MDNA Blog – I Graduated!

I know it’s a little late, BUT I GRADUATED FINALLY! I am now a proud alumni of the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a Travel Industry Management Degree. It took me a long time, but I finally did it! I got a chance to walk for the ceremony and celebrate with family and friends …

Relaxing Sunday!

Aloha, peeps!  It’s a relaxing Sunday afternoon here in Manoa … just got back from playing a few games of squash and picking up some lunch at Uncle’s Fish Market where I ran into Eric Lee who’s doing a solo gig there for Sunday brunch.  I’m just sort of cruising now, but have to go …

ALEX IS GRADUATING!!!!!!!!

YEEEEHAAAAA!!!  Today is indeed a special day … our little Alex is finally graduating from college!  We’re all preparing to attend the ceremonies at the Stan Sheriff Arena this morning, so we have to leave the house pretty soon.  It’s going to be a long program since there are something like 1,500 graduates getting diplomas …

We’re off!

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 …

Aloha, Dad ….

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 …

Happy Tuesday, everyone!

Aloha kakahiaka, everyone!  It looks like we may have more rain headed our way – the skies are overcast but at least the humid, voggy weather has finally gone away.  I hope you all have a great Tuesday … I know I’m planning to! Preparations continue for ManoaDNA’s upcoming trip to Japan … so many …

Whooo, it’s MUGGY!

Aloha, peeps!  I actually got to sleep in late this morning … till 7:30am! Woohooo!  The weather turned very hot and humid yesterday with frequent rain showers in the afternoon.  This morning is nice and cool, but I’m sure it’ll be another very muggy one as the day goes on.  I sure hope it doesn’t …

Weekend is here!

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 …