"Uncle Robin going back home above"

Saturday,January 29, 2011

It was a sad day for us. My dear Uncle Robin passed away at the UCLA Hospital in Westwood, California. He was admitted last Saturday, January 22, 2011 due to the flu or most likely water in his lungs. He was taken to ICU as the doctors saw that he will need alot of medication to help him breathe with ease. They gave him the mask with oygen to breathe and hoping it would suffice. It did not, they needed to give him meds through his IV and use a Traech to get some air into his lungs. My aunt had to sign a paper saying they could do the procedure and sedate him heavily so the meds would kick in. It helped for a few days and we had hopes and thought all was well.

On Saturday 1-29-11, we get a call from his daughter saying that he passed away. The doctors could not resusitate him after attempting 7 times and my aunt finally told them, its OK; he's in a better place. They told her he was trying they could see it; he tried to hold on for as long as he could, but his body was tired and couldn't take it. The doctors took out the tubes and cleaned him up, then told our family that we could all go in and see him.

When i went in to see him, he looked at peace, calm and sleeping on the bed like a big old soft giant like he was. He loved my lil sister very much as she and his daughter are close cousins and friends. My mother,my sister and I sang our famous song that we sing everywhere "Lovest Thou Me." It was sweet and short and my lil sister was crying throughout the whole song, but when the chorus came, I nudged and said its chorus time. She straightened up and I could hear her struggling to sing the words and stay on tune. We sounded like angels bidding farewell to our loving uncle in preparation for him to be met by his maker and welcomed by his parents, brothers and sister above! My aunt said thank you so much and my cousin had her head on her fathers shoulder resting as a child while we sang our song. It was an emotional moment and one I'll never forget.

So many memories of my father came to mind seeing my uncle in the hospital bed laying there at peace and seeing his daughter with tears in her eyes holding onto her father knowing this would be their last embrace till the next life. I know exactly what they will go through missing the presence of their father and learning how to adjust and move on with life. It is not an easy task, but it's a MUST. I pray they will find comfort in the LORD, with family, with each other and hold dear to their hearts the memory of their father. He will truly be missed..
Ia manuia lou malaga uncle!! Love and miss you dearly!!

" Beastly"

Beastly a lovely story or version of Beauty and the Beast. I loved how the author made this story contemporary thus setting in our modern day and time. At first, I was thinking this is probably a typical story of a young teen age boy who was probably given everything at birth; who treated everyone like crap and then he needs to get a girl to break the horrid spell. This was how the story went, but in the book Alex Flinn did a great job of describing how the main character was feeling and how he felt sorry for himself and how he longed for the warmth and company of anyone.

Kyle Kingsbury was born to parents who were more interested in themselves than in their only son. His mother left when he was young and his father was a newscast person who thought highly of his looks and everything on the news and people you saw had to have good looks. His upbringing was focused on having good looks and charm and with those characteristics you could talk your way out of anything.

Kyle was a freshman in high school and everyone and anyone knew who he was. The good looking, rich arrogant kid whose father bought him anything and spent little time with him. He was your typical spoiled brat to the fullest! His so called friends were not friends. They only hung around him because he was the rich kid in school that all the girls wanted to be with. Even the girls with no status took a fancy to Kyle..

As the story progresses he does the unthinkable and pisses off a witch and then he's turned into a Beast. His father takes him to specialist and tries to find a cure for his son turning into a beast, but to no avail noone could help him. His father hired a maid "Magda" and blind tutor "Will" to help him lead a life as an outcast only to come out of his customized house at night when noone could see him. He was a terrible, frightening looking monster. He couldn't believe the transformation. He had to find true love in 2 years and be kissed by a girl who truly loved him as a beast, then and only then would he be turned back into his lovely self.

Lindy comes into the story when her drug addicting father breaks into Kyle's house and is caught on surveillance tape breaking and entering and when he was caught by Kyle, he offered to bring his daughter as a bail in exchange for his freedom. Lindy is a smart girl in a rich school, Kyles school. She worked very hard studying and getting a scholarship to attend that rich school, but she too was an outcast and noone noticed her or even knew her by name. She was a nobody! She hated Kyle for making her stay at his house and leaving her life of reading and school. Lindy took care of her father when he got sick and she loved her father despite his selfish, drug addicted ways. Her father just offered his daughter to a total stranger so he wouldn't get turned into the police and go to jail, who does that, good gosh!

Kyle, later know as Adrian meaning darkness lived together with Lindy and they had a rough start, but they studied together, got to know each other and eventually enjoyed each others company. I think you know as well as I do that they take a fancy to each other. She finds out through his magic mirror that her dad was in trouble and sick again, so Adrian reluctantly tells her that she can leave. She can go and be with her father. Although she loves where she's at andhis happy being with Adrian, she knows she has to go back and help her father, so she leaves. Adrian is totally in love with her and realized that she is beautiful in her own way, smart, kind and most of all she liked him for who he was despite his beastly exterior. He actually loved her and wished with every fiber in his bones that she in return would love him back, but she never said it. He told her she could return to see him in the spring, but not as his prisoner, but as his friend. It was her choice! She referred to hims as friend and he wanted so much more than just to be her friend.

