Now that there are only 20 days till I take the plane to Osaka, here is my schedule for March:

14th Start in Germany

15th at about 10.30 arrival at Osaka Kansai ... after finishing all the formalities and having picked up my keitei from the Post office I'll go straight to Kyoto, stay there till the evening and visit Kinkaku-ji and some other places, then go to Osaka and check in at the hotel

16th day in Takarazuka with shopping and visiting the important places

17th early in the morning with Shinkansen to Tokyo and first show at 2 p.m.(Marguerite), at 6.30 p.m. second show (The Legend)

18th in the morning a little sightseeing incl. Tsujii-market to eat the freshest Sushi ever, and Tokyo Tower; at 7 p.m. next show (Marguerite)

19th sightseeing in Tokyo incl. Met. Government, Meji Shrine, Asakusa, boat tour to Hinode, Odaiba with Rainbow Bridge.

20th at 2 p.m. show (Marguerite) and in the evening talk show

21st check out and leave Tokyo for Germany at about 12 o'clock from Narita


I would be very happy to meet you there - is anyone from my f-list in the area the same time?

Current Location: at home
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: HS Collection

Dear F-List I would like to ask you for help ...

A dear friend of mine is leaving our company soon because she became 60 last month. Now another workmate decided to create a good-bye-book for her and every colleague should create one or more pages for this book.
As they all know about my favorite hobby I decided to make something in Japanese. First page will be a recipe for sushi with pictures and for the last page I think of the lyrics of a special song handwritten in Japanese ... but to do so, I need the lyrics in Japanese letters, so my question if anyone can help me to get them.
I want to use the sayounara-song from zuka because I think it fits: "Sumire no hana saku koro". I already have the lyrics in Romanji but I prefer to write them in Kana and Kanji.

So, if anyone can help me or tell me where I might find them, I would be very thankful for the help.

Gaby

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: hearts collection

Today is our 29th wedding anniversary and my loving husband not only presented me with a wonderful orchid-flower, I also found 2 new DVDs on the breakfast-table: Etude and Vieil Ami!
Now I'll finally can watch them and I am very curious especially for Vieil Ami - I am so happy.
We had a nice day out today watching a film in the cinema called "Our World" with fantastic landscape views and animal documentary ... afterwards we went to a little Italian restaurant and had some delicious pasta, fish and tiramisu ... it really was a wonderful day!

Current Location: at home
Current Mood: happy

Hi all,

I finally got my tapes and was looking the "Ernest in Love" ... I love this musical and Asako/Kirian and the musumeyakus did a very good job ... though I cannot understand a single word (o.k. sometimes one word) I enjoyed it very much and have to laugh very much because of the acting and facial expressions ...

but I cannot understand the family-relations, can someone please help me ...

I think algernon moncrieff is the nephew of lady b. and gwendolin is her daughter so that she should be the cousin from algi ...
Cecily is not really relatet with jack, she is only his ward ...
jack is a friend of algi from london perhaps, where he is under the name "ernest" ...

this is what i got already, but in the end there is a mixed up I don't understand, what is it with this woman that used to look as a teacher of cecily and this priest? why is jack at least "ernest" again and are algi and jack relatet????????????

please if someone can help me to understand I would be very happy

gaby

Current Location: at home
Current Mood: confused

The last days I talked with csh_121476 about the "Let's talk passionately" with Osa and Asako ... she wrote me:

---I see what you mean. I think Haruno Sumire is curious how
Sena Jun is getting along in Moon Troupe. According to
Osa, they haven’t really talked ever since Sena Jun was transferred to
Moon Troupe, and that “Let’s Talk Passionately” provided the perfect
opportunity for them to talk. ---

Suddenly thinking of her words and some facts written by stone_depot in her fiction I became an idea for the prehistoric of this talk and I wrote a little story:

