Land of Gathering Waters

I couldn't resist the other night!

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Day 58 - January 28, 2011

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Tonight, I went out with the boys scouts camping and hiking. Went night hiking with the boys scouts!!! Fun times!!!

Day 57 - January 27, 2011

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Anyone need a studio in Waikiki?

Day 56 - January 26, 2011

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I wanna go out and catch the big one someday!!! One day baby you will be mine!!!

Day 55 - January 25, 2011

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Night time snack!!! Left over homemade pizza is the best!!!

Day 54 - January 24, 2011

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Another day of work work. Went to visit Grandma.

Day 53 - January 23, 2011

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My mother has been using a lot of our garden vegetables to make tsukemono.

Day 52 - January 22, 2011

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Today went out with some friends to Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens to take some pics. It was fun!!!

Day 51 - January 21, 2011

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Went to the temple with the branch tonight. It was nice to go. I haven't been to the temple in a long time!!

Day 50 - January 20, 2011

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Yesterday, was an interesting day. I got a flat tire, my phone dies and gives me all kinds of problems, and the problems of figuring out a new phone. Today, dedicate to my new phone!!

Day 50 - January 20, 2011

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Yesterday, was an interesting day. I got a flat tire, my phone dies and gives me all kinds of problems, and the problems of figuring out a new phone. Today, dedicate to my new phone!!

Day 49 - January 19, 2011

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There was a job fair at Blaisdell Center today. I was shocked how many people came out for this. The line went from the box office to the parking lot and curved still yet!!

Day 48 - January 18, 2011

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I got home from some meetings for church and mother said the vacuum cleaner was smoking in the house!!! It finally died. R.I.P. good vacuum cleaner of I don't know how many years.

Day 47 - January 17, 2011

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Had to work today and went to go check out some possible work.

Day 46 - January 16, 2011

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Today was a really good day!! I slept in til like half day!!! I like going church at 2 pm. Well I was thinking of Sister Fenlon today. This is one the last things she did for the people in the Waipahu 4th Branch along with other cool little trinkets!! R.I.P. Sister Fenlon!!!

Day 45 - January 15, 2011

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Thanks Jared for the fresh Tako!! My family hasn't had tako like this in a long time!!! It was ono!!! Much Mahalos!!!

Day 44 - January 2011

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Today is Friday!! No work til Monday!!!

Day 43 - January 13, 2011

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Today was a very productive day!! It makes me happy to have productive day!! Man it's really nice to see sort a clear skies after all the rain!!!

Day 42 - January 12, 2011

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Man what a rainy day. Especially this evening it's been a stormy wet rainy night!!! With the weather I was hitting the wall for a subject. Thanks to Nic I found a subject!!!

Day 41 - January 11, 2011

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Thanks to my sister she sews patches onto my Scout Leader uniform!!! I couldn't ask for a better sister!!!

Day 40 - January 10, 2011

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Monday monday!!! I LOVE MONDAYS!!! It was a busy day at work!!! Work isn't always fun!!! Seen this guy cruising on the lawn in front of State Library!!! I envy him!!!

Day 39 - January 9, 2011

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Typical Sunday slepted in most of the morning and then went to an afternoon church!!!

Day 38 - January 8, 2011

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Today was a typical saturday spent the day working at home and at grandmas house!! Also went to Amy's to watch movies tonight. Thanks Amy for setting up your new 110 inch screen with new projector!! I like go your house all the time to watch movies!!!

Day 37 - January 7, 2011

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Went to the airport tonight to see Emi leave for 18 months for an LDS mission in Thailand!! So excited for her!!! God speed Emi!!!!

Day 36 - January 6, 2011

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Another day of work work!!! I went with some of the young men from my church bowling out at Aiea bowl!!! The boys had a blast!!! Some of them never have ever gone bowling before!! It was nice to see their faces brighten up!!

Day 35 - January 5, 2011

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Today was another day of work. I've been trying to get a good picture of the building I work in. But it ain't working out. Gonna go back out and try it again tomorrow!!!

