A TREMENDOUS LIFE AS SIMPLY ME

THE BUS

2009-11-02T02:01:00.000-08:00

You know how you always see weird people on the bus? well, at least here in Hawaii you always see weirdos on the bus.

last weekend, Ben, ME and my WIFE made a trip to Kaneohe, to get out of Laie. On our way to Kaneohe... oh my gosh, this is so gross. I almost had to throw up.

as we got on the bus, we sat at the back and we saw this one native couple have a blanket to cover them, which was fine but weird. anyway, its always cold on the bus. and especially native people feel a lot colder because they are used to the heat. anyway. thats not what was gross....

after a view minutes we see a tuna fish can and a can opener.... yep thats right. Now this might just be us, but whenever you eat tuna you don't drink the water that is in the can. SICK!!!!!! and it smelled so GROSS. needless to say that was their started as a main dish they had some weird can of health chicken soup with lots of vegetables in it. ONCE AGAIN so GROSS and its smelled so bad. no silverware they just ate it with their fingers... ahhhhhh disgusting and as their dessert they had canned fruit....... long story short. it was funny and weird at first. but overall SICK and this couple also looked like they spent all day on the bus already.

I was thinking to myself. next thing they do is brush their teeth, but i'm glad they didn't.

end result of the day. you always have a story to tell when riding the bus.

I found something to blog about

2009-10-28T14:28:00.001-07:00

Aloha,
I know I know, you haven't had anything to stalk lately. ;) I know you all secretly have a crush on me. Just kididng.

So, by now everyone knows I'm married but let me tell you story about me and my wife!

I don't remember how exactly the conversation came about, but some time before Jaimie and I started dating. We were talking about my pre-mission life and how I totally thought I was the sheeezzzz. The coolest kid ever! well, part of my pre-mission life was that I was way into clubbing, to the point where on Monday you already start planning for the weekend. ;) Jaimie was not impressed by that, but she still ended up dating me and marrying me.

I told her that I would take her clubbing if she were to come to my home in Austria. Jaimie always answered with a, 'yah right,' as in no way. you won't take me clubbing.

the last friday on our honeymoon happened to be in Salzburg, (my home town) and after making her watch a german movie in the movie theater, I TOOK HER CLUBBING!! ;) and guess what? ... SHE LIKED IT!!! she had so much fun. she loved it!!! and we have evidence of that, and she is gonna get mad at me for posting this picture. ;)

Our Wedding dance!

2009-09-25T03:02:00.000-07:00

... you know you always wanted to do that on your wedding!!!

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I'm HER HUSBAND...

2009-09-21T00:41:00.000-07:00

.... weird! I know.

Well, time to catch up. I have been married to my wife, Jaimie, for 1 month.
Jaimie uploaded some of our wedding pictures on her blog. GO check em out.

Coming soon
WE will also upload some pictures from our Honeymoon in Austria, Italy, Czech Republic soon.

and we are back in school. and lots of things to do. Oh I better get going. bye!

Countdown

2009-08-11T14:58:00.000-07:00

I have been counting down days like 1,5 years ago and now WE ARE DOWN TO 10 DAYS.

I'm getting married in 10 days. PERIOD. thats how it is. I'm really sorry to all the girls out their, cuz 1st I'm taken and 2nd I have found the best girl EVAH!!! and she is mine which leads me the 3rd, sorry guys out their but SHE IS MINE!!! and she will be mine FOREVER.

I have made an observation that boys always act like to be tough and strong, but as soon as they are in love, they are nice and sweet and do cheesey stuff. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, only if you have been in love before. ;) the reason why i'm saying this is because I wrote a loveletter the other day. And NO, I won't quote anything of that. I said. NO. i'm not publishing it either. so stop asking what I wrote. don't worry about it. its not your business. ;) HA!!

I CAN'T WAIT TO GET MARRIED NEXT WEEK!!!
to my JAIMIE!!!

anyways. you wanna see what I had for breakfast the other day? I'm showing you anyways.
oh and check out my new fancy shades!!!! boom boom i got them POW. k whatever!!!

and do you guys know that i'm pretty much addicted to Starbucks, Frappucino Strawberry and Creme. You most likely think, Starbucks, you drink coffee!!! ahh duh!! you are wrong. did you know that starbucks also sells stuff without coffee? hah. take that. the Strawberry Creme Frappucino is without coffee and it its AMAZING. I went to Starbucks the other day. Evidence of that see below.
Starbucks is amazing. I should open one here in Laie Hawaii. because the next Starbucks is a 20 minute ride to north shore. OK, perfect, thank you, mahalo, I gotta GO.. ttyl

Time to blog..

2009-08-05T16:14:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, just to inform everyone, I added a playlist on my blog. With only 3 songs so far. Thats what I'm listening lately.

Anyway. 16 DAYS!!!!!! or 2 WEEKS and 2 DAYS..

Well, if you can't tell, but I'm pretty excited about it. ;)

anyway today is my day off, and I have 2 options. beach or go to kaneohe?!?!? or maybe both. although the weather isn't the nicest. I don't know.

as you can see, I'm bored and I didn't even have anything exciting to share on this blog entry.lol

oh I signed up for classes in the fall. and I have to take 15 credits and I'm not looking forward to that. my fall semester will be hard. LAME!!!!

the LGN diet is working good. i already accomplished the goal and lost 15 pounds. YAY

thats it for now
okay, mahalo, thank you, bye bye.

I'm again Reading

2009-07-27T13:38:00.000-07:00

... My mom probably things, "Since when is my son reading books? He seriously never was into reading books!" well my last book I had to read for class, and this time its in preparation for marriage.

ONLY 25 MORE DAYS!!!
if you know what I mean. I'm getting hitched in less than a month. YES!!!

anyways, coming back to the book. its called, between husband and wife, and it talks mainly about the doctrine of marriage and intercourse. I didn't wanna use the Sex word. oh I just did! haha ;)
its a very interesting book and it has good information about what to know. Okay thats enough Sex talk on my blog. I wanna keep my blog PG rated. thank you!

anyways, Jaimie has been working really hard to get everything set up and so she is just ready to get out the invites and here is one of our engagement pictures which we are actually not using. but you tell me what you think of the picture?

