I've been online since about 1989. This was my personal blog for my family and friends spread throughout the world. I've maintained this LJ from May 2001 to March 2008 until Livejournal became a huge clusterf*ck of a wank and snark fest filled with loads of negativity. I maintain a blog elsewhere and am at Facebook where there aren't so many negative people.
As of March 2008 I no longer update this journal.
Besides work I have been working out as usual, gardening, and reading lots. More importantly SURFING every chance I get!!!
- Mood:
happy
It's 2012 and I am sure some stalkers stop by here hoping I will return to Livejournal. Not. It's dead here though I do log in once in awhile to see what the cool people are up to and I leave comments in their blog.
My workout regimen presently looks like this:
I've been working out since I was 14. Here is my workout regimen of the now. My workouts are constantly evolving.
I am still currently training at least five days per week minimum with some :
- Legs (Targets quads, hamstrings, calves, and glutes)
- Chest and stomach (Targets pecs and abs)
- Back and biceps (Targets erector spinae, lats, etc. + biceps brachii)
- Shoulders and triceps (Target deltoids, triceps brachii, forearms, etc.)
Hiking, biking, swimming, and/or surfing on the weekends. Surfing has dwindled down some due to work. I work. A lot.
I have been training in martial arts for nearly 14 years now (and counting) supplemented with working the speed bag, reaction ball, etc. I still do alot of stretching for splits. See above.
I may have left some things out. My regimen varies.
My veggie gardens:
Here are pictures of one of my five raised vegetable beds with new crop of cucumbers, zucchini, and yellow squash:
* I will update this picture next year LOL
One of my flower beds: Red ginger
Happy 2012 bitches! See ya at Facebook.
- Mood: happy
This is the second time I have heard bad news about a former classmate. This time it's someone who was so much fun... only to discover that he died in a car.
His name was Moses Akana. He graduated two years after my twin sister and I. He went to our junior prom with my twin sister so I am still in shock:
My mother called me from Hawai'i to tell me. Sure enough... he died. It's so sad:
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/ks87/
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/p
It hits me very hard.
His death also epitomizes how WE have failed him.
It's very very sad especially because to me... EVERY Hawaiian matters. I am crushed. I am devastated... so it's hard.
I can't help but wonder... how many Hawaiian children will fall through the cracks or are falling through the cracks like how he seemed to have?
It's sad.
Also... I don't care how they are trying to portray him in the local papers in Hawai'i. TO ME... HE WAS A GOOD PERSON.
I will be keeping an eye on the Honolulu Police Department's Internal Investigation. I hope they didn't MURDER HIM.
There are free FSI language material online for the following languages:
Amharic
Arabic
Bulgarian
Cambodian
Cantonese
Chinese
Chinyanja
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Hebrew
Hungarian
Korean
Lao
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Twi
Vietnamese
Yoruba
at http://fsi-language-courses.com
I'm presently studying Hawaiian and Spanish with Japanese and French next and Portuguese, Cantonese, and Greek following soon after.
While I have alot of material which I've purchased in the past... the material above is free.
For FREE Hawaiian language lessons here is the link again courtesy of the Kamehameha Schools and is free to all interested in learning the Hawaiian language:
http://ksdl.ksbe.edu/kulaiwi/
There are 30 of them. Each about one hour long.
ANYWAY like I told Kalani,
"Gee I wish someone would nag me like how I nag you sometimes haha"
While cleaning my huge ass house... I am listening to Kainani Kahaunaele's CD "Na'u 'Oe". It's one of my favorites.
I also listen to the Brothers Cazimero, Kealii Reichel, etc.
I left my copy of Weldon Kekauoha's "Ke Lehua 'Ula" in my SUV that I keep at my place near Washington DC. I love listening to it in my car so much! I forgot to take it out of my car there. Oh well. To make a long story short... my mother knew him as a little boy. I'm so happy for him that he is sharing his music with others. I love this particular CD but then I like GOOD Hawaiian music :P
Speaking of which... my latest find is Steven Espaniola's CD "Ho'omaka":
I am really loving his music too! So talented! So much so that if I am surfing the Net... I listen to his music on his Myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/stevenespaniola
I can't help it. I love his music too.
This month I am changing my playlist on my Creative Zen but I don't delete Hawaiian music that I've uploaded. I have the Brothers Cazimero, Dennis Pavao, Gabby Pahinui, etc mixed in with English and with Spanish songs. Life is good LOL....
I'm also listening to Hawaiian music that is streamlined through Hawaiian Kine Radio though they play English songs too.
I've gotten so much work done today plus pau gathering my donations for Goodwill and changing the A/C filter. This month I would like to re-add yoga. Declutter more. Stay on top of the paper tiger.
Anyway I'll be working out later tonight. While listening to Hawaiian music. In the mean time I am cleaning my house as well as cleaning my Friends List. This is not an inclusive list of what I have to do. I have so much work to do. Like plan for the twins. Like Hale Oiwi Attorneys on "my" property on the Eastside of Seattle.
- Mood:
chipper
"Oh, then I had to cook and bake and cook and bake. i dunno how people can have families like your sister! lol It's hard work!
You spend all day in the kitchen! lol And they get hungry and I feel bad althought their mothers' complained about that, but they were hungry, they just wanted to snack on stuff and I know i do that all the time."
Preface: I have one problem with this announcement which should not take away from the content but I don't like how they use the word "mainland." My mainland is Hawai'i. It is NOT the continental U.S. Anyway here is an important announcement nonetheless:
Reposted from Kealaula:
FYI
Aloha all.
Update - Representative Clift Tsuji has said he will not hear the bill in the House Ag. Committee. Call his office and the office of the House Speaker, Calvin Say and insist SB958 be heard!