Day 34 - January 4, 2010

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How many people drive around town to still see other people's christmas lights still up? I don't feel so bad. My sister still has these talking moving fluffy dolls in the house that move to a christmas song!! Pops was watching a christmas movie!! heheh Still sort of feels like christmas. hehe

Day 33 - January 3, 2010

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I've been craving popcorn for a few days now so I went to make some popcorn!!

Day 32 - January 2, 2010

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Today was a typical sunday!! Got to sleep in til around noon. I was a happy camper to sleep that day. Well this marks the end of the holiday season. I gotta work a whole 5 days this week. The holiday season is fun!! Well 2011 here I come!! My grandaunt around Christmas every year gives us this Panttone bread!! I kind of look forward to this coming now!!

Day 31 - January 1, 2011

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Hapoy New Year everyone!!! Went to grandma's house for lunch and Sumo was pestering me for food!! Sorry buddy!!! That darn cat was saying this!! "Please pet me. I'm hungry!!" hhehehe

Day 30 - December 31, 2010

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Today was a long day. I went to a wedding reception out in Laie for Daniel and Camilla!!! Congrats!!! Also had a chance to spend sometime with friends and their families for New Years Eve in Makaha!!! Thanks a bunch for the fun times in Makaha!!!

Day 29 - December 30, 2010

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I went to work in the morning and captured this morning sunrise. Later that evening got to go fishing with some friends out at Chun's reef!! Thanks for the memories guys!! It was fun. I came home with 2 eels. Perfect for bait the next time I go fishing!!!

Day 28 - December 29, 2010

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Today we took the office Christmas Tree down!!! It was a sad day to see the tree come down!!! The office smelled like Christmas all over again with the tree coming down!!!

Day 27 - December 28, 2010

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Went to a funeral for Sister Fenlon. Sister Fenlon you will be missed along with your creative christmas presents!!! This is one of the many that she had done over the many years!!! You will be missed!! May we see you soon!!!

Day 26 - December 27, 2010

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We went out for a Christy's Birthday!! Happy Birthday Christy!!!

Day 25 - December 26, 2010

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Happy Birthday Celeste!! It is her birthday. We won't quote her age. I wouldn't hear the end of it should I post that!!!

Day 24 - December 25, 2010

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Merry Christmas everyone!!! Today I think the highlight has got to have been when my cousin came over with his baby girl, Mara!!! She is so small and cute!!!

Day 23 - December 24, 2010

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Thanks to a friend of mine I was able to go to the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl. Pretty disappointing game. I was hoping Hawaii would do better but what can one do. Well later helped a friend wrap this gift. The drawing on the present was cool. I thought the art was pretty neat!!!

Day 22 - December 23, 2010

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Today I was able to catch the last part of a bachelor party for Daniel. Congrats Daniel on you getting married!!!

Day 21 - December 22, 2010

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Went over to a friends to help them with their camera. While over there was able to capture a father/son moment in time. All I gotta say one I hope to have the same enjoyment!!!

Day 20 - December 21, 2010

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Teancum got some friends together for his birthday. Happy Birthday man!!! His birthday lands on the same day as my mothers and grandfathers. [[posterous-content:pid___0]]

Day 19 - December 20, 2010

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Today went to visit my grandfather a day earlier for my grandfather. While there my grandmother asks me like a little kid if I want the a bank. She said that she would give me. Tonight I realize no matter how old I get she will always see me as a little boy!!! Thanks grandma for always caring!!!

Day 18 - December 19, 2010

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Today was a good day at church and did some home teaching. These are some of the neat grab bag gifts that came from a magical bag a neato stuff!!!

Day 17 - December 18, 2010

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I went to a Ugly Christmas Sweater Party. Thanks to Amy and Eli for planning a fun party!! Eli, in the future don't tape the grab gift so it's super human shut!!! Too much fun tonight!!!

Day 16 - December 17, 2010

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I took the day off from work!! I went out to Laie for a Graduation!! It was a good day to shoot the breeze!! Congratulations Kuulei!!!!

Day 15 - December 16, 2010

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I went and did a little shopping in Walmart. I was roaming around in the toy department. I'm jealous of these kids. I wish I could be a kid again and play with these toys!!

Day 14 - December 15, 2010

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Went to the airport to welcome home Elder Malupo. Man I couldn't believe these carts cost $4.00 to rent.

