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One of the 2Couture designs from the Chinese Women’s Club of Honolulu’s “Cherished Heritage II” fashion show.

Hi,

Sorry I’ve been AWOL for so long but was feeling a little drained, moreso because I lost a whole bunch of photos from the Shop A Le’a Preview Night March 6, a fashion show at Escada March 7, and the opening segments of the Chinese Women’s Club of Honolulu’s “Cherished Heritage II” fashion show at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on March 8.

It’s such a Journ 101 thing to do, but as new tools evolve, there’s always a new way to blunder. In the olden days, when I started in journ, our fear was losing a roll a film, somehow exposing it before hitting the darkroom, or mangled interview cassette tapes. These days, it’s the dreaded delete button, and how it happened was at the Sunday fashion show, I had shot pieces from Andy South’s, Katrina Bodnyk’s and Allen Carrell’s collections, plus a performance by Jordan Segundo, who’s got a CD due to be released soon.

Aureana Tseu in a 2Couture design from the “Cherished Heritage” fashion show. Below, Miss Hawaii Teen USA Emma Wo in a wedding gown by Eric Chandler.

Jordan sounds great, and just goes to show you how experience pays off, his presence is so much better than when he competed on “American Idol.” I decided I wanted to use his second song, so thought I’d delete the first since I had a lot of images from four days of events and didn’t know how much space I had left on the media card.

Well, usually I don’t delete until I’ve downloaded everything, then I “Trash All.” So I instinctively went to “Trash All,” and poof! All gone. Works just like that dreaded “Send” button when you catch it at that moment you hit it and send it to the wrong person.

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Takeo, with Miss Hawaii USA Jonelle Layfield at the Chinese Women’s Club of Honolulu’s “Cherished Heritage II” fashion show finale. Below, Eric Chandler takes a walk down the runway with Jonelle. Takeo and Eric returned to the same stage four nights later to pick up their Legacy Award.

I did catch the final segment of the “Cherished Heritage” show with designs by Takeo and Eric Kamakahia’ai Chandler.

Takeo and Eric were back at the Royal Hawaiian on March 12th, picking up a Legacy Award from the Music Foundation of Hawaii for their contributions to Hawaii’s culture and arts scene. I got to present the award and was happy that, as the evening’s host along with her husband, Kristian Lei warned the crowd we were all amateurs on stage. I really, really don’t like public speaking and told Takeo, if I could talk I would have been in TV news.

Other Legacy honorees were:

>> Loyal Garner Award: Cyril Pahinui

>> Young Entrepreneurial Award: Lincoln Jacobe

>> Legacy Vocalist Award: Emma Veary

>> Mayor’s Performing Arts Award: Nona Beamer

>> Governor’s Fine Arts Award: Nona Beamer

>> Legacy Philanthropic Award: Dr. Lawrence K.W. Tseu

>> Legacy Actors Award: Jim Nabors

There were many chicken-skin moments when Kristian, Cyril and Emma performed, as well as when Dr. Tseu shared his touching and humbling “rags to riches” story that left many in the room with tears in their eyes.

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