A fe of my parts in the book is wher Lindy left to care for her father and Adrian gave up on her coming back to see him and thus being a beast forever, he says," Without her, I have no hope, no life. I will live in misery and die alone. How loving were those words? Very loving if you ask me, what love he developed for Lindy a girl who if he were the old Kyle would have never even gave her the time of day.

I also loved the part where Lindy tells Adrian " I wanted to be with you. You told me to come back in the Spring. And I wanted to. My father was screwed up like always, and he promised to go into rehab, get a job. he idd for about a week. But then he quit. He said he didn't have to work just because I wanted him to. It was the same sort of thing he always said, but now it was different." "Why, Adian said"
Lindy replied, "Becuase I'd been with you. Before, I knew only what it was to be his daughter, to live day to day and wait for it to be over. But now I knew what it was to have someone talk to me, for me...be with me..and ..." "Love Me?"

Another fave part of mine was when it was midnite and Adrian knew it was over and too late but he says, "I love you, Lindy", "I love you too Adrian" He says. "Then kiss me. Let me have the memory of your kiss, even if I die." "It was too late. It was too late, but she leaned forward anyway, and kissed my eyes, my cheeks, and finally my lipless mouth. I was fading away, but I tasted her, felt her. This was all I wanted. Lindy. Now I could die happy."

What a wonderul love story! I love Adrian and how truly found love and became a changed individual. A most loving creature indeed!!

"Zions Voice Last Fireside..till further notice.."

Sunday, January 23, 2011
"The Living Christ"
Oxnard, California

Tonight is the last night for Zions Voice to perform our last fireside until April or June 2011. Our choir decided that we need to take a temporary break so that members can handle family business, piano players can take a break and so we can handle whatever business we need to handle and return from our break with new attitudes and a refreshed and rejuvenated committment to the group.

Last nights fireside was wonderful! I know we say that about every fireside but maybe because this was the last fireside for awhile it just seemed like everyone gave it their all. The soloists did a great job..Tino sang " Oh Lord My Redeemer, Janet sang "Rescue Me, Randy sang "Like a Dove, and Kristian and Davey sang "Greater Love." They all did a wonderful job, everyone sang so reverently with the Spirit and you could feel The Spirit very strong last night. The whole chapel was quiet and you could sense that the congregation was enjoying the music, the words and the Spirit that was felt. It was a great farewell fireside.

Of course. I'm going to miss seeing everyone every Tuesdays, but I think we needed a break and its good to know that we will continue after the break! I think on Tuesdays, I'm going to start doing some exercising, catching up on reading and hangin out with my family.

I look forward to returning when its time and rejoining with the choir! I hope everyone enjoys this time off and comes back in ifull force.

"Misguided Angel"

This book is the continuation of the Blue Bloods Series which I enjoyed thoroughly. The book is kind of thin but its contents is PHAT indeed ha! Before I forget, from the previous books Jack and Schuyler are in LOVE and run off together to try and fulfill her destiny to find the gates to protect everyone from Hell. Oliver, Schuylers Human Familiar, loves her dearly and is obviously connected to her for the eternities, but he sees that she loves Jack and they were meant to be together. So being the good friend that he is, he reluctantly lets her go with Jack. I love me some Oliver. He may not be as good looking or posess a hot bod like Jack, but I love oliver for his dedication and loyalty to his childhood friend Schuyler. She doesn't deserve the love from both guys Jack and Oliver..I was always attracted to the underdogs and the ones that get left out in the cold..Thas just me..Mimi and Jack Fore "the twins" are suppose to be bonded, but Jacks love for Schuyler is stronger than his bod with Mimi Force; therefore he leaves with Schuyler.


Misguided angel was kind of slow in the beginning but as I read the chapters were getting better and better and I found myself anxious to see what happens. Jack and Schuyler are together in Florence looking for the gate keeper, or the gates to fulfill her destiny and complete the Van Allen Legacy. There are different characters that come into play but you are atill able to follow the story.
Oliver and Mimi get together and work as a team trying to figure out who has killed 2 Blue Bloods. Oliver never really liked Mimi, but as the story progresses Mimi and Oliver kind of develop a nice working relationship. I have my own wishes for the book. I hope that Mimi and Oliver kind of end up together. You figure they were both dumped by the ones they loved, they are both left in limbo wondering where their lovd ones are and Mimi feels the worst since Jack left her and Kingsley has died or is in the underworld protecting everyone from Lucifer. So hopefully Oliver and Mimi join forces as a team and find love for each other, who knows it could happen (fingers crossed).

Another character comes into play in the book Deming Chen from China. She is a twin and was called upon by Mimi to help crack the case on who killed the 2 Blue Bloods. Deming is known for her record of tracking her suspects so Mimi wants her to help! Deming indeed does a good job of trying to find the killer but it's not an easy task as she goes through many suspects and interrogates them. Just when you think she found the killer some more information pops up and you're on the whirl again thinking of who could have killed the Blue Bloods..enjoyable indeed.

Anxiously awaiting for the next book, but like my friend Kia, she gets tired of waiting and waiting for the next book to follow. I hope the next one comes quickly! Misguided Angel is a good read and I was very happy to read other characters come into the story. If you've read the other books, you gotta read this one..