Conversating

Thanksgiving in SF

2010-12-04T01:19:00.001-08:00

idk why it uploaded in this order. but oh well here they are... enjoy. haha

NOTE TO ARI:

2009-09-24T17:39:00.000-07:00

this is becoming a fail.

you need to update. lol. i will sooner or later. ;P

hope to see you soon. :)

then we can update together. haha.

finally about to start summer . . .

2009-08-15T02:09:00.000-07:00

so today was my last day of summer school, and almost the official start of summer.

but monday is my last day of work and that will be the start. but also the beginning of the end.

i'm excited to go back to cali because we get to move in and all that good stuff, and stayson's gonna come up and visit me too. so it'll be like the finale of my summer, but i'll be so sad wen i have to leave all of this again. although sometimes i wish i were there already. haha

so in honor of kryssa and ryan's graduation we took our traditional picture. :)

oh and i also bought the real matching jacket this time it wasn't a fail.

me and ryan sitting in front of the nice baby backgrounds lol.

we wanted to eat at CPK but ended up at farrell's.

it was full of alot of birthday that we question if they were real or not. haha.

i don't kno why stayson was doing this . . .

the girls took a nice picture, see we all had to wear orange

the boys didn't really know how to take a nice one.

but they're boys so we can't blame them ;)

mostly john doesn't know how to take a nice one.

but we still can. :)

arlie didn't want to sit by us girls, so stayson got put on our side of the table.

uncle tracy, our professional photographer.

so after many long years . . .

i turned 18

and i finally got baptized :)

(you could probably skip through half the video since you can't hear anyways lol)

crystal came.

and my parents too.

my small group girls of course.

and my boys.

so after my baptism at magic island we went over to the zoo and did an extra credit lab

met up with my friend amanda and we dragged our boyfriends along.

there were alot of tigers, it was pretty cool.

and we had to observe all the different animals and write stuff about them,

it was interesting. lol.

the FamBam went to the waterpark

with the clouds and all. haha.

but it was still a fun day, especially when we were in the car in they isobe's garage and we decided to draw activities out of a hat to figure out what to do.

it was a "you had to be there" moment.

so today my mom kidnapped my brother and me and she wouldn't tell us why we had to go with her to waipahu high school.

she said they were having an assembly

and she wanted to visit uncle keith, her former boss.

when we got there we learned why she was so excited about it

my mom fell in love with the song boom boom pow.

what a weirdo. lol.

but we got to see apl.de.ap. at waipahu high school.

it was bomb. haha

we first thought they were all gonna be there, so it was a little bummer when it was only him,

but it was still worth being kidnapped for. :)

and this is my new car, we bought it on our way home.

just kidding, me get a car? what a joke. haha

i don't kno why i took a picture of it, but hey its what we do, mango?

so that was my excitment for the day. haha.

and i decided to post something cause i'm bored. lol.

so ari, i'm pretty sure it's your turn now.

cause these last two have been really long . . .

peace easy bz.

(ho long time i never say dat, haha)

KETCHUP. get it?!? lol.

2009-08-04T01:28:00.000-07:00

LAMELY. i kno i kno. but my brain doesn't work correctly des days, i think the distance is slowing killing brain cells little by little. haha.

so anyways. i'm here to post some blog updates from my summer . . .

so i haven't gone to too many grad parties this summer, my parents been to more than i have, but i went to the important ones . . .

RYAN'S of course. :)

and KRYSSA'S PARTY.

our famous pictures . . .

hear no evil. see no evil. speak no evil.

and charlie's angels.
almost all of us . . . missing john.

been cruising more with the girls from sacred hearts more than we did like all throughout high school. nah nah. but it is alot compared to usual.

but i like it. :)

BEACH AND SMORES.

she could be in an ad or something, right?!

she burnt her's :(

FamBam Beach Day #2

we went to the beach. uncle tracy packed us food and took us to menchies.

first sunrise of the summer.

where did mary go?!

hoodies up. :)
oh look skot was there too. ;)

our photographer.
i'm still short. lol.
and we ended our adventure eating at zippys

then we all went home and SLEPT. lol.

one last cruise session before cici left us for colorado . . .

maryleah left EWA BEACH, picked me up in PEARL CITY, we picked up marnie in PUNAHOU, and cici and kelly in KAIMUKI.

than she drove us all across the island to NORTH SHORE.
we went to aioki's for shave ice cause the line for matumoto's was way too long. lol

and we had to go back to kaimuki, kahala, punahou, pearl city, and ewa beach.

