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Family Fright Night

The first-ever Hallowbaloo Street Party drew a huge crowd in Downtown Honolulu’s Arts District on Halloween night. Thousands came dressed in their Halloween costumes and enjoyed lots of food, drinks and great entertainment. It was the most ghoulish night ever.

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All Dressed Up For Work - Just Joking

Forget going to work in business attire, workers in Downtown Honolulu got dressed up in their favorite characters on Halloween Day.

At Tamarind Park (Bishop Square), American Savings Bank presented their SPOOKTACULAR Halloween Costume Contest during lunch hour. Participants entering the contest were judged in two catagories - “most scariest costume” and “most creative costume” - and the first place winner in each catagory won a Family 4-Pack (tickets) to go see Cirque du Soleil’s Saltimbanco show.

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Incredible Pumpkin Carvings On Display

Architects Hawaii’s 20th Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest were on displayed at the American Savings Bank (1001 Bishop St.) in Downtown.

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Getting Wild (and Sexy) On Halloween Night

Last night’s Halloween was blast, and I’ll be posting photos from both the Hallowbaloo Street Festival in Downtown Honolulu and the all the craziness in Waikiki, within the next few days. So check back later.

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You Hungry?

Yesterday (Halloween Day), I decided to get lunch from a lunch wagon called “You Hungry?”. I ordered the garlic chicken plate ($5.75) and it came with brown rice and toss greens. The garlic chicken (sprinkled with goma (seasame seeds) and green onions) was so “garlic-ky”, it’ll scare of any blood-sucking vampires away.

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Happy Haunting!

Are you ready to party and get wild on Halloween night?

Check out Metromix Halloween Guide for the hottest parties, haunted houses and other fright night happenings. Of course, the biggest Halloween event will be in Waikiki. It’s going to get crazy tonight and Halloween falls on a Friday, so for most, no work the next day.

Have a safe and haunting Halloween!

Start Spreading The News….New York! New York!

Early this morning and afternoon in Downtown Honolulu (intersection of Bethel Street and Merchant Street), ‘LOST‘ crew was filming a New York scene. The set included a few yellow taxis, a subway entrance (Columbus & 67th St. Station), antique rug shop and Fieldcroft School.

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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 - WordPress. Matt gave a wonderful presentation about WordPress (WordPress.org and WordPress.com) and also, showed off the new features of WordPress 2.7, which should be out sometime in November (this year).

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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 the WordPress platform. Mahalo, Matt!

Oh yeah, that lady in the bottom left corner is no other than Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress. Thank you for the Woopra invite. Mahalo!

The Ramen That Will Bowl You Over

Craving for some Japanese ramen? Better head over to Tenkaippin Ramen on Kapahulu Avenue for the best ramen in town.

I had a chance to go there a few weeks ago, and the first thing I was dying to try was the famous Kotteri Ramen (I ordered the set with the 3-piece gyozas). This ain’t your ordinary ramen, this intense chicken-flavored soup (broth) is thick (gravy-like) or creamy and it’s so full of collagen, you’ll be walking out of the shop looking many years younger….well, almost.

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