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Alavini

I am really Roger Feder in a Tongan body. No really

About Me

Well I am a very basic, easy-going mellow kinda guy from California. I am Tongan by ethnicity but human by choice. I have been back and forth between Juneau and the rest of the lower 48 for the last five years but have decided to call this island capital city home permanently. I'm in school full time as a return student who dropped out of college years ago to serve a mission but life happened and here I am again at 28 trying to get smart. I haven't seen much of my friends and family from California since I left in 1996. I hope to use this site to reconnect with them. I have been married, and am now divorced, was seeing a special sweetie for the last two years but just broke up as of Oct. 2007. So yeah, I'm single and ready to mingle. Anyhoot, you masese people out there hollah if you know a brothah and don't be all tolu hiva about it. I know how LA does it in here. Alavini Lata

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My Interests

I like to play music. I play the sax and clarinet. I like to play tennis. I play at the 5.0 USTA level but sometimes play down. I also like to eat...anything really, I'm just a hog. I'm not sure if eating is an inetrest since we have to eat to live but I sure love cheese cake and strawberry ice cream...

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet old friends from High School and College. As to romance, I am newly single so getting use to the single scene again (This shit is hard). I also want to meet people who are business oriented and looking to network on product ideas. I just finished a very intense summer as a makeup artisit for Yves St-Laurent. My background is in business and production.

Music:

I am so critical of Music. I love all kinds but not all artists. Sicsor Sisters, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springstien, Tina Turner, Bob Marley, Lucky Dube, Mrs. Midler; all the legends basically. But because I play, I also am a bit biased against crappy commercial music and teen pop formulated mindless music. I am more into the dynamics of the songs rather than the way it sounds. I love to listen to vocalists, soloists, concertos, trios, symphonys, orchestra, chorals, and everything in between.

Movies:

Cronicles of Narnia was agood flick. I had no clue it mimics J.C's life. Diary of a Mad Black Woman sucked. Just couldn't get into it. Talladega Nights was very funny. Hill Have Eyes. I like sacrey gory movies. Devils Rejects. Saw I,II, III. Anything that takes you out of reality for that time you're in the theater and really entertains you, scares you or makes you giggle like crazy.

Television:

I don't watch too much TV any more, but I loved wacthing Sex and the City, True Life, and Law and Order SVU, CSI, and American Idol, and Q-TV. I am getting hooked on those reality shows, I Luv N.Y, ANTM, Top Chef, Project Runway, Smartest Model.....oh, and Ugly Betty....

Books:

I haven't read anything for pleasure in a while, mostly text books. I have, however, written an auditing manual for our employees and a training manual for new hires. I'm a freaking geek. Update (12.12.2007)I just completed a Sodoku book, does that count? 1/20/08 Completed MBA for Dummies...LOL

Heroes:

Heroes are Martin Luther King Jr- he is the only reason I went to Morehouse College. Mohamtma Ghandi because of his message of peace and J.C. who keeps me in the rightous path most of the time (wink wink). Also, Earthna Jacquett who taught me everything I need to know about being a survivor-about how to hussle, fight, and that there is no hill for a stepper. Do what you have to do and come on home when you are through.

My Blog

Growth

It's no secret that the Southeast and Western United States are booming. The costs of living and doing business there are often cheaper there than in big coastal cities. But where and how much those ...
Posted by Alavini on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:40:00 PST

Alternative Minimum Tax and You. A quick refresher.

When first proposed, the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) was designed as a tax for "the wealthy." Yet today, more and more people find themselves liable for the tax due to growing incomes and targeted a...
Posted by Alavini on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:10:00 PST

Bonds as a shelter.

The stock market's performance in recent months has no doubt left some investors uttering four-letter words  one of which might be "bond." The stumble in stocks that began in the second half of 2007 ...
Posted by Alavini on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:36:00 PST

VOTE FOR HILLARY...GET EXPERIENCE AND CHANGE IN ONE PACKAGE!!!

Hillary's American Health Choices Plan covers all Americans and improves health care by lowering costs and improving quality. It speaks to American values, American families, and American jobs. It pu...
Posted by Alavini on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:58:00 PST

ROTH IRA

Ok you guys, if you are eligible for a Roth IRA it is simply one of the best investments any young adult in america can make.You can research IRAs and ROTHs on google or investopedia.com. Here's ...
Posted by Alavini on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:23:00 PST

New Year Resolution

New Year's Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. It's a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make and resolve to fol...
Posted by Alavini on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:43:00 PST

The cost of living.

Health care costs are consuming an increasing amount of our national resources. The public is already frustrated with administrative inefficiencies, drug company greed and uninsured illegal immigrants...
Posted by Alavini on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:38:00 PST

Ethics in the legal environment.

John Rawls (1921-2002) is quite arguably the most important political philosopher on our modern day.  Rawls was a professor of philosophy at Harvard and received his PhD from Princeton. Turning a...
Posted by Alavini on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:28:00 PST

We need to vote for fical conservation. RON PAUL for 2008

Changes in government purchases, taxes and transfer payments can have an impact on equilibrium aggregate demand. When a government deliberately changes its spending or taxation policies in order to in...
Posted by Alavini on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:04:00 PST

Class Separations in the US

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court declared in its landmark unanimous decision, Brown v. Board of Education, that separate schooling of black and white children was inherently unequal, marking the daw...
Posted by Alavini on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:09:00 PST