Once a month, get air raid drill. When you hear da siren, you gotta hide under your desk and put your head on da ground j’like praying at da temple….

Aunty Jenny used to roast da turkey fo Tanksgiving every year. Uncle Jim bring da turkey straight from da oven, da big brown bird still steaming. Errybody look at um,…

Alfred get one eraser dat smell like candy. Alfred always smelling um. Not like you smell one flower but stick um up your nose kine. Uji. I sit next to…

Labor Day supposed to be one holiday. But Daddy tink dats da last chance fo make me and Russo do work before school start. Aftah dat, we can tell we…

Go big brother’s closet, hem up his old pants, try his old shoes… and see if da stripe shirt still fit. Pau. “Good enough,” Mother tell. Sometimes I get one…

My fahdah was born in China. Ah Goong came to Hawaii first, den he sent fo his wife, Ah Po, and numbah one son, my fahdah. I donno when my…

First time I saw your muddah was at YMCA dance. Ho, she look like Miss Hawaii. Except when da song start, she hide behind her girlfriends. Finally when I went…

Every Muddah’s Day, my fahdah, tell, we going out fo dinner. Only ting, he only like eat Chinese food. Instead of going one regular chop suey house, he tell we…

“Uncle, you get bird doo-doo on your head.” “What? How can.” He went check in da mirror. “No mo!” “April Fool!” “Ah, you went trick me. April Fu Day, eh?….

So why you gotta wear green? So Andrew no punch me. So you wear green and walk around all day scared dat Andrew going punch you? Yeah. What about da…