Posted by Da Kine Guy on March 1st, 2010
You could buy one big sack of See Moi for a nickel… and then you ate the whole thing and licked the bag…
Gramma said, you go Chinese School, you say “NO!” she said, you go, I buy you see moi, you say OK.
Windward side… taro patches… rice paddies…water buffalo… When you mentioned Kaneohe, everyone knew you were talking about the pupule house… When the tallest building in Honolulu was the Aloha Tower… Radio personalities like.. J. Aku Head Pupule on KGMB in the mornings saying “OK, all you SLOBS, it’s time to GET UP!!!” (I remember every morning Aku played that jingle that I woke up to about the Coconut Wireless) Hey, no foget Lucky Luck’s “Lucky you come Hawaii!” and remember Don Chamberlin and “Don in the fishbowl” from Fran’s Drive Inn.. When you lived in Honolulu, T.H…. Signs on vacant and private property that said KAPU… When the site of AlaMoana Shopping Center was a big swamp. Waialae-Kahala was mostly pig farms. and the area next to the airport was a neighborhood called Damon Tract…
Posted by Da Kine Guy on February 27th, 2010
Hula (pronounced /ˈhuːlə/) is a dance form accompanied by chant or song. It was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. The chant or song is called a mele. The hula dramatizes or comments on the mele.
Posted by Da Kine Guy on February 15th, 2010
There is virtually no end to the things to do in Hawaii. There is so much to see and do that you’ll want to make some plans before you leave home. The most popular day trips, sails and activities sell out several weeks in advance, so make your plans early. The biggest decision you’ll need to make when visiting Hawaii is to decide which island or islands you’ll visit. Here are some resources which will help you make your decision.
Posted by Da Kine Guy on February 10th, 2010
Modern cuisine of Hawaii is a fusion of many cuisines brought by multiethnic immigrants to the Hawaiian Islands, particularly of American, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Polynesian and Portuguese origins, including plant and animal food sources imported from around the world for agricultural use in Hawaii.
Posted by Da Kine Guy on February 8th, 2010
Video of Keali’i Reichel singing Kawaipunahele Hawaiian Music.
Keali’i Reichel hawaiian music Nou e Kawaipunahele Ku`u lei aloha mae `ole Pili hemo`ole, Pili pa`a pono E huli ho`i käua E Kawaipunahele Kü `oe me ke ki`eki`e I ka nani a`o Wailuku Ku`u ipo henoheno, Ku`u wehi o ka pö E huli ho`i käua E Kawaipunhele Eia ho`i `o Keali`i Kali `ana i ka mehameha Mehameha ho`i au, `Eha`eha ho`i au E huli ho`i käua E Kawaipunahele Puana `ia ke aloha Ku`u lei aloha mae `ole Pili hemo `ole, Pili pa`a pono Ke pono ho`i käua E Kawaipunahele For you Kawaipunahele My never-fading lei Never separated, Firmly united. Come, let’s go back. O Kawaipunahele. You stand majestically In the splendor of Wailuku. My cherished sweetheart, My adornment of the night Come, let’s go back. O Kawaipunahele Here is Keali`i Waiting in loneliness I am lonely, I hurt Come, let’s go back, O Kawaipunahele. Tell of the love, Of my never-fading lei. Never separated, Firmly united When it’s right, we’ll go back, O Kawaipunaheleery Many thank yous to Youtuber 808Productionz for providing the lyrics in both languages.
Posted by Da Kine Guy on February 7th, 2010
Brian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook. An overnight success ten years in the making, social media is as transformative as it is evolutionary. At last, 2010 is expected to be the year that social media goes mainstream for business. In speaking with many executives and entrepreneurs, I’ve noticed that the path towards new media enlightenment often hinges on corporate culture and specific marketplace conditions. Full social media integration often happens in stages — it’s an evolutionary process for companies and consumers alike. Here are the ten most common stages that businesses experience as they travel the road to full social media integration.
Posted by Da Kine Guy on February 7th, 2010
A favorite Hawaiian way to eat Spam is in the form of a musubi (pronounced moo-soo-bee, with no accent). It is a fried slice of spam on rice pressed together to form a small block, then wrapped with a strip of seaweed. A special kitchen gadget, known as the Spam Musubi Press (see photo below), is responsible for the proliferation of this treat. It is a special plexiglas mold with the outline of a single Spam slice.
Posted by Da Kine Guy on February 7th, 2010
Having a mobile-optimized web site can really make your site stand apart from the pack. Even though smartphones like the iPhone and Google Android devices can display “the full web,” having a web page formatted for smaller screens and with features that can take advantage of a touch screen, geolocation, or address book functionality can make the mobile web browsing experience that much better. Even just a few years ago, optimizing websites for mobile browsers was a painful and difficult process, in part because of the limitations of most mobile browsers. Today, thanks to the proliferation of WebKit (which powers the browsers on the iPhone, Android(
) and webOS devices, with BlackBerry expected to join the mix next year), it’s much easier to decide on a strategy for making your website pop on mobile platforms.
Posted by Da Kine Guy on February 7th, 2010
A malasada (or malassada) is a Portuguese confection. They were first made by inhabitants of São Miguel Island, part of the Azores. Malasadas are made of egg-sized balls of yeast dough that are deep-fried in oil and coated with granulated sugar. A popular variation is where they are hand dropped into the oil and people have to guess what they look like. Traditional malasadas contain neither holes nor fillings, but some varieties of malasadas are filled with flavored cream or other fillings. Traditionally the reason for making malasadas has been to use up all the lard and sugar in the house, luxuries forbidden from consumption during Lent. Malasadas are eaten especially on Mardi Gras – the day before Ash Wednesday.
Posted by Da Kine Guy on February 7th, 2010
In the 20 or so years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee conceived of and launched the World Wide Web, a lot has changed. The Web itself has certainly had one of the most profound impacts on the world of any new technology in the past hundred years, easily ranking up there with the standardized assembly line, the communications satellite, and the airplane as one of the century’s most important inventions.
