Aloha, everyone!  Nick & I are off to Japan today get a jump start on our Golden Week tour with HTJ.  We’re going up early because we plan to go up to Sendai and Miyagi prefecture with some of the HTJ staff to visit the evacuation shelters and try to bring some aloha from Hawai’i [READ MORE]

Boy, I’ve got so many things to do today … two meetings and a zillion (yes, a zillion!) errands to run!  Nick and I leave for Japan in a couple of days so I gotta get off my butt and start getting my s–t together.  Should have started doing a lot of this stuff weeks [READ MORE]

Good morning, everyone!  Today is the 2nd anniversary of my father’s passing and I plan to go up to Punchbowl to visit his grave this morning.  For some reason, I woke up very early this morning with the song, “DREAMS COME ALIVE” in my head … it’s the song which Alex wrote as a tribute [READ MORE]

Good morning, everyone, and “Happy Aloha Friday!” to you all!  April is flying by so quickly … half of 2011 is almost over and it seems like we just got finished celebrating the New Year!  Doesn’t it seem like the world is in fast forward .. like things are coming at us so fast that [READ MORE]

Howdy, peeps!  Got some much needed rest last night … especially after a performance-filled weekend and another hectic Monday.  I’m still getting a lot of emails from people talking about the KOKUA FOR JAPAN telethon fundraiser last Sunday which raised $1.6 million in donations for Japan’s disaster victims.  If you didn’t see it, you missed [READ MORE]

At the game with nick!!! Great face nick!

Now I know what you’re thinking… SUSHI CHEF?! IRON CHEF KAWAKAMI! No, it’s nothing fancy, I just decided last night that I would make sushi. On my own, no professional help. And let me tell you, it did not turn out that bad! I first went online (my usual source of information) and found several [READ MORE]

For those of you who are not able to follow our radio show broadcasting on 79.5 Radio-i in Nagoya, Japan, “Manoa DNA Reports” is a segment from our show where we report about places or events around town and share them with our radio listeners. I am going to try and follow up here on [READ MORE]

It’s another rainy Manoa morning, and I’m getting ready to walk the puppies.  Our dogs are so lolo – they bug us to take them for their walk and then run away when we try to put on their walking harnesses!  Go figure …. It was another awesome evening at Kani Ka Pila!  We streamed [READ MORE]