Well, well, I'm pregnant again. Currently in the 14th week (13+4 SWS), to be precise =D. We gathered all our courage for a second round, and everything happened faster than I was able to reconsider my decision *lol*.

For me, it really took some courage to decide for a second pregnancy. Finn's birth was very complicated and the first six months for all of us (parents and baby boy) very difficult.

But I'm much more relaxed now, and everything goes smoothly so far :D. I'm confident this time will be easier!

Btw, I'm hoping for a girl =D!!

I hereby declare I condemn the activities of the community CI_YAOI. They are said to steal links and they reshare scanlations without the explicit permission of the scanlation groups. Deliberately violating their sharing and distribution rules and thus damaging the whole yaoi fan community!
I am not and will not be part of this community and neither will I share scanlation releases there nor on my lj nor anywhere else!

For me, it's just common sense, kind of a certain style and normal politeness to respect the general rules and distribution policies of lj communities or forums in which I am a member. For me then, it doesn't matter if a scanlation release is generally illegal or not. As a member of a community, I agreed to abide to certain rules. There are no exceptions!

Furthermore, it should just be accepted if you were not granted access to the works of some groups! For me, the reasons for such a strict behaviour towards their fans are understandable. Most of these groups were initially very liberal and very patient after all. There are only very few teams who went really overboard reacting and defending themselves against the repeated rule violations. Activities done by members of CI_YAOI and MT were mostly causing these disturbances and change of behaviour which is so sad, because it affected hundreds of other innocent fans.

I hope this will change in the future!

In memoriam of our dear friend Hagen...


...you will ever have a place in our hearts
...thank you very much for all the fun we had together
...thank you very much for everything you were teaching us
...you will be missed by a lot of people, you were needed
...we sincerely hope that you are finally happy at the place where you are now, wherever that may be


....please rest in peace, maybe some day we will meet again !

On March 11, 2010, DMP/Juné Manga announced that they acquired the enlish licenses for the Viewfinder Series by Yamane Ayano and Kizuna by Kodaka Kazuma. from CPM/BeBeautiful. VF Vol1 und 2 will be released in summer 2010. The other Volumes will subsequently follow.

Please check out this: http://finderseries.com/

I collected some links to book stores where you'd be able to purchase the new releases:

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ : Free shipping, no experiences here yet
http://www.akadot.com/: Good prizes for the mangas, but the shipping is more expensive (to central europe), $19
http://www.amazon.com/: The usual; shipping fees to central europe around $13
http://www.amazon.co.jp/In-English/b?ie=UTF8&node=1094656: Never tries that!
http://up1.co.uk/
http://www.jpqueen.com/
http://www.bookstorenippon.jis.de/index.html: A german site for ordering mangas from japan.
http://www.animestuffstore.com/home.php: Mangas are more expensive, but the shipping is cheaper

Well,
nope, nothing serious here yet!
Check out this: Poke It! The penguin ^-^

http://www.gamesville.lycos.com/html_poke/poke_penguin.swf

Have fun and a nice day!

greets,

Kaira

Hello and welcome here, dear visitor,

thank you very much for stopping by and reading! Hopefully, I won't bore you to death.
Well, that's just me here :-). So, up until now I couldn't quite make up my mind what to do here.
Well, since I'm not gifted with artistic talents and creativity (I wish I would be), you won't find drawings or story writing here, sorry about that.
Maybe I will also loose a few words about japanese martial arts, scientific news or the mysteries of the japanese language, topics that I'm very interested in.
I am hoping to improve my english skills here (so native-speakers, please feel free to correct) and to make new friends :-).
Please, if you feel like it, leave a comment, I really would appreciate that! Even if it's just a hello :-)
Thank you!

Best wishes,

Kaira