Day 13 - December 14, 2010

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Believe it or not I made some cookies to give away!! Man these reminded me of the good ol' days when mom used to make cookies during the holidays!!!

Day 12 - December 13, 2010

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I was looking for a gift for a gift exchange. This is what I found.

Day 11 - December 12, 2010

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Today was a typical Sunday. Spent the day in church and get some rest. I got to catch up on rest!!! Super happy to sleep!!!

Day 10 - December 11, 2010

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Congratulations to Shay and Kana!!! May you live a happy long life together!!!!!

Day 9 - December 10, 2010

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As I was leaving a house party tonight, I saw this Taro growing in pots. I thought this was pretty cool that someone would grow taro in pots.

Day 8 - December 9, 2010

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I ran up the ridge behind Kalani High School during the day. This is one of those times I was sorry for forgetting my camera in my office. It was such a beautiful view from this house I visited. I hope there is another opportunity to visit that house. Well stopped in at a dance. Dj Sumi was mixing things up for the crowd!!!

Day 7 - December 8, 2010

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I ran downstairs of my building to take pictures of the Buildings tree. This tree was big and it took 4 men to put up. Really nice tree this year. Better than fake!!!

Day 6 - December 7, 2010

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I did some window shopping at the Waikele Outlet Shopping Center. It has been awhile since I had the time to walk around the outlet mall at night but tonight I found these vending machines which gives foot massages. I couldn't believe it. People do so much shopping now-a-days that they need to have a foot massage to get them going again? I saw a local family get off this and looked like they got on because it was a novelty item. It fascinated them as well. No I didn't go as far as get on it. No way. I wonder who their target market is? Is it the local people? What I also found interesting is that there is a heck of a lot more japanese written to keep our guests out of the dark and wonderment of how to get this contrapment working!! Seriously all the food places and everything has japanese signage now. Back in the day it wasn't like this.

PS - I didn't forget what today is. My heart goes out to all those that fought in that battle starting with the attack on Pearl Harbor on this day 69 years ago!!

Day 5 - December 6, 2010

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Was frantically running around the house to photograph something for the day. I thought these little guys would be a good thing to try the macro on my new camera with. Mind you these trinkets are only 1" tall. My friend gave me a few and then went to get a few after that. I still have to go hunt for the whole set to make it complete at 12 but still have not done that yet. Will do it soon.........maybe. hehehe

Day 4 - December 5, 2010

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I am trying to get the pics off my S95. Raw isn't compatible with LR 2.7. So taking a long time to upgrade to LR 3.

Day 3 - December 4, 2010

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I was extremely busy this day. I ended up at a bachelor party in the showroom of Dave and Buster's. I never been in there before.

Day 2 - December 3, 2010

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I had sushi picked up for a staff meeting at work!!

Day 1 - December 2, 2010

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I recently purchased a Canon S95. I've been super excited to have a new camera. This isn't the first picture with the camera but the first post of a year to practice photography. I seen someone's post today about childhood cartoons. So I dug up some of my childhood toys from He-man. He-man was one of my favorites back in the day. This is to childhood memories!!

html

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Back in college, I took a html class thinking that knowledge will come in handy someday. I was correct in that the knowledge from college has come to be very valuable to me. Now many years later my boss at work has asked me to put together a website for our company. We have a small little company. We will be using this site to promote ourselves.

I am very rusty at typing even basic html code. Luckily I found through a friend a template to use that sets up most of the website for me. All I need to do is customize what I have. It's been a rough learning curve to figure out what is there and what isn't.

I have not been doing it full time due to my other work duties but been working on it a little bit here and there. I wish I had more time to work on this particular site but due to time restraints need to do a little here and there. Hopefully from here on out won't take me too much time to get something up and running that will be decent for the boss to review. I wish I had more mondern day knowledge of this. But we'll see how it goes. I will keep you all up to date on the status.

Flickr

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

blogging

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I will try to find some interesting things to blog about. I will post some pics later.

To be private or not??