ARLIE'S 11th BIRTHDAY PARTY.

was at my house. aunty cheryl rented a jumpy. and us big kids had our time to play in it too.

so we all got in it. almost tipped over a few times. it was crazy fun.

oh there was a slide that was part of it too. it was alot of fun. lol.

and we ended the night with a water balloon fight consisting of almost 500 water balloons.

so ari that is like our water fight times like 10. lol.

it was so much fun, got crazy at the end. parents and people not playing decided they wanted to throw balloons at us, so we threw back and they didn't like it. lol.

oh and it was cheap. 500 for $5 at walmart. haha.

i had dinner with the kids from MANANA. once again we went to cheesecake factory.

it was alot of fun. . .

me. jess d. athena. and jess i.
kyle. andy. and karlo.

we stopped traffic in waikiki, and everyone had to just stand there and watch us take our picture. haha. it was kinna funny. :)
we had a really good dinner, and followed by some pool time at my house.

jon yamada came by too.

we had a FamBam sleepover, and we got up early and went to watch the sunrise.

we had a hard time waking up. lol. but we made it :)

and stayed up there for about 2 and a half hours.
we took lots of pictures
and went exploring.

we couldn't get into the place to go to the lighthouse, its locked up. :(

so we just explored all of the bunkers.

and everything in betweeen. :)
it was a really nice day.

and alot of fun. :)

oh yeah and my hommie is learning to be in more pictures with us ;P
we still don't know what that random red building thing is, but the opening is all blocked up.

this was the best bunker.

it was pretty cool.
and it had a cool drawing of a whale.
kryssa and styson didn't want to come up at first. . .

but ryan went to get them and it was alot of fun and they accomplished facing their fear of heights. at least a little :)it was an awesome morning. but then i had to go to work :(

summer's been going pretty good, but it is close to coming to an end. makes me sad :(

i'm not ready to go back to cali. but i do vow to do more this year when i am up there, no more being stuck on campus. we're gonna have fun and explore california, especially since the other half of my brain has a car, she should blog about that *hint hint*

two more weeks of summer school, three more weeks of work. then two weeks to play, and i'm going going back back to cali cali . . .

but summers not over yet so i will post when more exciting things happen :)

peace out mango.

Pill Poppin' Animal.

2009-07-31T21:44:00.000-07:00

Location: San Francisco, CA

Apparently I miss the other half of my brain (aka Jess) more than I realized. Today, I came to the conclusion that I have the choke load more animal print things than I even knew. So here's my evidence of my unconscious signs of missing Jess (aka Pill Poppin' Animal- yes like the Lil' Weezy song).

And here's the make up bag that started it all.

The new bag I got has side pockets, making it what the "animal" would call an "Ari Bag"; which she would then through all her change in- making my bag even heavier than it already it.

I got a animal bikini, which I never got to wear because I'm in the coldest city ever. If only I went home I'd be wearing this all the time when me and Jess go on an Adventure.

And as a gift I got a little bag thing, that now I can match Jess when I go back home.

I for reals need to go home cuz I'm spending my money on all these pill poppin animal things cuz I miss the other half of my brain. BUT. n ow we got skype so its not so bad, except I was retarded about getting it to work at first.

Today I even found this one channel on youtube (ok I usually don't watch channels on youtube, so dont think I have NO life at all) but theirs one that they teach you how to do leopard print make up. So yes, i watched it and now I love it. SO check it out, its http://www.youtube.com/user/MichellePhan . Gotta at least look at the leopard print one, doesnt that sound crazy.

Ari (Pill Poppin' Animal #2)

Lance Armstrong Foundation.

2009-07-29T09:16:00.000-07:00

Location: San Jose, California

Lately, Mike has been getting into biking, thanks to his partner in crime-Blake.

And of course, they decided for their first race, they would do 100 miles around San Jose for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. There was the option of shorter rides, I think 50 or 60, but they wanted to start out with the 100.

So at the butt crack of dawn, they got up, drove out to San Jo and got ready for the hardest physical challenge of their lives.

After 7 and half hours, 3 blown tires, and litters of sweat (that was some gross imagery I put in right there) they finished their goal.

Did I mention that they raised tons of money to help with cancer research. Unfortunately, Lance was busy doing his Tour de France thang and wasn't at the event.

Of course, I was the supportive girlfriend and made them little signs, which they didn't really see when the finished the line because I didn't know it was them. I even wore yellow just for this event.

We're all really proud of them, and soon Mike will be doing his second race in Tracy, California.

Happy Jess, now you can see whats going on in my life across the Ocean.

Ari

home bored on a friday night.

2009-07-10T23:24:00.002-07:00

just for you ari . . . since your skype ain't working.

this is my room. i probably should have cleaned it first. haha

i'm so bored i'm using this to point out stuff. ;)

i kno it's been along time so i'll refresh your memory. ;P

my closet and "jessirano" sign.

the tree that took kelsey forever to blow up.

