Updated 25.07.2000

Heya peeps welcome to my virtual web site known as "Aladdin`s Realm". My name is Louis I am 34 years of age , having been born in 1966 the year of the Horse according to the Chinese horoscope. A father of four lovely children ranging in ages 13, 10, 9 and 4. I acquired the youngest along with my lovely partner Charmaine midway through 1999. Charmaine, our two sons and myself all moved in together and set up our home in February 2000. Charmaine and I are expecting another addition to our family due on or around August 23rd 2000. If the scan is correct it will balance the odds slightly in the household for the female population. Another daddies girl :o) even now with her still growing in her mummies womb she will be kicking the heck out of Charmaine and the second I place my hand upon Charmaine's tummy baby stops kicking her, much to her mummies "disgust" lol. The lighter moments of going through this pregnancy side by side with Charmaine have helped alleviate some of the grief I felt after losing my older brother in a road smash on November 21st 1999, among the other tradgedies that `99 threw across my lifes path. Charmaine was instrumental in helping me at what for me was probably thee single worst event in my entire 34 years. Charmaine is more than my partner , she is my friend, my confidante, my lover, mother to our children, my soul-mate and my saviour when I lost my big brother. Her caring ways , her selfless attitude and her love for me helped me to keep going. I�m writing this on my page for two reasons , #1 Charmaine doesn�t realise how much of a pillar she has been for me during / since that time of immense sadness and loss. So I hope by writing it she may realise how much she helped me keep it together when I was falling apart. Even now she never tires when I have my moments where all I want is Mike back and the tears flow. #2 I want the world to know what a truly awesome person Charmaine is and how lucky I am to have her in my life. So although '99 was thee most tragic year in terms of loss in my entire life my one bright star through it all has been Charmaine. My hope for 2000 and beyond is to always have her and her son in my life. To Charmaine and her son I want to say thank you and I love you both. Charmaine has made a profound impact on my life, my dreams, but most importantly my feelings in the past few months. Having given up thinking that anyone could ever make me spin round and fall again. But there you go, when you least expect it aye *smiles* so hence the reason I have written my dedication page to Charmaine.

So on with stuff that�s boring about myself. I was born and breed in Wellington thee Capital and best city of the best country in the whole world New Zealand or the correct Maori name "Aotearoa" - "Land of the long white cloud". For those who do not know where that is check this link out. This site has some details on my fair city, also a few pics and more... Wellington City council website ... ok back from there? Cool ! Well stats as follows six foot tall, green eyes. I was born under the Piscean star sign (Pisces people sheesh) in the year of the Horse aka 1966. To those who would dare call me old I reply "your only as old as you feel" and things in my life keep me young and active, read on. I have four lovely children, (3 of my own), although only my oldest lives with me. I say of my own as Charmaine has one of her own and he feels as if he is my own as well, hence the figure four. They are very precious cargo to my way of life and there is nothing I wouldnt do for them all. Yes bad management perhaps but thats life aye. Bad management in the sense they are all to different mums. But not everything is as clear as it would appear on the surface. All that said and done it is things like this that have made me who I am today so as my motto goes "THINGS ALWAYS HAPPEN FOR A REASON" and in my case it was too make me have more respect for life or had it not happened then maybe just maybe I wouldn�t be here. But never judge a book by its a cover as appearances can be deceptive and the reason that it happened is not all as clear as some people like to speculate. Also you cannot live on the edge all the time sooner or later you fall, so they have made me slow up alot . <--- this statement applies to the adrenalin junkie in me hehe .

I am a practising martial artist training in the Korean art of Tae Kwon Do. Other passions in my life, besides my latest and greatest Charmaine ... include computers / internet, photography, drawing, poetry, motorbikes and with luck learning to fly Aeroplanes. Adrenalin junkie thats me hence the motorbikes and the desire to learn to fly planes. So who knows what the future holds for me. All I know for certain is that it will now include Charmaine and her son. Also on my future list of goals to obtain is my own ISP ( this is the geek boy in me shining through haha ) oh ISP = Internet Service Provider ... followed closely by the purchase of my first Ducati motorcycle, and one I can park in the garage not just on top of my computer work-station. Ok so thats a brief on myself and updated this 22nd day of May in the year 2000. Soon to follow a complete bio of myself with a full Cirriculum Vitae (CV , or Resume to my international freinds) *hint* *hint* for any future PC or internet related job offers. I hope that hasn�t scared anyone from venturing through my site and I hope you enjoy anything you may find here. Just remember anything taken from here is not yours so do not allude to "ownership" of stuff you have not created and call again soon and suss out the updates etc .... Hey don�t forget to leave your presence here known by writing in my guest-book , thanks Louis.