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ABOUT ME REALLY:

I created this site with the intention of making a photo album type site for me to look at and cheer me up while I am at work. Now, it has also become a site where I can share who I am with my family, friends and workmates. I hope you spend some time and look around and get to know me.

Pictures About Me

TRANSFORMERS:

I am a Transformer fan. When I was growing up, a fabulous cartoon show about these vehicles which transformed into robots and had their own personalities and loyalties came out. I quickly became fascinated with the toys and, come my birthday, my mom bought several of them for me. I kept them for years but over time I lost track of most them and then they were gone.

One day, I visited a store and one of transformers I used to have, Sunstreaker, was on sale for only $7.00. Needless to say, I bought it. That was when I was bit with the Transformer collecting bug. In less than a year, I accumulated every transformer shown on this site.

A list of my Transformers

A huge picture of all my Transformers

A page by page view of my Transformers Individually

One huge page to view my Transformers Individually

STAR TREK:

I used to be a huge Star Trek fan. I have been to around twenty conventions and have seen almost every star from The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. I have also collect a lot of action figures and ships. I will add these to the site one day, also.

My Star Trek Page

ROBOTECH:

I love Robotech. When I was a kid, I dreamed of flying jets just like Rick Hunter. I even joined the Civil Air Patrol in the eigth grade to prepare me for the Air Force. I recommend joining to any kid who wants to join the Air Force one day. You learn a lot about discipline, team work and have a great time. I even got to take a flying lesson. Now, I still want to fly but have no desire to join the military.

My Robotech Page

STAR WARS:

I was fascinated with Star Wars when I was young. The movies are great and I have gathered some Star Wars action figures as well. I mainly wanted the AT-AT when I was a kid because it was huge. After all these years, I finally have one.

My Star Wars Page

BATMAN:

When the Batman movies came out, I also started reading the comic books. I guess what drew me to Batman was that he was just a regular human who was well prepared and well trained for almost everything that came at him. I also wanted to be like that and I am like that in some ways.

My Batman Page

CURIO:

Each level of my display case houses something special to me.

The top level houses things like the toppers of our wedding cake and a wooden boat carved in the Philippines which my cousins gave to me when they came to stay in the U.S.

The second and third levels are dedicated to Star Trek. The hallmark ornaments hang from the top of the second level and the third level is a gathering of a lot of the Star Trek figures around the shuttlecraft Galileo.

The fourth level is a collection of personal items like my rank insignia from the Civil Air Patrol, my class ring, and momentos picked up from here and there from places special to Jen and me.

The fifth level is devoted to Batman. I keep my two special hardbound books in there along with an autographed Batman picture.

My Curio Page

STAR BLAZERS:

Before Robotech and Transformers was Star Blazers. This show and Voltron first gave me my first taste of the Japanese Animation phenomenon. Everyday, I would run home just in time to catch Derek Wildstar and Mark Venture try and save planet Earth by traveling across the galaxy to retrieve Cosmo DNA.

My Star Blazers Page

MISCELLANEOUS:

Without having to create another page for everything in here, I decided to lump them all together.

My Miscellaneous Page

TOOLS:

I use a font called Inkscript to present my pages. I feel it adds character and is somewhat close to how I actually write on paper.

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GUESTBOOK:

Let me know what you think of my site. This is the first site I have ever had. I thought about making one for about a year before I did so because I couldn't think of what to put on it.

One day, I started filming what the inside of our house looked like. It was almost Christmas time and Jen wanted me to remove the Star Trek ships I had kept on top of our entertainment center in the living room to make room for Christmas Decorations. You can see what I mean when you look my "Inside" page. I used a camcorder which I borrowed from Jen's dad to get a picture of how I had the ships laid out so I could put them back the same way after Christmas. I also used the TV card on my computer to capture the images of what I had filmed. From there, I expanded to filming everything you see on my site now.

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OUTSIDE:

We rent a simple home with a small patch of grass in the front. It has two bedrooms where the second is reserved for a new addition to the family we are working on now.

Outside My Home

INSIDE:

This is our sanctuary. As you can probably tell, I have taken over most of the house to fulfil my own decorating needs. I must commend Jen for allowing me to do this but I know one day, the tables will turn.

Inside My Home

CATS:

These precious creatures are very special to Jen and I. Baby's original full name is Starship Enterprise after the ship in Star Trek. We had the intention of just calling him Star. As a nickname, we would call him Baby. We called him that so much that he would only respond to "Baby" now. The same thing happened to Munchkin or rather "Beverly" as I had originally named her after the doctor in Star Trek the Next Generation.