"go yell at a tree"

remember i had two desks cause my room was so big it could fit two?

and my messy corner of random stuff. haha

my picture wall that had pictures from like forever ago on it.

and probably my most favorite thing about that room :)

my coulds are dearly missed :(

and now my NEW ROOM . . .

it's a farther walk down the hall.

but we got new flooring in the hallway.

my new room door.

my same bed with like a million blankets and pillows on it.

my new boring windows you can't even see out of.

i can only fit one desk in my room, so now its extra messy.

smaller wall = smaller picture wall

my messy desk. but it has the essentials on it.

haha. :P

my "jessirano" sign. haha

same random stuff from the old room. lol.

and some things never change . . . haha

you know me ;)

i think this was my dad's way of making it up to me for making me move into this room

or he just wanted to spoil me

my room is small now. everything is like right next to each other. haha

my brothers old, cable-less TV but i guess it's better than nothing.

i still got my stitches. haha

i bought this calendar to try and cheer myself up about this room i don't like. haha

i bought these cool box things from target too. haha.

i turned in a circle and took pictures of every angle of my room

its basically a box. haha.

a messy, blue box. haha.

but now it's my box, and it's pretty much all i have.

so sad my life. haha.

and this is the end of the tour.

thank you for visiting. :)

so as you can see ari, nothing around here is the same anymore.

and my summer definitely isn't the same without you.

i need the rest of my brain.

there's so many things i want to do, but noone to do them with. :(

or maybe i just don't have the rest of my brain to think of things to do. haha.

i can't wait til our next break that you come home.

and i hope your skype starts to work soon.

haha. lots to talk about. ;)

by the way maryleah, this is what i meant by how bored i was. haha.

:) see you soon.

home bored on a friday night.

2009-07-10T23:24:00.001-07:00

summer days just sitting around and when the sun goes down . . .

2009-06-23T00:50:00.000-07:00

note to ari: samson got BIG :)

so this weekend was really busy. saturday i started my day at rachel's grad party. i can't believe everyone's grad party. i feel so old . . . and we only graduated a year ago. haha.

the crazy kids dat i love.

waialae country club was so pretty . . .

then i was off to the APU newbies luncheon. haha i remember wen we were them, all worried about everything. haha. it's so different being on the other end of it all. . .

keaton cut his hair. :/ haha

some of THE freshmen girls, and new freshmen girls. lol and britt and nick ;)

and you know with us the party never stops, so back to my house for a BBQ.

and my boys came, of course.

nicole's coming to APU with me :)

sunday ended my weekend with father's day . . . oh and ryan's grad party :)

i love my brotha. haha

and my sista.

and all of the FamBam. even the ones not in the picture.

everyone danced the chacha slide and cupid shuffle. (even the mom's)

and blake came to visit me at work today :)

oh and him, mary, kelly, and me all went to watch the proposal on friday night.

it was really funny. go watch it.

but anyways now i'm just waiting for my other SF friend to come down *hint hint*

YOUR TURN ARI :)

New.

2009-06-12T14:35:00.000-07:00

Location: San Francisco, CA

I realized I haven't put much up about the new hobbies/toys that I've got since I came to the mainland and since I'm being lazy and not doing much with my life until next week imma blog about it.

In December I got up to Reno and tried out some snowboarding. I liked it, so I got me my own.

I don't mind falling down since the bottom of my board looks pretty slick. hhaha.

I got a bike to cruize around in, since I'm in SF and everyone seems to have a bike. However, I'm not gonna be one of them crazy fixi kids with no brakes on the giant hills, I just got a single speed-- with brakes.

Since my rock of a toshiba laptop completely sucked, I got me a new mini laptop. its a Q2 msi wind, its got a 10" screen and I think Jess would think its sick (if only she could see it, but I guess sharing a brain only goes so far).

And since I'm an architecture major I have choke load of supplies, so at the beginning of the year I got some decopens and painted up my supply box.

Still in the bay for the summer, I have to say I do miss friends and home a little but I guess once I go back to Hawaii it'll make it that much better. A year away from home will be kind of weird but at least I got the new toys to keep me busy. haha.

peace.

it's been a REALLY REALLY long time so . . .

2009-06-09T03:17:00.000-07:00

this is going to be REALLY long...

so i believe the last time i posted it was like spring break.

so i'm home for summer so obviously alot has happen between then and now.

lets see what all that was...

we had PIO(pacific islander organization) LUAU.

that was a lot of fun. :)

i would write more but it was so far away i don't really have anything to say. haha.

oh we also helped out at Cal Lutheran's Luau.

then a week or so.

survived my finals.

finished my first year of college.

