Black would be the color

The End

2009-09-20T04:09:00.000-07:00

Trent reznor the man behind NIN played his final show and here's a video I love so much.

My Vacation

2009-03-04T00:21:00.000-08:00

Hello everybody, tyler here. I went on vacation last week with my father,mother and brother in, you guessed it. Hawaii! It was wonderful to see my parents for the first time in 6 months, they looked great and we had a great time. here are a ton of pictures of the trip and a few lines to talk about da kine.

me enjoying a 10 doller smoothie in a pinapple at a luau

what an amazing feast. you are looking at cooked Sea Fish (as the hawaiians call it), roast chicken, pulled pork that was cooked in the ground, chicken noodle soup (as the hawaiians make it), Raw Salmon diced in a type of salsa, Raw salmon in an onion and soy blend, Taro root, Taro Rolls, Hawaiian style steak jerky, Cucumbers and finnaly a salad with thousand islands dressing on it, cause im kinda gettin fat and i need to watch my diet.

this is the grand hall where the luau was in the pcc

my mom getting food for the feast

Look Chriff, a Tiny Pinnaple

the boys being tired after getting thrashed in some amazing 3 foot waves at waiema beach. I spend 3-7 days a week there climbing and bodysurfing. For those who dont know, waves are measured from the back side of the wave and are usually twice that hight on the face so a wave that looks to be 10 feet may only be 4 or 5 feet in actual height.

the family at the arizona memorial in perl harbor

some more Waiemea but further up the canyon in the forest part

some sweet looking trees in that same canyon

and finnaly the Wiamea Falls.

more picutres to come

Besse

2009-02-15T19:53:00.000-08:00

I just had a super crazy ride home that i thought i'd tell you guys about. I got off work at 2pm today and walked across the street to a local lunch-van for lau-lau, rice and a salad. I ate facing the mountain down by the water of a small lagoon under the shade of a coconut tree. It was amazing.
After lunch I headed back across the street to catch the next bus up to kahuku, my home town. When I got onto the bus i noticed one of our elderly regular customers named Besse sitting at the front so i stopped tosay hi. Besse is 97, oriental, and is starting to suffer with dementia and alzhiemers and the other usual things that 97 year olds deal with. She's just in the last week started using a walker instead of her usual cane. She lives in Kaaawa (pronounced Ka, ah, ah, va) with her grandson who is mean, thats all she ever say about him.
After i say hi the bus driver asks me "Hey brudda, you know her?" i say yeah and she tells me that neither Besse nor the bus driver know where Besse's usual stop for her house is. Besse keeps on saying its by a pine tree in kaaawa and her address is 51-156. Next the bus driver asks if i can keep an eye out and watch for her stop so we dont overshoot it because the bus cant turn around. I say sure, ofcourse.
About 20 min down the road we're getting close to where it should be and as we pass kaaawa elementary Besse tells us that her house is BEFORE, the elementary. I pull the stop signal and decide that i'll just help her to her home and then i can just catch the next bus in an hour or so, no big deal. We get off the bus and the bus driver lady turns a hard left and drives forward to block both lanes so we can safely cross the street to catch a bus going the other way, or hitchhike.
As we get settled at the bus stop Besse points across the street to an Avocado tree growing in somebodys front yard and say "Tyler, could you grab me the kind, a couple of those leaves, i need to go chichi". I was kinda shocked to hear that but i ran across and grabbed her some leaves, and then asked her if she didnt just want to walk across the road and use the beach bathroom instead of just going on the side of the road. she dropped her pants to her ankles and that was her answer, leaned against the bus bench and did her buisness. I'm pretty sure my virgin eyes shouldnt need to see anything like that again...
We spent the next 20 minutes having the same 3 sentence conversation and trying to hitchhike.