It's getting close to our big day, and I honestly can't wait to marry my honey! it will be such a great day. ;)

and all the byuh students are going back to school for another term. but not ME! i'm taking my well deserved break for 7 weeks. YES!!! no school. oh looks like i'll be going to the beach a lot. ;)

Book Report

2009-07-15T00:49:00.000-07:00

Well, my classmates probably think I'm such a freak. Only because I'm showing my blog again in class. Come on! I have been very busy with school, work and being engaged! so I don't mind blogging about homework. haha

Due to the fact that I'm getting married next month, I thought it is appropriate to pick a book that will have some sort of future benefit for me.

The book I have been reading is called How To Date Your Spouse, written by Lindsay K. Rietzsch.

Summary: The author writes that one has to learn and understand the language of the spouse through effective dating. Unique and very interesting topic but overall a very boring read. Its more like a crash test course for dummies that have no idea what their spouse is interested in or that just do not seem to understand the importance of understanding the needs of your spouse.

The author makes it clear that if one applies the principles taught within the book, it will strengthen a relationship and one will be able to learn the language of the spouse.
I encourage people to read the book, if they need to know why they should take their spouse on dates. Otherwise, don't worry about it!

Further readings,
Gary Chapman the five love languages. and the marriage you always wanted by same guy.

Engl. 315 - I'm going to show my blog in class today.

2009-07-06T11:41:00.000-07:00

Aloha and welcome to atremendouslife.blogspot.com! Today, I'm assigned to give an oral report on the subject: 'online advertising,'

Well, this a blog, my blog, you heard of blogging before, right? I'm actually advertising. I'm advertising about MYSELF. weird. Thats not what I want to do. I want to inform my friends of my tremendous life. duh!!! Did you know that celebraties have blogs? my Engl. 201 teacher blogs and my future wife is into blogging too. I guess they got me into this. I'm so hooked to blogging. ;)

how about I'll state my opinion on online advertising. I don't like the stupid adds on facebook, they are annoying. also, I hate when other people on their blogs have a ton of adds. and they think they can make money with that. whatever? anyway. Online advertising is a big deal today. just think of craigslist.com, ebay.com and amazon.com, they actually make a ton of money and they use the web to their advantage. Well, they only way I could make money on my blog would be if I leave my phone number on hear and people pay to call me. if you know what I mean. jk :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzlPVEKeY7M

the above link, will bring you to a video on youtube.com that will explain more details about the tricks about online advertising.

its actually pretty fun to blog. Just go on blogger.com, create an account and start blogging in the blogiverse. you can add a music player, change your background, or syber stock your friends! alright, get started don't forget to add me to your friends list and you can drop a comment every once in a while.

Guess what? ... thats it for today! i know thats a pretty random post. thank you!
ok. guess again? ... ahh don't worry about it. but i'm only getting married in less than 7 weeks. this is oh my gosh.

ALONE ;(

2009-06-07T01:38:00.001-07:00

yep thats right, I'm alone now for the next 11 weeks, I will stay connected to her via cell phone and internet. Well, its been busy and now I finally get to have a break.

my adventure of the day ...
... started yesterday as I dropped Janelle and Kenson off at the airport. On my way home I could feel that the car would start to shake more and more, so I pulled over to see what is wrong and I checked all 4 tire I could see anything wrong, so I didn't think much at first and I kept driving. As I got close to home the shaking got worse and worse, and I realized that it must be the left back tire. Something wrong with it. So I slowed down to 15 mph and pushed the warn indicator button. Ipulled over every once in a while to let all the cars behind me pass. Anyway Long story short, IT WAS FLAT this morning, which I figured out last night that it must be a flat tire. The fun part is that this morning I had to pick up Scott and JM (now his wife :) lol) from the airport. Anyway I was lucky that Teren was friendly enough to drive me and we were able to pick em up.

second part to the story. We found a spare tire and changed to wheel. Which was exciting because the tire didn't cost a thing and it was pretty exciting the way we got the tire. lol

well, Thats a long entry. besides that I miss my future wife Jaimie aka fiance A LOT and I can't wait to see her again. in 11 weeks/ 10 weeks and like 5 days. haha

One more lame thing, I'll be back in school already on Monday. I'm NOT looking forward to that at all but I gotta deal with it, and I got lots of time, so if I keep myself busy, time will fly by and I'll be with HER.

almost done...

2009-06-02T13:18:00.000-07:00

... with this term, its been way busy. taking 9 credits, working up to 25 hours a week, and being ENGAGED, the being engaged part is my favorite. Not gonna lie, but being engaged is SO TREMENDOUSLY EXCITING. I'M LOVING IT ;)

i just finished one final. that means only 2 to go and I had an exam and a quiz yesterday. and we took engagement pictures last saturday, can't wait to post em.

i guess thats it for now. the weather is hot and nice, but no time for beach due to finals. LAME!!

oh 1 more thing, I'm looking for a new place to stay, I'm getting kicked out of my house, because of a byuh policy which allows only 5 students per kitchen but at my house 8 students can live there, therefore, we all have to move out. LAME!!!!! I'm lookin for a cheap place to live from July 1st till the middle of August. let me know. mahalo

I'm ENGAGED!

2009-05-23T17:51:00.000-07:00

YES, thats right, I'm officially engaged. ;) check out the this link to see pictures and the whole engagement story

My Job...

2009-05-17T23:38:00.000-07:00

... was a little bit different last thursday and friday! Every year in the spring, the Fireknife competiton takes place at the PCC. Its a 3 evening long event and 2 of em take place at the Luau where I work at. Anyway its right after the regular luau that this takes place. So when that happens, we have to work so hard to get the area ready for and get 80 tables out and set up 200 chairs. its insane, it all goes by so fast and right as we finish setting up or as we are still cleaning the area in the back the people already come in. So a few employees were asked to stay the whole evening and watch the competition for free and right after that clock in and clean up and get the 80 tables back into place so we can have a normal luau again the next day. anyway lots of work and lots of fun.

the samoan drummers. oh btw. the fireknife is a samoan tradition!
ps. i tried uploading a video, but for some odd raeson it wouldn't let me. lame, so maybe next time.

time to catch up

2009-05-14T03:30:00.000-07:00

Aloha and Hi!

