Hello, everyone!

My name is Nury (which is short for Nuriya, that's my real name, but I really prefer being called Nury :))

Before you learn something else about me, I would like to thank those readers of you who review my stories :) Getting attention and feedback is always nice and heartwarming. That is, those who adds my stories or my author's id to their fave lists... I thank you too, for this kind of a silent appreciation of my writing.

However, my deepest and most affectionate gratitude goes to those of you who are kind and generous enough to spare their time and efforts and find a few (or more) kind words to encourage my writing, to comment my stories and, by that, to help me grow as a writer :) Because, as some of you already know, I put my heart into my writing, and when I get feedback... that's the best compliment from you :) And that's what makes me want to write better. For your pleasure :) Thank you dearly.

Okay, on with the rest of my bio ;)

I'm 26 years old. Female. Childish and smiling most of times in my life. Well, I guess you could figure it by the amount of smilies I use :)

Actually it's a habit that I already gave up to get rid of :)) See? They do that again! It's like those smilies just come out from under my fingers on their own! All I can do (at least, that's what I used to do at my work) is to erase them after I finish writing the complete paper or document (I highly doubt my boss would approve getting a daily report full of smilies... ;))

Right now I'm pretty much in love with 'Sailor Moon' anime and everything related to it. Okay, now I should probably add 'Maria-sama ga Miteru' here, because I fell for it as well, lately. And Ouran Host Club now too, love it!! And some other anime I've been watching lately ~sighs~ I'm really going deeper there, ain't I? :)

I'm not really sure about how long it will last, so while it does I try my best to pay tribute to my favorite characters and couples by writing some fanfics.

It's the best way since I love languages, words and the way they may play and affect people :)

Russian is my native language since I'm from Kazakhstan (sounds weird, I know, but it's true :)), but I'm in love with English (actually learning languages is just my hobby but sometimes it's very helpful) and I try my best to practise it in every way I like. So reading and writing fanfictions in English are both entertainment and study.

Among my other likings are music (a lot of genres), reading (oh yes!!), some poetry, writing letters (I'm serious, I love writing ;)), active actions (mostly, I like running or... well, yes, lately it's mostly running :)), walks, talks with people I respect and care about. Also I like driving my car (even though sometimes I tend to be somewhat reckless... when I'm late for my work... which happens not so rarely, hehe :)), watching sky and landscapes (we have beautiful mountains and steppes here) and... well, just feeling alive and enjoying the wonders of this world.

Well, I won't put here the list of my negative traits, I'll just mention that nobody's perfect :) I'm not that bad, really, I'm just a human.

That's probably all I have to say right now.

Thank you for your time and interest ;)

20/04/2009 - Recently I found myself carried away by watching 'Mari-sama ga Miteru', and it confuses my feelings to SM a little. So... I'm afraid, the updates for the 'Fighting For Your Love' will come out a little erratically. But no worries, I will not drop the story :) I promised to finish it, didn't I ;) So it'll be finished :) Thank you for understanding.

25/05/2009 - Okay, Marimite is kinda left behind, and SM is still the winner and stays :) That's why the 'Fighting For Your Love' is still being written. I'm sorry to admit that my work-life has been really hectic lately, so I don't have time and/or energy to write as fast as I want, but I promise, I'm working on the next chapter these days :)

Oh, and I finally figured what pairings I like :) Hah, like it wasn't obvious.

Anyway, just for the note, in Sailor Moon my favorite ships are: Haruka/Usagi, Haruka/Michiru, Haruka/Michiru/Usagi and Usagi/Seiya. But Haruka is, of course, the one I absolutely adore :) Hence, my stories are mostly about her, the beautiful racer.

In Maria-sama ga Miteru that would be Sei/Yumi. However, I do enjoy reading fics abour Sachiko/Yumi, Sei/Shimako and Rei/Yoshino. I'm not sure that I would write anything related to Marimite in near future, but if I do, I believe it would be about Sei/Yumi, of course :)

20/06/2009 - Tired of work. Want to take my vacation finally :) Got 100 for the final exams for the Japanese course I've been taking since February. ~sigh~ I'm so sad it has to stop for a summer. However, I hope to go back and resume studying in fall :) Lately I'm being even more in love with Haruka than usually. Probably I'm getting too sensitive and/or emotional :) My writing style changes again (even if you can't see it from my stories, I feel it inside :)) Yeah, I know, it's all random stuff.

I can't stop thinking about wonderful friends I made here, on FF. Thinking of you, guys, warms my heart even if we don't talk outside the stories/reviews. I appreciate your attention and your kindness. Thank you for being so responsive and caring!

Best wishes to you and thank you for reading this.

10/08/2009 - I can't help it! I'm falling, falling, falling... in love with 'Ouran School Host Club' anime :)) Okay, at first I thought it was silly verging on stupidity but... the more I've been watching it, the more I loved it, and now I get all so emotional just thinking about all those guys and Haruhi :)) Okay, just to make it clear, I love Tamaki/Haruhi and Hikaru/Haruhi ships. Awww!! Yeah, alright, time to calm down :) I still need to finish my current story before trying to write anything else, right? Right ;)

24/09/2009 - Life is wonderful! And my Japanese course finally started again, yay!! ~grins~ Fall makes me so emotional at times... I'm writing the following chapter for 'Fighting', so... umm, just wanted to say that the story's not dropped, even though the periods between updates grow longer. I apologize for that, sincerely, but real life caught up with me finally, and... it's beautiful :))

I hope you all are well and happy. Take care :)