"Where are we going, are we going to ala moana?"
"No besse I'm helping you get home, we're waiting for the bus"
"oh, what's your name"
"Tyler"
"oh, Thank you so much for helping me"

Serriously though, 20 minutes of that conversation about 100 times. Very sweet old lady though. Anyways the bus did come and we rode it about 30 secconds to her bus stop which was still way to far away from her home. when we got off we started walking. I tried to help her the best i could cause she kept complaining about being tired and cold and lonely. It was tugging at my heart strings super bad.
When we were about half way there a guy about 25, asian and deffinately not a fluent english speaker stopped across the road to take a picture of the storm that was rolling in so i yelled to him, "oi brah, think you could help us?". I explained the situation and he drove Besse and I the last part until her house.
When we got to the house she pointed out I wasnt really sure that it was the right house. It was overgrown by jungle, kinda run down and was deffinately not walker assessable. I knocked at the front door because of course, Besse had lost her key that morning at ala moana mall. Nobody answered so, as besse was making chichi again I checked all the doors and luckily, the back door was open enough that I got in.
Besse was a Pack-rat. Her house was like a scene from the movie "Seven", just piles of junk from floor to celing all over the place. I ran back to her and helped her get inside and sat down in a chair. I thought my adventure was done.
Besse sat for about 30 secconds and then said "Lets go, i dont want to be here when my grandson comes home cause he will be mean to me. Lets go to town." I tried to talk her out of this bad idea but she was determined so i helped her back out the door and back to the bus stop we had just gotten off of 15 minutes ago. Again she needed to go chichi so i jumped over the wall and grabbed some Bird of paridise leaves for her and just as im about o jump back over I meet the owner of the Yard im stealing leaves out of. I was lucky that he was just a cool surfer dude. I told him the story and he said "that is epic brah, you are deffinately going to heaven". The dude was very drunk so i let him go back inside while i waited another 20 minutes or so for the next bus.
When it finaly came i helped her onto the bus and told the bus driver the whole story, he told me he'd drop her off in an hour at kaneohe and would tell her that she needed to catch the next bus home. The bus in hawaii is kinda like a super-cheap old folks home/homless shelter and the bus drivers take care of them.
All said and done im home 3 hours later than usual, super tired, my hands smell like urine and im cold and ya know what? Its all worth it because of one of the things she said when we were trying to hitch a ride. "No hawaiian is going to pick up a howle like you and a oriental like me hitchhiking, thank you for helping me and even though you're not local, I considder you Local".

sharks cove

2009-01-27T18:28:00.001-08:00

sharks cove is a great place to swim/snorkle and almsot get killed by waves on razorsharp lava rock while you're taking pictures. here's a few of the the picutres.

not quite the beach

2009-01-24T00:44:00.001-08:00

I know i told a couple of you that i was going to wiemea beach today and i was gonna post pictures but duty called at work. we had a meeting that went long and when we got out it was already dark.

I'll try to make it out to the beach in the next couple days.

Until then here's Hawaii's #2 Newspaper

And here's Centerville on page 2 ha!

for all my Dancing friends

2008-12-22T17:08:00.000-08:00

single ladies

ha

2008-12-20T14:16:00.000-08:00

Ha, Look how huge this avocado my co-worker gave me is. its like eating a cantelope compared to utah avocados

workin man

2008-12-20T00:45:00.000-08:00

This morning i got up at 4:15 like usual, put on my trashbag rain poncho and braved the 4 inch an hour rain to get to my bus stop. I got to work at 6 and worked till about 2pm when my co worker called in and said she was stranded in honolulu and couldnt come in to work. I stayed for her for the next 4 hours till 6, then Delphine my co-worker told me i could go home and that she would just close the store. You've never seen people angry like the ones that come knocking on a closed 7-elevens doors. My sweet grandma turns 80 tomorrow so i'm gonna go to the beach in the morning and take some pictures and give her a call. happy birthday grandma

2008-12-09T19:34:00.000-08:00

This is what i did today

Merry Christmas

It's a very small world

2008-11-16T01:36:00.000-08:00

Tonight i missed the bus by 5 minutes so i had to wait an hour for the last bus. Thirty minutes into my sitting around drinking coke a lady in a truck pulled up and said, "Hey brudda, where you go?" I told her kahuku and she said hop in, so i did. She introduced herself as mrs Jenkins and i said, "cool, my name is Tyler Jenkins". She had 5 children and im oldest of 5 children. After a nice 30 minute ride she dropped me off in kahuku and that's my night.

