Happy Birthday To The “Merrie Monarch”
A large crowd gathered today at the Iolani Palace to celebrate the 172nd Birthday of King David La’amea Kamanakapu’u Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalakaua. King Kalakaua also known as “The Merrie Monarch” was born on November 16, 1836 and was the last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawaii from February [...]

Saving The Best For Last
After years of waiting, the Hawaii State Quarter finally made its debut in Downtown Honolulu with a celebration at Tamarind Park, Bishop Square at noon.

Word Up!
Over the weekend (Saturday, October 25), I attended the first-ever unconference, Hawaii PodCamp + WordCamp at the Hawaii Convention Center. Hundreds of attendees enjoyed presentations from many guest speakers at various tracks including WordCamp, Podcast 101, Social Media and Business Use.
The highlight of WordCamp featured Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of the popular blogging software [...]

Just back from a beach BBQ at Ala Moana Beach, after spending the whole day at PodCamp Hawaii 2008 at the Hawaii Convention Center. I’ll have more maybe tomorrow or later this week.
Photo above, Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, was one of the guest speakers at WordCamp. That’s right, this website is running under [...]

A Princess Gets Lei’d
Earlier this morning, a lei draping ceremony was held in celebration of Princess Kaiulani’s 133rd birthday. The late Hawaiian princess was born in 1875 and died at a young age of 23 years old.
Happy Birthday Princess Victoria Kawekiu Lunalilo Kalaninuiahilapalapa Ka’iulani Cleghorn!

Hot Products At One Cool Place
Tens of thousands of people spent their day last weekend (October 10-12, 2008) at the ever-popular, 44th Annual Food & New Products Show at the Neal Blaisdell Exhibition Hall. There were hundreds of vendors offering a large array of up-to-date products, foods and services for all event-goers to enjoy. It [...]

Apple Store’s Grand Opening In Waikiki This Morning

Just over two hours ago, hundreds waited bright and early in the morning, eagerly waiting for the official opening of Hawaii’s third Apple Store at the Royal Hawaiian Center. As the clock winded down, Apple employees marched through the crowd and into the store with cheers and excitement. [...]

Fast Food. Full Speed Ahead.
What a busy weekend, last night was the Aloha Festivals Waikiki Ho’olaule’a and the next morning, woke up early to watch the Floral Parade. I’ll have photo highlights of the Ho’olaule’a and parade later.
In the meantime, early this evening I headed out to Waikiki Shopping Plaza because they were holding a [...]

Waikiki’s Newest Beach Party!
This past Saturday, Vertical Junkies hosted the grand opening of “Surf Shack Saturdays” at the newly opened Shack Waikiki. Hundreds turned up for the event from 10 at night til 2 in the morning. The place was pumpin’ with great music - Rock, Reggae, Rap - and special drinks served all night [...]

What’s Cookin’ At Kalihi
After a successful debut last year, the 2nd Annual A Taste of Kalihi was back and bigger than ever. The event featured food booths, entertainment, keiki rides and inflatables, community & sponsor booths and the Electric Slide Challenge, in which over 1,100 people danced to the Electric Slide, breaking last year’s record [...]