holiday weekend
it's been so long since i posted i forgot i had this page.
anyway, this has been the busiest weekend ever. luckily it has been a fun busy.
thursday after work, went to bar 35 with kea, lianne, KS and T for $3 drinks until 8. had lychee sodas (one too sweet, the next not sweet enough. darn inconsistent bartenders!) and framboise. then to aloha tower for the fireworks, gawking, and reminiscing. we used to hang out their in high school that's why, when the whole shopping/restaurant area was first being developed and things were kind of slow. but thursday night it was super crowded and we were kind of weirded out. went to anna miller's for dinner but by then we were so tired. and then our food took forever.
friday, kea and I went to see Wall-E with his nephews (while their mom went shopping. haha. that's how we get free movies). i enjoyed the movie even though i was super tired. i was worried about the kids getting bored though. i really think that movie is kind of more for adults. i didn't really get a chance to ask them what they thought though and they didn't complain, so, you know. it was a cool movie though. very interesting... i think their marketing was genius... movie was gorgeous. looks different like... i don't know... in the beginning it shows sort of like this skyline and it just looks like a serious movie i guess... then i managed to pick up some shampoo and other stuff i needed while we waited for a table at California Pizza Kitchen. i like that place but kea is meh about it so i only got to go cuz kea's sister and the kids were going. highlight was when kea tried his sister's pear gorgonzola and loved it. haha... i know he never would've ordered such a weird sounding pizza before that. but anyway, now we can order that next time.
friday night i went to moiliili bon dance with trisha, a law professor that i'm reading for my diss, and a law student. it was like a weird bon dance/networking thing. haha. anyway, i wanted to go and also felt like i needed too but of course i suck at talking you know. it's like embarrassing to me... it's sort of like meeting a celebrity where you don't know what to say except like you're great. haha... so anyway, i tried not to do that. but she was cool and i guess now i can email her and be like, "remember we went to bon dance together?" haha...
saturday we had to get up at 7:30 to get to a 9 am wedding ceremony. it was cool hanging out with my friends all day. and i actually enjoyed the ceremony and reception. i was sort of surprised because i expected it to be sort of hard-core religious like to the extent that i would feel uncomfortable. there was praying, but i feel like that's sort of standard and i've become pretty comfortable with my azeem style (yes, from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) you-all-can-pray-and-i-will-just-stand/sit-here-respectfully. the pastor-dude that did the ceremony was a great story teller and i feel his advice to the couple wasn't cheesy. i only flinched when he talked about the circle of the ring being an "ancient" symbol representing God's love. Couldn't help but think about ancient appropriation.
at the reception, there was a lot of talk about god but it was kind of interesting to me. me and kea were talking about how it seemed to be a way that hetero guys could talk about loving each other. and people could compliment each other in a way that you could accept the compliment without looking conceited (like "You're very faithful to God" actually means "You live your life well"). seems like that would appeal to Japanese. haha. yeah i was also amused when the bride was talking to her parents but she's so Japanese (like me) cuz she never says "I love you." Instead she says, thanks for your support through the years, thanks for your love. haha. the other really interesting thing was that the bride hinted at having trouble in her past, like she didn't think she deserved to be in a good relationship because of the way she lived her life or something like that. i'm afraid the narrative would be something about being saved, which doesn't appeal to me, but i really like this sort of troubled past as like a human element i guess. this is my friend's now wife that i have never met so you know of course i was/am apprehensive about what she's like. and this is something that makes me hopeful i guess that she is a mellow, interesting person.
so anyway, then saturday night we went to a BBQ at our old boss's place. all the guys from our college job. 'twas great.
and now i need to grade. although only half my class turned in their papers. haha... and i would enjoy just hanging out at borders waikele after that but we'll see.
anyway, this has been the busiest weekend ever. luckily it has been a fun busy.
thursday after work, went to bar 35 with kea, lianne, KS and T for $3 drinks until 8. had lychee sodas (one too sweet, the next not sweet enough. darn inconsistent bartenders!) and framboise. then to aloha tower for the fireworks, gawking, and reminiscing. we used to hang out their in high school that's why, when the whole shopping/restaurant area was first being developed and things were kind of slow. but thursday night it was super crowded and we were kind of weirded out. went to anna miller's for dinner but by then we were so tired. and then our food took forever.
friday, kea and I went to see Wall-E with his nephews (while their mom went shopping. haha. that's how we get free movies). i enjoyed the movie even though i was super tired. i was worried about the kids getting bored though. i really think that movie is kind of more for adults. i didn't really get a chance to ask them what they thought though and they didn't complain, so, you know. it was a cool movie though. very interesting... i think their marketing was genius... movie was gorgeous. looks different like... i don't know... in the beginning it shows sort of like this skyline and it just looks like a serious movie i guess... then i managed to pick up some shampoo and other stuff i needed while we waited for a table at California Pizza Kitchen. i like that place but kea is meh about it so i only got to go cuz kea's sister and the kids were going. highlight was when kea tried his sister's pear gorgonzola and loved it. haha... i know he never would've ordered such a weird sounding pizza before that. but anyway, now we can order that next time.
friday night i went to moiliili bon dance with trisha, a law professor that i'm reading for my diss, and a law student. it was like a weird bon dance/networking thing. haha. anyway, i wanted to go and also felt like i needed too but of course i suck at talking you know. it's like embarrassing to me... it's sort of like meeting a celebrity where you don't know what to say except like you're great. haha... so anyway, i tried not to do that. but she was cool and i guess now i can email her and be like, "remember we went to bon dance together?" haha...
saturday we had to get up at 7:30 to get to a 9 am wedding ceremony. it was cool hanging out with my friends all day. and i actually enjoyed the ceremony and reception. i was sort of surprised because i expected it to be sort of hard-core religious like to the extent that i would feel uncomfortable. there was praying, but i feel like that's sort of standard and i've become pretty comfortable with my azeem style (yes, from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) you-all-can-pray-and-i-will-just-stand/sit-here-respectfully. the pastor-dude that did the ceremony was a great story teller and i feel his advice to the couple wasn't cheesy. i only flinched when he talked about the circle of the ring being an "ancient" symbol representing God's love. Couldn't help but think about ancient appropriation.
at the reception, there was a lot of talk about god but it was kind of interesting to me. me and kea were talking about how it seemed to be a way that hetero guys could talk about loving each other. and people could compliment each other in a way that you could accept the compliment without looking conceited (like "You're very faithful to God" actually means "You live your life well"). seems like that would appeal to Japanese. haha. yeah i was also amused when the bride was talking to her parents but she's so Japanese (like me) cuz she never says "I love you." Instead she says, thanks for your support through the years, thanks for your love. haha. the other really interesting thing was that the bride hinted at having trouble in her past, like she didn't think she deserved to be in a good relationship because of the way she lived her life or something like that. i'm afraid the narrative would be something about being saved, which doesn't appeal to me, but i really like this sort of troubled past as like a human element i guess. this is my friend's now wife that i have never met so you know of course i was/am apprehensive about what she's like. and this is something that makes me hopeful i guess that she is a mellow, interesting person.
so anyway, then saturday night we went to a BBQ at our old boss's place. all the guys from our college job. 'twas great.
and now i need to grade. although only half my class turned in their papers. haha... and i would enjoy just hanging out at borders waikele after that but we'll see.