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Celebrating Evelyn's Birthday

At Sansei, our favorite Japanese Restaurant and probably the best in Maui, for Evelyn's birthday. With our best friends - Ron and Teri Update from our Missionary Family

We just wanted to share Don and Lynnette's (our kids) fund-raising video for their upcoming year-long mission call in the Philippines. They do make us smile with pride and we thank God for blessing them with the heart of an apostle. We also think they are absolutely crazy (and funny) but it's all for God's glory.

Please join us in our prayers that God will continue to keep their desire to serve him and share the gospel at the Orphanage that they will be working at starting this coming June. 
Sunday Chuckles 
Hiking Waihe'e Ridge

If you live in Maui or vacationing here and love to hike, I highly recommend this trail 
Smile, There's A Rainbow Out There

At our Bible Study group tonight we concluded the story of Noah with a brief dialogue about rainbows, specially so because in Hawaii we see them many times that it's so easy to take them for granted.

When you're looking at a rainbow, in that same moment, God is looking at it too. So next time you see one, smile and whisper a prayer from the heart. He knows that you're also thinking about him as he is thinking about you.

17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.” (Genesis 9:12-17 NIV) From our balcony taken a few years ago. Every now and then God blesses us with his spectacular rainbow display. 
Fountain Of Youth?

I think it's the smelly sweat in my running shoes! Evelyn and I started running since 1987 and still run today with 3 Honolulu Marathons behind us. I was doing some "math" on our running time and I was amazed at the numbers. We usually run at least 1,000 miles a year which means that we have ran over 23,000 miles from 1987-2010!

This is my 18 month old running shoes. I usually replace it every year so this one is overdue for replacement and I ordered one today for $129 (Brooks Beast) I remember the first time I purchased our first top-of-the-line running shoes, they were only $50! 
Bayan Ko Rendered By a Korean Group

I always cry when I hear this song. I guess I'm still 100% Filipino despite my dual American-Canadian citizenships. 
My Fake Rolex Is Still Working!

My fake Rolex is now 5 years old and it still works! In 2006 when I told a wealthy client that I was going home to the Philippines, he asked me to buy him two fake rolex watches. I asked him what for, knowing the he could well afford a real one or maybe two - one for him and one for his wife. He said one is for him and the other he is giving it to his employee who chauffeurs his rental Rolls Royce for weddings. He has three RR Silver Shadows that he rents out for weddings and special occasions.

So what the heck I bought one for myself too because they looked so authentic. It's even got the green back w/a serial number and the engraved Rolex logo on the bracelet! I can't remember how much but I'm sure they were no more than $100. When I came back to Maui I took mine to Ben Bridge Jewellers to show it to the manager (who is a friend of mine) and we compared it with the real ones - hard to tell the difference except that the real ones are heavier. He has been trying to sell me the real one for a discounted price of over $5,000.

I rarely wear mine nowadays so I keep it in it's self-winder case. (Yes, it also has a chronometer like the real Rolex! It's gotta be worn to keep it working). Four months ago I attended a bible study group and I was sitting next to another wealthy guy who was wearing a Rolex. I was wearing my favorite Timex Ironman watch and we got talking about expensive watches. I told him I have a fake Rolex at home because I couldn't afford a real one and guess what he said - his Rolex is also fake!!! Bwahahahaha!