problem also exists in France and everywhere else. 
I thought  this cartoon was funny 🤣 

But the reason for my posting this is TEHU 

Have a good Sunday, my friends 🥰❤️

13 hours ago, crazyaboutmika said:

Yes I was about to say it was like Good Wife  Good Wife is one of my fav Mika songs too  I couldn't believe the lyrics  I feel home with those songs because my childhood love with whom I thought I'd end up spending my life and having kids since I was a little kid myself  with ended up finding out he liked boys...he loved me though and he was my first in every way and we both wanted it it was not just me. And we were both totally happy together  We saw each other during holidays because he was spending them with his family right in front of my grandparents' house. We wrote to each other in between holidays. I still have our love letters. He had made up a secret code with flowers   After I spend 11 months in the USA he seemed distant when we saw each other again....I thought it was my fault if it was that way. We kind of drifted away as I could feel something was wrong. I ended up meeting my future husband thinking it was nothing serious just a way to kill time...it was serious on his side though so we ended up getting married and having two children much to my surprise and unbelief...I have always wanted kids so I was happy about that but never in love like with my  first love..  They both met once and shook hands actually which to me felt like science fiction, so wierd and unreal. When my children were two and four my childhood sweetheart's mother told mine he had found out he was gay. I realized why he had seemed so distant. She had also told my mother he was working with computers. Later when we got our first pc with internet I looked for him online in every possible way. Back then hotmail had a feature to look for someone's e-mail address and write to the person the e-mail address belonged to. I thought/hoped I had found his correct  e-mail adress and I wrote a short message to him. The next day he had answered to me. I was smiling, laughing and crying happy tears when I found and read his answer. We've always kept in touch online since through messages and through the socials. We still love each other but we can only be friends now. It had several boyfriends but it never lasted long then six years ago he met a nice guy who is twenty years younger than he is and they have been very happy together ever since  which makes me very happy for him

What a marvellous story and yet, even if your first love is happy now, so sad 😞I’ve always said that the most beautiful love stories are impossible love stories … if you see what I mean 😢

Good Wife is one of my fav Mika songs too ❤️

48 minutes ago, crazyaboutmika said:

I don't care for Starmania but Ziģgy is one of my fav songs ever because it the story of my life. Celine Dion sings in it French and in English. The lyrics are a bit different. It's about this girl in love with a gay boy but they can only be friends.

 

 

The story of your life? Ziggy is my favourite Starmania song. So beautiful and sad. Good Wife is similar 🥲❤️

4 hours ago, pascale_geneva said:

This is part of a documentary on the Sultanate of Oman I saw on TV. I couldn’t  resist posting it 

 

 

Even better, here is a video of a camel race 🐪

😂😂🥰

This is part of a documentary on the Sultanate of Oman I saw on TV. I couldn’t  resist posting it 

1 hour ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

It's a musical created 40 years ago. Many songs from it have become hits and have been covered very often.

I saw it when many years ago and have the DVD. It's fabulous! Some songs like "Le monde est stone" (The world is stone) have become famous. Another excellent and very moving song is "La chanson de Ziggi", a song about homosexuality.

3 hours ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

Deb passed the adoption documents to Mika's assistant. But there was no time to mention it during the meeting. It was so short! 

I knew about the adoption documents having been passed on to Mika’s team. A shame there was no time to mention it. There was enough time for selfies though😂 I’m being sarcastic

On 11/12/2022 at 5:32 PM, TinyLove_CJ said:

Today in London it was the Lord Mayor's parade and it's tradition to have camels in the parade! 😁

 

I can't find a still image anywhere of today's camels but you can see them about half way through this short video:

 

 

 

If Mika happened to still be in London this morning then he might have seen them!

Hi! 
By the way did anyone mention the camel adoption to Mika last week at the Royal Festival Hall? It would have been the best opportunity to do so!
Cheers 🐪😘🥰

48 minutes ago, mellody said:

 

Ah, thanks. Well in that case Max is probably there for the gig. I just remembered that they wrote Mika would be doing GK and Happy Ending, and for HE he'll need backing vocals, so maybe that's why Max is there. Probably can't have a choir on stage with him in that small venue for TV. 😅 I wonder if Ida will be there too? It's more a classical show, so she might...

The stage is actually very large. I used to be a regular there. I even saw Beethoven’s Nineth Symphony there with a very large choir. So Mika could easily have a choir 🥰 

12 hours ago, mellody said:

 