I know I know, its been a while, my blog finally shows up on your blog list on the very top. YAY!

so, its already the mid of may and I haven't blog for a while so I'm going to catch up really fast. I don't have much time. I'm being very busy with school. I was stupid enough to sign up for 9 credits for a very short spring term that is only 6 weeks long. Classes start every day at 7:30 and Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:40 and on Tuesday and Thursday class ends at 10:50. A 3 hour class. WOW listening to the same teach for 3 hours twice a week. I'm glad its a very interesting class. i like it. I have another class that is on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday schedule from 12:10 till 2:20. GREAT!!! besides that I have my Supervisor Job at Luau, which I still LOVE!!!! yah right I love my job. and my girlfriend! So Sorry that I haven't blogged much but I'm sure you all understand. anyway....

Today at work, so funny. First, I took 3 people from India into the Luau and this gentleman tells me his wife should be already seated and if you've seen this place before you know its not easy to spot someone between 600 guests in the house. Anyway, as we are walking I, I'm pointing my finger at his face with the bottom of your hand up asking, "Do they look like you?" --- What a stupid question, DUH?!?!? of course his wife will look like him.... I mean did I really ask this question. anyway, a volunteer senior sister missionary heard it and she couldn't stop laughing about it. It was HILARIOUS. too funny. ;)

and the other thing, a couple from Guatemala interviewed me and video taped me about the IMU we have at Luau. its the pig that is cooked for like 10 hours with banana leaves. That was funny too. and they said I'll be on a TV show in Guatemala next month and they will send me the link so I can watch it too. LOL

Besides that, Jaimie and I had a great date the other saturday, we watched a sunset at duh sunset beach. the first picture is my favorite, i turned out amazing.

and the third wheel on our date, this random dog beach bum just decided to chill with us for a while until his friend showed up, so we had a double date. although the 2 dogs disappeared soon and were probably running around romanticly on the beach . lol anyway.

I just got done earlier on with an exam, which was my 3rd exam for this week. I had 2 exams on Monday, one was accounting 201 which I didn't do to well on it, and the other one was travel geography 230 I scored 94% on that one and I finished this evening with a Human Resource Management BUSM 327 class and I scored 87%. YAY!! I like being the good student (NOW thats what I girlfriends mother wants to hear! ;) love you) lol

lets see, oh one more funny thing.
So I want to change my job once again, one of those phases I guess!!! so I found out that the reservations at PCC had 3 openings and I went to apply for the job today and the response I got was that, "I can't apply for the job because I already have a job at PCC" are you kidding me. You seriously must be joking!!! not funny at all. okay. they told me I have to wait for a transfer period which the next will be starting May 26th in 2 weeks. Now, basically, be that time the job I wanted is most likely gone. and by the time I quit my current job. I have to put in a 2 weeks notice so basically after those 2 weeks would be over the job I want is gone and I would be without employeement. ISN'T THAT THE STUPIEST POLICY YOU EVER HEARD OF? especially because I'm a very loyal employee to PCC, they should check my file I have plenty of good reports, so why in the world would I not be able to get the new job that I want. LAME LAME LAME, I was so mad. I couldn't believe. GRRRRR RAR!!!

btw, RAR in dinosaur language means I LOVE YOU!!! ;)

k, thanks for checking out my blog, make sure you leave a comment and stop by again soon.
Please come again. Mahalo Nui Loa

The Tremendous House...

2009-04-30T01:00:00.000-07:00

... that I live in! Anyway as promised long time ago, I would upload some pics from my new place. Its brand new. Nice yellow painting, big rooms, best shower evah. it got everything, washer and dryer, its just one amazing place.

k, thats right when you come into the house. full kitchen. nice kitchen, lots of room. everything you need, right across you got the living area. its fine, but nothing to amazing.

below, the longest hallway ever.

second door on the right hand side, you will find the bathroom with the nicest shower. I love taking a shower here. its tremendous.
and thats my room, my bed is the left one! YAY. beautiful
you see that picture on the wall, this is one amazing picture, Jon Mozo, he pretty much takes the best pictures. LOVE IT!!!. just google him and find out about it. JON MOZO rocks. his son works with me at Luau (the place that I work, duh!)
nice picture!!

i just hope that all of my roommates will work hard to keep this place clean so that future pps like me will appreciate it too.

Springbreak 2009

2009-04-20T17:25:00.000-07:00

This last week has been TREMENDOUS!!!! it has been so much fun. it was amazing not to bother about homework or anything. I had so much time.

lets start with Saturday:
Jaimie and I dropped off Scott, my roommate, and his fiance JM, at the airport really early. Scott is so kind he is leaving his car with me for this term until they come back. Scott and JM are getting married this coming weekend in Taiwan. Well done! We went shopping to Wal Mart to get stuff for my new place. I moved in that Saturday. My new house is amazing. Its big, nice. nice as in brand new. My roommate is Micah from Texas, I wish it would be Jaimie ;) anyway, Micah is from Texas and he takes me surfing! btw. I'm going surfing tomorrow! YAY. After I moved in, Jaimie and I went up North Shore. enjoyed the beach and had an Acai Bowl and watched the sunset at sunset beach.

Sunday was a Sunday. Easter Sunday! I got a package from my parents, it came on Friday. YAY! some Milka chocolate. WOW!! Jaimie likes the chocolate too. see picture below. ;)

Monday, I believe we went to the beach and I had work. And we cooked some really good food. we made Piccata Milanese. which is fried chicken with a Parmesan crust, and one eats that with pasta. and we added some vegtables. YOU GOT THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD VEGETABLES, because that doesn't usually happen as a student. lol

we really enjoyed dinner, it was good.

Tuesday: We went into the PCC and watched the Imax movie, which was quite fun, and after that we hit the road and went to Honolulu and had an amazing meal at Maccaroni Grill. Best Pasta you can get in America. SO good. Its tremendous. I really like that place. its fancy! we also did a bit of shopping at Ala Moana shopping center.

