Wow it's been a while since I've visited. Things have been a bit hectic over here. After the earthquake my dad decided we'd better hurry up and finish the addition to our house before my room falls off. So we dug, and dug, and dug. And these guys came and poured cement into the hole. Now we have a 20 by 20 foot cement hole in the front, along with a huge mountain of dirt and another pile of gravel. It's been raining for the last 2 day and we now have about 4 inches of water in it. Forget the house, let's just make a pool! =) I joined highschool soccer, and that was a real experience there. Unfortunatly being the freshman, I didn't play much. We qualified for states, and came in 7th, out of... 12 teams I think. The season is over now, and I'm left with a lot of time on my hands.

But enough of me. Things have changed since I"ve last been here. I haven't checked up on everyone yet, but I noticed Downscope deleted his blogs... Pity, I had my hopes up, just to read his blogs...

Well I've come to ask for your opinion, as seen in my subject title. My English class has just finished reading the widely known romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. And with every unit comes writing and creative thought. We've been asked to write an essay, persuasive essay on romantic love. Does it exist? Is it worth the time of day to look for it? Is it a good thing or bad? And anyway I've pretty much come to a dead end on the subject, mainly because I'm pretty much neutral on the subject. See, I believe that there is some sort of romantic love out there, but I could care less on this particular subject. So I say I'm neutral. I was wondering if you guys could help me out with some ideas, what your opinion on romantic love is.

 

Here's what I already have: (it's not much)

Romantic love is based on respect and a mix of emotion and physical desire. Not only physical (also known as lust)

Usually there is more emphasis on the emotional side of the relationship

If you get married on romantic love, it usually is the foundation of a lifelong commitment

 

Anything would be much appreciated.

Movies: Theatre, rent or buy?

Going to the theatre is pretty fun but I don't do that often. We have netflicks so we get most of our movies from them. Buying a movie is only allowed if the movie is worth it, or if someone else gets it for you =)

 

Chocolate or vanilla?

Regarding what? Ice cream? Chocolate is ok but I haven't had vanilla in like forever. Milk, whoa, vanilla milk lol, I mean soy milk (i drink the stuff) I'd also say vanilla, chocolate is just yogurty.

 

Regarding chocolate, dark, milk or white?

hmmm... milk is good for me, dark is just way to rich and white is disgusting. But it has to be a certain brand of chocolate that I like.

 

Sunrise or sunset?

I would say sunrise. It's like a really special moment for me. Sunsets are just natural, your up when it happens. Most times no one is up for a sunrise, to really enjoy it.

 

Shower or bath?

Ooh, a nice bath is awesome, showers is just get in get out. But a bath you can soak everything away. I haven't had a bath in such a long time, our bathtub has shrunk, I'm serious. I remember when I could sit in it with my legs out, now I have to cross my legs, the tub has shrunken!!!

 

Coffee or tea?

Hmm... I don't really know. Both I have no opinion on, but I just I could say tea, I do enjoy a nice cup of chai every now and then...

 

Cats or dogs?

None, both I have had experiences with that weren't exactly all sunshine and flowers, but I do know that I'm not a cat or dog person.

 

Rock or country?

Country was like, the only music on my computer about a month ago, it's still there but it's been over taken by alternative. Rock is ok, but it does depend on what kind. I guess it really depends on my mood.

 

Fiction or non-fiction?

If it has to do with some sort of disaster, or something really really really interesting then non-fiction, I tend to be nosey at that sort of stuff, but it's mostly fiction for me

 

Snail mail or e-mail?

Email is the it thing and it's really conventional expecially if your brother hogs the only computer that has IM on it for 5 hours straight and there's just something you just have to tell your friend who's on at that time, instead of telling them and having them respond 3 seconds later, you just have to wait a couple of minutes. But I love getting something at the post office. It never happens so it's unusual and exciting, who's sending it, why? what's in it?

