tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34063072007-03-14T11:39:44.731-07:00kamaBlogger491tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406307.post-53139463035195143102007-03-14T11:14:00.000-07:002007-03-14T11:39:44.783-07:00

The outrigger canoe club I paddle for, Marina Del Rey Outrigger Canoe Club, in Marina Del Rey, CA. Is rich in history. I've been paddling with MDROCC for just over a year now, and it's been a great ride so far. My buddy Adam got me started in this. But in actuallity, it's not my first exposure to outrigg canoe paddling. I think in 2003, while working at Sony Pictures, a friend told me about

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You know it's great to have web counters that tell you something about visitors. The main usage for counters is so it can help developers how to develop for people visiting your site. You know, what kind of browsers they're using, the kind of dimensions their desktop is in, the kind of operating system. Best of all it shows where the IP addresses are coming from. I installed a counter on my

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So today, my friend Instant Messages me this website: www.youparklikeanasshole.com . Wow, have to love this site. I don't know about you all, but I have definitely come across some assholes when parking in Los Angeles. I wish I though of this website before. You can go to this site and check out their gallery of people's miscellaneous pics of others parking with a lack of spatial depth.

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Still plugging away on my current project, Warner Brother's "Ocean's 13". Yep it's another sequel. What's it about? Don't actually know... Haven't bothered to read up on the plot. But from IMDB.com, here's their input: The continuing criminal exploits of Danny Ocean and his crew of crooks. I'm hoping that this project wraps here in March, but we'll see if that comes through our not.

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The morning of November 7th, I saw on my cell phone that my mother had called, she left a voice mail... I called and heard that she either wanted me to call her at my grandmother's or on her cell phone. Normally that wouldn't make have any cause to worry, but something odd struck me about the call. So I promptly called her on her cell phone, and as we talked she told me that my grandmother, her

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Seeing as how my last blog entry got some attention on it's own, I decided to post one of the interactions I got with someone about the topic. The emailer (who shall remain anonymous) posted this in reply to my opinion: Mr. Reece would appear to consider his photograph as iconic in the same way that Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima's Mt. Suribachi is iconic. Apples

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Yesterday I came across an email that was sent to me by a hula sister. She was not the author of this email but forwarded some interesting information in the hula world. What the subject of the email was another email composed by a well known Kumu Hula, Vicki Holt Takamine. The matter was that of a well known photographer who takes pics of hula dancers, Kim Taylor-Reece. The claim is that KTR

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So yeah... a whole lot of stuff going on since the last post... Probably way too much to get caught up on. Anything from my hula to paddling to whatevers, a lot going on. One such thing is looking into upgrading the website. I've been wanting to incorporate different aspects of the site. Having this site be multifunctional and be able to access the different parts of the site from the one

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How to climb a coconut tree? Well while I was in Hilo during the month of April, my hula bros and I took it upon ourselves to deviate from schedule and make our way down to the steam pond south of Hilo. We got there, and sure enough there it was. We swam a bit and whatevs. Afterwhich we head back to our van and we walk through a small grove of, you guessed it, coconut trees. Well

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Well it's my first day back to work in over three months. Back story goes like this: I was working at Warner Bros for about two years. Towards the end, I was practicing with my halau, Na Pua Me Kealoha, for a competition in Hilo, Hawaii. The competitin was going to take place, the 21st through the 24th. My departure from California was going to be on the 14th. Before reaching that date, I

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Well the time is drawing close this week. Much has happened since my last post. Unfortunately the on goings where I work is slowing and many things are transpiring with the parent company. So as a result, my company will be laying off their employees in their division, which includes me. Not to worry though, I will be completely fine. The way my industry works, it's to be expected. I'll

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All right party people! So for most of you who know about this site and know me through the na halau. You all know that I have been practicing with Auntie Sissy Kaio and her halau, Na Pua me Kealoha, in preparation for Merrie Monarch 2006. For those of you who are not aware, I had been asked by Auntie Sissy in November / December of 2005 to dance for her. It was quite a shock and honor to be