On Wednesday we did, mhh good question what did we really do, BEACH and more BEACH and most likely work and perhaps more shopping. mhhh oh well, I'm sure it was a fun day. ;)

Thursday we went to the beach and I had work

Friday we watched the YES man with Jim Carry on dvd, pretty funny movie. oh yah we had more beach time and duh! of course I went to work again

Saturday started with work and I got off work at 6pm, right after that, we had an invitation to go to Diliana and Chihiro's wedding reception. I served with Diliana in the same mission, she rocks! and I had the statistics class with Chihiro. I'm so happy for them, the Party Rocked!!! and after the reception Jaimie and I went and watched Aliens vs. Monsters, it was a fun movie, I like it. There is another sweet fun movie coming up, its called UP!

Anyway, lets talk about the tremendous HIGHLIGHT of the week, Jaimie and Janelle WAXED my belly and my chest. Yes you heard it, they Waxed my body. ;)

the beginning: LOOK at this SICK belly!!! ;) hahahah

Janelle's turn to get the hair off my chest, check out the video.

and then it was Jaimies turn to hurt me.

Now, we ran out of the wax, and we got some more stuff, but different stuff, and it doesn't work as good as the one before. anyway, now my belly hair is all weird. lol I might just shave all of it off tomorrow or next time I have enough time to get around to it.

Remember ENGL. 201

2009-04-13T03:26:00.000-07:00

I know I know, not another report about a class that I took.

Remember Sister Frampton, my favorite Engl. 201 teacher? NO! check out her blog. I took her class last Fall and I was that kid you don't want to have in class, that one kid that always laughs out loud and makes stupid comments. Sister Frampton got me into blogging, whenever she would mention her blog in class I would burst out laughing and almost cried, thats how hard I laughed. Duh! I'm blogging now. RAR

Anyway, couple Sundays ago Sister Frampton invited me and Jaimie over to her house for dinner! YAY. IT WAS A BLAST. Funny. Hilariours. TREMENDOUS!!!

The guy on the far left is her husband, Ben, oh no wait that was lie. ben is her cousin and ben and I know each other, we hang out every once in a while and have a lot of fun. Ben is into blogging too.

As you can see we got a little bit carried away in our photo shooting. It was too funny. Sister Frampton and I were on a role and Ben was so confused, he didn't know what was going on! It was a blast. A TREMENDOUS BLAST. (i think in my next blog post I will try and mention the word tremendous as often as I can!)

The food was amazing, as you know as a student you don't have a well balanced diet. Thanks to Sister Frampton for having me around at her house.

Sister Frampton picked me as her favorite student of all time she just has a hard time admitting it. ;)

The party was over once we all started YAWING, and you know when one yawns the next person is yawning too. There is a high chance that you are yawning just right now. anyway, Ben has this thing when he is ready to leave and all set and ready to go he just jumps up looks around in the room and comments on the pictures and says, "I think I'm gonna head out, I'm gonna leave." its so funny, he always does that, he just stands up walks around and gets ready to leave. too funny.
Thanks to all of YOU in making this an incredible (of I mean tremendous) evening. Mahalo

Stats Final

2009-04-10T23:55:00.000-07:00

Aloha just to inform everyone, I passed my stats final. And I'll get my C-. Stats is really an intense class and if you don't have to take it, than don't take it, but if you have to, deal with it!

Math 221 - Statistics

2009-04-07T02:13:00.000-07:00

Okay, I can officially say that Math 221, aka the Stats class here on BYUH campus, is officially ruining my life. But its a good day, and I don't want to complain about it, but I studied heck of a lot this time to take the exam and I only scored 48%! Are you kidding me??? I would do better not studying and score in the 60% RAR, I'm so mad about it. All I can say is that I have one last final exam to go for this class and I'm going to prove everybody that I can do STATS. I'm going to study, study, study and study some more, and than I'll ROCK this class and get a C- minus as my grade. I feel good about my motivation, especially when I talk to other students from the class that are already planning on retaking it. I'm not gonna give up, I'm gonna work harder!!!

Fast and Furious

2009-04-05T01:14:00.000-07:00

OH MY GOSH! What a tremendous movie! Jaimie and I went with Scott, my roommate, and his fiance Jm, or actually, Scott took us along. We got to the Kaneohe movie theater at 9:15 and got all excited that we would make the 9:30 showtime. well, we got their and we looked at the screen above the ticket counter, and it said SOLD OUT!! I was like crap! but we got lucky they at another showtime at 10:00! YAY!! we got our tickets and started waiting.

definitley worth waiting! Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, according to Jaimie, "HOT!" and me wow, the girls are hot in the movie, especially vin diesel's sister Jordana Brewster, the one paul walker hooks up with. SHE IS HOT!!! lol ;) well, don't worry about it, its kinda an inside joke of jaimie and me! btw. she doesn't think vin diesel is hot, but I think he's hot. ;)

Anyway, I don't wanna say much about the movie, but its about cars, girls, drugs, cops, vin diesel and paul walker! pretty much best movie of the year!

Why you haven't seen me at work for the last 3 days!

2009-03-27T14:33:00.000-07:00

So, my F-1 US student visa only allows me to work 20 hours a week and it has to be a student job. anyway, last week I had 20.1 hours. RAR. I was so mad. 0.1 hours over, thats 6 minutes I clocked out late. OMG!
As I went to work on Monday, Lani my Manager had me sign a 3 day suspension! I was lucky that my scheduled days off were Tuesday and Thursday so I only missed Wednesday for work. Besides missing work I had to meet with Matt from the Human Resource office and explain to him why I went over hours and what happened. Matt gave me paper work to fill out. I met with Matt on Tuesday and one of the paper thingy I had to get signed by Lani and also from Fifita who is the Food & Beverage Director. Fifita wasn't in the office so I had to wait for the next day. The next day I went back to the office and Fifita wasn't there again. RAR!! Thursday was a holiday in Hawaii, so of course she would be off that day. Anyway, I finally got it signed by her Friday morning. After that I had to go to the International Student Office and get it approved and reinstated by them so I can return to work. WOW.

At the International Student Office I got told that if I go over hours 3 times, I meet with the President of the school on my way to the airport. Basically saying after 3 times, I'm going home!!!! right after that, back to Matt to turn in all the signed papers and I'm ready to go back to work today. YAY!!!