1. Chapter - A call at the right time

Osa is very curious how her best friend Asako is getting along with Moon-Troupe. It's being nearly a year they've chatted together last time, but she was not shure whether she should really call her because of the promise she gave Asako. *Asako-san what are you doing right now? Are you alright? Do you miss me as much as I do??*

phone is ringing

*Asako, is it you?* Osa looks at the display *Hmm no, Graph is calling ... what do they want this time?* "Hello, Sumire Haruno here." "Hello Osa-san, Sandy from Graph is calling." "Hi Sandy, nice to hear from you, what can I do for you?" "Osa-san, I am looking for a sienne for our monthly talk in the next issue and I would like to ask you if you feel like inviting someone to talk with." "Hmm, Sandy why not, is it a special topic we should talk about, or can I just chose by myself?" "Chose by yourself, whom do you want to invite then?" *That's the chance I've been waiting for!* "I would really like to talk to Sena Jun, is it o.k. for you?" "Yes, of course it is. Shall I invite her or would you prefer to do it?" "Hmm, I think it will be better you call her, thank you. When shall we meet?" "What about next Monday in the afternoon, I think you both will be free then?" "Well, then next Monday, bye Sandy." *Oh Asako please agree, I really would like to chat with you after such a long time, and then I'll find out how you really feel at Moon and whether you're still lonely without me*

2. Chapter - One more call at the right time

Asako is very blue this day *What is Masa-chan doing? I would really like to talk to her, it's being such a long time we've chatted last. Is she alright? But we made this promise ......, I'll better wait and not call her*

phone is ringing

Asako looks at the display *Hmmm not Masa-chan, who is it, don't know this number?* "Hello, Sena Jun here" "Hello Asako-san, Sandy from Graph is calling." "Hi Sandy, nice to meet you, is there something I could do for you?" "Yes Asako-san, I've just fixed a date with Osa-san for the monthly talking in the next issue and she would like to invite you as her guest, are you interested?" *Masa-chan wants to talk with me, yeeeeaaaaah - I must be cool now* "That sounds interesting Sandy, yes I would like to chat with Osa-san, when shall we meet?" "The meeting is next Monday in the afternoon, there is no special topic, you both can talk about what ever you want." "Thank you for the invitation, then till next Monday." *Masa-chan, you invited me, oohh I am so excited to meet you again after this long time, hoping you're well and still feeling as my best friend, I miss you so much, you're much more to me than just best friend, never told you this - I am looking forward to look you in the eyes, seeing your perfect smile and hearing your voice saying Asako-san, hopefully I will not have to cry if you look at me ... *

3. Chapter - One more call

Osa is sitting in her apartment impatiently waiting for Sandy to call her *Why does it take so long? Did Asako not agree to the invitation? I miss her so much*

phone is ringing

Osa jumps off her seat, this must be the call she is waiting for *keeping my finger crossed that Asako agreed* "Hello Sandy, Haruno Sumire here." "Hi Osa-san, Sandy again, just want to tell you that the meeting is fixed, Asako agreed to your invitation, so I am looking forward to see you both on next Monday." "Thank you Sandy, for calling ... I'll see you then, bye." *Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeee, she agreed, I will meet again my best friend hoping she feels still the same .....oh, I think this talk will be passionately, I will ask her very personal questions then and I will watch her very exactly - Asako you couldn't hide anything, I promise!!*

*....* means what a person is just thinking

..... may be it is a bit like the prehistoric of this passionately talk we both like so much, what would you think???

Current Location: at home
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: phantom by hanagumi

at the moment one of my most-loved activities is to tinker bookmarks of Osa, Asako and other Siennes ... and now i would like to tinker a calender for next year as well, but for this i need good pictures and with a not too dark background ... most of the pictures i have a black background and the whole calender in black is not so nice i think ...
can probably someone give me nice pics of Osa and Asa with light background like f.e. some userpics (but i need them to use in 20x20 cm, so the resolution should be high) ... i must admit i am extremely bad in every sort of tecnics, so i have no idea how to get the pics - but i really would like to create this calender ...
if i only know how to do this - i would also like to show you some of my bookmarks ...

hope someone can help me

gaby

Current Location: at home
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: "why" by Osa

i am so happy that you like to discuss with me "elisabeth" ...

so here is another scene, may be my most-loved, but that changes sometimes depending on my actual moods ...

