IMR: Extras: GuestbookThanks to Dreambook, you can read the reflections of those that have come before, and share your own thoughts too.
Name: Aunty Mapuana From: Helendale CA E-mail: auntymapuana@yahoo.com Homepage: http://www.freewebs.com/auntymapuana/melekalikimaka.htm MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I am too lazy to send real Christmas cards! For a holiday greeting from the web's favorite Aunty, please go to the following web address!!!
http://www.freewebs.com/auntymapuana/melekalikimaka.htmFriday, December 10th 2004 - 11:12:01 AM
Name: steven From: london E-mail: coxysf@aol.com Homepage: http://publish.hometown.aol.co.uk/_cqr/qp/qp.adp/done/coxysf/myhomepage/playstation.html?cc=uk im a great fan of hawaiian stuff, u no, songs and things, i love the website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wednesday, March 10th 2004 - 12:33:18 PM
Name: Lilo From: Japan,Nagoya E-mail: honohonoyuki@yahoo.co.jp Homepage: http:// Hi Your site very wonderful! English is able to have fun to me without being possible. I like Hawaii very much. I become want to go to Hawaii when your photograph is observed.
Is the girl who is wearing the clothes your daughter? She is very pretty. As for I, there are a 5 year-old daughter and 3 year-old son. Even our house decorated "hina-ningyo" I listen to the song of Lilo with my child and I saw even the video even the train of Japan. I enjoyed it!!
This year we are not going to go to Hawaii. I think that I want to stay for 1month in July, next year. I want to try HULA.
see you.Wednesday, May 14th 2003 - 08:44:02 PM
Name: Steve From: Lahaina/HI E-mail: hawaii@nectar-dude.com Homepage: http://photos.nectar-dude.com Great site! - I have added it to my site at www.nectar-dude.com - Aloha Tuesday, April 1st 2003 - 03:09:03 PM
Name: tom-A-hawk From: minneapolis, mn E-mail: scrunge@hotmail.com Homepage: http://groups.msn.com/scrunge Hey Ryan! Just found your site thru the weekly's blog section - awesome work, man! What i'm wondering is: didn't we work together on a (very) temp job at the colony surf hotel back in november '97?
Hey man - dug up the card of the guy I worked with - was not you, but another Ryan, Ryan Look, who was working with shaka.net. Still like your site!Saturday, January 11th 2003 - 12:13:51 AM
Name: Alice Kim From: Honolulu, Hawaii E-mail: alicekim53@hotmail.com Homepage: I shouldnt say... Hey! You don't know me personally, but I did knew your mother in the 2 out of the 3 years I was in the Kaimuki High school band. Please tell you mother I said "Hi".
I am presently a Freshman at UH and I am still undecided on my major. I read about your reflections about being in the Kaleo newspaper, and I thought it was really cool that you were editor in chief for two years!
I am only a contributing writer and I have just turned in my second news story today. I am not sure if I am going to be in the Kaleo for long because I may transfer to another college or just quit. However, I enjoyed writing the two articles, and being in a newspaper is pretty much an internship, since I am still deciding if I should persue writing.
You wrote about your grades slipping because you were so preoccupied being in the newspaper, and that is something I can accept in high school, but not in college. I have many other ambitions also (e.g. double majoring, actually making friends). So your entries kind of made me think to myself.
I am very thankful for you mother for supporting me in my band endeavors during my freshman and sophomore year. Unfortunately, Mr. Keith Higaki transfered to Kalani and I got fed up with band so I quit before my Senior year.
If she were to talk to me today, she would notice that my attitude changed a lot after Higaki left. Some saw it as a good thing and others saw it as bad.
Oh my goodness I am wasting precious space in your "dream book". I wanted to type more but I might start rambling (because I tend to do that). If you want me to write more, you can email me with the addy provided above.
Anyways you have a great webpage and I hope you will have a happy day!
Very Sincerely,
Alice KimSaturday, October 26th 2002 - 01:23:23 AM
Name: "aunt meg"...gah, i can't believe i'm still called that on the isleties list From: HI E-mail: mtpamintuan@hotmail.com Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/linghingmargarita hi ryan --
just wanted to drop you a line -- i hope you and the family are doing well. am back in honolulu (been here since march) -- and i think i saw you several times downtown (was jogging and too dazed to do anything but run!). take care now -- and will there be an isleties picnic? (ei, how come the hawaii stories people have all the fun?)
take care -- MARGARITASaturday, September 7th 2002 - 02:53:08 PM
Name: Catherine Pimentel Mitsunaga From: San Bruno, CA E-mail: batman@lava.net Homepage: Currently MIA Hi Ryan!
