Tsai-ko Autobiography: Mrs. Bulla
Name: Lyn (last withheld)
Bonafide Tsai-koHigh School: Waipahu 1979
Tsai-ko Lunch Size: N/A
Tsai-ko caricature: second row, left
From the Warrior Beat blog May 7, 2010:
ST's Intro: Bulla writes about the love of his life, his wife. Bomb's away!
t is with nervous fingers that I write about Lynette Eastman, the leading member from ‘Bulla’s Bombers’, a great Tsaiko, but most of all, my better half.
She was born in an Army hospital in Wurzburg, West Germany in 1961. Being an Army brat, she moved a lot during her early years starting in Bamberg, West Germany to Fort Sill, OK, to Schofield Barracks, HI, to Kuau (Maui), HI, to Fort Gordon, GA, to West Berlin, Germany, to Waipahu, HI, to Makakilo, Hi.
She graduated from Waipahu High School and is a card carrying Marauder. While at WHS, she was the Head Cheerleader and was involved in the Drama department as a performer and as a student director. To this day, she still feels like she’s a director, haha. At Leeward Community College she was a Drama and Dance major. She performed in Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” directed by Dando Kluever. Ray Gin from San Francisco, directed the musical “Runaways” in August 1980 with Lynette being a lead in that production also. This past Christmas, she played the lead as ‘Miriam’ in our church production, ‘A Baby Changes Everything’.
Currently, she is the only ‘Area General Manager’ for AQUA Hotels & Resorts and is directly responsible for over 100 employees and their families. Lyn has been in the Hotel business in Hawaii for over 25 years. She spent 20 years in Maui until moving to ‘the big city’ of Waikiki in 2001. Her leadership is reflected by having one of her very own Housekeepers win the Hawaii Hotel Lodging Association’s ‘Lodging Employee of the Year’ for the state of Hawaii.
Lyn is very outgoing, very compassionate, and loves to have fun. Her along with her lifelong friends of hers are called the DIVAS, and yes, they are the DIVAS. Her laugh can be heard bouncing off of the walls at Genji’s, and I really believe that …..One day those boots are going to walk all over me…..haha
Her parents placed her in gymnastics, ballet, baton twirling and karate because she wasn’t ‘graceful’… it didn’t work, just kidding….she is very graceful and continues to amaze me as the years go by. She is a former Mixed Doubles Racquetball Champion, winning 12 of 15 tournaments in a two year span in Hawaii. She is the proud mother of her son Bryson, and the proud stepmother to Nik, Ryan, and Bella, and is recently Tootsie (grandma) to Arianna .
She loves football….no…I mean she looooooves football. We have traveled all over the mainland from taking Hawaii high school football players to San Antonio for the US ALL ARMY COMBINE, to UCLA Adidas Elite Invitational, Stanford NIKE Combine, All Poly Camps, New Mexico State Camps, University of Washington Camp, University of Utah Camp, Just Win Camp in Maui, Education First Game Plan Camp in Laie, and combines too numerous to mention. When Ryan was playing at Weber State we traveled across the US from Cheney WA, to Richmond Virginia.
Now that Ryan ‘The Beast’ is home, our traveling will be only for the Warriors now, and she is happy about that. She has such a generous and giving spirit; she has been a wonderful example of a loving and kind spirit for our children, and she always looks for the good in people. Now that she is involved in our prison ministry, even more can I see the love she has for people from all walks of life. Not many women have the fortitude to go to Halawa, OCCC and the Federal Detention Center to spread the Good News to those that are incarcerated.
Her husband, yours truly, has a mantra, ‘make memories, make memories, make memories….’ And I truly believe in that, because life is too short. I know that there are angels that come from heaven, because I was lucky enough to marry one.
GO WARRIORS
IMUA LANAKILA
