So today we had a basketball day for our sports ministry. I’ll write more about it later when I get the pictures. But amusing thing that happened today was the aggressive play of one Kevin Stem (I’ll put his real name here so you know where to direct the hate mail). Now, all of us like to play and we all love to win, but sometimes you can just go too far. I was passing the ball to Jenny, my…
Today I think we turned a corner. Usually whenever we do a motorcycle ride at church we normally have only one type of bike…Japanese. You know, Kawasakis, Yamahas, Suzukis and Hondas. Today, though, we had something different. For the first time at one of our rides we had something American…the iconic Harley-Davidson. Actually the one on the far right is a Honda This was actually a really fun ride. It sounded completely different from our other rides. Most street bikes…
A few years ago, Russell and I went to a conference in Orlando, Florida. We didn’t stay at the convention site because we made the decision to go too late to still get a good rate at the hotel so instead we stayed across the street at a Holiday Inn or something like that. Well everyday that we slept in too late (as deemed by our maid) she would knock once and then let herself in. Then she would mumble…
Saw this video on ebaums, made me think of Kawika and his soccer loving ways. Plus it’s only 18 seconds long so it fit with my short attention span. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/mediaplayer.swf Who knew soccer could be so dangerous?
Ahh, May 5th. For most of us growing up in Hawaii, we know this day as Boy’s Day (now changed to Children’s day). However, for some of our other friends on the continent this day is Cinco de Mayo (which cleverly enough means the “fifth of May”). On this day some 100+ years ago, something significant happened in Mexico’s history. You can read about it here. Nowadays it’s primarily a day to go to a Mexican restaurant and drink margaritas….
Well it’s Sunday and I’m sitting at home. You may be wondering, “Why aren’t you at church?”, after all it is a Sunday morning, a time that is traditionally set aside for church services. Well, the answer is that I have a bum left eye. Actually, sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, I managed to scratch my eye bad enough that my eye doctor said it’s like I have an ulcer on my eye ball. So I’m sitting at…
So it’s about 8:30 at night I have no idea what to do. Keao is working the overnight shift now so she sleeps during the day, but I think she couldn’t fall asleep until after noon so she’s still sleeping and I’m her sitting on the couch, in the dark, journaling. I actually had a pretty productive day. I got to ride my motorcycle to town and pick up Keao’s A/C adapter from the Toshiba service center, returned the other…
Growing up in a Japanese household, the concept of bachi was something that was constantly instilled in us. Very loosely, bachi means “what goes around comes around”. It’s like laughing at someone falling and then tripping two seconds later. So this past weekend, Dural, Kevin, Leschon and my brother were getting scuba certified and they had to do a few certification dives. Since Keidi and I are already certified we decided to join them in the water and see if…
I remember a few years ago my friend was talking about your shower routine. Your shower routine is what you do in the shower every day. Most of us have a very predictable shower routine and if you deviate from that routine there’s no telling what may happen. For instance, my shower routine starts with washing my face, then my hair and lastly my body. One day, I decided to mix things up and wash my body first and I…
You know, there are many times in a man’s life where he likes to hear the the words, “Gee, it’s bigger than I thought”. I’ll let your mind wander around for a while and think of a few situations…okay, are you back? Yesterday I heard that phrase but it was in a totally unpleasant way. Totally unpleasant. Where was I you may ask? Well I’ll tell you. I was in my dentist’s chair. Now, I don’t know about you, but…