Fifteen Minutes and Counting

One of our wor­ship lead­ers, Awa, has some of the most quotable lines of any­one I know.

As exhib­it A, I sub­mit the fol­low­ing excerpt from an email to our group last week:

It’s spring quar­ter peo­ple, time to pro­cras­ti­nate so you can enjoy the beau­ti­ful warm weath­er and the beau­ti­ful peeps of Chi Alpha. I mean, we are a good look­ing bunch…I say that in truth and with humil­i­ty…

How mag­nif­i­cent is that lan­guage?

Any­way, at least one reporter at the Stan­ford Dai­ly agrees with me: Awa was quot­ed not once but twice in a recent arti­cle as was Chris, anoth­er of our stu­dents.

For con­text, the arti­cle is about a Hawai­ian Lu’au on cam­pus.

…kahlua pig … is tra­di­tion­al­ly pre­pared by fill­ing the pig’s abdom­i­nal cav­i­ty with hot stones, then plac­ing the pig in a pit con­tain­ing hot stones.

“But I’m sure San­ta Clara Coun­ty wouldn’t have been too open to that idea, so we hand-shred­ded the 40 lbs. of pork our­selves using forks,” said Lu’au Co-Chair Awa­puhi Dan­cil ‘10. “The hard­est part was fig­ur­ing out how much of each item to buy. Peo­ple at Cost­co kept star­ing at us since we had 40 toma­toes, pineap­ples and pounds of salmon.”

And then lat­er on,

“The mem­bers of the Hawai’i Club poured our heart and soul into this event, work­ing at 100 mph,” Dan­cil said.

And the con­tri­bu­tion from Chris:

Per­haps the most inter­est­ing side dish was the poi, pound­ed taro root that is knead­ed into a smooth paste, tra­di­tion­al­ly meant to be eat­en by scoop­ing it out of a bowl with one’s fin­gers.

“I still haven’t made up my mind about the poi,” said Chris Oli­vares ‘10. “But every­thing else is absolute­ly deli­cious. I came last year and had to come again to sup­port friends and watch the great dances. And how often do you get to have authen­tic Hawai­ian food that’s real­ly good?”

So a big shout out to you both for your 15 min­utes of fame.

Although next time you’re talk­ing about slaugh­tered pigs and root paste try to fig­ure out a sub­tle way to work in “Chi Alpha Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship meets at 7:30pm every Wednes­day school is in ses­sion in build­ing 300–300.” I’m not quite sure how to do that ele­gant­ly, but there must be some way. Maybe some­thing like “Of course, slaugh­tered pigs can­not atone for our sins. They are mere­ly tasty. How­ev­er, there is one sac­ri­fice

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