(i tried to post this video i made. but it didn't work. so just go to my facebook and check it out :))

and then came summer time...
of course i went to SHA graduation

and barely recognized anyone.

cici, mary, and i went to iHOP after, and that was an adventure.

of course we got lost, and ihop was closed, so we went to a different one

and drove in circles to find parking.

pretty much was like a "jess and ari adventure"... without the ari :(

oh and i couldn't pass on pearl city's graduation either

i actually ran into choke people over there.

it was kinna cool.

wish i got to see some of those people more. haha

aiea's graduation for my lil' bro.

so aiea and moanalua both have their graduations on the same day at the exact same time. so dumb.

and of course we had to go to both.

so russell, brian, me. did it.

we succeeded in what people said we couldn't do.

we went and saw jacob, and booked it over to moanalua to see chelsey and jenn.

and we did it. :)
raecha started off my graduation party adventures for this summer.

praise the lord my grad party schedule isn't like last years. haha

i'm too old for that already. lol.
lopo's grad party. was like church.

at least everyone from church was there. haha

and of course it was awesome. haha.

old school vs new school BBoy battle.

and getting to see everyone all in one place is always a good time :)

FamBam beach day number 1.

well it started off wid ryan picking me up from home

then us picking up arlie from school.

except it was like almost 2 hours before she ended.

that girl be ditching school in 4th grade to go the beach.

it was so funny. but yea.

of course we take millions of pictures.

and we had to go to menchie's.

because the "y-word" (yogurtland) was in the wrong direction

oh yea ari there's a menchie's in KAPOLEI.

it's like yogurtland. haha.

so that has been my summer so far.

i'm working at dellera's woodworks, under the table kine. lol.

helping out my friend and getting paid. its nice.

and i got a job at CPK pearlridge.

its all alright.

i'm supposed to go summer school too.

we'll see if that happens.

i still get my chances to work on my tan.

but its so hard to go to the beach when my Beach Bum Partner in Crime is about a million miles away being an stinkin' RA. whatevers!! :(

but i still love her. and i'm gonna miss her blackness when she turns haole from lack of hawaiian sun.

i made this whole list of things to do this summer

and it all cost alot of money, so the only thing i may accomplish is . . . BEACH. haha

oh yeah and ari... the super ferry is in alabama now so i guess we won't be going on it :(

but yeah. not much really going on.

just cruising and work.

and making it out to the beach as much as possible :)

until next time LATERS!!!

the MYSTERY SPOT.

2009-05-31T15:42:00.000-07:00

Location: Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay, California

So my one friend had told me about this thing called the mystery spot; its suppose to be this crazy place with messed up gravity and everything. We (and by we I mean that I wanted to see it) decided to take a trip up the mountainous Santa Cruz to check it out for ourselves.

15minutes and $5 later- its fake. (So there was 6 of us their- Mike, Tiffany and their two younger cousins so it was more like $30. Sorry Tiffany). Okay, so maybe I should have already known that it was considering that Mike had told me that, but I just wanted to see it for myself. I guess I'm a pessimist that gave the Mystery Spot a chance. While I was bummed that I had wasted $5, who ever thought of this is a marketing genius. So many people were there to see it, and its only a 15 minute tour- they're making bank.

After that we all went to the Monterey aquarium.

I didn't realize how many different types of jelly

I guess there's more than the ocean ones or the retarded Ala Wai mutant Jellys.

Peace.

Formula Drift

2009-04-17T11:11:00.000-07:00

Location: Long Beach, California

This weekend was one of the Formula D races at the Long Beach convention center. Sadly, Jess was in Hawaii instead of LA, so we didn't go to Disneyland with her. This year the format was changed, instead of having each judge add in their score, they do it jury style. Each judge says who they think won and if they aren't sure, they can have them race one more time.

Jason was nice enough to let Mike borrow his camera so he played photographer for the day.

There were some crashes, but most of the races were pretty exciting. They had Tanner Foust battle for 3rd place 4 times. It was too much. Its third place, its called consolation race,too long.

The drive down and up was pretty quick. Mike managed to get 29 miles per hour using his technique of following the car ahead to cut the wind. He must be watching too much speed channel.

We were going to check out a few fixie shops but because it was Easter sunday the shops were closed. We're going to be going back to LA in about 3 weeks,so I guess we can check out bikes then.

This scion got took. We were on the way back and saw this, they ballanced the side that wasn't on the curb on the spare tire and took the other 2 on the left side. Pretty funny, tire locks. Get some.

It was a pretty fun weekend.

spring break in hawaii

2009-04-15T22:42:00.000-07:00

well my spring break was this past week.

i kno so late, but i got to go home so its cool.

but my spring break started here in cali

we went to watch fast and the furious and street fighters in the drive in movies

haven't done dat in forever

went to a birthday dinner at nikki's house

that was fun.

monday night joelle and i missed our flight going home.

don't ask

but bright and early tuesday morning we went back to the airport and caught a flight home

first day back i got a massage. it was so good

the next day i went to the beach

the weather sucked!!! it was so cloudy, so i'm still white.

while i was home i ate good food and just chilled.

didn't really do too much.

went movies once, filled out job applications of the summer

and just relaxed.

wednesday night i surprised maryleah at work

it was fun and funny

played with samson.

he's still the same. big. haha.

and spoiled always getting new toys.

saturday i went to the sha vs iolani softball game

heart breaking game. but a good one.