Baby is a momma's boy and Munchkin is daddy's little girl.

My Cats Page

CRUISE:

I recommend a cruise vacation to anyone who intends on going. The treatment and facilities there are immeasurably great. This was the first time I have spent more than a few hours on a boat. There is also a celebrity in one of these pictures. J.F. Jomphe is in the upper right hand corner, just above me, in the group picture of our dining table. J.F plays professional hockey for the Mighty Ducts of Anaheim.

My Cruise Page

WEDDING:

In June 1989, I was 14 and met my future wife one day when she and her mother came outside, where I was playing with some of the neighborhood children, and asked if I could show her the way home from school. She had moved into the house next door. I had met her sisters weeks before this time when they came out to play but Jen was too shy to come outside until then. I fell in love with Jen, at that moment.

For the next week, Jen avoided me. I finally waited for her mom to drop her off at school and intentionally ran into her in the hall and asked her when I could show her the way. When that afternoon came, I took advantage of her not knowing which way to go and asked her, at every intersection, to choose a direction. Whenever she chose wrong, I' would say, "Ok...you go that way and I'll go this way home." We got home an hour and a half later but it broke the ice between us.

During the summer, Jen started coming out of the house more and more. Only because she said that she had to brush her sister's hair. I was glad to see her no matter what excuse she used. We got closer and closer with each passing day. As a young teenager, I did everything in my power to impress her. On July 11, 1989, I asked her to "go" (steady) with me and she said "yes". We were a couple from that point on.

On Christmas 1994, just after the stroke of midnight, I pulled Jen aside, reached in my pocket, and presented a diamond engagement ring. Seven years after I met Jen, on April 27, 1996, we were married.

If you see me smiling, at work or on the street, nine out of ten times, it is because I have just thought of my wife's beautiful face again.

My Wedding Page

My First Poem to My Dearest Angel, Jen

My Life Without Jen Poem

A poem Jen and I wrote for our parents which was read to them at our wedding

WASHINGTON DC:

This was my first trip out of the state. I had not gone more than 100 miles away from home on my own before this. Washington D.C. is one the most incredible places to visit. It houses some of the United States most valuable treasures for display to all. In a sentimental way, I do the same with my treasures. In my home, I display all my treasures to share with those who visit.

My Washington D.C. Page

MONTEREY:

This is where Jen and I go, to get away from it all. If you ask us what is there to do there, I really could not tell you. We do not go here to see anything specific; just to be away together has always been enough for me. We always visit a site, not far from the aquarium, where we can listen to the waves crash onto the rocks and see the sea otters crack clam shells on their bellies.

My Monterey Page

GREAT AMERICA:

September 19,1998 - Data Broadcasting Corporation's Company Picnic at Paramount's Great America. A wonderful day spent with family, friends, good food and rides to make your stomach sick.

My Great America Page

WHAT I USED TO CREATE THIS SITE:

Most of the pictures you see here, especially all the Transformers, were taken with a Quasar Palmcorder IQ. That's right, I used a camcorder, which I borrowed from my father-in-law Marty, instead of a camera.. That's so I could produce pictures at no overhead cost. I already have a Hauppauge TV card attached to my computer. I simply attached the camcorder to the TV card, just like I would with a regular TV, and took still frames of the things I wanted to take a picture of.

The Washington D.C. photos where taken in 1994 with a regular 35mm camera. These pictures I had developed and saved onto a Kodak PhotoCD.

Images from my wedding were scanned in using my old HP Pavillion's built in EZ Photo scanner. Whereas, images of the Robotech and Star Blazer videos were scanned in using a flatbed Umax Astra 300P scanner.

The pages were written using a combination of FrontPage Express 2.0 and Windows Notepad. The Transformers pages were made using Thumbsplus 3.2''s contact sheet or Web Page Wizard function.

The Transformers List was made using Microsoft Access. I created a database which one day I hope to post on the net, which stores information such as all the values of my Transformers, how much I paid for them and where/when I got them.

The cool rainbow letter effects for all the clickable links were created using Waver 3.0 by TiN.

The animated gifs of my Transformers and the Inside of my home were made using Microsoft Gif Animator.

This site is posted on FortuneCity. The most generous free homepage provider. I would not have been able to post each individual Transformer without them increasing their storage limit to 20MB. When I started, it was only 6MB.

URL http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/falcon/125/index.html