I just found these awesome quotes. I had to post them:

If you love someone, set them free.
If they return to you, put several 8 inch blades to their chest.
If they return again,
then RUN...
JUST RUN



Do u bury me when I'm gone?
Do u teach me while I'm here?
Just as soon as I belong
then it's time I disappear

The first one honestly makes me shiver. It blew my mind away, when I read it.
The second one is from Metallica and belongs with a really good photo made by baka-nii showing calm michael from AS. It fits perfectly.


Cheers, Gil

A happy easter to everyone.

Yes, I'm still alive, don't worry. Just random business.^^"

Lots of chocolate to everyone!

Cheers,
Gil

Actually just the end of my first semester, but the last year has passed so fast I can't really believe it's happening.

*is still amazed by thought*
No learning, no homework and that for 1 glorious month.

The last project we had to do was really, really hard. The cut our dead-line by two days which meant directly after the real tests we had to go and draw. And draw. But not just nice drawing. But as perfect as you can get it.

After working one whole day, all I could see were Dots And Circles. Everywhere. Such an head-ache!
And yesterday just before the deadline, we worked again. Until 2a.m.
Yes, I know, other people finished before, but I'm not other people, right? And there were enough other people working with me.

I finished my project today, complete with copying and everything about half an hour before the deadline.

I am particularly proud of this part (just like I told you: Dots And Circles.)



Cheers,
Gil

....something you want to forget about


This is a story a friend of mine started a while ago. It's a Bella/Sirius story and absolutely awesome. The only problem why I couldn't share it with you was that it was German. So yesterday I sat down and translated the first chapter.

Here it is. Remember: all praise to Numair the glorious author and all faults you find are probably mine.

Enjoy!

Title: Something is scratching its way out (Chapter 01)
Author Name: Numair
Genre: Romance
Main Character(s): BB, SB
Ship(s): BB/SB
Author's Summary: I wouldn't call it the ultimate solution to the question why Bellatrix and her husband never had childern or why she completly freaked out, when she met Sirius at the ministry, but this Fanfiction at least tries to bring some light into the darkness of the mind of Bellatrix Lestrange and her relationship with Sirius Black. And there's a lot of darkness. Trust me.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

 

( Sisiwo Chapter 1 )

What is it about good and bad luck?

I am a person that has quite often little injuries. Tiny scratches and stuff like that. There isn't a week were I don't have a scratch on my hands or arms, and if it just, because I cut myself on some paper. And if it isn't a scratch, I'll bump my head or anything like that.
I never do these things on purpose they just happen to me.

But on the other hand I never get injured badly. *knocks on wood* The worst thing I had so far was a broken finger once and a four-stitch-wound on my left foot.

Just today, I had a small accident with my scooter. Actually a kind of scary story, because the gas pedal blocked at full speed and I could only regulate my speed with the breaks. But that wasn't why I had that accident. Or at least not mainly. I slipped on some ice and fell.
But I'm only black and blue at one knee and elbow and scratched my knee. Nothing serious, all my clothes remain intact. And my scooter survived with a few scratches as well.

So...I think I'm kind of a lucky person....at least I'll think so until I bump my head in some stupid action the next time.

Dunno...

Cheers, Gil

I've been watching the Japanese series "Hana Kimi", which is originally a manga and a mix between romantic comedy and REALLY crazy. *laughs*

It's about a girl that goes to a boys high school, hiding her gender. She went there, because there is this high jumper named Sano, who stopped jumping after an injury. She is a adoring fan of him, meaning she is in love with him, and wants to make him jump again.
So much for the two main characters.

There is also another character called Shuichi Nakatsu, and here is where it gets interesting, because he is sooooo great. Cool and cute at once. *grins*
He is both Sano's as Mizuki's (the girl's) friend, and eventually falls in love with her, never realizing that she is female. Of course there is the whole: I'm not gay, I like girls, etc going on, and Mizuki just sees him as a friend, but he still stays with her, always optimistic and also chaotic. Sooo cute. *gg*

He is played by the actor Toma Ikuta, and he suits this role perfectly.^^

( click here for pictures^^ )

Yeah.....no I'm not addicted. What makes you think so? *gg*

Cheers everyone,
Gil

There is the Spanish landsaping architect and from the first time I saw a picture of one of his gardens I was totally his work. It's amazing!