0-0 til the bottom of the 7th inning when iolani scored for the win

but after that we had family dinner with the fambam

yes we colored eggs and had an easter egg hunt in the backyard

it was all fun

took our classic poses.

went to church on easter in the morning and night time.

got the watch my little kids perform

they were so cute

and i got to catch up with all these cool kids.

ryan and his baby.

chels and joelle.

my girls.

rasa who after two takes still blinked. lol

chris. oh and scott.

same ol' ben.

brandon tucay . . . however you pronounce it

sarah mae.

andy.

shane.

russsssssell.

jenny. rachelle. and chels.

bre and jackie.

mai and rachel.

and i spent most of the week with my boys.

skot.

and mike.

spring break was so much fun i didn't want to come back

but 20-some more days and i'll be back home again

too bad ari won't be there . . .

nah nah. laters!

Spring Break 09

2009-04-13T08:34:00.000-07:00

Location: San Francisco, CA

So I haven't written anything in just about forever and a day. So umm, like 3 weeks ago was my spring break which I spent in San Francisco.

Dani came from Santa Clara, Brent came from Oregon, and Mary came from the HI.

Eric was home from UC Davis, so we got to kick it with him for a little.

Most of the break we just chilled, me and Dani got our toes did at Sensei Spa ( I recommend it to anyone who comes to SF), and just some other fun stuff.

Oh, and my not so favorite Techno club thing-- Blowup.

And this is my roommate Caitlin Supe, she's super dakine akshun moke (or whatever it is that Epi says).

Anyone who knows me basically knows that I don't really like Techno. I went to it the week before or something like that, and it wasn't as bad as I thought, but I still said I wouldn't go again. It was $15 so I was determined to make myself have fun. It was good though because I got to hang out with Dani, Keisha, and Ant. I guess the $15 was worth seeing the fight that went on outside.

Basically what happened was 2 white guys got into an argument inside the club. They got kicked out, but they kept trying to go at it outside, some how one guy called the other guy a N*(you figure it out) and some like hipster black guy was like bro did you hear that to my friend. Then the bouncer did some kind of like football like tackle thing with his shoulder. It was pretty funny.

wow, that kinda sounded like a loser story. It was funny, I promise.

So Spring Break was pretty fun.

Ari

SNOW VALLEY

2009-03-01T23:53:00.001-08:00

For PIO we went had a SNOW DAY!

the girls at 6:00 am

me and christine

me and suko.

the boys.

me, summer, and suko.

me and chas.

ash and me.

me and nikki.

christine, me, and nick.

ski lift.

chas and kim. way back there.

summer and kat.

our mermaid, kimberly.

das my snow.

the sledders.

this is our run.

ziffy boggan.

last fun. :(

it was definitely a fun day. after we were all dead going down the mountain. but we still managed to go watch slumdog millionaire. haha. fun stuff. too bad every weekends not like this.

ari you be slacking. . . haha ;)

NOTE TO ARI:

2009-02-25T23:07:00.000-08:00

ari please post a blog before our lives begin to look very boring.

thank you very much. ;)

love always,

your favorite half of the brain.

P.S. i FREAKIN LOVE CHRISTINE YOTSUDA!!!

we are APPRECIATED

2009-02-08T23:42:00.000-08:00

The Mighty PIO(pacific islanders organization) Men

appreciated

us PIO WOMEN.

at our women's appreciation dinner

they sang, played music, danced, and improvised skits

just for us girls

oh and of course gave us all roses :)

it was definitely a fun night

ryan sent out his appreciation for our

brunch/dinner crew

and of course we all took lots of pictures

suko and i go way back . . . manana days

oh yeah and i got the whole night on video,

the boys will love that.

this is "our mod" for next year ;)

according to nick . . .

"the six most hilarious girls on the entire planet"

i love them :)

it was a fun night full of laughs . . . that didn't end there.

so we decide to watch "he's just not that into you"

and leave school ten minutes before the movies starts.

we ran in the rain across the street stood in the long line

and still made it there in time.

we went back to school.

i stayed in my weekend room

and we had another 4:45 am fire alarm prank.

immature people who call themselves college students

hahaha

just for ari . . . . happy?!

coz i love ya lyke dat!

WINTER.

2009-01-27T08:43:00.000-08:00

Location: Reno, Nevada

Like I said in the last post, the past couple of weeks have been MENTAL. We've been planning to get our asses out to Reno since before Christmas break, so we finally went. It was a pretty cool drive, as we were going up the weather wasn't too bad but we could see powder on the mountains.

Since this was our first time snowboarding we went to Boreal which I guess is kind of the panty place but I still was a little scared. We boarded for a good 5 hours. Mike's genius idea was to go to the "Medium" slope. It didn't seem too bad, but once we saw through the fog and it was twice as high as we thought, it was trouble. We managed to get down, but we'll go again for sure.
yup. thats me.

After that we went to Mitch's house who we were staying at in Reno. His roommates we're pretty cool and really nice and explained alot to us about snowboarding. Its a pretty good set up they got, a whole house with three guys and its not too far from the strip.

We ate at El Dorado's buffet and it was delicious. Crab legs, yum.

