06 Oct 2011 No Comments
Okay, so he was in no way related to me. But to those of us in the Apple Hawaii team, Steve Jobs was a part of our ohana. So we half-jokingly called him our uncle. I learned of his passing through the speed of Twitter. Although I knew it was coming, I was still in [...] [ Read More → ]
16 Jun 2011 2 Comments
A group of community leaders convened at Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center yesterday to include Waianae’s stretch of Farrington Highway in the National Scenic Byways Program. The program’s network of 150 scenic routes across the U.S. are coined “America’s Byways.”
The program, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, fosters ground-up, community collaboration in recognizing, preserving and enhancing select roads across the nation. As a part of this network, Farrington Highway would see much-needed federally funded improvements, while giving visitors an off-the-beaten-path kind of experience.
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02 Mar 2010 2 Comments
Something I remember doing maybe once in college was pulling an all-nighter. I did one Friday night and Saturday morning watching the local news. Not because I was scared – I live three miles inland and had mixed feelings of a tsunami actually hitting Hawai‘i’s shores – but because I found the possibility and gravity of such a situation quite mesmerizing. Just like how my experience with the Hawai‘i earthquake in October 2006 was completely mind-boggling, so was this one.
Except this time, the natural disaster never happened. Phew.
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26 Oct 2009 No Comments
No Impact Man follows Colin Beavan’s project of curiosity, as he sets out to discover what it’d be like to live as sustainably as possible for a year—taking his shopping/reality TV/caffeine-addicted wife and their toddler daughter along for the ride. Along the way, quite a few laughs are shared; I mean, come on, just imagine what kinds of clashes ensue between the Beavan couple! But it’s also helped me think a bit more about what my family already does and what I could do to live a lifestyle that’s a little more sustainable.
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03 Mar 2009 No Comments
I finally gathered the courage to look through my high school yearbooks and hunt for the message Mrs. Yamashita left me. Here’s what she wrote.
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