Dancing with Roaches!

I do hate roaches! They are the worst insect in the world....mmm....wait mosquitoes are the worst!

Anyways...when I first arrived in Hawaii I knew there were roaches but I didn't know one thing...THEY FLY HERE!  One day I was sitting in the living room of my now hubby and saw something zip past my head to the curtains, not knowing I started walking towards it telling my hubby, "That's a huge moth!" He laughed and said "That's not a moth that's a roach." I kinda yelped and ran to the other room and yelled...NOOOOOOOOOO! 

Since then my life has been entangled with these little monsters, especially at work.  Every time I turn on a light I cautiously walk in the room and look all over the floor and walls, and it never fails one is always there waiting just for me, in the kitchen, under my desk, in the bathroom... yup in the bathroom, every morning I do a little dance yes I dance...as I struggle to kill it, as I hold my pee at the same time. But, the battle doesn't end there noooooooo it doesn't! Those darn things if attacked start racing towards you and yes they sometimes attempt to fly...and that's when my third talent comes in holding my hand to my mouth so that my screams and yelps are muffled as I throw paper towels at it or anything under the bathroom sink that may kill it...now here's my worse problem. When I have them cornered I have to step on them. UGH! It gives me shivers just thinking of it...I CAN'T! I hate the crunch and I hate picking them up with a paper towel and putting them into the trash, that is something I am getting braver at... but in the past I have just left them there as they turn over and die with all the febreeze air freshener and hairspray that I have left it immobilized with.  DIE YOU MONSTER DIE I say as I frequently visit the bathroom throughout the day, trying to go around the place I have left it at.

The worse thing is that the ladies I work with just laugh at me they are all local and have grown up with them, one of them says, "I just swat at them with  my hand." The blood drains from my face and start getting chicken skin. "Really?!!!" I say. "O Yes really but the best way to kill them with is the Filipino broom have you seen them?"  GAH! I gotta get me one of them Filipino brooms!

Going to Kalupapa this THURSDAY!

I am excited because at last I get an opportunity to go to Molokai and not only that but stay amongst history! That just gives me jitters! We will be staying in a 1930's building that once house the Kalupapa staff....hikes, archeological settings hmmmm what else is there to say but here I come adventure!

I am loving Ruche....ahhh!

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Gone awhile but back...

I have been gone awhile due to wedding and recupeartion from wedding but I am back!

Still not too sure about this blogging thing...but I am going to take the advise of the wise and post things of interest than just things of Hawaii...

From Señorita to Señora

And so I thought that I would be always blogging. Why not blog? I am in Hawaii? So many things to see and so many things to write about...but alas an engagement, the planning, and finally a beautiful wedding disturbed my sense of blog...and here I am trying once more to see if this blog thing is for me...

A call

Just the other day I took a call from a lady from the main land at work asking about camping places and which island to go to for best camping sites.  I gave her all the information I know for Oahu camping sites. But told her if she wanted more peaceful setting to go to Molokai Island. She asked me more information and I don’t know if innocently or maybe just because I love history I told her to camp somewhere in Kauanakakai town and then maybe visit by mule ride to the Kalaupapa leper colony which is now a historical part of the island.  

The reaction I got was a bit disturbing. “Eww no! Are you serious real leper colony? I am not even going to go near that island than!” Are we still that ignorant to not understand what Kalaupapa and leprosy is all about?  In a midst of mixed anger and sadness, I proceeded to try and tell her what it really was all about, but she hung up as disgusted, as I was when I heard the dial tone.     I wish I could send her all the books I have read about Kalaupapa, and share with her my eagerness to learn of these people’s lives, how they were ruined by than an incurable disease.  Yes it was a scary, this mai’pake (Chinese disease) now known as the Hansen’s disease, but its curable now.  At the cost of so many lives of testing and institutionalizations of patients, the easier patients to test were the children who were given opium (sometimes on a daily basis) to anesthetize the pain of clipping a piece of their nostrils to research the a cure for the disease, than making them life time addicts. 

The point of it all is we have so many resources, nowadays that technology offers us to reach out and learn about the world, and maybe about our own surroundings. But we choose otherwise to fill our lives with materialistic things that cause  the ignorance and forgetting that there’s a history to learn.  Not only the history here in Hawaii but all over the world that we use to learn from our mistakes and those mistakes of others. But I guess the hardest lesson learned is that what we learn ourselves. I hope that lady learns someday.

Local Livin

Every day that I live in Hawaii, is a reminder that I am living in another world.  Just walking into the mall and looking for lunch is a cultural lesson in itself. Shirokiya's is an Asian mall within a mall, I walked in I felt like I was going back to Japan. The frying smells of seafood, mo-chi, and Korean barbecue fly at you as you walk in,and then the different faces and cultures kind of made me feel  the odd ball out.  Although some have said that I look hapa half Hawaiian half something else, I don't think I have enough Asian features to fit in. I almost felt a little disoriented trying to decide what to eat, Korean sushi or Japanese sushi, pickled cucumber or egg plant as a side dish, noodles, fried sweet potato, fresh ginger..and it goes on.  Don't get me wrong this isn't my first time in here, but it is my first time without my local boy Kaleo.  He always knows where to go, I think I went around and around trying to not look lost, trying to look for a cashier, I finally had to call Kaleo to ask him if I pay at a cashier or at each stand I was picking stuff from.

I eventually did find the cashier, but on the way there I got distracted...bento plates on sale, green tea this green tea that.  Oh and I found a big bottle of Yuzo Juice (Japanese citrus lemon juice, yummy), but each one $4.50 each. So expensive but so worth it. 

And that is what I call local livin...I am not local, but I sure enjoy the local things I am introduced to.