Sorry to say it's been so long, got in touch with you & Nate sometime last year before I left LavaNet. Just wanted to say congratulations to you & Jen on your new baby boy and God Bless - the four of you now! Took a while, but Danny & I are almost settled in to foggy California though we miss Hawaii and everything in it *badly*! Your journal brings back fond memories of home.. thanks very much & take care!Friday, August 30th 2002 - 10:05:01 AM
Name: Pam From: Philadelphia E-mail: miabogard@hotmail.com Homepage: http://miabogard.diaryland.com Hey, thanks for visiting, and replying to my shameless plug :eek:! Yeah, firsts looks like it's a prommising project, and I think it'll be lots of fun. If you want I'll do you on firsts too, even if you aren't diaryland hosted. Rules were meant to be broken! Mwahahaha! Friday, July 19th 2002 - 01:41:37 PM
Name: jeff From: Honolulu, Hawaii E-mail: kaneblues@yahoo.com Homepage: http://kaneblues.blogspot.com/ Ryan, you have a great site. Clean, fresh, thought-provoking, and very well written. I also enjoy the island link you have created.
PS...mahalo for the recent advice you gave in solving my journal problem. AlohaFriday, March 15th 2002 - 11:11:09 PM
Name: Douglas Kiang From: Boston, MA E-mail: dkiang@cognistar.com Homepage: http://www.kiang.net What a wonderful Web site. Very cleanly designed, and all of the little touches (navigation, random picture changes) add so much to the user experience. A great job, and a site I will definitely return to.
--Douglas Kiang.Friday, February 15th 2002 - 11:44:02 AM
Name: Lisa From: New York, NY E-mail: Lisa_pm1@hotmail.com Homepage: http://www.section12.com/users/lisa_p/ You have a very nice site. I particularly enjoyed viewing your photographs, and will certainly return to look for updates.
Keep up the good work!
Hugs,
LisaFriday, February 1st 2002 - 08:23:21 AM
Name: Eli Moosehead E-mail: elioisemoosehead@REMOVEhotmail.com Homepage: http://diary_critic.blogspot.com I like you're site, it's very pretty. Come check mine out! Wednesday, December 5th 2001 - 04:00:35 PM
Name: ladybug From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada E-mail: ladybug@disenchanted.org Homepage: http://ladybug.notsweet.net Pretty nice website, very simple and clean. Uncluttered.
Anyways, about being 27 - "almost 30". Well, I AM 30, and I would switch it for anything else. Each year gets better. So far.
Happy belated bday!Monday, November 12th 2001 - 06:48:24 PM
Name: Erika E-mail: eamb@lycos.com Homepage: http://erika.port5.com/diary/ Where's YOUR auto-biography, Ryan? Monday, November 5th 2001 - 08:35:38 AM
Name: Thomas Jelf From: Pahoa, Hawaii E-mail: tjelf@hotmail.com Homepage: http:// Very nice. Easy reading, interesting. Aloha! Saturday, August 11th 2001 - 12:51:15 AM
Name: Laurie Brooke From: Tampa, FL E-mail: femmedecoeur@hotmail.com Homepage: http:// I love being able to check out my friend's hubby & daughter online! I have Jennifer's journal bookmarked as well as yours. Thursday, April 26th 2001 - 04:07:47 PM
Name: Michael E-mail: fictionastruth@hotmail.com Homepage: http://www.bigdog.atfreeweb.com Loved your site! Very interesting and intriguing. Keep writing and dreaming. From the ashes of your nightmares, arises the Dream Keeper, the master of dreams. Friday, March 23rd 2001 - 03:58:06 AM
Name: Marie Rhodes From: Tauranga NZ E-mail: Rhodehouse@xtra.co.nz Homepage: http:// Fairly obvious that you are a perfectionist, congradulations on achieving it with your homepage. Tuesday, May 30th 2000 - 10:23:22 PM
Name: mitchell k. dwyer From: Honolulu, Hi E-mail: mdwyer@hba.k12.hi.us Homepage: http:// They closed the Cinerama Sunday night.
It was the biggest and best of the local movie houses, and thanks to the recent closings of the Marina, Kuhio, and Kapiolani theaters, it was one of the last.
When I was in high school, not so long ago, the Cinerama was THE theater. My Adorable Learners don't remember a time when there was no such thing as a Mall Theater, but I do, and when a big movie came to town, it was sure to open at one of the Waikiki Theaters or at the Cinerama. Today, a big movie opens on twenty-five screens of various sizes at various locations, but in the 70s and 80s, it was Waikiki or the Cinerama.
