whoa

Chiiiiheeeee!  I got into my 1st choice for grad school!  i am way stoked.  haha, i guess that proves that kapaa high school can't be that bad .  it also proves that God provides .


love,
stephen

p.s. sorry no music for the two people in radio land who actually like my songs.  for everyone else, you are welcome .  i never have inspiration for a while, but i did write a song for me and jenelle's 5 year anniversary. i'll post it when i am pau recording.  it is not yet fully operational.

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Michigan

i got into University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and i am kinda stoked about it.  but i just looked at the weather there and the low for today was -4, baby.  that's degrees.  farenheit.

 i'll be flying up there on mar 9 to check out the school.  so look out for the new popsicle version of me when i get back.

  DETROIT RED WINGS 4 LIFE!!!

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oh man...

sometimes we put emphasis on things in our lives just because the world tells us to. in school, it is grades. in southern california, it is vanity. even on kauai, it is getting stoned or ripped or whatever. one day, all these things will be tested and probably most wont stand. ive been pretty wrapped up doing things so i can be satisfied or be "happy" or whatever.

i guess, a lot of the things in this world dont matter as much as we think they do.

im not trying to complain or anything, i think i have a great life with a great family and a great God and a great girlfriend and a great dog and a great cat and a great bunny-rabbit who all love me...except the bunny-rabbit, i think he still hates me. i just keep forgetting that these people should come before anything else.


...AND great buds in engineering who spend a lot of time with me stressing out over homework and stuff.

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Hilo rain...

i was supposed to do homework all day today. i got distracted and wrote a song instead. the story goes like this. I was in my first year of college when i found out that my great-grandma passed away. i think she was a picture bride from japan when she first moved to hilo. she never spoke english and i never spoke japanese, but she still was able to make me pull hila-hilas in my backyard when she came to visit sometimes.

i usually force myself to finish songs that are incomplete once i put them on this thing. So, here are the parts that i like.


it rained all day today.
i saw you in my dreams.
but my heart still sees you where you’ve always been
far across the sea.

Some lessons that we learn, don't need words to teach.
some mistakes I’ve made, we are bound to repeat.
those winds grow cold and I feel so old
I wish you could have watched me grow

Let the rain fall down
Just like old hilo town
When the rain falls down
It feels like old hilo town

These city lights They shine too bright
I cant see the stars when they shine at night
I miss them so oh dear lord
I miss you so it hurts my soul


these are pretty much the lyrics as they are gonna stay. i think.

love,
stephen

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thousand miles

in the works...it is called "thousand miles"


It feels like theres a thousand miles between
Where ive found myself and where I should be

Im sorry about those things I do
I do them just for me and not for you

chorus
But you know weve all got lies
That we tell ourselves just to get by get by
You know my foolish games
But you love me just the same

Slow strum
And when trade winds blow
With gentle raindrops on the eastern shores
My mistakes can not hold me down
Now that faith has come


this one is about the billion mistakes i make throughout the day and how I WILL be forgiven of them if i ask...

i hope i dont come off as preachy...the stuff i write usually is about how weak and foolish i am, so dont feel like i am forcing what i think on you guys, ok?

also, thanks to all my good friends and family who have said nice things about the songs i write. i know i cant sing and my songs are lame and i force you guys to listen to them too much...but yeah, thanks :)

p.s.
i am a giant dork

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this song isnt as good....

but who cares? i felt like writing it, i had fun writing it, and i spent only 20 minutes on it. it's a little emo, which really isn't how i actually view life. i just was thinking about how cool acid washed jeans used to be and how its not cool enough to wear or retro enough to trick people into thinking its cool; it's just in the middle. strange thought process, huh?

Ooh, im feeling faded
A little faded
And worn

Im the one
Who is so comfortable
But you wont see me out in the crowd
I stick out a little too loud

Im faded and worn
Like those jeans you had before
im a little loose, don’t fit so good
just like those dreams we shared before



stephen

p.s.

jana, TRY TEASE ME!!!!

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my song

...is based after 1 corin. 3:7, which goes, "So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow."

so i guess, in a relationship with anyone, it's not what we can do (though important) that makes it grow.

sorry for being all preachy, its just been on my mind for a while.
im a giant dork.

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