The 6.6 earthquake that hit on October 14, at 7:08 (depending who you ask) about 7 miles away from Kona's airport, is the largest earthquake that hit Hawaii in 32 years. What an unexpected way to get out of bed. I normally enjoy earthquakes, it's something different that interrupts our dull life, but after the normal 5 seconds something was wrong. My dad was already in the hallway (he was trying to wake me up) and my siblings were crowding around him. I was in my doorway just watching. Our printer fell off the desk, and the packets of paper we keep in cabinets high above crashed down, nearly hitting my youngest brother. Of course it felt like minutes but I think it only lasted half a minute. You could see the walls shaking and it was like thunder just really really close. We all evacuated the house right after, well not really, we first checked out the damage inside. Our fish tank had fallen over, swamping our whole living room (it still stinks) and the kitchen... omg everything fell out of the refridgerator, all of the cans were out of the cabinets and all of my nice clean dishes were on the ground or in the sink. Out of the whole thing we only broke one bowl, thanks to those sticky mat thingies. I walked outside and our heater was just going crazy, water was spilling all over the place. My dad's wall was broken, the pile of bricks crashed, our front steps a couple of centimeters away from the building but the worst of it all... Our hole in front of our house (where we were suppose to already have another part of our house) had moved closer, and the foundation right under my bed was uncovered. Not fallen out, just uncovered. And we're due for some serious rain. Our celling kind of sunk in but that's pretty much the whole real damage. Oh yea, we couldn't find one fish

 

Right off our road, on the highway, on the bridge, a huge hole fell out. I think if you go to thehawaiichannel.com there's pictures of the damage. Of all the islands. Yup the whole state of Hawaii got hit. We all had a black-out, the Big Island (my island) had the longest black-out, about 10 hours, because we were the one who got hit the hardest. Along with no radio stations, internet, or phone lines. There was another power outage later, but only for about half an hour. We had no idea what happened. So far there has been no major injuries or deaths.

 

It's really weird. Our house has just been hit. The one place where I feel the safest, now doesn't feel so strong anymore. Every little shake, everylittle rattle, it's paranoid. Lol, I remember as we were all standing there outside, just talking about what happened, my legs were weak, kind of shaky. But actually I didn't really feel that scared, just really amazed that something different, new, exciting happened. I think everyone was really more concerned about a tsunami, but I wasn't we're up high enough, I was more concerned about the volcano, blowing up.

 

There's no school, well there was no school today and no school tomorrow, at the school power is down, and there's about 8 broken windows in all.

 

The red is my thoughts about it:

 

You can understand and speak PIDGIN english.  Pidgin english? Pigin you mean (that's how you say it)

You go to dinner and "make one plate" with all the extra food leftover.  Can't forget the food

You automatically take off your shoes in people's homes.  Usually it's just left outside or occasionally you leave them inside if they have like a place where you put it... We don't have (is it called) "mud rooms" as you guys do (learned that from my dad's sister... her husband is making a new house for them and they were discussing how big the "mud room" has to be

You wear rubber slippers to the beach.  Saying rubber in front of them automatically means your haole (no offense)... well depends how you say it.

You eat rice every single day.  So true

It's "shave ice" not"snow cones".  No it's ice shave... no shave ice, not snow cones... ice shave

You know NEVER to turn your back  facing the ocean.

You know what ukus are and have had them at least once before when you was one little keiki.  Keiki=kids, children, child, whatever... one thing I can tell you is that ukus SUCK!!!

You've been to almost all of the other islands.  That's funny... I've only been to Oahu

You get impatient with all of those bikers on the road that came from Haleakala.  Considering you live on Maui (which I don't)

When someone says to "dress up" it means one nice aloha shirt and jeans.  This I dunno if I can agree... It just means something you don't wear every day

You eat coconuts straight from the shell - and drink the juice.  Omg that is so touristy

You went to the War Memorial Stadium parking lot to learn how to drive.  If you live on Oahu

You've worked in the pineapple fields.  If you live in Oahu, and your like 30

You know where all the creepy places (like burial sites) are in the island well duh

You know you aren't supposed to whistle at night time, cross your chopsticks, or stick your fork straight out of your rice.  I know that but it doesn't stop me

You have highlighted hair.  Says who?

