He came down with a 100° to 101° fever yesterday afternoon; hence, he is staying home with Da Da this morning while Mui Mui goes to school. He is watching the DVD "Cars" now .
Unfortunately, the DVD is due to go back to Blockbuster by Saturday.
Wardrobe sponsored by DLau 姑姑Praise The Almighty Lord for watching over the LauLau Family. Another fruitful and warm Christmas to celebrate the birth of our Savior! Once again, we have more blessings and well wishes from everyone that we anticipated. May the Good Lord continues to bless your family and you as He Blesses Us.
Excerpt from our building's newsletter, Volume 16, Number 5, December 2006.
By Deborah Rosenblum, Managing Director, Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo, Architects
Ala Wai Plaza had its first residents in the early 70s. Since that time, the strong geometric forms, clean line of materials, and night time light-washed elevator cores have made AWP an iconic piece of Honolulu high-rise architecture.
The architectural firm of record was DMJM; however, our building bears some remarkable resemblance to the work of I.M. Pei, who, interestingly enough, was "in town" during the same period for the design and construction of the East-West Cetner and Kennedy Theater at UH.
Unusual design details seen at AWP, such as floor-to-ceiling windows and a deep concrete grid to protect against glare and direct sun, are design strategies seen in other Pei designs of the 60s, like MIT.
Pei is world renowned for his elegant proportioning of large scale buildings, such as the East Wing of the National Gallery or the Bank of Chinal, Hong Kong.
We'll never get a confirmation that I.M. Pei had a hand in the design of the Ala Wai Plaza, but the similarites are still striking, and we should all be proud of having such an attractive place to call home!
Annie took us to this 24-hours Yakiniku place, but unfortunately we weren't able to go out with them this time. They really know how to order good Korean stuffs. We tried some self-BBQ (actually, the waitress did most of it for us) or Yakiniku and other Korean dishes. I really liked the soft tofu or 水豆腐 though.
We stopped by the Kahuku Original Giovanni Shrimp truck after visiting Dole Plantation. Unfortunately, they have already ran out of the spicy shrimps. Peter bought us the lemon butter shrimp scampi (w/o rice) and good thing it did come with two small containers of hot sauces. It was a good stop!
Not a banana split, it's pineapple! Strawberry and chocolate syrups on top with chunks of fresh pineapples on the bottom.
Ah-Fe 姑姑, Peter 姑丈 and Jocelyn swim in a funny outta-state manner, how strange? They no know local Hawaiian style...
Local -style swimming, according to Solar. Look, the okole is almost fully submerged into da, uh, real sea water, of course.
We ate with Jody and Cheryl's families earlier at the Happy Days Chinese Restaurant. It was raining real hard around 8pm when I darted out in heavy rain to feed the parking meters. Must have dropped the camera with the pouch in the parking lot. I pray to God to let me find those videos of Jocelyn playing with the cousins.
Andrew just finished training to be an Air Force airman over in Houston during the summer months. Can't believe how much he has grown throughout the years. One of these days, I am hoping to be able to visit his "office" at the base to see and touch the equipment that he's responsible for. 
The chin-up bar should around twice her height or more. Anyway, that did not instill any sense of fear into her mind.
After a full week of meditation and intense training, she's finally able to come down on her feet.
Solar had watched and learned from Mui Mui last weekend. This week he was able to conquer the apex of the funky u-shaped ladder, finally. Look how he navigate gingerly the last few steps.
Good job, Boy Boy!
See how the top bar on the ladder is just about her own height. We have a brave one here...
Don't miss the last 8 seconds and be sure to turn up the speakers to listen to the grunts!
She is ready. Her favorite is probably the slide. For the last month or so, she had a taste of the slides perhaps once or twice a week in the morning while Boy Boy was being dropped off. This morning, Christine had all-you-can-play actions on the slide
Listening intensely to his supervisor...
Austin really has become a little man now
Clean Your Room please...
Happy Birthday to Austin!
Last week was a tough one for all of us. Christine was the first one who first came down with a 104º fever two Saturday mornings ago. She was burning up bad but was otherwise very happy, albeit a bit sweaty. At around 10:30am on the following Wednesday, Ms. Faith from Alexander's school called da da on the phone to inform him that Boy Boy was carrying a very high fever. Da Da dropped everything at the office and sprinted straight towards the school. Alexander was indeed very warm and quite lethargic. Ma Ma stayed home to look after Alexander on the following Thursday and again on Friday since it was Admission Day in Hawaii, meaning there was no school. As the weekend approaches, Ma Ma got sick first and then Da Da came down with high fevers and body aches all over his body on Friday. Saturday, or yesterday, was an unusual stay-home weekend day for the entire clan.
On the bright side, when we drove out to get some MacDonald's Happy Meals for Solar and his sister, they were so good and held each other's hands like we've always wanted them to. In a couple of weeks, mui mui will begin pre-school too and so it would be good to instill a sense of "looking after each othter" into both of them.
Spaceship fabrication by none other than Peter FODY (father-of -da-year) Leung. Of course, Mabel has already been stressed out and probably passing out somewhere in the background. 
Hinson doing test-flights. All systems GO!
Click on the photo below and zoom in to check out the collage. 
Some full-length shots of the vertical hover module.