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I feel as though I am a private person. There are certain matters that I will not post about to the general public. What is hard for me to believe is that people now a days post everything anything that goes on in their individual lives. There is no mystery. People are doing less face to face interaction, but rather blog about it. Face to face interaction is hard to beat!!! Yes, people can blog about this and that from the comforts of their own home. But, all I gotta say is the interaction is not the same. People say and do things that are not acceptable in person while blogging or microblogging. People please keep some things private. Some things people do not want to know. And yet it gets posted.

Rail System in Hawaii

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I've lived in Hawaii for most of my life. For a few years, I lived in Japan as a volunteer. Until that point in time, I only road in cars for the most part or used the city bus to get to school and back. I love my cars and the freedom that it provides me. I don't want to see the car go away with a rail system in Hawaii. I don't think the necessity to have at least one car per family will go away. But, after living in Japan and seeing how convenient a rail system could be. If only the rail system were as punctual and convenient as in Japan, I could do without driving to every location. But, I do know that Hawaii will never get to that point anytime soon with all the opposition it is getting in the news. I feel that those who are proponents of a rail system should come out in force to derail the anti-rail groups to see that this mass transit project will finally go through. We have waited far too many years to wait for another mayor to come along to propose mass transit again. I don't want to wait til I'm 80 years old to have a mass transit system in Hawaii. Hawaii's time for a mass transit system is now!!!!

I understand there point of view that this system will cost money and feel that the money could be used other ways. Tax dollars can always be used for something else no matter what the dollars are earmarked for. But, in this instance I feel that this project is the best possible way we can use our tax dollar so long as it goes towards the rail efforts. I would rather see tax dollars be spent this way to benefit those coming out from the leeward side then be used to make another city park that goes to waste after a few years.

Some say that the rail system won't alleviate traffic. The effort to build a rail system is important with the population not getting any smaller. The rail system will not (and I repeat not) eliminate the traffic on the highways. A lot of people will still take there cars to town for many varying reasons. But what the rail system does for us is it will give us options other than taking our cars or the bus to town. I believe that it will take some time to get people to buy into the idea of riding the train to work. But, once people see the value of having a train system, people will use the train system. The other thing that needs to be done like it is done in Japan. The bus system is tied into the rail system to promote people to use the train over farther distances and have the bus system utilize smaller buses for shorter runs to the nearby neighborhoods. This will help to make the buses come more timely in a little area to be more efficient.

Others complain about the noise. Depending on what system is used for the rail system, it is not quiet. The trains will make some degree of noise pollution. But this is to be expected with a rail system. After awhile the human ear will get used to this noise pollution. But through careful planning noise pollution can be reduced through having trains not go through major developments.

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Japan
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805060336
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805050359
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805040339

Day of Work

2008-05-03T19:09:00.003-10:00

I had to work today. It was interesting day of watching an AC tower being lifted from the ground to the top of the building and the coordination necessary to make sure the job gets done.

KAMEHAMEHA!!!!!

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Over the weekend, I was hanging out with one of my friends friends. She came down from Japan. My friend wanted me to entertain her friend because she was super busy. Well, her that girls friend came to hawaii to hang out too!!! Well, long story short they asked me to drive around and see this statute. I took them there and they thought of KAMEHAMEHA from Dragonball Z. Hahahahaha. Thats how this pic came to be!!!

Almost got blocked!!!!!

2008-05-01T13:04:00.003-10:00

Oh my goodness!!! The automatic bot that checks these blogs thought that I was a fraud. I'm for real and not a fake!!! I don't know what gave them a reason to believe that. I'm glad though that spam blogs are being taken off daily. Anyhow, I will be trying to update this often and keep this thing going while remain anonymous as best as possible.

1st Time doing this!!

2008-04-17T21:49:00.002-10:00

I'm just trying this thing out to see how many hits I can get from the internet. It has peeked my curiousity to see how much attention one little site or blog will bring through there use of a blog. In this day and age anyone from anywhere in the world can start a blog and post there feelings on the internet. People are so free with giving personal information than ever before. Whatever happen to keeping info private. It has even captured me to a certain degree to get out there and post my feelings on the net anonymously. Therefore, I will not use real names nor refer to myself using my real name. For the purposes of this blog I will use Henry as my name. Why I use Henry I know not except that this came to mind first.