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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Name: Charles (AKA INFERNO, Jimmy the Juggler, Krazy Karl, Oliver Twist)
Age: 27 (until 4th of June)
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Your favourite website/s: Home of Poi, BalloonHQ.com, rec.alt.unicycling
Favourite Toys: Firestaffs, Fiance, Unicycles, Sculpting Balloons, Juggling balls etc etc
Been twirling for: ??? Not sure now, um, I think 3 years???
Occupation: ??? Firedancer, Juggler, Unicyclist etc etc, oh, and, when I have time, I'm the Public Training Consultant at the New Zealand Institute of Management. But looking to drop that when I can.
Hobbies: See Toys. Also, live poetry, Fiance, Crowd Dynamics, Fiance, Science History, Chess, Teaching English, Volunteer Counselling, Fiance, etc etc etc
Music: Same as Pele "All music genres have notable artists, not all artists have notable music. I'll listen to anything once, after that it depends on mood."
Movies: Toy Story, Princess Bride, Shine, Chasing Amy
Books: Any Orson Scott Card, Terry Pratchett, Alan Dean Foster
Favourite Colour: Blue
Favourite Quote/Saying:
"People being people"
"I like dogs, dogs are my favourite people" Anonymous
Favourite Food (KFC) -but only on Saturdays!
Best Advice Ever Given
1. "Don't worry what people think of you, they are far too busy worrying what you think of them"- Dinah
2. "Life's not fair" Dad
15 days to go til I marry my wonderful beautiful gorgeous angel (1st of June)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[ 15 May 2002, 16:48: Message edited by: Charles (INFERNO) ]
EDITED_BY: Charles (1136247588)
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Bristol, UK
If my time difference calculation is right then right now getting back on HoP is probably going to be a bit down Charles' priority list!
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Location: Back in Paris... for now !
WAHOOOOOOOOHEY I am SOOOO happy for you and Mumtaz
hope she is restign well and all and yout oo
YAYAYAYYAYAYA
Having been posting around teh threads distributing champagne to celebrate thios happy event and so now I am completely cyber drunk
I am truely enchanrted by this news and send so much love and hugs to YOUR FAMILY
shine on
Cass
"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"
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Location: la-la land
Congratlations Charles and FAMILY! I hope your good lady is doing well.. The though of a new baby makes me well up, I'm going to be an auntie to my friends baby (due July) if I'm this emotional about that - I can't imagine how happy you both must be, oo it's giving me goose bumps at the thought!
to wet the babi's head..
I honour you as an aspect of myself..
You are never to old to storm a bouncey castle..
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Holds the champagne(sp) glass Cass gave me in my intro thread
Congratulations! I hope your girl and baby are doing good! What are yall naming the baby?
RISK: Do not follow the common path; Go where there is no path and leave a trail.
Pyromancer
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Location: Moving around a lot, USA
Congradulations Charles,
You dont no me but a little bird (Cassandra) told me that you have just hard the good fortune of not having to go through hours of labor and still getting a smiling baby. Im a firm lover of women, there is no way that I could squize out a watermelon seed let alone a water melon. Women are amazing. So I just wanted to say congradulation to you and your wife and to the new ... . . . is it a boy or a girl?
And Remember Life breeds life, but Love breeds love
I dont like cegars so...cheers
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congrats.
(might see the three of you soon enough)
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
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Location: .:*over the rainbow*:.
OOoOOOOoooOOOOOOoooOOoOOOhhhhhhhhhh!
.:*flitters in sprinkling fine baby pixie dust all over charles, mumma and bubba*:.
Congratulations and big happy birthday hugs to you and bubs!
*:...one day all the fairy fridges will be aligned and my pixie world will be complete...:*
Corporate Circus Arts Entertainer
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Dom is Right (and a leggy blonde)...priorities have shifted somewhat, but I juggle my existing committments and my emotional committments and my legals committments (hang on, i can do four!) AND my online ocmittments.
Baby is huge (9.5 pounds when born) happy and alert. Mumtaz is still rcovering but doing better now.
Jacub (Yah-Koob) is his name, though his full name is Philip Charles Yacub Dolbel.
So perfect, hardly cries at all, grizzles when I change his diaper (mumtaz is too sore to lift him yet) and stops grizzling as soon as the new one is back on.
Likes to watch us from the cot and follows our movements really well. Head was turning and holding itself up a lot since the birth.
He is HHUUUUUGE! I have no idea how he managed to fit inside my beautiful angel, and complete respect to anyone who goes through that themselves. (always had complete respect for Mumtaz even before this).
AND now I've got a gig tomorrow that will tear me away from my family for a few hours, then back again.
New photo has been sent to Malcolm, PM or email him to put it up on this thread please...?
amazing to think 3.5 years ago I wasn't sure where my life was going, pining for my long lost love Mumtaz (7 years after we broke up) and wishing madly to have children but not finding anyone who I cared enough about nor thought would be a good mum.
You never know what's around the corner...unless you walk around it!