The next day we woke up too sore to get out in the snow again, so we went for breakfast. Theres this amazingly huge sports store called Scheels. It amazing, like I mean AMAZING. Theres a farris wheel inside the building, like in it. They have everything you could want. Mike was wanting a board so he got a 5150 board, boots, and bindings for $250.

I found some pretty neat color block buildings, something I wasnt expecting in RENO of all places.

As we were about to leave it start snowing in Reno, so by the time we hit the mountains we had to put the chains on. It turned out not to be that bad, but it still cost $30 to have the guy put the chains on.

It was a good trip, so we're gonna be drive up to snowboard more. Maybe later on I'll get me one too, but I want the arbor board with the islands. It basically looks like a paddle, with the Hawaiian islands on the back. Its sick.
Did you know that 90% of Reno's land is government owned meaning you can do whatever you want on the land. Pretty crazy, but there is something special about the snow.

-Ari

I was legal.

2009-01-26T20:14:00.000-08:00

Location: San Francisco, CA

Ok, so since my birthday on the 17th, things have been pretty crazy. So I'm gonna have to throw back on some of this.

My homegirl Dani came down to the city for my birthday weekend from Santa Clara. We went to Japan town to eat dinner on Friday night with Sean.

After that we chilled with some of Mike's boys and went to see NOTORIOUS. I came out of that movie just wishing Tupac wasn't dead. Forget Biggie. That's all I gotta say about that one.
Then on saturday we decided to get our piercings, Dani got her nose, I got my eat. We went to Haight to get it done and the guy that did it was pretty cool. But Sean just had to top us and get a pretty awesome tattoo.

That night we went to this house thing with some of Mike's boys to chill. I was glad to be 18, but I felt pretty bad cuz I called this girl ugly, I mean , not to her face or nothing. But i still felt bad.

Awww, we finally take pictures.

Oh this is one cool ass couple. That's Anthony and Keisha, Anthony goes to Santa Clara with Dani and Keisha goes to Berkley. Pretty chill.
Blake's birthday was the 16th, so after that we went to Blake's house for a little fambam kinda thing. He finally got his bike and gotta say it's pretty sick.

Yup Blake can ride like that, haha naw I really tried to get this picture to face the right way but its ok, it makes Blake look like a bad ass.
It was a pretty fun weekend.

I think Danielle had a good time too.

-Ari

HAIL IN AZUSA?!?

2009-01-26T16:11:00.000-08:00

so back in school for about 2 weeks, nothing extremely exciting going on

watched a couple movies, had a couple nights out, just spent time with the girls and chilled

back to the dorm life of APU

well this past saturday night, or sunday morning we got to evacuate the building for a lovely fire alarm that was randomly pulled by a couple of guys, everyone got to stand outside in the parkinglot in their pajamas cause it was 4 am. but of course one time isn't enough so at 5 am the same guys come back to do it again . . . idiots. this time they get chased down by the men of engstrom. turns out they were getting ready to leave for the marines in a week. very disappointing.

sunday night was more excitement when God blessed us with thunder and lightning followed by HAIL. what the heck?! yeah das foreal.

so of course we all had to go outside at 1 am.

my RA kati

the girls

me walking through it

ryan our guest at dinners

das right!

crazy girls in shorts

poor cars

engstrom girls

that was my weekend. i think ari should post something soon.

*hint hint* haha

LATERZ.

back back in cali cali

2009-01-13T23:33:00.001-08:00

sadly i left hawaii and my baby . . .

everyone came to the airport to say goodbye

this is how we fly first class yo!

we all went out to dinner at BJ's[ash, christine, chas, joelle,and me]

and now back to school . . . . hopefully it all goes good.

Working on the DATSUN.

2009-01-11T21:04:00.001-08:00

Location: South City, CA

Yesterday, I went with Mike to work on his 1970 Datsun 510. I did my part and made a sheet metal panel around the shifter. I had to make a template, cut the metal, and bend it to shape all by myself. That's my contribution to the car, and I am proud of it.

Ok, so maybe I didn't do much to really help with the engine and all mechanical part, but when anybody sees that car they're gonna say -" Wow, that is an increadible panel right there."

Somewhere in the 5 hours we were there, we left the radio going and killed the honda battery. Luckily, we had the Datsun up and running and could jumper cable the car. It took some work to get the beast started. The first couple of times we tried the ignition all we got was some pretty little bangs sounds leaving bells ringing in my ears. Haha, naw, but it was pretty loud, the first thing I thought was- op, someone got shot. Since we were there, we took some pictures of the Datsun. Hopefully it'll be done by May.

See that fatlace sticker right there, that's right. I put it there. I used those $50,000 worth of architecture skills to put it perfectly straight. Enjoy.

-ari

got SLEPT ON.

2009-01-09T00:21:00.000-08:00

Location: San Francisco, CA

Ok, so its only been what like eight days of 2009 and what can I say- its been crazy. From about New Years Eve on turned into this huge blur.

