189 to God what you do.” I go behind there, they baptize me in the stream. When I came out, you know, my
whole body was tingling. Just like electric. From head to toe. TA:43 Even you plant one crop, that’s it. You know already. Then you go ask people how to run
the water in there, when to stop the water. As long as you don’t get smart, you ask question, they tell you everything. But if you trying to get smart with them, well, they just be quiet. You want to learn,
well ask.
5.24.5 Examples of aweiz
5.24.5.1 aweiz The HCE awez is also another alternate realization of the NSM combination AT ALL TIMES. Consider the
following canonical examples: AK:595 Shrimp, that gori, oopu and all those things. Of course, that’s good, they fry but sometime
the family wants to eat those things raw, eh? And I cannot. I taste but, not bad. After I try, all right, it was good. Because Waipio, you have the warabi there, you know that warabi. They had lot of wild
watercress. Oh, never let get anything starve there, you get. You want to go down the beach, the beaches are near. Always there. I always tell everybody, “Waipio is the best place to live.”
AK:652 Yeah, I always had enough water. And every now and then, you have to go look at your
water head. When we have rain, the river flowing over the river, you got to watch your water head. Maybe no ’nough water, broke someplace. The water run away, and your water coming down, no
’nough. So you got to go fix your water head. No depend on the next man to go fix. Because maybe he going wait for you, while you waiting for him. So you might as well go do it.
FD:284 Not that I know of. Our taro always moving. And we used to get outsiders, people they
come, and then they want to buy so much. And we just pull for them because the taro is so easy to pull. FD:297 Well, I love the place because I was born and raised there until I grew up–a great-
grandmother today. And then the feelings of the place is actually really warm feelings. The living of the place, than here. Really, I just love Waipio because I was born and raised there. Nothing happened to my
family. Until I’m a great-grandmother. That’s why I always say, Waipio, I just love Waipio and that’s my home.
GF:326 Not so good. They always get misunderstanding. They hate one another, jealous of one
another. But, for me, I don’t have anything against anybody. The only thing is with Toledo. His ways are not so good. I think he’s born like that. I don’t hate him. But he don’t understand that’s why. Some
people, they are greedy, selfish, they care for themselves only, no care for anybody else. You know what I mean?
GF:339 Yeah, selling to Mock Chew. I was raising for the fun, just to learn about taro. Whether it’s
good, or no good, he always say no good. “Not good grade, not good grade.” JB:62 No. As far as hungry, no. We always had the food. But because only of my parents was
drunkard and they didn’t care. I don’t know how drunkard look like. Because, you know, when you young, I’m not the drinking type when I was young.
JL:16 We get da beef free from Parker Ranch. You get da poi like dat big. The poi before, I tink you remember, big bag poi from Waipio. Akiu, every Tuesday he bring up, den I have one poi – ah – dey
send Makalahao when I was staying up dere. Stay up dere wid my whole family. And da wagon always come up, eh? Bring our food. Bring hay. Barley for foal – one we keeping in the stable, huh? Imported.
Da bes’ kine. We keep in da stable. Feed um.
MM:358 No, Koloa, always burn. Yeah. Always burn. MM:373 They no like leave anything like that, because they say, so many hours, the burned cane
going deteriorate, see. But I see, not only Grove Farm, not only McBryde. Even Lihu‘e, I see. When you go weekends like that, you see, Saturday afternoon, plenty more burned cane get left. That’s easy, da
kine. But try and make ’em for clean up everything on that afternoon, that’s not easy, you know. They
190 like clean up everything. Burned cane. Grinding, well, that’s up to them. That’s up to the mill guys. And
then, what I mean, you have to get enough till you pau hana, see. That’s why, I always make it little short. I always make little short, then if no ’nough, I take one small little piece, maybe one acre or two
acre, burn ’em off. Just to keep me going for the day, see. That’s way hard. But these guys, no. Easy, that kind. Anybody can do that kind.
MT:1180 It’s wet. That’s why I said, if you dry it, you’ll get this weed problem. So I always use
water. The only time it goes dry is for harvesting. To kill off the roots. And you have a lot of root systems, so usually, I dry it about month and a half, two months. It depends on the weather again. To be
easier for the labor to work, see. MT:1196 It’s not a rush thing that you have to harvest it at a certain time. I think it might be all
right. If you have money which you depend on, you have money on the side in case things go sour, you still can make in time to come. As long as you have your water, that thing will be no problem. Anything
else? You always can ask later if you forgot something.