I'm actually really excited to go back to work today, it will be fun! lol ;)

2009-03-26T04:18:00.000-07:00

Aloha! and Mahalo Nui Lua (thank you big toilet) ;)

Tonight Jaimie and I went to kaneohe, the next biggest town from Laie where I live, its 1 hour drive away. We got invited by Micah, my future roommate for the spring term, and his girlfriend Hannah, to go out and eat and watch a movie. First, we went to Ruby Tuesdays, which was my first experience to eat there, and it was a good experience, I couldn't believe I paid 10 dollars for a burger and fries, but it was totally worth it.

After dinner, we decided to watch 'Knowing' with Nicolas Cage. It was intense and very interesting and it had a weird story ending. I don't wanna say too much about the story, because I don't wanna give anything away. Overall, well done and I probably liked the previews more. There are some lame movies coming out, but some really good ones too. Next week, the new Fast and Furious movie will be playing and I'm really stoked about that. :) and new a new movie is coming up with Ben Affleck, and another one with Ryan Reynolds! Remember, Ryan Reynolds from Party Animal? thats right thats him. and he has played in other movies since that.

okay one more thing to inform you all. Remember the break up between Italian BMT at Subway and ME? well, we are back together!!! Happy ending. Yesterday, Jaimie and I gave in and we went to Subway, I wasn't sad about this at all. as you can tell. It was amazing. Absolutly tremendous.

Well, I'm still suspended from work, and I have to get some paperwork for that done. My director needs to sign this paper, but she hasn't been in her office for the last two days and she is off tomorrow too, lame!!! I might not even work for thid whole week, oh no!!!! oh well, its gonna work out at the end. it better be.

Culture Night 2009 - old school, new school

2009-03-23T02:18:00.000-07:00

Basically, the event takes place over 2 days, and all the clubs but on a dance performance. Its tremendous because their dances are very unique and they all do a really good job. Now, I don't wanna explain to much about it. I'll just upload some pics.

the above guy in green is JONATHAN TAN, too funny. made me laugh out loud. or lol

Indonesian club. I'll post the video of them. they were good. and to the far left thats EZRA.
the above picture was the KIWI club, they did the HAKA. too sweet. love it.
I did swing last year with Jaimie, maybe I can find that video somewhere and I'll post it 4ya.haha too funny to see people you know and they show off their skills. in the above picture in the blue pants thats ANDY JONES, so funny he is doing some random stuff with the Taiwanese club. GOOD JOB ANDY.
the samoan club was pretty much amazing. so much energy and power. wow. i love it.
VALENTINUS IS MY HERO!!! i hometeach him and he is so funny.

okay lets post some videos on here.

next year I will convice Jaimie to be part of the Tahitian club. yay!!!

Okay, basically, after seeing all those traditional dances it totally makes me wanna go and see all the Islands of polyensia. I shoul do an internship in Tahiti or New Zealand, but we'll see about that. hehe.
well, that was my weekend fun.

oh one more thing to talk about.
so as many of you know i work in the pcc as a supervisor at the Hale Aloha, the luau, anyway, last saturday i got busted for working my butt off. My manager is on vacation so a different manager came to check up on us. and this manager told me that my job is to just stand up front and do nothing, to 'SUPERVISE' i was so mad, i was pissed off. I'm sorry and I felt bad for all the workers and I couldn't help em out, because I was shut down. isn't that ironic. basically, i know that the employees hate when the supervisor just stands around and those nothing. and when the supervisor doesn't work the workers hate em and they don't listen and don't respect you. so anyway, I can't wait to go back to work and wait for my manager to come back and talk about it. or I'll go into the manager that told me off, go to there area and see how the supervisors act there or what they do. anyway long story short, I HATED WORK LAST SATURDAY. rar.

I called Oma EMMA

2009-03-20T02:00:00.000-07:00

First of all, I wanna complain about the stupid prepaid phonecard that screw me up every single time I purchase one and when I call home. I hate em. This time I called my Dad for Oma Emma's phone number, my dad did not even pick up but they still charged me $ 1.53!!!! are you joking me? flippin prepaid phonecard company. RAR!!! anyway, my Dad didn't call me back, and I couldn't find my stuff where Oma's (Grandmother in German, btw) phone number is on it. I have this one box full of school stuff, and I saw this huge cockroach. (lol) Finally, I found my list with her number on it. I was planning on video taping it so I could upload my conversation with her, but I left my camera at Jaimie's place. Sorry no video.
The reason why I called Oma Emma is because its her birthday. yep yep, she is another year older and smaller! at least, thats what I noticed last christmas :) Anyway, she was so happy that I called her, well, I can honestly say that I made her day. yay that makes me her favorite grandchild. well thats pretty easy out of 3. haha Our conversation was 3 minuetes long, because she is kinda old and still thinks long distance calls are very expensive which they kind of are but not that bad. Anyway, long story short ending. It was good to talk to my Oma for a little bit. ;)

Apparently I do NOT know how to ride a bike...

2009-03-13T14:06:00.000-07:00

That is so embarrassing, I should not even be blogging about this. Its not funny, but I'm sure if you have no feelings you will laugh anyways. ;) actually it only gets embarrassing when I'm telling the story in front of a lot of people. Okay, what happened. It happened last Monday a week a ago. I was on my way home from Jaimie's place and it was around 10:30pm. As I was on my home, there is a tiny little place were it goes a bit up, but its almost straight, just deep enough to basically stand on the bike, stand on the pedals so you can go faster. Now, everybody who knows what my bike looks like, its rusty. Especially my chain is very rusty, it needs some oil. anyway, as I was standing and paddling pretty fast, my chain skipped and caused me to slip of my right paddle and I FELL OVER THE HANDLE BAR AND I TOTALLY ATE IT. The bike landed on top of me and I landed in the middle of the road.
I knew there was a car behind me. SO, immediately I pushed my bike to the side and I jumped up and moved to the side. The car stopped and asked if I was okay. I replied, "I can stand, I live, I'm fine." at this moment I was in shock. I was like. WOW, what happened. OH MY GOSH.
So, I check out my body, and see that my shorts are ripped and my nice banana republic t-shirt has a hole in it. (RAR I was so sad about my clothes, I'm more sad about my clothes than my bike and my body) I hit the ground pretty hard, and so my right arm is scratched and my right love handle has a massive bruise too. I'm grateful that my face didn't get any scratches. And my bike got scratches all over too.

thats my right love handle, couple days after.
Anyway, some girls that live right there, came out and helped me and gave me some stuff to take care for my wounds. I also called up Jaimie and she took care of me REALLY good. While cleaning out the wounds, it was burning, I hated it. Lucky that I didn't break any bones. the way I fell I'm pretty sure it could have ended up worse than it was.

