For my family and friends:
These pics include pics from Las Vegas, pics of the Hawaiian food that my mother brought to me in Las Vegas, and a FEW pics that I took at the Kamehameha Schools All Alumni Reunion in Las Vegas which came out okay. I have censored some pics and have not included them here since I know some people who are non-Hawaiian by nationality and/or non-Hawaiian/oiwi by ethnicity who stalk me look here which is kinda creepy and lame.Anyway onto the pics that I took... at least some of them....Pics from Las Vegas:Welcome to Las Vegas:
Hawaiian food that my mother brought to me in Las Vegas which include dried aku, poke, raw crab, and poi yummmm:Mixed poi courtesy of my mother:
Some pictures that I took at the Kamehameha Schools All Alumni Reunion in Las Vegas:General overview though I took some crappy pics with my new digital camera:
Recap of my assessment of the Kamehameha Schools' All Alumni Reunion:I have so many good things to say but I will just post a few highlights:1. I saw two of my classmates, Keith Fukuda KS '85 and Eric Apaka '85. Keith and I sat at the same table. We were discussing our Myspace and they told me their address. They both laughed when I told them that mine isI LOVE AKU PALU LOLKeith didn't recognize me at all though... which can be good or bad. Nowadays I have FAKE long darkish blonde hair though so that MAY be why LMAO2. Dr. Michael Chun came up to my husband and I and I was thinking, "Oh god please do not walk up to me please?!??!!" LOL I get nervous around HUMBLE people like him but I did end up telling him that he is related to my grandmother and he knew he was through his wife who is a Mossman. I cannot rave enough about him but talking to him made me nervous. Why? Because he INSPIRES Hawaiian children and I am in awe of people who CARE so I get NERVOUS LOL He is warm and kind and an epitome of what I think Hawaiians should be to their own cousins since all Hawaiians are cousins through Wakea, Papa, and Haloa but then what do I know? LOL He was so warm and kind though which I knew him to be. (His wife is a Mossman and my paternal grandmother, Kaimuki Grandma, is related to the Mossmans with Maui roots but sometimes I no like tell people because some Mossmans embarrass me with their arrogance. Sorry.. but some embarrass me. I can't help it.)3. During dinner they had a DVD presentation. Okay I have NO problem with listening but the DVD presentation made me cry so imagine me eating a nice dinner with my eyes swelling with tears.4. CEO Dee Jay Mailer made some incredible points. I was in awe when she mentioned that we can NEVER forget the children out there who are still not being helped. I thought to myself, "Cool!!!!" I can see why she gets high marks from many people because so-called leadership comes from the "top"... down and if she thinks this way then that is so cool. I am also very observant. She dressed "down"... not "above" others. Instead it was Hawaiian casual which I noticed to be a great sign. I am not naive to believe that everyone who has hundreds and/or thousands of lives of Hawaiians IN THEIR HANDS is kind though I am VERY observant and she never ceases to impress me. IMO though... there are still MANY Hawaiian children out there who NEED help. I am not naive about that.5. At the end we sang our school song. There were about 500 people in attendance. Imagine that amount of people in a huge circle with one thing in common in that all of us are children of Pauahi and share that bond. Singing the school song while watching and listening OF COURSE made me cry. Again LOLOf course it dawned on me that only people who have money attended. I HAD to show up though out of respect for my kupuna and for everyone who was kind and compassionate to me when I was super poor.I only attended out of respect for my kupuna both oiwi and non-oiwi who took care of me, fed me, and helped to raise me. If it wasn't for them then I would NOT have attended... but I did. I HAD to and I realize that some people just do NOT understand that.Of course during dinner the DVD presentation did NOT help. All it did was make my cry WHILE I was eating *LOL* To be fair though... I STRUGGLED even though some people do not or REFUSE to accept it or see it in my FACE so watching and listening to certain things hit me hard. Personally it was REFRESHING that the CEO and headmaster reiterated the importance of never forgetting that there are STILL less fortunate Hawaiians out there because far too often some Haves Hawaiians mistakenly think that their paradigm is other Hawaiians' paradigm. Of course some people mistakenly think that "Kamehameha Schools' graduate" and "arrogant" are mutually exclusive. They're not. It's on a case by case basis but as usual it's always the few PILAU who ruin it for the rest of us whether it be for Kamehameha Schools' itself or the Republican party to which I belong... the few PILAU ALWAYS ruin it for the rest of us. Arrogance REPULSES me but as usual it's always the ARROGANT people who ruin it for the rest of us and that's partly why I DON'T like to attend social functions of any kine. That is... I don't like to be bothered... with arrogance LOLHowever when it comes to my kupuna I WILL and DO set my dislike of arrogance aside... even though it is EXTREMELY difficult for me to do so *LOL* It's actually very torturous for me. It's excruciatingly painful but then I stop myself from focusing on the pilau and focus instead of why I am there. (I am there out of respect for my kupuna who cared about me and who cared for me.) Thinking about that reduces the pain a little.Anyway there are more pics at my Spyspace which is now locked so now I can post more pics so that non-oiwi stalkers can't see or read what I write *LOL* Of course in my experience most of the non-oiwi whom I know are cool but there are a few non-oiwi who are lame and stalkerish. It never fails but most of the non-oiwi whom I personally know are cool... like my husband (he Haole) and my cop friend who is a top cop and only works murders (he Haole.) Some people though... dey so rude LMAOLast but not least this is the latest pic taken of me by my husband. However I censored out my face since some people are SO rude and lack manners LMAO
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