_Star Wars_ played at the Cinerama for a whole freakin' year! I remember standing in line for _Return of the Jedi_, with my friend Tien Enga (wonder where HE is nowadays), on opening day. My second solo date with the Beautiful Woman Who May Not Love Me Anymore was during my senior year, the day after Thanksgiving, at the Cinerama: _Star Trek IV_.
So the Star-Bulletin ran a small blurb about the imminent closing of the Cinerama just five days before. Nothing else was said, so whenever I mentioned it to my friends, they had no idea what I was talking about.
I convinced Penny, Reid, and Larrilyn to go with me to the Last Show (_The Insider_ at 10:00PM). We took pictures, posing at the box office, in front of the "Now Playing" poster, in line at the concession, even standing atop the ramp that leads to the bottom of the movie screen. We weren't the only ones with cameras. One guy even had a camcorder, with which he filmed the theater manager's pre-film welcome: "Welcome, everyone, to the last show at the Cinerama."
It was a good flick. There were fifty people in the theater, tops. As the credits rolled, nobody stood to beat the rush to the parking lot. The house lights went up. There was a nearly tangible, collective sigh. Some people clapped.
In the lobby, there was a huge cake, decorated with "Aloha Cinerama Theater." We were invited to have some, but I was too full of Diet Coke and frozen Junior Mints. Some of the theater's employees began to lay out a nice little potluck.
We stood out on the sidewalk, pausing at the now-empty "Now Playing" window.
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When I was really young, I had this favorite blanket. My mom could never get me to go anywhere without it, and it was dirty and ratty and quite an embarrassment, I'm sure. I even had a name for the blanket, but I can't remember what my mom says it was (something horrid, like "Fufu").
One day, when I wasn't looking, she just hid the thing. I looked around for it and finally asked my mom where Fufu was, and she said she didn't know. My mom says I kinda sat there for a few minutes, quietly, then got up and did something else.
That was the end of the relationship.
With the blanket, silly. Not with my mom.
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Five years ago, they finally built a new building for the Waipahu Public Library. It was huge, and air-conditioned, and rather state-of-the-art.
But I'd grown up in the small, hot, noisy building on Farrington Highway. Most of the books that set me on the path to eventually being an English teacher were borrowed from that library. Some, I'd borrowed over and over.
I'd spent almost every Saturday for most of my latter years of elementary school in that library.
So when they shut the doors for the last time, you-know-who was the last patron out the door. I spent the last thirty minutes just sitting in the juvenile fiction section, remembering the friends I'd made in that very space: Vicky Austin, The Black Stallion, Henry Huggins, Meg O'Keefe, Proginoskes (whose name I'd adopted as my computer handle in the glory days of Hawaii BBSes), and Danny Dunn. It sounds stupid, I know,but these fictional characters had as much to do with my own character development as my parents, teachers, and ministers.
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This is how we grow up, you know: We don't make conscious decisions to leave childish things behind and to embrace more grown-up pursuits. No, the childhish things are taken from us, and sometimes we shrug and move on, and sometimes we linger and cry, and as we get used to having our blankets and libraries taken from us, we simply sigh, and celebrate the passing of another childhood icon, stopping for final pictures and pieces of cake.Friday, December 3rd 1999 - 02:32:55 AM
Name: Tutu Sue From: Today? Kakaako! E-mail: suereel@pobox.com Homepage: http://film-hawaii.com/ReelServices/ Cyber-Auntie-Tutu-Sue is waiting impatiently for Katie's first birthday photos!!! Gotta email 'em to my mo`opuna; keep the arranged marriage in high gear...li'dat! Tuesday, February 9th 1999 - 01:19:35 PM
Name: Michael From: Winchester, NH E-mail: amodeum@aol.com Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~Dubruiel/gravenimagejournal.html Great page! Friday, January 29th 1999 - 07:38:28 AM
Name: Lani Teshima From: Bay Area, CA E-mail: lani@lava.net Homepage: http://www.lava.net/~lani Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. I keep telling you I want to hire you to help me redesign my Travelite FAQ web site. When are you ever going to find the time? Tuesday, December 29th 1998 - 11:29:34 AM
Name: Sparks From: Honolulu, Hawaii E-mail: peter@icesys.com Homepage: http:// Wow, cool. I'm thinking about putting my journal online too and just wanted to see if there was someone from Hawaii that was actually doing this. Great job. Monday, December 21st 1998 - 02:37:44 PM
Name: jezebel From: honolulu E-mail: jvtiphareth@geocities.com Homepage: http://www.angelfire.com/hi/jvt6 in response to your query: i'm livin' on oahu, chinatown, near pier 13. florida was a distant past life. my recent past life was seattle. but i'm here to stay. thanks for signing my book, you are the first believe it or not. my site is still a baby, in the suckling stage. have faith, it will get better. Tuesday, September 22nd 1998 - 05:53:35 AM
Name: Natahniel Osborne From: Portland, OR (GhostTown, USA) E-mail: lusus@zang.com Homepage: http://www.viking-invasions.com/~lusus On the subject of Places, specifically Diamond Head:
On the southern slopes of Diamond Head, there's a place that, while many know about it, few seem to care.