I'm HAWAIIAN

2009-03-10T12:32:00.000-07:00

Aloha and Mahalo Nui Loa, so the other day I tried so hard to be Hawaiian but OUCH I'm still a white kid at the end. Thats what happened, I texted Regina my local Hawaiian co-supervisor at work. Anyway instead of writing Mahalo Nui Loa, I wrote MAHALO NUI LUA, which translated means, thank you big toilet. lol.. i guess i'll stay white. and I will stop being all cool about being Hawaiian. I mean I don't even like POI (accoriding to cousin Benny, "Hawaiian mash potatoes" - no offence, but I just don't like it, Hawaiians eat that all the time. End result, if you don't eat Poi y0u can't be Hawaiian.

Anyway, Regina really likes the idea of German Tuesday, therefore, she will be teaching me some Hawaiin here soon. And I'm contemplating if I want to start a new blog on that one. We'll see about that.

thats pretty much as Hawaiian as I can get!!!

The Brand New GOAL - the challenge

2009-03-02T21:57:00.000-08:00

life is tremendous, and Subway has definitely had a huge impact on my life. I have found my love while I was serving my full time mission in the Leeds Mission. Anyway, I fell in love with my all time favorite sandwich, its the Italian BMT.

Long story short, Italian BMT and I had to break up today! its the saddest day of my life, but Jaimie and I came to realize that this has to stop, its an unhealthy relationship and we can't afford it anymore. To figure out our true love for subway and especially for the Italian BMT, after a long discussion and a lot of tears, I know its so dramatic! we came to the conclusion that we can't do this anymore. It has to stop.

Therefore, Jaimie and I set a brand new goal. NO MORE SUBWAY for ONE MONTH, but we take it even further, NO MORE EATING OUT FOR AN ENTIRE MONTH!!!! starting today. I'm not sure if I'm ready for this, but Jaimie is very supportive!

I know, this will be so hard. There will be temptations and there will be times where we both want to give in and eat out, but we can do this and we will accomplish this goal!! its exciting, so stay tuned and check the blog for updates on the challenge.

Whale Watching Video

2009-03-01T14:31:00.001-08:00

Ben, a good friend of mine, who is also related to Debbie Frampton, my favorite Engl. 201 teacher, has made this amazing video. A bid shout out to Ben for putting forth that effort. Mahalo Nui Loa

A Whale of a Time... from Ben Boyle on Vimeo.

We Know How To Have FUN

2009-02-19T01:48:00.000-08:00

They are really big. They live in the ocean. They have a season. There is different species of them. By now you probably guessed what I'm talking about. Sometimes you can see them just from the beach but its always better to go on a boat to seem them. YES YES thats right, Jaimie, Ben, Jessica and Me went WHALE WATCHING last Monday... ... and it was so stinking amazing.... we did indeed see a lot of whales.

we even had a whale watching mix! (thanks to Jessica)

The boat and Jonathan the boat driver, or captain or he is the man!!!

Seriously, isn't Hawaii TREMENDOUS???

and some awesome whale pics, I can't believe how close we got to them. so so cool. YAY!!

and this little guy....
Honestly, we just know how to have fun! what an amazing Monday! Usually, everybody hates Monday, because you have to go back to school and its the beginning of another long week. But hey we have proven that Mondays can be fun, if its a holiday like last Monday, I'm glad we had President's Day! ;)

Fun At Work

2009-02-19T01:30:00.000-08:00

Today was my first day back at work for a while. This is so random but my Supervisor spotted a banana tree in our Luau today as we were seating guests. Luau is the restaurant that I work at, its a crazy place, craziness as in busy place. Anyway, I should take more pictures of this place that I work at! Anyway, it was just a little guy for a banana, Regina said they are Apple Bananas, because they are so little. Basically, my new thing to look forward to going to work is to find those Bananas! ;)

Valentines Day

2009-02-15T15:17:00.000-08:00

it could have not been a better day! I got up at around 8:30ish to get ready for a long but sweet day. I picked up Jaimie from her house at around 9:30 and duh of course I surprised her with red roses, I gave her a hug and a kiss and said Happy Valentine's Day! She was so cute about it. I love seeing her reactions when she gets surprised. ;)

After that we got invited to a pre wedding shower for my roommate Scott and his fiance JM. It was a surprise party for them, they got told its a work training they had to come to. Scotts first impression, "whats up with the balloons at a work training?", and "what is Michael doing here (a former Luau worker)" ;) they really didn't expect that at all. It was a pretty cool surprise party, which was all planned and organized by Regina our Luau Supervisor. She did a really awesome job. She did such a good job that we told her she should become a wedding planner.

thats when they first came in, aw so surprised, and below they look so happy because of the surprise party. ;) yay!!!

(Picture to the right) Scott and JM feeding each other cake. I'll quote their little conversation. Scott, "I love you" JM, "be nice!" after a bit of a hesitation, JM went for it and put whole slice of cake into Scotts face, Scott did the same! lol it was so funny. ;)

What kinda annoyed me was that Jaimie was like ahhh I have to leave at around 11ish. She said she had finish something up in the on campus copy center. She said she had to get my Valentines Card ready. Anyway, the party is over and I'm on my way to campus so I called her that I would be waiting outside, she responeded oh I'm not ready yet! Okay I go and fill up some gas and I would call her again when I'm back. 10 minutes later I call again, she said, oh honey, I remembered that I have your bike on campus, I just take that and I'll meet you at my house! and you just go home and get changed so we can go to the beach. okay by that time I was super annoyed about the whole situation. I'm like bahhhh ahhhh!!!! so I come home and I come into my room and this is what I found

My room got HEART ATTACKED!!!

My cute little girlfriend had everything planned out to first fool me around and than surprise me. YAY!! happy ending. She was hiding behing the door and jumped out and shouted surprise honey, happy valtentines day! aw, I sleep really good now being surrounded by a ton of hearts. ;)

so we make our way to the beach, but we didn't stay for to long because it was windy and it soon started to rain. lame, anyway we went home took a nap. oh and we had lunch at subway earlier.