So here it goes: New Years Eve I went to kick it with the fam bam and at night to Danielle's house. Got to say, New Years Eve (Although the sucky weather) was pretty fun. New Year's Day I went to even more of the familia. Sometime in there, I went to kick it at Mary's with Jess, hang out with Rory, and go beach. Sorry I have no pictures, but I do have a hilarious story.

At Haleiwa (North Shore) while we were sitting outside enjoying th ono shave ice, I had a confrontation with my "filipinoness". In case you didn't know, I'm not filipino. So as I'm enjoying the delicious icyness this guy with like a New Zealand accent asks me about my shave ice. I humor him and answer and then out of left field he asks, " Are you from the Philipines?". Not just "Are you Filipino?" it is ARE YOU FROM THE PHILIPINES?. Man, not only is he sayng that I look filipino, but F.O.B. I am definately not fresh off the boat, sheesh, I'm home grown from Oahu. Of couse my awesome friends start cracking up (In his face). So I inform him I'm not and his Haole friend asks, "Not even a little?" and of couse my answer is "ohhh, NO." Then they ask me what I am and after I answer "Puerto Rican and Japanese" this story becomes a classic. As Danielle always says "I have COME TELL ME YOUR LIFE STORY on my forehead". Not to mention the fact that I get crap about looking filipino all the time.

I really can't remember what else I did, but I'm back in the city. I'm glad to be back, but I can't say I missed the cold. Imma be legal soon, so once something interesting happens I'll update.

-Ari

ARI FAILED!!!

2009-01-07T23:27:00.000-08:00

so ari you failed because i'm gonna blog before you . . . hehe

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! '09 is here.

so new years eve i went to aloha tower and watched AZN SENSATION perform

at midnight played fireworks for a whole 10 mins.

my guard dog . . . my baby

NE-YO CONCERT

met up with maryleah at aiea korean BBQ

party at my house

BEACH wid the fambam

jus tryna end this break right.

cause i really don't wanna go back yet.

ari on the other hand is there already.

laterz.

back on this rock.

2008-12-31T17:57:00.001-08:00

so back on oahu

and cruised the the SHA girls, and jacobe too.

lunch at bravo's on sunday.

tuesday afternoon

cruised on cici's uncle's boat.

we went snorkeling.

and diamond head was really green.

because of all the rain.

besides this, so far this break just been chillin, watching movies and spending time with friends

tonight is new years eve and going to aloha tower to watch azn sensation perform.

happy new years! be safe. and have fun.

BLACKOUT.

2008-12-27T23:59:00.000-08:00

Location: Mililani - Kapolei -Honolulu- Kailua, Hawaii

So on the rock, it seemed like all 20 people had everything plugged in at once and started a blackout Friday night. Went to my friend Danielle's house for a Post-Christmas party thang. In the middle of the festivities the power went out, but we all chilled there overnight. At first I thought it was junk that I wasn't in Kapolei (one of the few places that still had power), but then again sleepovers are always fun- so are Christmas bows.

Just had to put a post about the electric situation on the bigger pebble.

Then woke up and went back to the westside and met up with Sean and Rory. My townie friends made the trip out to Kapolei :) At least I got a little darker. After that went to Tanioka's and got some ono-licious spicy ahi and rice. I wish I had a picture, but I ate it too fast. My car was pretty dirty and managed to get Seans pants dirty. Sorry about that, those were some pretty Hinano boardshorts. I should work on that, the whole clean car thing.

After that, went to Genki to get some more mercury into my system (fyi. fish have mercury). Luckily I wasn't such a fatty that I didn't get a picture of the deliciousness.

As we walked out we saw a sticker about us.

A picture says a thousand works. well in our case, just two- YOU'RE FAT. But being fat is fun.

Then went and met up with Rory in town and went to a farmhouse party thing. Pretty Chill. Went home K.O.ed

It was a fun day: beach, fatties, people.

-Ari

jESS iN MAUi

2008-12-26T18:53:00.000-08:00

okay okay. so maui. (seriously ari i have nothing to write)

hahahah. i've been back in hawaii for like almost two weeks now, been to the beach only once. this rain is killing me, and keeping me white.

on maui for christmas as always, and its still boring.

watched a lot of tv, probably more than i did in the last 4 months combined.

slept. went to the mall today, for like a really little while.

and yea. christmas didn't feel like christmas. its kinna depressing.

but i told ari i'd write on dis before i left this "pebble" so here it is . . . hah.

don't even got pictures to put up. lol.

i'll do better next time. i promise. ;)

oh yeah and if anyone besides ari reads this . . . god bless you. :)

Mele Kalikimaka..

2008-12-25T23:17:00.000-08:00

Location: Kapolei, Hawaii

Just got to kick it with the fambam today and watched the game.