It's a memorial. No, not the one to Amelia Earhart, this one is actually off the side of a side road, the name lost to the mists of time. You have to hike up the side a little, ignoring the big Board of Water Supply signs that warn No Trespassing. A large open pit rests to the right, an old resevoir now home to various transientia, and to the left...
To the left is a paved area, with a rock mound and a plaque that reminds us that George Campbell Munroe was a pioneer in Hawai`ian botany. The trail to it is disused (since most of us have the brains to pay attention to the No Trespassing signs). No one really goes there to remember George anymore except Tim and me.
Is there anything as sad as a forgotten memorial? Send me mail and I'll give as specific directions as I can if you want to go and tell George wassup.Saturday, August 1st 1998 - 05:15:00 PM
Name: pam From: Honolulu, HI E-mail: pam@pixi.com Homepage: http://www.pixi.com/~pam I thought being an online journalist, my life was semi-pathetic, but now that I see others who can't seem to shut up about their lives, I don't feel as lame. Nice site--lots of stuff to entertain yourself with. bye...pam Wednesday, June 24th 1998 - 08:36:00 PM
Name: Bob Conlan From: Honolulu,HI E-mail: conlan@hawaii.edu Homepage: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~conlan Congratulations on making Yahoo! Can you enjoy the attention? Sunday, June 14th 1998 - 05:49:00 PM
Name: Dick Walker From: Kanagawa, Japan E-mail: walker@spf.or.jp Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/3256 Ryan, I tell ya, you never cease to amaze, man. From the foggy nights of beery karaoke and sweaty afternoons in Ka Leo, you've risen to the occasion. I read with rabid interest your observations on the life and times. Congrats on the new family action you got going over there. Beerily, Rich "where's my cocktail?" Walker Wednesday, April 22nd 1998 - 09:22:00 PM
Name: Diane From: Kihei, HI E-mail: faerie@aloha.net Homepage: http://www.ohana.com/~faerie Hey!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Wednesday, April 1st 1998 - 04:56:00 PM
Name: mary brunson From: kalihi, hawaii E-mail: brunsonm@hawaii.edu Homepage: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~brunsonm Sigh. Heavy sigh. Nice life you got there. Wish I had one. Anyways, ha! You've been reading my journal, as I have been reading yours. actually I stared reading yours before you could ever read mine, since you had one up first. By the way, I still prefer penii as the plural of penis. Just was peeking at your scraps. Wow, those last two sentences could look really bad together if someone didn't know what I was referring to. bye now. Monday, March 30th 1998 - 03:37:00 AM
Name: William Matsuda From: Honolulu, HI E-mail: matsudaw@hawaii.edu As you can see, I do read your journal. But then again, you have known that for some time now. Gotta go watch some chameleons now. Saturday, March 21st 1998 - 12:29:00 AM
Name: he who walks the line between the shadow and light From: some crappy town in California E-mail: delau@geocities.com Homepage: http://www.sb.net/bleeb Ha ha, I do so love being eccentric. Did I spell that right? Well, hmm... I'm bitter now. Oh well. Hey... um thanx for sribbling in mine (lousy six words...). Smile, happy, happy, joy, joy. Yeah right. Ok, well... don't take any wooden pickles. Thursday, March 19th 1998 - 02:06:00 AM
Name: Christy From: Honolulu, HI! E-mail: christyw@hawaii.edu Homepage: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~christyw/ Hi Ryan! Cool, an index of all island-related Journal-Type Things. Maybe I'll just retire my own and devote all my "Free" time to reading and giggling or sobbing over everyone else's misadventures. It seems so much easier than explaining the lack of context of my own J-T T. To my three or so readers. *digress* Wednesday, March 18th 1998 - 07:20:00 PM
Name: Nemesis Vex From: Austin, Texas E-mail: nemesisv@io.com Homepage: http://www.io.com/~nemesisv/ When I'm bad, I'm redundant. Wednesday, March 18th 1998 - 05:41:00 PM
Name: Mrs. Ozawa From: Lovenest, HI hi, Honey! See, I do read your journal! Wednesday, March 18th 1998 - 05:16:00 PM < EXTRAS INDEX >
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