I'm sorry that you feel like that Pascale, I've always enjoyed talking with you, online and live, and I also know carafon a little, at least enough to know that she isn't a bad person who would deliberately harass other people. She might have a bit of a rough sense of humour, and I know what it's like as a sensitive person having to deal with people who have a very different sense of humour to mine, it has happened to me as well in the past in this fandom (with people who aren't in the fandom anymore now) and it felt very hurtful. Over time, with one of them I actually became friends, after talking with her in person several times, it turned out she was a lot nicer than I first thought. The other one was someone I always preferred to avoid. I don't know what's the right solution for you, try to talk with those people (I suppose at least it helps that you speak the same language) or avoid them, but I hope I'll also see you at future MFC events and that you won't avoid the whole fanclub that is made up of so many different individuals, because you don't get along with some of them. I understand that you're hurt, your feelings are valid, but accusing others of bullying all over social media and expecting other people who didn't witness the situation to condemn them, just because their sense of humour is different from yours and you're sensitive, is not ok, imo. Maybe the people in question will be a bit more careful with their words in the future when you're nearby, and maybe you can team up with your friends whom you go to gigs with, because in a group it's always easier to face things that might hurt you, especially if you're sensitive. MFC has given me so much over all these years, even though there sometimes were people that I didn't get along with, but overall I feel very much at home here. I've been in other fandoms when I was younger (and sometimes still go to gigs of those bands), and I can tell you that the MIka fandom is fluffy rainbowland compared to what's going on there. There might be little groups, as Deb said, but for the most part people still talk with each other and don't exclude others. In fact, in another fandom back in the 90s I was bullied for talking with too many people and not respecting the individual groups who wouldn't talk with each other. I always found this totally silly and I'm glad that in the Mika fandom I don't have to worry whom I talk to, for not risking to annoy others.

Thanks, Karin. Your message is enlightening.

I want to put all this behind me. Although I am not at all a fan club person, I started enjoying the MFC and made good friends. But now I will distance myself from the MFC for a while. 

Take care and see you at a future concert 

5 hours ago, crazyaboutmika said:

Hi guys

I'm so sorry to read this

Big hugs to you @pascale_geneva

MFCers are usually supportive of each other but we are all humans and misunderstandings happen... and when you feel safe with people and all the sudden you feel bad vibes it is very hard and depressing. I don't think anyone wanted to hurt you dear Pascale but indeed words can hurt even if they are not said on purpose to hurt  We all feel things differently depending on our own experience of life. I can feel your pain Pascale and Florine and as a very highly sensitive person too I am deeply sorry for you

I know some fans left MFC as they were disapointed by a few members in the past too... I still feel very much that we are a family In any group and in any family problems and misunderstandings happen sadly  I lost one of my aunts last February and after that my other aunt and my mother got mad at each other and they don't talk anymore... it's a lot of pressure and draining...nobody is perfect and misunderstandings can really happen

I'm glad you still love Mika and that you plan to go to his gigs no matter what

Sometimes people can say silly things even if they don't mean them like once my mother called me a b*** in front of my friends and I never knew why

With the years I went from being oversensitive to trying to make myself happy and it helps...my husband can get mad but it is his problem not mine... I hate fights so I still miss Mika gigs I would love to go to to avoid problems...but I wouldn't be able to go to all of them anyway so I try to make the best of the ones I go to. I enjoy meeting MFCers too and I have felt nothing but love from everyone I met... probably because I met them long ago online and I can say MFC is a welcoming community

Like everywhere else belonging to this community or being a Mika fan doesn't make people angels either of course...

I really hope the misunderstandings can be cleared and forgiven  but I also know nothing is perfect in life  even if we wish it was...

I love you all guys

As Romy and Carafon joined here to say they didn't mean to hurt you and that they are sorry I really hòpe the misunderstandings can be cleared and forgiven  

I cried too writing this....

Please take care everyone

Life is short, keep enjoying Mika

 

Thank you, Anne, for your kind words. 

I will go on with my life trying to put this behind me. 

I look forward to meeting you at a future concert 

You're right, life is short, let's enjoy Mika, who is certainly my primary interest 

9 hours ago, Romy04 said:

Good evening Pascale, good evening everyone, as I have already said in private to Pascale, I am sorry for you if you felt pain at the end of the concert.  But for my part at no time did I make fun of you, I said nothing about you, about the cape or about the wine.  And if later I liked the insta post with the cape it's only because I thought the photo was pretty.  What I still want to say is that after reading this insta post, I am in misunderstanding and very very sad. PS excuse the google translate

15 hours ago, carafon said:

Come on ...... I apologized for blocking the view ( didn't see much myself btw) and explained you the jokes about Geraldine . (we're not the only ones , look at the september competition) 

I'm sorry but  I didn't say anything about you and the cape/ glass of wine  (didn't even remember who had wine and don't care anyway) 

We had a good feeling at the dinner so I'm very upset and sad too !

( sorry for polluting the topic but can't leave it without answer) 

 

I'm sorry but I did not invent what I heard. I am not senile. It is an insult. @Romy04 or you must have said that. Besides you never apologised for stepping in front of me (you must be mixing up with the next day after the concert) while I was just turning my head.

Anyway I want to go ahead and stop talking about all this. It is only making me sick. My husband is furious and wants me to stop all contact with the MFC. I tend to agree with him. I have other interests in my life. The MFC will never be my main interest. I will keep in touch with the friends I made through the MFC but that's all.

Yes, we had a good feeling at the dinner, that why I am very upset.

I still look forward to seeing you at future concerts