You eat Arare.  That's like crackers with nori on them... put it in popcorn and mm mm mmm

You know what "tutu" means.  Tutu a.k.a. grandma

 

You learned to play the ukulele in elementary school.  Yup

It's SHOYU, not soy sauce.  Good with vinigar for vivee, gauvas, egg rolls, tomatoes, mango, good plain with rice, fish, chicken, pretty much everything

 

To you, sushi means sushi, not RAW FISH! And bentos means bentos, (like plate lunch) and bento rolls means bento rolls (a roll of sushi)

 

You eat malasadas

You have a billion pairs of slippers in front your door when your family gets together  We have a billion and we don't have anyone else over

Your house has residue from the salty ocean air.  If you live next to the ocean

 

You eat portuguese sausage, eggs and rice for breakfast.  If you have the time... or it's leftovers

 

You buy large quantities of toilet paper in case there's a longshoreman strike.

You don't understand why anyone would buy less than a 20 lb bag of rice...  lol

You would serve spam as a meat for dinner...  Not really but ok...

You can taste the difference between teriyaki and kal-bi

You know why there are alphabets on trees on graduation day

You know what lei day is.  First time I heard it

You know what the "stink eye" is; and how to give it.  Learn how to give stink eye in 3 easy steps 1. get mad at someone 2. squint your eyes 3. . . . hmm guess there is no 3

 

You can correctly pronouce kalanianaole, kalakaua and aiea  How to say kalanianaole: Kaw Lawn E awnA O Lei

 

You know what a "Huli Huli Chicken" is.

You can name 3 varieties of mangos.  Ummm

 

You know the difference between being hapa and being hapai Hapa, half, use in sentence, She's one hapa haole. Hapai, pregnant, use in sentence (for real what one person would say) Ay! Try look how hapai she is!

 

You give directions using mauka and makai.  Mauka, go up, Makai, go down

 

You know what it takes to get into kamehameha school.   you gotta be hawaiian... and pass the test

 

You say, "Nori" not seaweed paper. You can say it "Nor eee" or "No deee" (you gotta kind of roll your tongue when you say that)

You say "Brah" not "Bro"  "What brah? You like fight?"

 

You know why Sharks Cove is called Sharks Cove.  Where is that?

 

Your jokes are about Portugese not Polish.  It sounds like "Potogee" but it's basically like your blonde jokes (what's polish?) For example: How can you tell one potogee submarine from one regular submarine? Answer: look for the screen door, or "Have you heard about the potogee at the stop sign? He's still there!"

 

You know what Morgan's Corner is.... (and it still scares you!) If you google "Morgan's Corner" you find out what it is.  Oooo *shivers* it's just so ewgh... Brrrr

You think 70 degrees is freezing cold  lol I do complain about that a lot

You call it "saimin" not "Top Ramen"  or Ramen, but it's like rawmen, actually for raw mein (mein being noodles) dry saimin is a favorite

The surf report is on your speed dial...  Or you hear it even though it isn't

Rainbow Drive-Inn is a special date. 

You know pineapples don't grow in trees.  Of course not! They grow underground like carrots! =P

When you hear the words "fund raiser", you know it means Zippy's Chili 

 

You have said "wat, owe you money?", "karang your alas", or "dakine"   What the heck is "karang your alas"??? But da kine is used everywhere "Eh you know where da da kine is? You know I had put um ovader (that's also a roll your tongue) and now it's gone"

 

You call public transportation "da BUS"  lol do you have cabs that say "The CAB?" we have em and lol it's funny, cause when we see them we go "hey there's "The Cab!" or "there's The Bus"

You go to Neiman Marcus "jus fo look" 

The mainland people no can understand your language.   Never had that problem... yet

You eat mango with shoyu, vinegar, and pepper like I said before

You like ume, daikon, and kim chee better than pickles.  I dunno about kim chee but I like daikon (daikon is what comes in your bento (plate lunch) it's like a pickle but yellow ... ume is pink (fish)

You never understood why adding pineapple and ham to a pizza made it Hawaiian to the rest of the world lol that's good

You have a separate circuit breaker for your rice cooker

You measure the water for the rice by the knuckle of your index finger  wait wait wait... you mean people don't do it that way?