If you haven't yet, go check out the Christmas lights in Kapolei. They've been doing it for I think three years-ish. Talk about going all out, they have 6 houses all working together to make like a Christmas land or something. Its pretty amazing, I'm suprised they didn't cut back considering- you know, the economy and all.

ENJOY

And yes, this is a Heineken Tree. Awe-inspiring.

And hopefully there will be posts from Jess too on here soon. We just got to wait for her to come back from that pebble (yes, pebble not rock,cuz Maui is that small). But I miss the other half of my brain.

-Ari

Check please.

2008-12-24T23:49:00.000-08:00

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

And yes, I checked off another place on my list of local food to eat before I go back. Went to Ono's on Kapahulu to get delicious Hawaiian food (sorry, the name kind of gave it away). Got to see Riho, who is flying to Japan on Christmas(All I have to say for that one is BOO!) and Val and Jacobe. Of course I was the fatty who went all out and go the laulau plate with everything including poi. But, it's well worth not being able to fit in my plane seat when I go back. And like my friend later had to point out, I was wearing the shirt I got from exclusive. I know you all do that, wear clothes right after you get them, if your shaking your head no, you lie.

After that saw my USF/Hawaii friends at Ala Moana. Now, I know it seems like I'm acting like a mall rat since I was just there the day before, but I'm trying to cram 5 weeks of vacation into 2. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. Then I was happy to finally see Rory's car. He made like it was in such bad condition, but the body is good, engine is clean, and the sub doesn't hurt. So I just had to post a picture since I took one. Oh, and he told me the story of how he got in a little bumper bender, lamest story ever. Hah, just had to say it, but you know, truth hurts.

-Ari

Minor Changes.

2008-12-23T22:49:00.000-08:00

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

Went to one of my favorite shops here at home, exclusive. I've been waiting to go there since I left, I'm a little bummed that some things have changed, but of course they still have great clothes and accessories. Usually the owner Christina would be in the store everyday but she has a guy and girl working in there, they're really helpful and friendly. Got two iKandy shirts, glasses, and a couple bracelets making the drive to town worth it.

A mini-reunion of some of my old friends was pretty fun with everyone at Bubba Gumps. Just walked around Ala Moana a little after, and have to say I was bummed that Island Snow wasn't in its usual spot.

Being in SF this whole time and using their awesome trasportation system, muni, has made me forget how much time I use to waste in traffic everyday. When I came back on Sunday my gas tank was full, down to a quarter tank now :( At least the economy is bad so gas it cheap, I guess that's one thing its good for.

Ari

In the beginning...

2008-12-22T20:53:00.000-08:00

Location: Northshore & Sheerwoods, Hawaii

So Oahu has been storming this winter and amazingly yesterday the skies were clear and the sun was out. Unfortunately the red dirt managed to flow into the rivers leading into the ocean so the prestine north shore was not amazing. Not to mention the gloomy skies didn't exactly make Waimea inviting. It may look okay from the picture, but trust me, the water was brown. Only the hardcore surfers were willing to go out. The shockingly empty parking lot at the usually packed waimea beach was evidence.

Since this was a bummer, we decided to make the most of our losses and eat at Kua'aina's in Haleiwa. Even at the usually packed Kua'aina, we had our pick of seats, something I've never had the chance to do. It busy everyday, but I guess everyone got that news that North shore wasn't looking so hot - but us. I had an avocado burger with bacon (well worth the extra dollar, and yes I know how fat that sounds) and Jess had a bacon burger.

I've been going to Kua'aina since I was about four. My older cousins would take me to Haleiwa every weekend during the summer. The game plan was simple, beach, Kua'aina, and Matsumoto shave ice. Ono. That's one of the great things about Hawaii that is different from being in the city, tradition. Yes, I know San Francisco has great food joints that have been around for forever, but it seems like almost everything in Hawaii remains the same, untouched by time. You can go to the same burger place for 13 years and have the food taste as good as ever. Kua'aina's made my day, not to mention it was on my list of places to eat before I go back to SF.

Even though Haleiwa was a bust, we decided to go all the way to Hawaii kai side and get to Sheerwoods where the beach was nicer and the sun was out. Traffic is one thing I don't miss about our rock. After getting a little color, we went to Keneke's and got some ice cream. Must say, even though we didn't get to go to our usual spots, the food (as usual) made it all worth it.

All in all, I have to say it was a good day.

Ari

hou'i hou

2008-12-21T12:27:00.000-08:00

Location: SFO to HNL

Flight 11 itself was ok. I have to say that the "breakfast burrito" was less than awesome. I sat next to a haole guy who oddly offered me three oranges. Obviously, I passed. Guess it was nice, but still a little sketchy especially with the way people are crazy lately. Until i went to SF, I didn't realize how ghetto Hawaii's airport is, like being partly outdoors. Its probably for the tourist to enjoy the warm weather, but I don't really like it.

Its strange coming back to a place you've lived your whole life and feeling removed. My plans are pretty simple for these two weeks back home: Eat. Beach.

Ari