Pono's Paradise

Beautiful Heatherlyn!

Hilo Rain

Hilo Rain Rain..........cleansing us Lingering in our memories Of days gone by You and I Together In the rain...

Swedish girl Mikaela!

"Goong Goong"

My goong goong (Cantonese for "grandfather") had been such a tall, strong man with a good, good heart. I remember...

You evah tot..........

So what.....remembah me o' what?

The sun spreads its warmth across her face . . . . . .

We lived on the slopes of Mauna Kea. It was a part of our lives, towering over us in sunlight and darkness, in sushine and rain. As a kid I tried climbing to its summit with my older brother and a friend. (There were no roads to the summit, then). The climb took all day and into the evening. The climb on the top third of the mountain gave all of us altitude sickness. We would be puking all over the place and feeling nauseous the whole time. Gasping for breath in the oxygen poor air, we would stumble forward for five days, then fall down and rest before getting up and repeating the sequence of gasping, walking and falling down every few feet. Amazingly, we did get to the upper reaches of the mountain! As we made our way down the mountain it had already turned dark and cold. When we got to the car, a '55 Chevy we had borrowed from a family friend, the locks had already frozen over. So we got a rock, smashed through one of its side glass vents, reached in a pulled up on the door handle thus opening the door. So we started to set off down the unpaved, dirt road in the direction of the Saddle Road. However, no sooner than we had set off........we ran into a ditch from which we could not extricate ourselves. I was resigned to spending a cold, cold night in the car. However, my brother saw some moving lights in the distance. We started yelling toward those moving lights. Lo and behold, it was my parents with some family friends who had come to search for us. What a relief it was to sit in the sheep stantion cabin where they had set up a command center and drink hot coffee and warm my feet by the fire. I have never attempted to climb Mauna Kea again. But I will never stop admiring her for her majesty. By the way, I guess you guys nehvah go see my websites yet, no? You guys stay some miss out, man! Fo' real......try go at least look: www.girlsofhawaii.com And if you get time, try go look my uddah one: www.rolandsretreat.homestead.com I hope guys stay go bookmahk these websites onto your favorites list! Ok......'nough.......pau.

Well, i gotta admit stay Sunday.....

Well, I gotta admit stay Sunday and I no mo' notting fo' do. All my friends stay married, wit' an...

Saw a story last night.....

Saw a story last night on the "Prime Time Thursday With Diane Sawyer" television program about Diane Sawyer's remembrance about...

Whew!

Whew! Finally got back in here after Ryan figured out how to do it........thought I was locked out forever as...

Hi there!

"Hi there!" My late dad was the kindest guy I have ever knew. He always greeted people with a "Hi...

some kine..........

I remember my uncle Kong Yee, who grew up on a Big Island and in China........he returned to Big Island...

BANGKYUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!

Ay, howzit?! So what, happy life? No worry.........bum-bye pau........garans ballbearings! I grew up in the middle of a bamboo forest....