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| Hiya
everyone! Welcome to one of my homes on the net. My name is |
Jen and live with my
husband and my parents in the suburbs of Sydney, |
Australia.
I
have a degree in Psychology and a Diploma in Writing |
for
Kids but
I spend my days running an online Collectible Toys |
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If
you want to check it out, go to: |
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I am a HUGE Disney fan. I
always
loved Disney as a kid, but in |
| recent years my interest has
really grown (admittedly with
some |
encouragement from a few friends). I belong to
the Down Under |
Disneyana Club, the Australian chapter of the
NFFC. My interests |
have
now spread far beyond just Disney. I love so many different |
characters
who have their origins in animation - everything from |
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Winnie
the Pooh to Rugrats to 80s characters like the Smurfs. |
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But
animation is not my only obsession in life. A friend once asked |
me
if I
ever stayed in one place. Put quite simply...the answer is no. |
I
love travelling
too much. Australia has always been my home, |
but I start suffering withdrawal symptoms after a few months
away |
from a jumbo jet. Throughout my school years I was lucky to
travel |
a
lot. My parents took me up and down much of the east coast of |
Australia, to Tasmania, New Zealand, the
Philippines, Hong Kong |
Macau,
China
(but just for a day), Fiji, the US and Canada. While |
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uni student, I also visited France, London and Tokyo with my Mum. |
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In 1997 I cruised the Pacific with three |
close friends, onboard the Fair Princess. |
It was a holiday I will never forget. While |
the voyage was a complete disaster for |
| P&O
(we missed the first stop due to |
'technical difficulties' and had a fire in the |
casino), we had the most incredible time. |
We saw a lot of
New Caledonia (the first |
photo is from the Isle of Pines) and Vila
in |
Vanuatu. The other photo was taken on a |
deserted beach in Vila. |
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It
was awhile before I took another big trip, but I managed to |
fill
my holidays with short domestic trips to places like Queensland, |
until
finally in December 1998 / January 1999 I was able to return to |
America
for an incredible month jammed full of adventure and, of |
course,
Disney. But there was one thing that made this particular |
| trip
extra special - I shared it with the guy I love. |
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James
and I first met online in January 1997. We |
became
friends
very quickly. But it wasn't until the |
13th
of July, 1998,
one of the best days of my life, |
that we made the
official
transition to couplehood. |
Exactly
two years later, when we were celebrating |
our
anniversary in Singapore, he proposed! And, |
of
course, I said yes. :) He
has brought so much |
happiness into my
life.
I must be the luckiest |
girl on earth! |
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Our
trip to America was a very special |
experience for
us. We had never spent |
so
much time together before. It was a |
big
learning experience for us, but one |
we
thoroughly enjoyed. Since then we |
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taken short trips within Australia. |
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include a week on Moreton Island |
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a trip west of the Blue Mountains. |
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Our
next big overseas trip was to Singapore. |
We
spent the first few days on Sentosa |
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Island
just relaxing and enjoying the sun. |
Sentosa
is where James proposed! |
What
a day that was! :) |
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After
our stay in Sentosa, we spent a few days in Singapore itself - doing
some |
shopping
and some more shopping and then some more shopping. We did |
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manage
to fit a few other things into our schedule, but we did always seem to
be |
at
the shops. We were very lucky to meet up with our wonderful
friend Julie, |
and
her family. They were very kind and spent a lot of time showing us
around. |
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| Our
most recent holiday was a whirlwind trip to Tokyo,
Japan. We were in the |
| city
for just a few days
and spent most of that either shopping or
at Tokyo |
| Disneyland.
We had a wonderful time,
but would love to go back and soak in |
| more
of the Japanese culture. We also met up
with a few people while we were |
| there
and had a
wonderful time with them! Thank you so much! And a special |
| thanks
to David who really made our trip just that much more special! |
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What
else is there to tell you? Not much really. Most of my time is |
spent
either working on my business or with James. My other interests |
include
collecting (as if you couldn't tell), writing, drawing, web design, |
surfing
the net, listening to music, watching movies, walking by the |
water,
musicals, penpalling and meeting people from all over the |
world,
reading, and a whole heap of other boring stuff. :) |
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This page was last updated on the 30th of July
2001. |
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