Please submit your brief, adequate, honest, friendly details. The Editor will edit into one paragraph to list in:- Fresh mixed o'seas penfriends ("new books") then Penfriend Tourist Industry-Sorted List ("library shelf with Flag-Category-Keywords on book-spines!") [Instructions: Leave "Optional" items blank, unless important to you. Items with * Black-Bold-Text are important to editor! When satisfied, click button, "Press ONCE to Submit Your Details to Editor".]
Optional: Name Related industry or process or activity or item [ It must relate to the industry (column 1) or goods/services (column 2) you chose above. Or you can mention item elsewhere below ]
Optional: Name an especial aspect or sub-category of your Focus Subject
Optional: Name your viewpoint to your Focus Subject, eg, envoronmentalist / manufacturer / R&D / marketing / owner-manager / employee-worker Optional: Choose your relationship to your Focus Subject: v-Retailer: I sell Goods; therefore I know how they were produced, how they should be used, stored, maintained, repaired, insured. v-End User: I buy Goods; therefore I appreciate how they serve my needs and life-style, how I can use them creatively and efficiently. v-Home Producer: I like to make or repair my own for domestic use or barter. I enjoy the skill and processes of do-it-yourself or make-do-and-mend. The empowerment of thrift and self-reliance. v-Peasant: City-slickers try to sell me "products" my family doesn't need. Feminism is a capitalist-market conspiracy to de-skill women and turn them into cash-dependent casual wage-slaves, prostitutes or domestic servants. v-Service Provider: I sell Personal Services; therefore I know how they are performed to professional standards and I'm proud of my skill. v-Client: I buy Personal Services; therefore I appreciate how they serve my needs and life-style, how I can use them creatively and efficiently. v-Home Duties: I like to do services for my family or friends or in exchange. The dignity of thrift, self-reliance, team-work and love.
Optional: What Work, Learning or Life Experience is the Source of your knowledge of your Focus Industry? eg, "I work in hotel.." / "...is my family's business" / "I read..." / "I am a student of..." / "I design..." / "I grow..."
* [One or Both of the next two fields must be filled in] Optional: Your Postal Address for snail-mail penfriends [ If Australia-Resident, see *Footnote.]
And / Or: email / Personal Web Page and/or phone
Optional: date/place of birth |Leave blank | born date of birth or approx. year or decade and/or place of birth: eg, 1983/ 1980's/Berlin
Optional: life-status eg, mother of 3 boys, widower
Optional: Self-Identity/Characteristics word(s)[not meat-market!] eg, adventure-traveler, creative-writer
Optional: Languages if any other than English in order of preference, eg, indonesian-english-mandarin
* Other Interests and Hobbies in order of importance, eg, history novels, 1700's, farnaculing
Optional: LifePhilosophy |Leave blank | My Ideology/Politics | My Religion | My Fave | eg, Moderation / Pluralist-Democracy | Protestant | Madonna
Optional: Useful or Inspiring |Leave blank |Book | URL | Hero | Life&Works of | No sales, porno or hate please | Character of fame or fiction eg, Superman | Chaplin, Charlie / Clift, Charmian
Optional: My Desire |Leave blank | I wish | I want | My ambition | My aim | My purpose | eg, to network worldwide-Australians esp-expatriates in UK
Optional: Words |Leave blank | Remark | Footnote | Message to Readers | eg, "Let's work for world peace"
Optional: Suggested Ad-Class end-tag of your info. Listed by priority of this project. Decided by Editor. }=t: TravelMinded; culture of place; culture of language/ethnicity; biography; history; tourist/backpacker/expat-experience }=s: Industry; Job-Skill; Profession; Study of..; SeriousSubject }=v: Issues&Opinion (Conventional or eccentric views welcome, if you respect the opinions of others. Humor appreciated) }=p: pals; non-specific friendship (Don't say "just a housewife", "student" without stating subject or "worker" without industry) }=n: single women boldly seeking marriage-minded men or seeking singles of either gender for mutual legal "relationship" }=m: single men boldly seeking marriage-minded women or seeking singles of either gender for mutual legal "relationship" }=k: twee schoolkids who seek schoolkids exclusively (We are not a supervised after-school club; try Korean embassy?) }=x: Info&Referral; swap items; eXchange }=c: commercial; MO; bulk collectors (I avoid and don't expect me to carry ads with prices) }=b: banished: chain letters; scams; sexploitation; reported cheats; hostile nutters; unclear addresses: WastePaperBasket
Optional: Off-Record Comment / Suggestion for Editor / Request previous listing to be altered or removed
* Go to Top of Form * Footnote: If resident of Australia with no E-Address, you should submit by traditional-mail with a Stamped-Self-Addressed-Envelope for confirmation. O'seas participants may, as alternative to using this form, submit details by aerogramme. To: Editor PTSSL, Box 556 Pascoe Vale, AU-Vic- 3044 Australia. [ You will NOT need all "prompts"; I, the editor, like brief but interesting individuals. Minimum: Major FOCUS SUBJECT + Name/"PenName" + Address/email + Other-Interests... Footnote/Remark.] Alternative: Send by email: Subject: MyTextForEditorPTSSL bhelem=[Shift2]=melbpc.org.au