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what an inspiring story!
enjoy !!
Why?
Corporate Circus Arts Entertainer
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Inspiring…I guess it might be at that.
I’ve started to really believe in fate since the wedding, as both of us had completely given up on us ever being more than friends again. There were religious, cultural, geographic and racial barriers which were absolutely huge when we broke up.
Over the years, certain things have happened to slowly dispel most of these (except the religious one), and a few events that got rid of them straight away. But I didn’t know any of that, and it was only after we both got cellphones and were able to text each other in relative privacy, that things appeared possible.
Then, one night I’d had a bit too much to drink and said a few things about the way I felt and suddenly she told me about how things have changed so much and then asked me out.
From then ensued a long, slow process of getting the family to like me (as a friend at first), and treading on eggshells right up until the time we actually got married. Since then life has been absolutely wonderful. The right place to live just fell in our laps, she got a job a few minutes away from my job, I went full-time as performer for over half of our first year together, and life just couldn’t get any better.
Until now…
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You're story made me smile! How wonderful! But more importantly CONGRATULATIONS!!! Jakub is a lovely name.
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*:...one day all the fairy fridges will be aligned and my pixie world will be complete...:*
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sickening isn't it?
And now all my poor work collegues are being subjected to a 25 minute slide show of photo's of Jacub and Mumtaz and I all the time.
And then, that very first photo pops up (1 second after the caeser), and they all go away feeling really ill...
I really have to take that off the CD sometime
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yeah maybe that would be a good idea. So when do we get to see more photos of your little ?? Or should i be checking out your photo gallery album. hmmmm....
goes to investigate
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ah .... hmmmmmm ...... I am smiling reading your stories my beautiful friends but I also hope that beautiful Mumtaz feels better and stronger soon ... she has been through a lot of stress and tiring events with her gorgeous smile always lighting up the room please give her a biiiiiig hug for me , will you ?
I would love to see more pics of your kiddo, where can I see more ? where ???? please ?
hugs and smiles
shine on
Cass
"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"
Corporate Circus Arts Entertainer
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I tried to upload a few and it just didn't work, no error message or anything, just none of the baby photo's showing up?
Been knee deep in diapers (great way to keep warm) for a while since then and it is one of about a thousand things I keep meaning to do.
Cass, thanks for your concern, Mumtaz is doing much better, still not 100%.
Jacub, on the other hand is growing like a triffid! most babies take 3 weeks or more to get back to their birthweight. I think it's something to do with having to breathe and digest things and keep themselves warm, as opposed to amniotic life, where its a direct feed of food and heat and oxygenated blood.
He's now well over 300g over his birthweight. and he's not even two weeks yet.
Not much longer he'll be bigger than me.
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BIG BIG BIG BEAR HUGS TO YOU AND YOUR QUEEN AND YOUR PRINCE shine on
cass
"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"
Super Gidg!!!!
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Gidg bounces into the room on her pogo stick, carrying a bag of balloons
Boing, boing, boing
Charles, will you help with my party? I need some twisted balloons.
Charles? Charles are you here? Gidg starts to look under furniture, in closets and behind draperies looking for Charles 
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Ahhh - the proud dad. Its cute seeing guys turn all mushy when they have kids. I get a real kick of watching my own dad with his first grandkid
Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame.
- W B Yeats
Super Gidg!!!!
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(my form of a hit and run)
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I'm sure I heard a Gidg in here somewhere....(looks at the trail of burning footprints leading out the door).
Oh well (shrug)
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Oh well, I guess thats what happens when you're old and gray and no-one loves you...
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G'day Charlies!
We actually had Myste up on Dentrassi's unicycle for a bit the first time I went to Glebe. And only three pedestrians were maimed in the event!
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Wahoo! Go Myste... (Pictures please....)
I'm still trying to afford that Nimbus Trials, but little things like nappies, carseats, rent and bills keep coming up. Maybe I might just have to get a KH seat for the time being...
However, just finished a gig on thursday night for an international ad agency, with the rate 5 times my usual rate for one hour (500 clams), even with 40% tax, that's goitta help the unicycle budget...
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Mumma Hen
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Hooray for corporate functions!!!!
Have missed you around charles TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
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I've missed me too, but not as much as you guys that i missed lots to and as well i think um errr...
Ok next persons turn to mess up my thread...
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So what kind of snow-tires would you recommend for a unicycle?
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Depnds how deep the snow is, and what sort.
If its really hard and icy, I'd suggest some sort of chain/spikes to improve grip.
If its only really a light dusting, and not very thick, just a big knobbly tyre to get thorugh the slush to the surface beneath.
If it's deep fluffy snow, then a giant tyre, like a truck inner tube, would be best. That way the weight would be distributed over a greater area, and you would have an increased chance of being able to ride in it (probably still 0% though...)
Oh...hangon....you were joking weren't you...
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*licks Charles' ear*
mmmmmm....fishy.
Mumma Hen
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we pronounce it FUSHY in Nu Zeelund
TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"
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