NERD

2008-11-13T01:07:00.000-08:00

how do you guys like the gotee. i got back from the beach and was kinda bored so i took a shower and shaved out a curt cobain gotee.

My Hana

2008-11-11T18:30:00.000-08:00

For anybody that is curious this is my address

56-240 Leleuli street
Kahuku, Hawaii 96731

Thompsons... a gift from the gods

2008-11-10T14:54:00.000-08:00

Just as i am scraping the last out of the jar of peanut butter that has been sustaining me for the last week my roomate zondre knocks on my door and say; "Tyler, you've got a package." here is what i find.

Thanks Dad

a lotta sittin around

2008-11-10T02:52:00.000-08:00

Tonight i got off work at 10pm missed the bus by like 3 minutes so i sat around and talked to a phillipino lady that runs a little hygenic shop across the street from 7-eleven. we talked till about 11, then i took the bus up to kahuku. On the bus i talked to a crazy man that didnt know where he was going and didnt have any shoes or shirt, that took about an hour. now im home and check out the beard!!!!111

also: I dont care how amazing Led Zeppelin is, its not Led Zeppelin if the band doesnt have Robert Plant. Bringing a new singer on for some concerts would be heresy!

2008-11-04T22:20:00.001-08:00

Friday cant come soon enough for me lol

edit: had to bum bus fare off of the flower dealers that hang out under the banyon tree today. nice guys but i think im in their debt now lol.

KAHUKU BEACH

2008-11-02T02:08:00.000-08:00

well my mom woke me up this morning asking me if my friend brauc was in the hospital for a drug overdose. i said i didnt know but would call and find out. i called him and he was fine, kinda pissed that i had woken him up on his day off but as supprised as i was to hear he was supposed to be in the hospital lol. who knows how crazy rumors like this get started.
so there i was, awake too early. i had 3 hours till work and i thought, "ive never been to the kahuku beach". so after i had jumped 3 fences and walked through a little jungle and a golf course i arrived... the kahuku beach is nothing to write home about. there's a slow shallow reef so the waves are small and turbulant, not good for swimming at all. the shore is kinda rocky and odd looking and the beach is kinda covered in shrubbery. here's some pictures from my journey. notice my picture of the amazing fairway at the golfcourse and of Kahuku's one and only stop light.

pictures some

2008-10-30T20:03:00.000-07:00

oh my what a handsome beard you've got

here's my house, check out the spooky halloween decorations

here's my street

here's a field by my house that i walk through every day

here's a fly on a bench at the bus stop

here's my view from the bus stop

here's the banyan tree across the street from 7-eleven

(you can see some drug dealers on the left pretending to sell birds of paradise)

here's my 7-eleven

UPDATE

2008-10-27T04:54:00.000-07:00

well i just got off a swing shift, got home at midnight and im headed out for the morning shift at 4am so im just gonna pull an all nighter but i found out today that adobo the dog is just a freakishly big doberman. his ears arent clipped which i like. my dad just fed-ex'ed my charger to me so as soon as i get it i'll take some pictures of this rain and the beach.

My First Work Day

2008-10-24T20:00:00.000-07:00

"Hello and welcome 7-Eleven", is what came out of my mouth about 500 times today. wow I never realized how busy a 7-eleven could be. the sevenelevn i work at is the Kahaluu location if you want to google it. all in all it went pretty good, lots of customers and not too many mistakes, and most importantly... a laid back, steady job. as for right now im headed up to pipeline to do some body surfing in some 9 footers woot!

ya like dags?

2008-10-18T17:26:00.000-07:00

hey everybody, today i got up, walked down to the local shrimp farm and had a breakfast of grilled shrimp and mahimahi. then i went to pipeline beach and watched some surfing and did some body surfing myself. i gotta tell ya, these waves are crazy!!!!111 today they were breaking at about 8 feet so it was kinda scary. here's a picuture of one of my roomates, his name is Adobo.

