Painting With Bea

Saturday, May 7, 2011
Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden

My dad has always loved to paint. I think the gene stopped with him. Well, maybe my sister Pam has some artistic qualities but I sure don't have any! I'm really good at drawing stick figures and happy faces. Anyways, he's been taking an adult painting class and for the month of May the student's artwork is being displayed at Ho'omaluhia's lecture room gallery. Tonight was the opening reception...

This is his instructor, Bea Hunt

Blaise Smith

Christine Park

Myra O'Brien

Bernice Bishop-Kanoa

Susan Locke

Carol McAneeley

Filipino Fiesta 2011

Saturday, May 7, 2011
Kapiolani Park

It's been raining around the whole island for the past week, but it stopped just in time in the Kapiolani Park area for this year's Filipino Fiesta. Y&M had a booth here jazzed up with our own Plinko machine! Participants tried their luck at winning pens, snacks, recyclable shopping bags, and even our bamboo bathrobes! Stoja, Haunani and I were the lucky ones who manned the booth this year.

Sorry, I would've taken more pictures but when we got busy, we were REALLLY busy and I couldn't run away to get pictures of all of the action. When we weren't busy I was too lazy to get up and walk around :) Hey, at least I'm honest!

Happy Birthday Marvin!!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Marvin turned 30 today so I wanted to help him celebrate by trashing his desk...for those of you who don't know, Marvin is pretty anal about people touching his stuff,not to mention messing it up....I came in bright and early (6:30!!) to start on my project. I had a blast!

He wasn't too happy when he walked in this morning...

My Andy Irons shrine...

These pretty flowers are from Jalna

With all the stuff he has to unwrap it's like Christmas all over again!!

Spam Jam

Saturday, May 30, 2011
Waikiki

Kathy and I suffered through all the traffic and mayhem so we could go to this year's Spam Jam. The funny thing is, after we finally found parking she told me she doesn't even like spam!! What a babooze. She ordered garlic chicken wings...hahahhaa!

I figured we had to order something with spam inside so we got spam chili nachos. Couldn't even taste the spam!!

We ran into my co-worker Jason, as he was taking a break from his part time job...

As you can see, it was pretty crowded

We got bored, spent some time in Macys and decided to eat ramen instead. We went to Kiwami ramen in Wakiki Shopping Plaza. This place wasn't too hot. The noodles were really good, nice and chewy. I ordered the shio ramen, it was ok.

Look at their soup spoon, neat yah?

Kathy ordered the goma ramen. We both didn't like it. It was a little too pasty and had a funny flavor. The char shiu tasted weird also. We like goma-tei better.

Janelle

Saturday, April 30, 2011
Waahila Ridge

A couple of months ago, I took some senior pictures of Cameron, a son of a friend of mine. Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking pictures of his girlfriend Janelle. We headed up to Waahila Ridge at the top of St. Louis Heights and crossed our fingers that it wouldn't rain. Thanks Janelle for braving all the bugs and all the pokey stuff all over the ground!!

The supermodel wardrobe change...