Than our evening part of Valentines Day began. We first went to Turtle Bay Resort to go hot tubbing. it was nice but I think my nose is suffering from that, because it was really windy outside, and the water was really really HOT. And for the rest of the evening we enjoyed each others company and I got Cheesecake form the Cheesecake Factory on Friday. And we also enjoyed Haagen Dazs Pineapple & Coconut ice cream. All together, pretty much equals the best Valentines Day ever!

Oh one more thing, I apologize for not putting up a picture of me and Jaimie today, but I always get into trouble when I upload a picture of us two. because I always pick the ones she hates!! so sorry no picture of us today

I pulled it off...

2009-02-12T12:00:00.000-08:00

... and I don't even know how I did it. I'm talking about 1 1/2 hours of sleep last night and being in class by 7:45. I had to turn in a research paper and give a 5 minute presentation about a destination that was my choice. You wanna guess what my destination was? ... Nope, you are wrong!!! you were right if you guessed - LAS VEGAS! ;) anyway, I had to write a 5 to 8 page computer typed double spaced paper about tourism in Las Vegas and that can be pretty much anything like challenges, attractions, and statistics about anything you like as long as it has something to do with tourism. I took a shower and I dressed nice to take away from my small and tired eyes. ;) well, it's 10am and I will go to bed soon, one more class to go! Okay, I didn't publish my post earlier, I went to class at 11am and I was falling asleep by 11:40ish am (in class), and the best thing ever is I got home at around noonish, and I went to bed and I was supposed to show up for work at 3 pm, I woke up at around 3:4ish, and I was so SO out of it, anyway I showed up for work at 4, which was fine. anyway, I should go to bed early today ;) Thomas says,"the longer you sleep the shorter your day and you can sleep when you are dead." ;)

FOODFEST IS TOTALLY OVERRATED

2009-02-07T22:20:00.000-08:00

All I want to say about Foodfest is that it is completely OVERRATED!!! Foodfest is put up every semester and all the different clubs prepare food and sell it to raise money for their club. Now, don't get me wrong its a great idea but its too expensive and my Econ 200 teacher agrees on that one too. This is how it works, you go and buy your tickets and 1 ticket is 50 cents, as you make your round you'll find that a plate is like up to 15 tickets, so 7,50 for a meal as a student, come on clubs you all know we are all poor students so drop the price. I'm one of those that is not willing to pay $7 for a dinner plate. anyway, I still took some pictures. I see it as one of those events were you just go so you can say you showed up and you meet up with people you know. For example we saw Ben taking pictures for the hawaiin club.

the picture below sh0ws something so funny, the question is: Why is there a surfboard on top of a fire department truck? ;)

Well foodfest got boring so we went to taco bell to eat cheap and we aslo had ice cream after that. Jaimie and I had way to much fun taking pictures on the way. The first 2 pics show how much fun we had.

can you see my creep eyes in the above pic?
and what are we doing in the picture below?

What FLAVOR are YOU?

I must be that one flavor Jaimie likes a lot.

GERMAN TUESDAYS

2009-02-03T11:40:00.000-08:00

Today is, GERMAN TUESDAY! you probably think right now, what is this? is it one of those weird ideas that don't make any sense. Hold on, I'll explain.

It all started about a year ago, before Jaimie and I started dating. At the time when we were 'friends' and we 'hung out.' Jaimie asked if I could teach her some German, I didn't hesitate and agreed to it. As time passes we decided to have like a little weekly thingy to learn German. Well, eventually we came up with the name of calling it 'German Tuesday.' and yes there have been many Tuesdays we didn't learn German, but this time we will succeed because Jaimie and I will blog about it every Tuesday and Yes everyone can make comments and suggestions. Oh my gosh, I'm really excited about it. This is going to be so so much fun. Yah go and check out my new blog especially dedicated for only German Tuesdays purposes. ;)

Circle Island Tour

2009-02-03T11:26:00.001-08:00

Aloha and welcome back to my tremendous blog. Today, guys, you can all be very excited right now, because I got some sweet pics from last Saturday.

Jaimie and I took Scotts car (my roommate who is getting married in April). We first drove all the way from Laie into Town, stopped for lunch at PF Chang's, and we are in love with their chicken lettuce wraps, they are simply amazing. Anyway, after lunch, I stopped by the King of Mopeds store (very long story, i'll blog about it a different time) but I found out that they ran out of business.... super lame!!! From Waikiki we drove to Pearl City and picked up a bread maker Jaimie bought and I can't wait to try some of homemade bread. Should be very interesting. From Peal City to Mililani, actually all I know about Mililani is Wal Mart. hehe :) oh I purchased a brand new electrical toothbrush because my old one died, funny thing is, I came home and wanted to show Jaimie what was wrong with my old toothbrush, my old toothbrush is still working, which is so so weird. Basically, I'm going to keep my new one because the old one is kinda an old model anyways, at least thats what my mom said! Anyway, from Mililani to Kam Highway 99, all the way back home to Laie, but we did stop at Sharks Cove for some pretty sweet Acai Bowls from Kavaroots or whatever this place is called. so that was the Circle Island tour. check out the pictures below.

And make sure you check out my blog soon so I can update you on my little scooter and how the store owner screwed me up big time!!!

My Favorite Kind of Ice Cream...

2009-01-25T20:58:00.000-08:00

THAT IS IT. My favorite Ice Cream in the whole world EVAH!!! Haagen Dazs frozen yogurt vanilla honey & granola! it is amazing. its celestial its that good. For all those that thought Haagen Dazs is European you are wrong, if you google Haagen Dazs you will find out that Haagen Dazs was invented by 2 Polish immigrants in New York in the early 1900's. dahdah its American! Hurray. You wanna hear a depressing fact? I'm telling you anyways, now, a pint, or almost half liter contains 800 calories. WOW, that explains why my belly is getting bigger and bigger ;) So next time you go and buy ice cream you know which one to buy.

can you see how shine our faces are? yep looks like we got sunburned yesterday!!