Rep. Clift Tsuji 586-8480; fax 586-8484; reptsuji@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Rep. Calvin Say 586-6100; fax 586-6101; repsay@Capitol.hawaii.gov
The attached briefing document was sent to the Ag Committee and Calvin Say today - Mahalo to the many who contributed. Feel free to use this to help others understand the issue.
Also, please kokua and forward this email to all the poi eaters you know - including those on the mainland.
If you can not be at the Capitol on Friday - lend your voice to call or email the Honolulu Poi Company (Taro Brand products) and other poi companies. The Tottori family, who owns the Honolulu Poi Company, supports GMO research and is lobbying Representatives and Senators to kill the GMO Taro Moratorium bill (SB958). HPC is the biggest poi miller in the state and controls the market and the farm-gate price of taro. But, HPC is supplied by many taro farmers, especially from Kauai who do not support GMO taro research. Farmers get $45 per 80-100lb bag (about $0.50/lb) - you pay almost $7/lb at the store! For some farmers, this is their only outlet because there are so few mills. Famers can't afford to boycott the mill - but you can!
HPC Foods, Ltd. Corporate Office: Customer Service:
288 Libby Street Phone: (808) 848-2431 Phone: (808) 841-8705
Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 Fax: (808) 845-5155 Toll Free: (877) 370-0919
Toll Free: (877) 370-0919 Fax: (808) 842-1084
Email: email@hpcfoods.com
Also:
Haleiwa Poi (north shore, Aahu)
Alton Endow 99-1093 Iwaena Suite D, Aiea 96701; Mail: P O BOX 2157, Aiea, Hawaii 96701 Tel: (808) 486-5757
Aloha Poi (Maui)
Lester Nakama 800 Lower Main St, Wailuku 96793 (808) 244-3536/Fax 244-1914
Hanalei Poi (Kauai)
Michael "Bino" Fitzgerald P.O. Box 824, Hanalei 967 ; Tel: (808) 826-4764 Email: poiboys@hawaiian.net
Call or email and let them them know you will not purchase their products if they support or engage in research, field trials or the use and production of GMO taro. Tell them, put it writing (testimony) that they do not support GMO taro research or production and that they support the Taro GMO Moratorium Bill SB958 and want it to be heard to Representative Tsuji, chair of the House Agriculture Committee and Calvin Say, Speaker of the House; and publish it in the newspaper for all of us to see!
Mahalo nui loa to everyone for your kokua on this important bill!
Penny
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Scraped opelu with a little water and salt:
From top right, clockwise: Raw crab, poke, and opihi:
All of them together:
Subject: The Honolulu Advertiser and Thurston Twigg-Smith are at it again
"Once again the Honolulu Advertiser allows Thurston Twigg-Smith to single out and target Hawaiians based on our national origin.
Since Twigg-Smith has a tendency to lie about us Hawaiians, 'Iolani Palace does not "belong" to the people of the State of Hawai'i. Instead it "belongs" to the people of the Nation of Hawai'i.
Sadly, the Honolulu Advertiser allows him to lie about Hawaiians and prints his racism against Hawaiians for all to read. If he singled out and targeted Jewish people based on their national origin like he singles out and targets Hawaiians based on our national origin, this would NOT be tolerated!
Unfortunately the Honolulu Advertiser still allows him to post his racism against us. This should NOT be tolerated. In the future I hope this ceases and that the Honolulu Advertiser does not allow him and others like him to single out and target us based on our national origin.
Thanks in advance."
I know that selfish people do not understand me. They never will because they are so focused on themselves... but I worry about the effect these words have on Hawaiian children. They are the legal heirs to the Nation of Hawai'i.
I think one of our olelo noeau succinctly explains it:
Aia ke ola i ka waha, aia ka make i ka waha.
"Life is in the mouth, death is in the mouth."
Or words are very powerful. They can either create... or destroy and I do not tolerate destroying Hawaiian children which is exactly what they are doing.
Again... selfish people do not understand me. They never will. Only self-less, compassionate people do so I fully expect those who are focused on themselves to only think... about themselves.
Anyway I'm off to WMOA then workout later tonight.
ISLANDS' HISTORY
'IOLANI PALACE BELONGS TO ALL OF US IN HAWAI'I
'Iolani Palace belongs to all of us, Dave Shapiro to the contrary (Volcanic Ash, March 14).
It is a key part of the history of Hawai'i. That's why I strongly support taxpayers' money being used to keep it in good shape for the world to admire.
I don't support the Akaka bill, but I do make annual contributions to the palace as do people of many racial backgrounds. As a vital historic site it is a symbol of every step in our governmental history.
Racial division should have no part in how it's used. It played a central role in the days of the monarchy, then the overthrow, the republic, annexation and statehood. It's the only structure that ties our multi-racial history together. No part of the community was excluded from the palace in any of those time periods.
'Iolani Palace, Hawai'i's museum — a perfect place for marking Hawai'i's history.
Thurston Twigg-Smith
Honolulu
From http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070319/OPINI ON02/703190313/1104
The truth is that the palace "belongs" to the people of the "Nation of Hawai'i" which is not the same as the "State of Hawai'i."
See... it doesn't take more than two sentences to mention the truth yet what does he do?
He lies about Hawaiians who are Hawaiian by ethnicity and/or by nationality as citizens of the Nation of Hawaii
which is a sign of racism.
Anyway this should not be tolerated. Sadly the Honolulu Advertiser allows him and a few others to single out and target Hawaiians based on our national origin. Again... this would NOT be tolerated if they wrote about Jewish people based on their national origin like how they write about us. In fact his ass would be GRASS! I tell that to the editors too yet what do they do? Censor me! Sadly since we are Hawaiian they allow him and a few others to write their racism against Hawaiians for all to read and do not do a damn thing about it!
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