Richard Kawakami Statue

What Did I Do This Week?

Hey everyone! Happy holidays! Since we are now in the holiday season, I want to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS! and HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Hopefully you are all healthy and happy and enjoying the holidays with people you love!

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 …

Morning after …

‘Morning, all!  It’s another beautiful Aloha Sunday here in the islands as I sit here watching the sun come up over the Koolaus with a nice hot, steaming cup of coffee.  I really love my mornings – so cool and tranquil – it’s a perfect time to be with one’s own thoughts before the rest …

Bellows Beach Park

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 …

Hale Vietnam

…Hawai’i got smoked by Wisconsin over the weekend, capping off a roller-coaster of a season. And while the pole 11.5 crew showed up in force, it wasn’t enough as Wisconsin ran all over the place.

Showtime!

Good morning everyone!  It’s Day 1 for the JATA World Trade Fair and since it’s media day, we’re only doing one performance at noon today.  We’ll be attending a reception later this evening, so we won’t be able to join our dear friends, the Taguchis, for some great Tokyo shabu shabu … oh well, maybe …