MY NEW PLACE

2008-10-11T21:57:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody I just wanted to jump on and tell you all i moved into my new place! I'm living in Kahuku, a small town on the north eastern shore about 15 minutes from pipeline beach. My roomates are 2 guys who i presume are gay but not together, who knows cause im not asking. they have a huge dog which kinda looks like a doberman pincer but i think its too big to be on, who knows. I think i left my camera charger in Utah so i wont be able to post pictures for a while. I went swimming for the first time 2 days ago, yeah yeah i know its unbelieveable that ive been here for a month and 2 days ago was my first swim but i wanted to stay on task until i had a place to stay and a job. more updates soon

a few pictures

2008-10-08T00:04:00.000-07:00

the flowerpatch people that i saw last

hey look!!!! my last pie experiance

me and my bro ther

my stuff as i head out on a great journey

hey look, a bus in hawaii going to salt lake, woohoo

more picturalas commin soon

"we could use a little more color up here"

2008-10-04T17:54:00.000-07:00

If you're confused by the title of this post well so was i when the manager at Turtle Bay spoke it to me. I gave him a weird look and he said "not to sound racist but with all the hawaiians working up here it might be good to get a couple Haoles working here too". the guys was hawaiian himself so i just kinda laughed and he said he'd call me.

I just thought i should start posting before i start forgetting whats happened so far in hawaii. The weather is wonderful, 80 degrees every day. There's always a light breeze so even though its crazy humid, its wonderful. Not as much mean spirited Raceism like a few people warned me but its deffinately there. The job search is horrible though, in Honolulu everybody wants you to speak japanese, in Laie getting a job is impossible if you're not a BYU student and everywhere else they want you to be Hawaiian.

I'm not discouraged at all though, i knew it would be hard so I'll just keep at it full steam ahead.

honalulu

2008-09-13T17:06:00.000-07:00

I have arrived...

"Maybe Just Once"

2008-08-28T19:33:00.000-07:00

I can't believe that what I feel is finally happening to me.make it hurt.and point the finger at my insecurities.well I guess I just don't understand about those complexities in your mind.and I guess I just don't understand why this world seems so unkind.

maybe. maybe just once. I get what's coming.maybe. maybe just once. I get what's coming to me.so once again the way you feel will never ever stay the same.and I'm to blame.I wonder just who made the rules up for this game.well I guess I just don't understand about what you want and what you need.and I guess I just don't understand about why this is how it has to be.

you sat down on this bed and you said"Christ, what the hell do you think this place is?"you know.he just couldn't believe it!and I said"I don't know but it sure is something different"so go ahead.you say those thousand things you think you have to say.look at me.and tell me love's not such a hard word anyway.well how can you count on me I thought you realized for sure.and how can you just believe.I thought I deserved a little more.

oh God.oh what's coming to me.

such an amazing song

Anatomy of a Heart Attack

2008-07-29T13:26:00.001-07:00

They call it a Zappi

ooo that's creepy i love it

2008-07-21T10:42:00.001-07:00

ooo that's creepy i love it

Monster Face

Durka-Dur Viewmont

2008-06-17T18:11:00.000-07:00

my 5 year reunion happened a friday or so ago. it made me feel good about not being married and chillined like most were. I got a sweet shirt for showing up. Apparently whoever made the shirt didnt pass engrish.

Death By a B.S.E.

2008-06-15T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hunger took me in the dark of the night.

Stumbling off of the couch i headed for the fridgidare

The Creation that took place that night was deadly...

Bacon, Steak, Egg and cheese all on a Buttery Croissant

I admit, it took me...

Some Powell

2008-06-07T20:24:00.001-07:00

2008-06-07T20:24:00.000-07:00

Green shoots of new life emerge from the scorched earth.
They stake their claim in the same earth their ancestors once did.
The fire was only a short intermission of death between two acts of life.