Hello my dears! 
Eleven days to go till the new millennium and four till Christmas. Are you in the Xmas mood already? I'm typing this pretty late in the evening and it has just started to snow. Seems like we're about to have a beautiful white Xmas here in Slovenia. Ah, I'm so into this season's spirit!!! 
Well, I just cannot believe that 1999 is almost over. And so much has happened this year. A lot of you are mailing me saying that you're disappointed that there are no "new" news. You see guys and gals - I'm trying to do my best, but I don't "make" news. Sorry, but there are no new dates for Ben's tour, there are no news on Bastiaan, Eloy nor Lee. As far as I know for Lee, he's still recording his new album and the last message I received from his managers was that he was in the studio and doing his best to record his first album by the end of the year. Well, if I get any additional info, you can bet that you'll be the first ones to be notified. (BTW - Join our mailing list and receive CITA WebSite Newsletter every time the site is updated! Just sign your email and click subscribe! You can unsubscribe any time!) Bastiaan has recorded his new album. Is it out yet?  I know for sure that it's not available in Slovenia. What about Germany?  - let me know! However, you can surf to Bastiaan's official website and listen to MP3 files of his new songs. I gotta tell you that they are just fabulous! [http://come.to/bastiaanragas] 
Eloy - well, what shall we say about Eloy? I don't believe that we can say much, since this has been his year. I believe that we've written and talked about him so much, that there's nothing else to say. However, we hope to see him (perform!) in 2000, don't we? 
It's been Benjamin's year as well. He was the first one of the four to publish his solo album - Benjamin Boyce. And great album it is. We've seen him perform on different shows and we didn't even miss him when they got him on the candid camera on German SAT1. We had a great laugh! 
What else shall I say? I really hope that 2000 will be a great year for all of you CITA WebSite visitors, but first I want to wish you a very merry and cosy Christmas! Thank you for visiting my site and I hope that you'll visit it as as often as possible in the next millennium as well! 
Love, 
Lidija - CITA WebSite Webmistress 

PS You are welcome to mail me any news, suggestions, questions, critiques, praises, photos and other to my well-known address: 
cita_website@hotmail.com 
PPS Don't be too harsh on me, because I misspelled millennium on the homesite. There should be 2 N's!!! 

~ CITA Memorial Wall has been updated. See here!~

I've published a new CITA cards collection. 18 new CITA e-cards ready for you to mail. Choose among birthday cards, a get well card, Christmas and New Year cards or just cards with a nice little message for your friend. Check them out here. 
PS There are some problems with choosing sounds. Do not get "scared" when it says PIRACY when you wish to listen to a chosen midi file. All sounds are taken from the web and are allowed to be distributed! 
I'll try to fix the problem as soon as possible.

Hey ya all! I'm back. 28 days to go! Yes, I'm talking about new millenium. A reason enough for our site to get a new - christmas look. Nothing fancy, but a bit christmas-like. What else is new? I'm working on new collection of CITA e-cards which will be available in a few weeks. Soon enough for all of you to mail CITA Xmas cards to your friends. Stay tuned for that. To all of you who sent me your nice and encouraging mails - THANK YOU. I've been pretty busy lately, but I'll reply your mails in a few days time.  
Rose sent me another interview with Stephen. Since our site is visited by a lot of Boyzone fans as well and since Stephen never forgets to mention Eloy, I decided to publish it. It's a great read, so go and read it. 
(click HERE) Thanks for Rose BZ for sending it to me and a great thanks to Ruth for typing it!!! I copied and pasted the interview without editing it! 
Betty Lui sent me a photo of Eloy and Stephen at MTV EMA '99. Click here to see the picture!

I am very disappointed in you - CITA fans. Thank you so much dear Merit, I had a lovely time chatting with you!!! Read more about the chat here. 
PS The photo of Steo and Eloy (from MTV EMA 1999) was scanned by Aoife.

Have you seen MTV EMA 1999? If you have than you must have spotted Eloy in the audience. Although he was shown several times for a short time only, you could see that he was very happy. (He was sitting next to Stephen.) 
Congratulations to Boyzone!!! BTW - when recieving their Best UK-Irish Act award, Stephen said "Eloy, Thank you" just before going off the stage. That was really nice! 
Only a week to go (to CITA Chat!). 
PS I got a photo of Eloy and Stephen arriving to EMA. Thank you Rose BZ for sending it to me and sharing it with all CITA and Boyzone fans! 
To see the photo, click here!

I got news from Konni and Silke who visited Eloy and Stephen on Monday. Read the letter she sent me: 

Hi all! 