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I first met Auntie Clarice Nuhi in October of 2005. I was participating with Auntie Sissy Kaio's Halau in Carson, in the World Festival of Sacred Music. We had a practice on a Saturday morning. After which, my friends 'Uhane and Nina need to go over to Auntie Clarice's Halau to work on their feather leis. They asked if I wanted to go with them and hang out. I was reluctant since I was not making

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December 10th 2005, a good friend of mine, Kaleo Calindo married his best friend, Jocelyn Padre. I was quite honored to have been invited to his wedding. I took place in an awesome church in Camarillo. The wedding was touching and full of love. While trying to take pictures during the ceremony, I was surprised to see who I was sitting next to, Auntie Clarice. She was Kaleo's Kumu Hula in

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I don't know about most of you all, but it seems that there really should be some kind law that makes cell phone companies produce cell phones that come built in, a breathalyzer. Yeah, that's right, a breathalyzer. You know, when you're either home getting wasted, or out with the spouse getting hammered, the last thing you really need to do is call someone and try to have some kind of

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I was recently given this book as a gift by one of my Aunties in my halau. I have been reading off and on days after receiving it. It's easy reading. The author talks about factual events that lead to the dwindling numbers of Hawaiians from the onset of foreigners in Hawaii and it's devastating impact on the Kingdom of Hawaii as a whole. Though the author does a good job at pointing out

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November 28th 2005, my first Detroit Red Wing game... my second LA King's game. I hadn't been to a hockey game in over two years. I'm not really a sports fan pe se, but when I worked at Cinesite, a child company of Kodak. We used to get free box seats at the Staples Center. See Kodak had a box seat there mainly for their clients and what not, or whoever they were trying to schmooze.

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Saturday October 22nd, I had the fortune of exercising my civil rights by gathering peacfully in Pasadena outside 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. This was rally to raise awareness of one if not many issues facing Hawaiians today. First and foremost was raising awareness of the ruling on Doe vs. Kamehameha. For those of you know don't know you can visit this link and read up on the issues here:

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It's so cool how small the hula world is, and how life and just be so serendipitous. Take for instance our recent discovery of Bob's Okazuya. A newly found place for thick poi and ono plates of poke! It was ironic actually. My friends' Nina and 'Uhane and I were finishing up with practice with Auntie Sissys' halau on a Saturday. We decided to hit some place up for lunch, prefereably local food.

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Hau'oli la pelehu! Happy Thanksgiving Day! So this year, I opted for staying in town and spending with my friends, Louis his girlfriend Linda, Adam and his wife Grace. I don't think I have actually had a Thanksgiving holiday spent away from family before, so this was my first year. Louis, some time prior to Thanksgiving day, had invited us to dinner. We had finished a morning of

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It's funny, someone I once worked with, described me as a 175lb person in a 300lb suit. He said that in response to me bumping into doorways at work. I think about that comment from time to time. When I first hear those words, I weighed nearly 270lbs. Life seemed at the time to be okay. It wasn't terrific, nor was it bad, just okay. Before I started in my career field, computer visual effects, I

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Sunday, October 2, 2005. This was the last day in the month long schedule of the World Festival of Sacred Music. It's an organization that explores the music influences of other cultures and ethnicities. On this day, Sunday, the representing groups were Brazilian, African, Italian, Chumash and Hawaiian. My halau, Hula Keali'i O Nalani, was invited by, Hula Halau `o Lilinoe ame Na Pua Me Kealoha,

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Nana ka maka; ho`olohe ka pepeiao; pa`a ka waha. Observe with the eyes; listen with the ears; shut the mouth. Thus one learns.

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All right so I ended up staying home today, March 26th. I got up this morning and I was planning on going down to see my baby, Cece. When I got up this morning i wasn't feeling up to par. I was kind of faced with a dilema. Either go down and be under par, or stay home and catch on my health. I chose to stay home and catch up on m y health. Unfortunately for me though, I miss my girlfriend. She

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