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UpperWestside

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  1. Martin Freeman is a fantastic actor. Very diverse, but just overall really good at his craft.
  2. I just want to say Jeffress can burn in hell. Just an absolutely soulless and immoral piece of garbage that perfectly aligns with the fascists he loves having in power.
  3. Yes. They’ll have 8-9 losses by the time the tournament rolls around and all will be to the good teams left on the schedule. I guess if you’re going to hand out money like it’s candy in these two sports it might as well go to some athletes who otherwise wouldn’t set foot on that campus.
  4. On Thursday I was able to sit down with another woman here. Her name is Gloria and she is the best friend of the woman I talked about on here already. Gloria is 91 and lives in Honolulu with her husband who was an American soldier at one point in life. His health is not the best, but she did come down to eat dinner with me and my co-worker and her son. Her first question for me was "Why do I have an interest in World War II?" I explained to her what I am doing and the places I will be going to after leaving the United States. This seemed to sit well with her and she spoke freely about what happened to her as a child. She remembers being six years old when the Japanese arrived. She lived in the South of Mindanao in an area that was predominantly Muslim. Her father had been an Islamic missionary from Saudi Arabia if I understood her correctly. I will double check on this at some point, but this is what she said to me. She had an older sister as well and then her mother. Some of her family fought and she specifically mentioned that her uncle was one of the guerrilla fighters that harassed the Japanese throughout the Pacific War. Her chief memory, the one that shaped her and has never, ever left her mind for even a day, was the day her father was taken away by the Japanese and never returned. She remembers hiding with her sister and mom and that her dad had a gun that he would use to kill them so that the Japanese would not perform acts of cruelty or rape upon them like they were doing to other Filipino women and children. The bullets were never used and her father never returned as he was likely killed rather quickly. She has not for a day forgotten her dad and she still misses him at 91 years of age. She said that he was a successful businessman and that her family had a large farm and plantation before the war. Their entire, tomato, sugarcane and corn harvest was destroyed and left to rot. Their two carabao were also confiscated by the Imperial Japanese Army and never returned. They also had a large peanut plantation that was taken as well. The cruelty of the Japanese occupation stuck out to her and never left her memory either. Rapes were a common occurrence and the killing of children was also something that happened with regularity with bayonets being used to do the job. She also recalled the bombings by Japanese planes. They would not cook with anything except charcoal because they did not want to attract the bombers to them. She remembers having to learn Japanese in school as well. Her mother was left to do the raising of her and her sister and she never remarried. Her sister would become a teacher after the war and she would become a midwife. I did not get the year that her and her husband married, but they moved to the United States in 1977 and settled into his hometown of Chicago. She hated it there because of the bitter cold which she was not accustomed to. She also remembers a specific incident of a Japanese person laughing at her in the states for being Filipino and that person told her she was stupid. Her response was "You are the stupid one for having done a sneak attack on the United States with no way to actually beat them in a war." When I say this woman does not like the Japanese I mean just that. Losing her father stuck with her now for 85 years. That hurt never healed. Seven years later her and her husband would relocate to Hawai'i and have been here ever since. She had one son that graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado if I understood her correctly. Instead of staying in the United States he went back to The Philippines to work and is still there. She talked to me of how she learned to drive a tractor back home and that her husband said the best hospitality he has ever seen was from the Filipino people. Now to stay active she does Tai Chi and has remained a member of the Islamic faith throughout her life and she enjoyed doing volunteer work here in Honolulu. One of the things she loves to do most is to get to spend time with her best friend that I interviewed already. My co-worker is picking her up Monday to take her to go see her for a few hours. That made her smile. Looking back she said thinking about the war still hurts. She remembers the will to want to survive kept her going during that time. She does recall really big celebrations when the war ended though. She said she has so much to thank America for and that she is always grateful for MacArthur coming back to liberate them. To the Filipinos MacArthur is still larger than life. We as Americans, especially those who look closer at him, may think differently of him, but to the Filipinos who were suffering under Japanese rule his "I shall return" quote may as well have been said yesterday. She encouraged me to visit Mindanao and see the Filipino people, her people. She misses home and hasn't been there since 2019 as she cannot leave her husband while he is not doing so well. She was a joy to get to talk to and was so sweet to take time to talk with me. I hope to speak to her again when she has time.
  5. BYU has played four good teams this year (Clemson is not good as they have done what BYU has and feasted on garbage competition to get to 18-4) and lost to all four. Window dressing in the two losses this week made games that were mostly blowouts look competitive. They shouldn’t be higher than a 10 seed come tournament time.
  6. Just fantastic violence in that one and the 2nd one. Loved it and told my friends in Finland about it. They reply back “I’m glad we finally made a good movie!”
  7. Shelter with Jason Statham and Naomi Ackie. I can’t remember the name of the child that’s the co-star, but she was actually really good in her role. Statham playing a version of almost every character he is. He fights and kills people with average dialogue. Again the girl was probably the best actor in this movie, but it did exactly what you figured it would. Just wanted an evening watching a movie with some fight scenes so it did the trick.
  8. One is I do not for a second believe that explanation is in any way, shape, form or fashion truthful. Two is refer back to the first point. You vote for Belichick. That’s it. It’s not hard. At least 11 of these clowns should never get to cast a vote again. We’ve got this one and Polian. Adam Schefter should go do something useful for the first time in his professional life and get the names of the rest of them, post them and then get Goodell to have their votes removed. After that have Goodell tell the hall he’s in this year and that’s that.
  9. That guy is a moron that needs his vote taken from him permanently. Just an absolute tool trying to twist himself into a pretzel with that explanation. Just take the vote away from these writers entirely and let the guys in the hall do the voting.
  10. I am glad I haven’t had a drink now in 6+ years. If I was still drinking I’d probably get alcohol poisoning.
  11. Namibian history is both interesting and sad due to the German genocide of the Herero and Nama more than a century ago. I would like to see the country at some point.
  12. Hawai’i has been a good last place to live in the US and I have a somewhat planned out version of where I want to reside and work once I leave here. I fully expect to wind up in places even more remote than the ones I want to live in starting next year. Either way it goes I will just enjoy wherever it is I lay my head to rest and all the amazing and interesting human beings I will meet along the way. I am sure I will cross paths with a few of you who like going to the out of the way parts of this great big world we all share.
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