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Modern Day Cinderella

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How does the modern day Cinderella get to the royal ball? Does she need the magic of her Fairy Godmother to make her a carriage? Nah, the modern day Cinderella simply tows her carriage with her SUV.

Towed Carriage

Hawaii’s Dancing with the Celebrities

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Don’t look now, but the ABC hit, Dancing with the Stars, has a small kine local competitor with “Dancing with the Celebrities.” Local celebrities and the Hawaii Ballroom Dancing Association are teaming up for a dancing event featuring some familiar names like:

  • Tannya Joaquin
  • Stephanie Lum
  • Justin Cruz
  • Olena Rubin
  • Liz Chun
  • Steve Uyehara

On Saturday, May 2, 2009, you can see these stars (and dancing neophytes) at the Ala Wai Palladium for $20. Tannya Joaquin will be dancing a rumba. Wonder how it’ll compare to this rumba of Kristi Yamaguchi and Mark Ballas? 😉

Slacking or Enjoying Life?

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Took Thursday off to spend some extra family time even though we just came back from a SoCal vacation. In jest, a coworker said I was slacking via Twitter, but I replied I was merely enjoying life! What did I do on my day off?

Started the day off playing with Play Doh.

Play Doh

Then we headed out to Kahala Mall to dine at The Counter. No Daniel Dae Kim sighting, but the place was packed! Instead of waiting to dine in the kind-of-plain interior, we got take out. Our meal consisted of the signature Counter Burger and Taco Turkey along with Fifty-Fifty fries (regular and sweet). At the recommendation of @abaggy, we needed to try a milkshake too.

Taco Turkey

Total damage was around $30. Food was good, and I would go back but probably construct my own burger.

I managed to exchange my ultracompact USB power adapter that came with my iPhone 3G at the Apple Store. Then headed to Champs Sports to take advantage of the on-going Friends and Family sale. Sadly, I couldn’t find anything, wishing for the new Nike Air Max 2009+ (of which there’s some confusion about its release date).

The highlight of the day was meeting @NEENZ and @noe808 in real life. I’ve interacted with NEENZ online for some time, going back to her days with Truemors and now Alltop.com. We just never did meet in person. That changed today thanks to Twitter (and BriteKite) when I saw this tweet come in. We were both at Kahala Mall.

I managed to find the Chief Evangelist of Alltop sitting outside of Starbucks. We chatted for a bit about all kinds of stuff (blogging, business, finding time, family, etc) before NEENZ had to continue her social media consultation with @hazelnutcottage. Still though, it was a great chance encounter! (But dumb me forgot to take a picture)

So back to the title of this post, slacking or enjoying life? Definitely enjoying life!

Waikiki Bus Reserved Stall at the Airport

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Don’t know when this happened since I’m not a frequent traveler, but the Honolulu International Airport now has reserved stalls for shuttle buses right outside of Arrivals. And I mean right outside, front and center where the primo pickup spots are.

Waikiki Bus Reserved Stall

The reserved stalls are marked off, and the security guard shoos away any waiting vehicles and even travelers waiting for their ride. I guess this move is to help out tourists at the expense of kamainas.

UH Volleyball Onboard United

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Who’s that sitting in aisle seat 26H? Hey, that’s Mike Wilton! Ain’t he the Head Coach of UH Men’s volleyball? I don’t know the team so I can’t identify volleyball players, but there are several tall dudes on this United flight.

Update: Here’s a pic of the must-be volleyball dudes.

UH Men's Volleyball

Kokua at Windward Mall

Had a good Friday at Windward Mall with two instances of kokua. Thanks to the Starbucks barrista for the ice cold half and half and preshaking my drink.

And thanks (surprisingly) to Champs Sports for letting me get my Bright Cactus even cheaper!

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