Aloha,

Called a group named the good Samaritans today, basically a group of flyers and docs who go down to Baja Mexico and do medical work on the weekends. Personally I think it sounds great unless you crash and burn which could screw up anybody's day once you get down to it. Still, the chance to do some medicine, eat good food and maybe see some warm water for once? Yeah, let me at it baby.

So U.C. Davis saw fit to reject my application to the Physican Assistant program for this year. A small entering class and another 40% cut on top of that (Thank you Governor Gray Davis and the Senators and Assemblypeople of the State of California. This may just get me mad enough to run for State office someday so I can put my big mouth on the bloody line instead of just shooting it off. At any rate, the alternate (note the decided nonuse of the word, 'backup'!) plan is a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. I am working on the application now. If the university gets it together and thebudget is available there may be an accelerated Masters of Science in Nursing I could get through in one year.

Meanwhile I hate the Northern California winter and the incredibly wishy washy new age crap that gets espoused here. I did not understand when I was at UCLA. Now, thank god after years out of the country, I now know and understand. These people are so incredibly spoiled they have the time to indulge themselves in a frenzy of intellectural and spiritual masturbation. Hell, I am guilty of it too, look upon these pages those who doubt my words! My hope is I will actually DO something about it like I have in the past.

I still mourn leaving Hawaii. Being here for my dad as he lay dying was good, the right thing to do but I left Hawai'i so fast. I miss my home. For me it was home and I still feel no kinship with this place. My whole life has always been moving in some way but Hawai'i . . . despite its problems and dominance by the Haoles (people looking like me brah!) is still a wonderful, warm, deeply spiritual (not the Northern California fake spirituality crap), welcoming place (as long as you are sensitive that the white folks have no business being there and need to shut up and act like the guest they are!

It is late and I am about to lapse into incoherency once again. I long for the islands, not just Hawaii but Fiji, Tonga, Rarotonga and on. I remain in America because of an incredibly loving, beautiful woman and her incredibly beautiful and loving daughter.

I had something deemed hurtful, insensitive and offensive here so this last paragraph was edited for content.

Malama pono, a hui hou. Moce mada, dua na siqa.

Tevita, Kawika, David