Of course he was lucky to do even his first projects for upper class familys, but what he made out of the space and money he had is stunning.
He works mostly with (sun)light and water, drawing upon the natural  resources of his mediterranian sourroundings.

His work is structured with a lot of geometrical forms.

You can find some of his work on his web-page here: www.fernandocaruncho.com

And once again. His work is amazing!^^

Unbelievable but true. I did this test and somehow ended up in Slytherin. Normally it's always Gryffindor or somtimes even Hufflepuff.^^"

Slytherin

You scored 39% Order/Chaos, and 44% Moral/Rational

Chaotic Rationality. You don't think much of rules and restrictions; you look at things from an analytical perspective and probably think morality is relative to some extent. Your strength lies in being able to make your own judgments and form your own strategies uninhibited by others; your weakness lies in the wariness other people may have of you, perceiving you as dangerous.

You join people like Theodore Nott, Severus Snape, and Horace Slughorn.

The 4-grid I used to determine this is as follows:

	Chaotic	Orderly
Moral	Gryffindor	Hufflepuff
Rational	Slytherin	Ravenclaw

Test can be taken here:   http://www.helloquizzy.com/tests/the-sorting-hat-test6


Still amazed,

Gil

It's been some time since Christmas, I know.

But, even when I was on my LJ I couldn't find the spirit to write something. So now for anyone who can forgive me my long silences:

A dearly belated happy Christmas. And a wonderful new year, my dears.

Cheers, and hugs all around,

Gil

Part II following straight.^^

Title: Unseeing eyes
Author: silentreadergil
Rating: PG-13, maybe more
Pairings: eventually H/D
Summary: Not only blind eyes are unseeying.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
A/N: The beginnig of the story is old, very old. The idea for the prologue came to me sometime after the 6th book and I simply had to write it down. I've been working on it ever since (I'm very, very slow.) It followes canon until book six and from there on it goes a different way, though I tried to refer to book 7 here and there.

previous chapters to be found here: www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml

 

( Chapter 2, Part II )

Here you go, the next part. I swear this thing will never let me go, no matter how long I stop writing on it, it will always come back to me, like an faithful dog scratching on the door and begging entrance.
Wow, I somehow managed to write more than is allowed in LJ, so I have to split the chapter.

Title: Unseeing eyes
Author: silentreadergil
Rating: PG-13, maybe more
Pairings: eventually H/D
Summary: Not only blind eyes are unseeying.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
A/N: The beginnig of the story is old, very old. The idea for the prologue came to me sometime after the 6th book and I simply had to write it down. I've been working on it ever since (I'm very, very slow.) It followes canon until book six and from there on it goes a different way, though I tried to refer to book 7 here and there.
So Dobby made it into this story as well. He is actually pretty helpful, if you don't mind the missmatched socks he always tries to convince you to.

previous chapters to be found here:www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml

 

( Unseeing eyes - Chapter 2 )

So yeah. It's all my friend Yuu~u's fault. Everything.

Well actually she only showed me this writing-contest featuring unusual pairings. But, and this is a big but, she is the one I'm always talking about my Sirius/Bella story, and she is writing this wonderful story herself. (Sry, just for German-speaking animexx.onlinewelten.com/fanfiction/autor/427035/208329/ ). Anyway, so she showed me this contest, and said something along the lines "What do you think? Fits perfectly to Bella/Sirius, doesn't it? And they even have some prize..."

As you might already have guessed, this is where my brain started working. The only problem was that they wanted the characters as good in character as they can be, the story logical, and - where it got hard for me - one shot, less than 5000 words.

