Hello! My name is Gisela Francisco. I was born in Cascais, Portugal and now I’m living in Paris with my lovely husband Telmo and my two cats, Tobias and Pablo.

You can check out my photos on Flickr or view a selected few at GiselaFrancisco.com.

99 random things about me:

- I’m 33 years old;
- when I was almost 3, my sister was born and I said that that was the happiest day of my life;
- I love cats and I’ve lived with them all my life;
- I’m the only person I feel comfortable with taking pictures of myself;
- I’m surprised by the way most people see animals;
- I’m lazy by nature;
- I love pizza with pepperoni and hate pizza with mushrooms;
- from 7 till 10 years old I was required to study music;
- I like opera;
- I felt high school was easy but I don’t think that was my merit;
- I was always surprised with cliques and factions and I still don’t understand why people need to behave that way;
- I don’t hate anyone;
- I faint every time I have to take blood because of my fear of needles;
- I believe plains are technical marvels;
- I have a doll house (1/12) but I’m still assembling it;
- can’t see how my life would be without the internet;
- I detest social rules;
- when I was little I thought I was very intelligent;
- I’ve never had lots of friends because I was shy;
- I dislike the media stupidification;
- I would love to write a novel but I’m convinced I can’t write;
- when I was little I wanted to become a gardener or an architect;
- I’ve wanted to be a painter;
- I’ve wanted to be a sculptor;
- in school I was always a mediocre student and the older I get the less I regret it;
- when I was little I imagined how it would be like to be interviewed about my life;
- I like the books by j. k. rowling – I think they are fun;
- I’m convinced I exist for the entertainment of the people around me;
- I hate it when people say that they “like all kinds of music”;
- every body who likes me says I have a terrible temper;
- I have no desire to travel to Brazil;
- I like sashimi;
- I love David Lynch’s movies in particular “mulholland drive” and “blue velvet”;
- I hate pseudo-intellectual movies, literature, music and theater;
- Once I loved pseudo-intellectual movies, literature, music and theater;
- I’m interested it the history of women through the ages;
- my feet are ugly;
- I would like to eat breakfast every morning;
- I try not to eat things with sugar;
- aesthetically I like USA in the 40′s and 50′s;
- I like historic novels;
- I like England’s history;
- I always exaggerate my stories for the sake of impact;
- my wedding dress was the most expensive piece of clothing I have ever had;
- I have crooked teeth and I don’t mind;
- I forget a lot;
- I cried watching “Titanic” – ARG!;
- I think we can’t pay security with freedom;
- I have never broken any bones;
- I detest cold;
- I detest heat;
- I detest the sound of the wind;
- I like thunderstorms;
- I like the Victorian era and Charles Dickens;
- I’m older than my siblings;
- I like flowers, in particular violets and lilies;
- I dislike complicated flowers like “birds of paradise”;
- I like white “chocolate”;
- I like anime, hentai and manga;
- I like to travel;
- I like cherries and things with cherry flavour;
- I love real mashed potatoes;
- I like card games and board games;
- I like video games, in particular adventure, turn based strategy and RTS;
- I like depressing music;
- Humanity depresses me;
- I love cocktails;
- I love to cook and cook related stuff;
- I love photography and I will be a great photographer;
- I wear glasses since I was 2;
- At 18 I started to wear contact lenses;
- I like (yes, I like it) Little House on the Prairie;
- And Upstairs Downstairs;
- I’ve painted my hair dark blue, black and dark red;
- I like the smell of Nivea;
- I don’t use products from companies that test on animals apart from the products I really have to, like contact lens liquid;
- I like mystery books like Agatha Christies books;
- I don’t read horror books and I don’t watch horror movies;
- I like to read biographies;
- I love trees but have a fear of forests and botanical parks;
- I crochet since I was a kid and in high school I did it everyday on the train and in class;
- I like lists;
- I’m not a tidy person;
- I like corsets;
- I don’t use Internet Explorer;
- I have 2 cats;
- I’m an immigrant;
- I like online shopping;
- I read a lot;
- I like tea and it’s paraphernalia;
- I like collections;
- I like science fiction but I didn’t till a few of years ago;
- I like BD and comics;
- I like books;
- Japan is fascinating;
- I dislike manipulators in particular the sneaky kind;
- I love to buy flowers;
- I love to receive interesting mail;
- I try not to use adverbs because of Stephen King.