MY:1479 Yasumatsu man tell, “You wrong. Kono hito ga ichiban Waikiki. Waikiki de ichiban ii koto shite oru,” he said. “This boy is Waikiki de ichiban ii koto shite iru. number one, Waikiki.” He said,
“Why?” “He do only good thing for Waikiki people.” He tell, “How come?” That’s the truth, that’s why. I did so much for the Waikiki people. I do a lot of thing for them. That’s why, he tell, “See, this man is
good boy. You no talk bad about him.” The guy, he look sick. That’s why, even today, all the Japanese old ladies, they like me. They know me because always I go to their funerals and everything, I go.
NC:145 Yeah, I have. I work and get some money but I don’t generally take all. I always give to
my mother, eh. And what I need, like we go school, lunch like that, That’s the only thing we take. Other than that we don’t take the money. To us money is useless those days.
NC:162 Everybody was planting it. Those days market was always flooded. That hit me more hard
than the tidal wave. The tidal wave hit me, but I still had money in the bank, and I drew out the money and went right ahead. After that, I went 5,000 so much in the hole. To get out of that 5,000 took me a
long time. I didn’t dare plant, eh. I only planted a few hundred bags.
NK:923 Yeah, yeah. ’Nough, ’nough. They always get rain over there. But not that much. Little bit.
And kehau in the morning.
NK:941 Yeah, my mama always have Hawaiian medicine. For babies and for us. That’s why, she
never believe going doctor. Even when she was about 80. Anyway, she was kinda sick, so we thought we call doctor come see her, eh? No, she no like. Well, we cannot help. We don’t know how to take care of
her, so we call the doctor come down the house. When doctor came down the house, oh, she was so mad. She no like take the doctor pills.
OC:6 And then, of course, by that land a lease then I can get the money to build more houses. You
know, the bank always lend you by what you have, what you put on, see, so they know I get that way there.
OC:7 I told them they get eleven children and I like to help them out because I don’t have to pay them cash anyway so the bank can give them that money to help their children. So that way there I
thought what my father and mother say, “Always be honest with yourself.”
WK:694 Well, she say, “Son, if I was you, don’t do anything to hurt other people. Just ask them for
forgiveness.” She always believe in church work too, you see. “When other people hurt you, you just forgive them for their wrong doing, whatever they do wrong. Just forgive them, that’s all. Let God take
care the rest.” That’s what my mother believe in. I always thought she strong church lady, see. Mormon Church. Very strong.
WK:706 Yeah. The Mormon people, they help the Mormon people. You see, my mother, she
always telling me.... like she’s a religious lady, she believe in church work. But she always telling me, “Eh son, whatever you earn, whatever you make, don’t forget 10 percent.” What she mean 10 percent is
for on God’s side. That’s all. She always tell me that. So, sometime I answer her. I tell ’em “Eh, really, God ask for 10 percent?” I say, “I think, more better you give from your heart, fully from, your heart,
no? It’s better than you going give 10 percent and you getting hard time.”
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YA:1033 Yeah. You know, we never buy, you know. Always cut, see. And if we like papaya, da
kine, we don’t have to plant. You go up the mountainside, get plenty growing wild. You look the papaya tree growing all over, eh? Nobody eat. So we look which papaya come good, eh, we climb up the papaya
and pick the papaya. YA:1065 Before, no, you go on the roadside, nobody holding up you. But when we go on the road,
we no care. We no go bare hand, see. We always carry a piece of wood or maybe a piece of pipe on our hand. When they try to attack us, we hit ’em with a pipe, you know. You see? You know what I mean?
So, if you no more nothing to protect you, he going lick you, see? But me, so far, I went anyplace. Go down Kakaako, go to–what do you call that church?–Kawaiahao Church, eh? The graveyard, I cross the
graveyard. I go Kakaako. I see da kine young Kakaako boys. When they pass by you, you no say nothing, you just keep walking. He say, “Hello, my friend.” He no come tackle you, you know. I don’t know how,
you know. I never get any da kine gangster on the roadside and hold me up, you know. Because I always carry something, protection. If they come and gang me up, I get something to fight, see. Or
either I carry one belt, you know da kine strap with a buckle on the end, eh?
5.24.6 Examples of evribadi