This is just to let you know that Steo and Eloy where not at home today. But we talked to Eloys mum and we gave all the mails and gifts to her. She was very nice and promised to give them everything. We also saw Joey and he is the cutest little thing we have ever seen!!! He kissed Konni the whole time (as he always did with Steo...lol....)!!!!!! Eloys mum told us that they had a nice 1st anniversary at Eloys house (I think it's Steos house as well but you know what I mean) and they celebrated Halloween with Lucienne (Eloys sister) and Eloys mum. She said that Steo showed them how to celebrate Halloween (I believe that!!!). She gave us an autograph from Eloy. 
Furthermore she told us that they left Amsterdam one hour before we arrived there. We are such poor girls... :-(((........ although they were not at home, it was a nice day, because Eloys mum is really fantastic! She told us that she will learn English now because of her son in law. Isn't that cute? She is really lovely!!!  
Thanks for all your mails, letters and gifts, it was really a honour to us to bring them to Amsterdam. Thanks a lot! 
Take care! 
Love and GATELY GRINS 
Silke and Konni 
* * * 
Don't forget the MTV  European Music Awards next Thursday  
(Nov 11th); You still have time to vote for your favourites!  
17 days till our CITA CHAT!!!

Read an interview with Stephen Gately published in SMASH HITS on 22nd September 1999. Thanks go  to Rose BZ who is always so very kind to send me any material she finds on Stephen and Eloy! To read the interview, click HERE. 
Another thing. Watch out for EMA'99 - MTV European Music Awards 1999, which will be held in Dublin (Ireland) on 11th November. The host of the show will be Boyzone's Ronan Keating, and you'll also get an opportunity to catch Eloy de Jong among the audience, since he'll be accompanying Stephen Gately (Boyzone is also among the nominees - if you wish to vote for them or any of the other nominees use this link - 
http://www.mtv-vote.com/ 

Important notice for all of you ELOY FANS!!! A friend of mine - Rose BZ sent me this e-mail: 
I'm going to ask a favour, a friend of mine will be visiting Eloy&Stephen 
in November and she wants to collect as many messages or presents from their fans as possible.  She needs the messages by October 28th and i was hoping you would put a message on your site asking people to send anything they like to her for Stephen&Eloy.Her name is Konni and messages can be emailed to her at: 

or IF people want to send something by post(they'd better hurry!)then they can email her and she'll give them her postal address. 
 She will definetely be able to get the messages to the guys one way or 
another though it's most likely that she will visit there house....i don't 
approve of fans bugging the guys at their homes and i want to make it clear she won't do that, she will only either deliver the gifts to their house by hand without actually bothering them or give the gifts to them personally if she has an oppertunity to meet them. 
 The last time she and her friend left messages and presents for 
Stephen&Eloy(and also something for their little dog Joey!) at their house but they were lucky enough to meet Eloy&Stephen later at a petrol station(what luck!) and the guys said they were really pleased with the presents and she said they were both very sweet and friendly and very happytoo! 
 I'd appreciate it if you'd put a little message on your site asking fans 
to send messages to her....it's ok if you don't want to but it'd be nice 
cos at the moment she's mainly got stuff from BZ fans and i'm sure Eloy 
would love to have some things from his fans too!Thanx, Love and God Bless, 
Rose:) 

So... Show the world that you care and make Eloy & Stephen happy showing them that you love and support them! Now go and type a message! 

Long time no see... I've been pretty busy with my school work, that is why I couldn't find enough time to update my site. But now I'm back. At least for a while. So, what's new? Bastiaan Ragas has an official homesite on the internet. Well, that's not exactly new to most of you, but since the site has been down for a while, I decided to let you know that it's back and it is really good. A lot of interesting stuff, including MP3 of three of Bastiaan's new songs. So check it out on: 

I got a nice letter today from one of our visitors. Jessica from Holland sent me this letter: 

I just added the BRAVO TV special article today, so that you can finally read it. Link HERE. Another thing - DON'T MISS "BRAVO GIRL! 99" on RTL2 tomorrow. The host of the show is Benjamin Boyce and Aleks!!! 
16.40 CET RTL2 

I've updated my site a bit... So as you can see CITA NEWS got a brand new look. Hope you like it. I've also updated the links' site, Who is..? site, CITA shop, the menu (just a bit in hope that download time will be much shorter), we have a brand new chat area, Real CITA has been updated (I added four .wav clips and I'm planning to add some Real Audio in the future), CITA in media and another novelty - CITAmail. If you wish to have a new e-mail account, you may get one right here on CITA WebSite and that is absolutely free! It doesn't matter if you already have one or more - why not have another one? Your e-mail will be:                     yourname@citamail.znn.com 
And that's really cool, ain't it? You're welcome to register any time! If you wish to do so right away, you can click here and get your new e-mail account in less thanfive minutes! Don't forget to link the login page after you get your e-mail. To check your CITA e-mail link to: http://citamail.zzn.com 
Or you can check your e-mails on two locations on CITA WebSite: 
on CITA News Site, CITAmail. 
That's about it. I hope you'll like the updates.