But as aslways with a few well-meant words, I got up on writer's feet again and also got an idea. I'm not that sure about it yet. It's got some strange humour in it, and I actually placed it in the time before Sirius death - so it supposed to end kind of dramatically, no? Well, I guess we'll see. The deadline is in ....sometime 2009 - March I think, so we'll see. *is optimistic*

Only one other problem is left with this: All the other work I have to do for my studies, which is kind of piling up at the moment. *sighs*
Most is fun, but some parts are just so annoyingly unuseful which doesn't make sense at all.
And tomorrow we're going to measure (Or is it 'calibrate' in this context?) the area around our campus. Sounds fine if it wasn't for the temperatures at the moment. (around 0°C) It's going to be freeeezing. *nods*

Excuse all my rambling and not posting stories.

Cheers, Gil.

Ok, here you go.^^

Title: Unseeing eyes
Author: silentreadergil
Rating: PG-13, maybe more
Pairings: eventually H/D
Summary: Not only blind eyes are unseeying.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
A/N: The beginnig of the story is old, very old. The idea for the prologue came to me sometime after the 6th book and I simply had to write it down. I've been working on it ever since (I'm very, very slow.) It followes canon until book six and from there on it goes a different way, though I tried to refer to book 7 here and there.
The beginning of this chapter is something that took me ages and I'm still nor 100% happy with it. But I hope it will do. Mme Pomfrey on the other hand was fun to write. Hope you like it, too.

Prologue to be found here: silentreadergil.livejournal.com/6282.html

 a list of all chapters can be found here: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=silentreadergil&keyword=Unseeing+eyes&filter=all

( Chapter 1 )

next chapter: silentreadergil.livejournal.com/7104.html
Reviews are as always, very much appreciated.^^

I decided to load up what I've got so far starting with the redone epilogue.

Title: Unseeing eyes
Author: silentreadergil
Rating: PG-13, maybe more
Pairings: eventually H/D
Summary: Not only blind eyes are unseeying.
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
A/N: This is old, very old. The idea for the prologue came to me sometime after the 6th book and I simply had to write it down. I've been working on it ever since (I'm very, very slow.) It followes canon until book six and from there on it goes a different way, though I tried to refer to book 7 here and there.

list of all chapters: www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml

Comments are very much appeciated.

( Unseeing eyes - Prologue )

I finally did it. I loaded up a fic on ff.net!! I tell you, I was soooooo nervous! (My friend who was on ICQ that time can tell a tale of that.^^")
I think it kind of went like that:

GIL: OMG!
FRIEND: What?
GIL: O-M-G!!!
FRIEND: WHAT?!
GIL: I loaded up my fic at ff.net!!!
FRIEND: Soooo?
GIL: What if anyone reads it? What if no one reads it? What if they comment? What if I get no comment at all?!...
FRIEND: .....aaaalriiight.....

Yeah, and now it's up and already 38 people have read it, including my said friend, who also gave me my first two comments. *hugs her*

In the future I plan to upload my HP-fics firstly here on livejournal, and - if they ever get finished (when, when, when!!!) - I will put them on FF.net as well.

Cheers, Gil

So a few days ago I went browsing through youtube, always following related vids when I suddenly discovered this series.

Skins

It's British - I think it's located at Birmingham, not sure though - and it has very rude language (I guess in an American TV-station about a third of the episodes would be -peep- *grins*.
It's dealing with drug abuse, friendship, growing up and of course the One theme, but I think it is done in a sometimes very absurd and sometimes very realistic way, and I found that I really like it.

There are at least two seasons out there, but I have just been picking bits here and there, so I watched a good part of the first season and a few episodes of the second season. I didn't find a with all the episodes, or links to the episodes yet.

Here is an official trailor for the second season though. The scenes aren't taken directly from the series, and all in all it would be a bit more "normal" normally, but the atmosphere you can see all the main characters and the atmosphere is there and OMG Maxxie's dancing!!

www.youtube.com/watch

I absolutely adore his skills. He isn't dancing in the first season, but picks it up (/gets to show it?) pretty soon afterwards.
Next to him, my favourite character is definetely Cassie. She somehow reminds me of Luna, the way she looks and the sometimes weird things she does (like putting order to the contents of someone else's kitchen^^). Even her voice sounds like Luna sometimes.