A Beautiful Day

2009-01-25T15:37:00.000-08:00

Jaimie and I went to the Hukilau beach yesterday, and we had a great time. Hukilau beach is usually known for having NO waves at all and its calm for most of it, but yesterday it had some nice waves and lucky me I had my boogyboard with me. I had so much fun and I was so excited to get into the water that I even forgot to put sunscreen on. So guess what? ... Yep! I got sunburned on my back and I'm a little pink in my face ;) Jaimie got it worse then me, her face is red and her right shoulder and the back got sunburned! Last night we had some treatment, we put aloe vera stuff on the parts where we got sunburned and thanks goodness for that it really helps a lot! anyway, Hukilau beach was fun.

As you can see I'm still white in this picture! I will always be white because I'm from Austria and I just don't tan as much as other people do or as in yesterday I get burned. RAR RAR. anyway below you can watch a video of my trying to be so cool and try and ride waves!

Isn't blogging amazing?

2009-01-21T00:53:00.000-08:00

YES it is. Today I had such a strong desire to blog, and I didn't know what to blog about. So Jaimie showed me this awesome website www.thecutestblogontheblock.com, where you can find those really awesome backgrounds for your blog. Surprise, surprise, if you haven't already noticed I changed my background. Doesn't it look great? wow, I'm so into blogging!!! my English teach loves to take credit for that, that she got me hooked into this what the world calls blogging. ;)

My First Surfing Experience

2009-01-16T01:10:00.000-08:00

Today was a beautiful day, it could have not been any better to go surfing for the first time in my life. Micah, a good friend of mine, took me out this afternoon. Actually, last winter Micah and I talked about going surfing, but who knew it would actually take us that long, we just never got around to it. Funny, I know I have been in Hawaii for over a year now, and it took me so long to finally try surfing, but hey I finally did it. I had so much fun and I'm so tired, surfing is exhausting. My arms are sore and so are my thighs, and I'm a bit red in my face! But I will definitely go again, its a good workout, you get tan at the same time, and you have a lot of fun. Its actually pretty hard to get up and stand on the surfboard but its a lot easier to catch the wave with a surfboard compared to catching a wave with a boogyboard.

I know its not an action picture, but its the best one. (I also promise herewith that this is the only half naked picture you will find on my blog) Maybe next time I'll get some good action pictures. I better go surfing again soon.

What I had for lunch today...

2009-01-13T15:38:00.000-08:00

Have you ever heard of nutella? if you have heard about it, have you ever tried it? do you like it? anyway, I think its tremendous!!! I LOVE NUTELLA!!! It's so so SO good, and guess what? ... You know what makes it even better? right answer is: Peanut Butter.

if you haven't tried it, you haven't lived life!!!

oh my gosh, it is so good, I can't believe how good it is, its so good that I even blog about it. ;)

Las Vegas 2009

2009-01-07T11:28:00.000-08:00

Oh my goodness, Las Vegas is stupendous, pretty much amazing. I flew into Vegas on December 30th and my girlfriend Jaimie picked me up from the airport. we stayed till January 3rd. and we had a blast. I partied it up into the new year on the strip, which was a way too busy place but it was quit fun. Let me show you some pictures.

You know, when you study Tourism, you get excited about this place, one massive hotel after another hotel, its amazing how big the hotels are. the above picture shows the well known Bellagio with the water fountain show.

The picture below shows the New York New York hotel with the craziest roller coaster that I have ever been on. Spending 14 $ for one ride, seems a bit much but totally worth it. Let me share the following conversation I had with Jaimie as we are getting ready to take off.
Me: 'is this safe?'
Jaimie: 'yep'
Me: 'oh no, I'm gonna crap my pants!'
Jaimie: 'honey, its okay, you will be fine!!!'
Me: 'honey, you can tell I'm nervous, because I'm talking a lot crap, ahhh'
oh my goodness, I was being the girl and she had the pants on. ;)

can you believe that, they have lions in the middle of the casino at the MGM hotel??? crazy what? wow. and below you can see me on the left and my better have on the right.

may I make a quick shout out to IN n OUT burgers!!!! the best Burgers EVAH!!! sorry, no picture of IN n OUT, i didn't get around to take the picture, I was way too busy eating em. ;)

okay, you wanna hear another crazy story. I'm telling you anyway. Guess what those stupid airlines did to me!! how dare they?? I arrived in Vegas without my luggage clear back in Vienna. So, I got to Vegas on Tuesday evening and guess when I got my luggage? you think the next day, but you are wrong!! They got it to me on Sunday evening!!! thats 5 days without it. I wasn't even in Vegas anymore by than, I was already at Jaimies parents house in Page, Arizona. Well, I went shopping and I found some good deals, pretty much best sale evah. I was so mad and annoyed about my luggage. I flew with British Airways and they are the record holder in loosing luggage according some random website I googled. anyway, what makes it even worst is that they broke into my luggage to check if its really mine! RARRRRR. So, I bought a new luggage too, a nice one!!! I'm now having my fingers crossed to see if they airlines are paying for my new clothes and for my luggage. My argument is, I mean, how hard is it to send you luggage to your destination? And I do understand that it might get here a day late, but NOT 5. ridiculous!!!!
They better give me refunds!!!

Besides what was already mentioned above. I went to Vegas and I didn't gamble!! exuse me, but whats wrong with me? isn't that why people come and visit Vegas.

As always, I had a wonderful time at Jaimie's house with her parents. Oh my goodness. Dennis and Marsha (Jaimies parents) are such nice and wonderful people. they are great!!! One evening we made Wiener Schnitzel (other story, i can't believe they use that name to sell hot dogs!!! rar, someone should do something about it!!!). it was really good. another time, Jaimie and I convinced them to put salsa and sweet corn into their tuna melt sandwich. hehe, you should try it, its amazing!!!!

anyway, thats pretty much the longest blog entry I will evah do! so, I hope you enjoyed reading it and make sure you look up my blog every once in a while. so you know what I'm up to.

My New Years Resolution 2009

2008-04-23T20:25:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not, I'm into blogging. Seems like everyone is doing it, therefore, you have too, its like, you don't even haven an option. Soon people will stop calling friends and asking question of what they are up too, people will check out a blogspot to find out whats happening!! whatever! anyway, I'm an official BLOGGER, thats my new years resolution.
2009 will be for sure a tremendous year, I'm excited and I'll keep you up to date on my life.