The condiments at the dinner table are shoyu, ketchup, chili peppah watah, kimchee, takuwan, Hawaiian salt and pickled onion  yup yup yup yup yup yup and yup

You go to Maui and your luggage home includes potato chips, manju, cream puffs, guri-guri and fresh saimin from Sam Sato's Cream puffs!!!

A balanced meal has three starches: rice, macaroni and bread  I'll survive just with rice

You call everyone older than you "Aunty" or "Uncle" even though they aren't related to you Respect, that's why... which is kind of akward for me cause my dad is haole and when I go to family reunions for him all my cousins are "Jill" or "Kevin" not aunty Jill, or uncle Kevin... oh and it's aunty (sounds like ant ee) not aunt (on t)

Your philosophy is "Bumbai" "Wat's bumbai mean?" "Bumbai I tell you" or "How come you let her do that?" "cause bumbai she go throw one fit" Bumbai= later, or migh happen

You are barefoot in most of you elementary school pictures. Or for most of your small kid days

Your only suit is a bathing suit.

You drive barefoot.

You feel guilt leaving a get-together without helping clean up.  If you leave without helping clean up you don't have to take the extra food... but yea... it's feels bad without helping

The idea of taking something from a heiau is unthinkable.  Or even moving something.... ooo *shivers*

You'd rather drag out the compressor and fill that leaking tire every single morning than have it fixed.

The only time you honk your horn is once a year during the safety check.  lol so true... except for when you see somebody

You can live and let live with a smile in your heart.

Nobody is sure exactly where "north" is.

Your cousin is Japanese-Chinese-French-Filipino-Korean-Scottish-Portuguese-Hawaiian, plus some stuff too manini to mention holy smokes Scottish? and French? that's what you call mixed plate, or poi dog (manini=small like the fish)

 

You watch your favorite shows "on top the TV"  along with putting stuff on top the table

The best cooks all use lots of mayonnaise

An approaching hurricane means only one thing.. surf's up, brah!

 

"You like beef" has nothing to do with what's for dinner or scrap.... beef a.k.a. fight

 

Beans are the perfect condiment for ice cream they're called something... starts with a m or p.... arggh!!! I know what it is! It's right there!!!! (azuki lol)

 

 

When you eat spam and rice, or musubi (rice with spam inside wrapped with nori (remember to roll the tongue) for a snack

 

You sing  halala ukulele momma kiss the babe peanut butter jelly when someone gets in trouble (origionally from ( i think) hana okole (sore butt)

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Hawaii.

 

 

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Let me just start off by saying I hate being a teen. I have no idea what the whole thing about being a teen is the best part of your life... I have all of these feelings inside me and they just make me feel so... helpless you know? Ok... I was just IM'ing my friend trying to tell her what makes me feel like this, well all of the thoughts but I didn't because it'd make me seem (well to me) shallow, and I don't want to be that ditzy girl who all she can think about is liking other people... yes... that's all I wanted to say... so if you don't want to hear about me and my stupid hormones, you are allowed to leave.

My outlit... I'm writing a blog on this because I ran out of room in my diary and I don't have anything else to write on, and because I need to get it out. It's like every time something happens, it's about someone else and me. And I don't like that because that's what I seem to be talking about a lot. I wish I could go back in time to like 7th grade when I didn't care about anyone else. That was the fun days. Or I wish I could fast forward and get past all this stupid hormone stuff and be happy with my life. Grr it's all confusing to me, growing up. I wanna be a rebel and yet stick in, I wanna have people know me and yet keep them at a distance so I don't get hurt. But what I really want is someone I can talk to and will understand and not think me as shallow but just someone who is growing up.

So that's why this is my outlit. You can think of me whatever you want and not know who I am really and I won't exactly care because I got it all out of me and I know that some people do know what's happening. Yea.... just ranting