YOU KNOW YOU'RE HAWAIIAN WHEN...

Kalaunuiohua, GGMA, and New Friend

(Courtesy of Erin and Pua)

You know you're Hawaiian when...

Your great-grandmother

feeds you

something BIGGER than you!

DYLAN IMAIKALANI WATANABE WORLD PREMIERE MUSIC VIDEO

Dylan and Papa (Grandpa Wayne) at Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu
(Photo courtesy of Kathleen W.)

Hi, everyone!  It's Dylan once again, and this time I just flew back from Tillamook, Oregon, and am staying here at the Pagoda Hotel with Papa and Nana, my grandparents, en route to Kauai.

Each year, I set new goals for myself.  

(See the following link.)

http://hawaiianodysseus.blogspot.com/2011/01/dylan-utilizing-secret.html

I am now aspiring to be a top ten finalist for AMERICAN IDOL.  

Why not set my sights higher and strive to be THE

American Idol?

For one thing, I'm still in kindergarten.  (Kids, if you learn only one thing from me through these blog posts, let it be this:  STAY IN SCHOOL, KIDS!)

For another, I have this theory that top ten finalists actually have more commercial longevity and cut more records than the majority of the Idol winners.

Finally, I love living on Kauai.  I never want to be so far away that I can't readily get back home to my GGMA's hugs and kisses.  GGMA (Gee Gee Ma) is my great-grandmother Marion A. who just turned 78 years young a couple of days ago.

I like Jawaiian music--you know, that happy go lucky mixture of reggae beat and ukulele strumming. Two of my favorite singers are Bob Marley and Jason Mraz.

With the videotaping and loving critique of my Uncle Charlie, then, I'd like to share with you the world premiere singing video of yours truly, the one and only Don Ho of the Hawaiian kindergarten crowd and the absolute rave of luaus from the Big Island to Niihau--

DYLAN IMAIKALANI WATANABE!

(With loving mahalo and acknowledgment

 to Jason Mraz)

THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, GGMA!

              

THE BOY WITH THE CHESHIRE GRIN

SMILE!
(Photo courtesy of Silas K. Aqui)

Pua:      "Dylan, we found this  under your pillow."

Dylan:  "Aw, Mom!"

Pua:     "Whatever did you have in mind?"

Dylan:  "Well...last year, when my tooth broke off and I put it under my pillow, I got $2!  I figured that a big fish with hundreds of teeth would just about break the tooth fairy's bank!  I mean, I'd just about have that iPad 2 paid up before I even get it!"

Pua:      "Oh, Dylan!"

Dylan:  "By the way, Mom, how in the world did you find the fish?"

Pua:     "The SMELL!  Duh, Dylan!"

Dylan:  (Flashing his award-winning smile.)  "Mom, I oughta know by now that I just can't get anything past you.  No doubt in my mind where I get my smarts from!"

GGMA*:  (in background)  "Ah, this boy!"

*Dylan's great-grandmother, Marion A.