Cloverfield and dinner at korean restaurant

Caught the movie Cloverfield with yoshina, noah and jaime.

One word: ymshouldneverwatchit.

It was a another blair witch kinda show, where you have the entire movie shown through the eyes of a videocam. Thankfully someone advised us to sit at the back so we sat at the very last row. I thought the movie wasn't too bad though. Haha, basically it was another godzilla terrorizing new york kinda show. lol

-Watched the movie with these guys (and gal) : yoshina, noah and jaime--o_O-

-oh while we were at the shopping centre, the lady who was promoting foot and back massage products asked us if we wanted to try her stuffs. she was real nice. and we ran into japanese tourists ( i think ) and they gamely posed for this shot. oh that's the nice lady on the extreme right.-

Then 'twas dinner at the Korean restaurant

-yoshina, noah and yasu-

aloha!

Chinatown with host family

Yup I went Chinatown the next day, again. Haha, but this time it was with my host family which included Grandma Polly (Ona's mum) and Karen (Ona's sister).

CNY celebration at Chinatown is called the Narcissus Festival. It's really a weird name ...narcissist? ok i found out that narcissus is the name of a flower but it still sounds funny. We started off at the cultural plaza where they got their stuffs. It's interesting how the Chinese culture and beliefs permeates into the lives of the ang mohs. Like for example, Karen was saying that she had to get a rat keychain to place next to her ox key chain so that there'll be peace and harmony in the new year. Interesting.

Anyways belows are the shots taken at the cultural plaza.

-ahem.-

And then we headed to the streets of chinatown. The streets were closed, and they had a parade going on as part of the narcissus festival.

-that's the queen of the narcissus festival-

-look carefully, these guys had mickey mouse ears!-

-huh?--From L-R: moi, karen, grandma polly, ona, sandy-

Sandy and Ona had a dinner appointment with another friend at the windward side of O'ahu, and the original plan was for me to stay on at Chinatown with another friend, Soon Huey, so that we could enjoy the night time performances and stuffs they were supposed to have. Sadly though, Soon Huey became uncontactable the whole day cos she had lost her phone.

In any case, I think it was pretty fated coz i was finally able to meet my mentor, Andy for dinner! It was real nice meeting a singaporean after being here for about a month! So we had dinner at Ala Moana shopping centre's food court and chatted and stuff.

And Yvonne and Jac happened to have dinner at the same food court as well. Small world ey!

-From L-R: Andy, Yvonne, Jac, me!-

Chinatown & first friday event

Went Chinatown tonight... I think this was my third time there. Anyways the cool thing about every first friday of the month is that in Chinatown, the art galleries would be open to the public for free. I think they just call it the 'First Friday' event.



And i guess, the best part was that each gallery had a snacks and refreshments counter! To be fair i hadn't had my dinner yet so i was freaking hungry then.

Oh and we ran into Mara and her cousin at the streets as well!

Oh, and because it coincided with the Chinatown's celebration for CNY, there were lion dances, firecrackers and stuff along the roads that have been closed to the public.

-this has got to be the smallest and cutest lion i have ever seen! 2 boys were underneath the covers-

Went Cold Stone after that for supper! Hmm, gfish, is this the original version of COld Rock?

the Weekend

Friday night - went chinatown for this 'first friday event' where galleries are opened for free and art pieces are displayed. Also, because it coincided with the CNY celebrations, there were lion dances and other stuffs as well.

Saturday - went chinatown again. but this time it was in the afternoon and was there with sandy, ona, grandma polly and karen (ona's sister). watched parade and stuff. had dinner with the very first singaporean i've met here in hawaii!

Sunday - watched the movie 'cloverfield' in the afternoon, followed by dinner at this korean restaurant.

tot of blogging all of these at one shot but am too tired! soon k! (after i've cleared my labs, homeworks and tests :S )

aloha!