franz gave the necklace to sissi and told her that he loves her, they sang their love-duet when right hand on the screen light went on and TOD appears ... osa is standing there with a face-expression that shows to me TOD is really hurt of watching the lovers ... her right hand running over her hair, left hand even doing similar moves a little bit beneath, she plays with one curl, eyes for a moment shut as if she doesn't want someone to notice her feelings ... it seems to me as if TOD was pretty disappointed and hurt ...
then lucheni-asa appears and speaks to TOD and to me it seems as if he aggravates him so as if saying "he he, you lost the first round - she loves another man" ... and those words let suddenly chance the behavior from TOD to get first angry and then something like a fighter, who won't give up reaching for the love of elisabeth ...

those are my impressions i first have when watching this scene without understanding a single word ... now i know the words lucheni and TOD are speaking and they didn't fit with the impressions i got from the scene -- but although watching the scene again i nevertheless still feel the same ...


now i am anxious to hear about your impressions - how do you interpret the face-expressions and acting of TOD and lucheni??

gaby

edit: i've just discovered a part of this scene on youtube, ohhh i love it so very much!! i don't know how to post links here, i can only tell you the scene is called "the wedding ceremony" and it is postet by tiktaktoto

Current Mood: relaxed

hi together,

one of the reasons i joined this community was to find people who would like to share their impressions and emotions with me and discuss ... i feel like talking about scenes especially from the musical "elisabeth" in hana-version with osa ...
i would like to introduce a scene to you and explain to you what strikes me most and which emotions i can see ... and than i hope you will not only read this, but give me your impressions as well ...
probably a bit confused, so i will soon start with one of my most loved ones:

the scene happened in the bedroom, franz-josef standing outside the locked door ... elisabeth just gave him the letter and was very depressed when suddenly light changes and the hand of TOD appears ... long outstretched fingers gliding down the window frame was the first you can see and it makes my shower ...
then TOD appears completely and made his offer to elisabeth to take her away from all her problems, telling her that he loves her ... first elisabeth seemed to agree but soon changing her mind she refused very vehemently ...
this is the moment i was completely fascinated of the facial-expressions from osa-TOD, first thinking such like "what is that? she refused!" going to "why????" and then turned to a very lordly face thinking "o.k. if you don't want - i can wait" ...
osa-TOD went to the door very gentleman like, took a bow with this very lordly gaze (look at her right hand and arm at that moment - her acting is just amazing) and disappeared ... closing the door behind her she showed her real emotions - something between desperation and frustration paired with pure heartsickness ...

(sorry, i changed her/his sometimes because i know TOD is male, but sometimes i just want to mention more the person osa, who is definitely female)

those are my impressions i got from this scene ... would you please tell me yours?
and if someone would like to discuss her/his most-loved scene, please feel free to introduce it here ...

hope you like to discuss

gaby

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: saigo no dansu

hi together,
as you already know i love osa and asako very much, and there is one scene in elisabeth 1. act i want to understand but i cannot find any lyrics oder translation till now ...
franz and elisabeth have just sung their love song when suddenly right-hand on the screen appears osa -- and wow she acts so emotional, i was thrilled completely, you can really see heart breaking from death, she suffers so hard to watch to two lovers - lucheni appears and talks to her or better starts to annoy death ... the discussion following and than after change from death to a fighter who knows that in the end he will be a winner the song is what i am searching for ...
can someone probably help me ????

Current Mood: busy

hi together,
i've just joined this community because i am a big fan of takarazuka since i watched it for the first time about 1 month ago ... i am from germany and here nobody knows about this wonderful japanese theater ... as my english is not so good i hope you can although understand me because i would like to talk to people, who share the same emotions about takarazuka ...
my favorite takarasienne is haruno sumire and i would like to use one of the wonderful pics i've seen here in the gallery as user-pic ... is it allowed to use them ??

my first contact to takarazuka was a short file of elisabeth, were i saw osa first and was completely thrilled so i searched for more and meanwhile i know much more ... my favorite still is osa, but i also like very much asako, juri, yumiko, comu, asato and wao - all otokoyakus (o.k. i know that asako also performed the elisabeth) ... musumeyakus i like hana, midori and ayane most ...

my favorite performances are elisabeth and phantom ... but i also like asian winds and some digests of susano-o and ernest in love ...

that's it for now, hope i didn't make too much mistakes ;)

gaby

Current Mood: excited