*somtime later*

Dammit. I thought, I found something where you can watch all the episodes, but nooo~o it's only from UK, and Ireland. I always knew it was better there. Well, anyone else interested and living there, have a look here and follow the link to 4oD.

Everybody else: first part of first episode to be found here: www.youtube.com/watch



Cheers, Gil

Yes, a Hollyoaks-fic. Done by myself. Out of JP's POV.
I actually started it after the airport-episodes about a year ago or sth. Because I felt that those two deserve a happy ending. Then I forgot about the whole thing for quite a long time. Recently I have been catching up on the series and found that OMG, they got their Happy Ending. (I liked Kieran/JP, and hated him dying, but hey, what won't they do for a little drama.)
That was when I remembered, that I myself had started a FF and decided that it was time to finally finish at least one of my fics.
So here you go.
Just one more thing: It hasn't been betaed yet, so if you find any mistakes, kindly point them out to me.

Title: It had been three years
Word count: 4.139
Pairing: JP/Craig
Rated: R (because of swearing and the f-word)
Summary: JP's POV, three years after the airport-incident John Paul suddenly gets a phone call
WARNING: As anyone who knows the soap and the characters should be aware of: this is SLASH! So anyone who is offended, or doesn't like fics containing male/male relationships, please do not read.


( full text here )

Yes, I know, it's been ages.
But I'm still alive. Kind of.

I'm back in Germany (for a while now) and started studying two weeks ago. I even found a flat, after two weeks of standing up at 4 a.m., then catch the train at 5 a.m. to get to college at 8 a.m.. - It's been hell.
Now I'm living in a small room, which is soon to be my kitchen and then I'll get the room just next to it which is much much bigger and even has a balcony! Yay me!
It's not too expensive (especially if you consider how much you have to pay in the area) but that is mainly because it is almost at the end of the world. Luckily I'm used to that by now, after my experience in Ireland.

If anyone, who doesn't know about it already wants the story, just tell me, I'll type it then. I'm far too lazy to do it now.

Only a few things: I've met some very interesting people, I liked the language and the accent and I wrote some more chapters of my Unseeying eyes.

Oh yes, and I started a Sirius/Bella FF recently. Don't ask. It wasn't my fault. I was first told to do it, and then got infected. It's situated in Sirius' time in school. I'll post it someday. It's not very far yet.


My girls and I also did some cosplay (as every year).

We performed Alexiel, Jibril and Uriel out of Angel Sanctuary. It was great. For anyone speaking German and interested in more Cosplay, look here:  http://animexx.onlinewelten.com/mitglieder/steckbrief.php?id=427035
There  will be more pictures soon.



Cheers and sorry to keep you on hold for so long,

Gil

Yeah! - Well, actually I know it for a while already, but it is clear now:

On 11th November I'm flying to Derry, Northern Ireland. The place where I'm going to live is south of Derry in the middle of nowhere.^^ It's pretty much near the border to the Republic of Ireland. I guess it really is as most nowhere as a place in Europe can be as the whole County has about 4 pages in the Lonely Planet Guide to Ireland.



I learned some Gaelic (or Irish) words, too. (The ones in the guide) But those I could memorize where only the swear-words. *coughs* Though the equivalent for "fool" doesn't exactly sound like a swear word in my opinion....doen't matter.
I still have to pack all my stuff, safe as much fanfics as I can find, in case there is no Internet available there and do all the other things you need to do before you go on a travel.

See you around,
Gil

P.S. If anybody wants a postcard, just give me your full-address and in the next month there will arrive one.

I don't know, if I already told it, but I plan to go to Ireland in November. I'll stay there for 8 month at a horse farm. It is from a work and travel program. 
The problem now is that since I sent them my stuff I haven't heard a word. And it's about 5 weeks until November. I already phoned about two month ago (I sent everything in June) and all they said was, that you don't know until 8 to 4 weeks before your flight, but that they've never not sent anybody.
Still I'd like to know when and where I'll be going so that I can get myself a flight and start to pack. 

Well, no use in rambling around. 

Bye, Gil

P.S. I somehow changed the font. I have no idea how, and how to revise it.