A twenty-something Hawaii transplant living it up on the East Coast for the past 10 years (Boston and Stamford, CT). This blog is to document my daily adventures and things that I find cool, uncool, hilarious, awe-inspiring, and annoying. Please feel free to email me at wahineinct@gmail.com.
March 5, 2010
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Although I hate on the team, I gotta give props to this stellar baseball fan. A NY Yankee insignia followed by “GR8NES.”
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(via hikenow: barroomhero)
Per wikipedia: Ithaa, which means pearl in Dhivehi, is a mostly acrylic undersea restaurant secured five metres below sea level at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa (soon to be the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island) in Rangalifinolhu, Maldives. The five-by-nine meter restaurant has a capacity of 14 people and is encased in a transparent acrylic roof offering 270° panoramic view to its customers. The restaurant was opened on April 15, 2005. Meals range in cost from US$120.00 (lunch for hotel guests on Full Board meal plan) to US$250.00 (dinner for hotel guests on Bed & Breakfast meal plan).
Add to: places I need to eat at (and places I need to visit)
March 3, 2010
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Regarding the Marriage Ref
- Me:You HAVE to watch the Marriage Ref. It was amazing. The first "issue" was a couple arguing over whether or not they should display their dead dog the husband got stuffed by a taxidermist.
- CW:What?!
- Me:It's awesome.
- CW:We thought about watching it actually but my wife and I worried that it might start arguments between us if we don't side with the same person.
- Me:Actually, I did think of that - but now I'm not as worried. So far so good. For example, Ryan and I both agreed that when our cats pass away - we will not be getting them stuffed.
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Sonja = Minibar Fail.
I never fail! Not at obtaining reservations to the most coveted restaurants around. Do I have an inside track to the restaurant business? Not at all. Instead, I have killer instincts at redialing or refreshing website pages. In case you couldn’t tell, this “never failing” thing has made me quite cocky over the years. But today I failed.
Every March / April I head down to DC for a weekend of sightseeing and indulgent eating and drinking in one of my favorite cities. So my plan for this year was set: the first weekend I’m free from work (the weekend of 4/3) we would head down and spend Saturday eating at Jose Andres’s six-seater Minibar. A perfect weekend getaway after 3 months of hard work.
So exactly 1 month in advance at 9:45 AM (even though Reservations didn’t open until 10 AM) I started calling. For 45 minutes I called. Outside. In Connecticut. While it was snowing (though not sticking). With no jacket. Because Greenwich does not believe in having good cell phone reception (with any company). I was about to give up and decided that my call at 10:30 would be my last when lo and behold I didn’t get a busy signal. I got through. And found out that there were (at least) 12 lucky souls ahead of me (there are 2 seatings). So I put my name on the waiting list - but pretty much will not be holding my breath that I will get a call back.
I will be trying again until I succeed!
*Photo courtesy of the Minibar website
March 1, 2010
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I arrived early for a meeting I have near Penn Station (will wonders never cease) and was trying to figure out what to do to kill time when I noticed a HUGE Famous Footwear store next door. At first I was a little skeptical but turns out they had really cute shoes. After being on a shopping freeze for the last 2 months it took all my willpower not to buy the entire store. Well, all my willpower and the fact that it might not look too professional to show up at my meeting with endless supplies of new shoes in tow.
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The Marriage Ref
I’m the type of person that actually buys things based on *as seen on tv* infomercials so it was really not a surprise that after seeing countless commercials for The Marriage Ref while watching the Olympics, I was determined to see the first half-hour clip.
It was hilarious! Like I was gasping for breath with tears rolling down my face hilarious. I can’t wait till the full hour pilot episode starts on Thursday.
The best line of the episode: Well, people in hell want ice water, but they ain’t gettin any! [as retorted by the wife arguing about not wanting a stripper pole put up in her bedroom]
*Also, sort of off topic, but I just want to say that DVR totally changed my life. Four years ago I was cursing my job for not letting me be home at nights to watch the Winter Olympics. But thanks to DVR (and the interwebs) I got to watch everything I cared about this time around… just a little bit later than everyone else.
February 27, 2010
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THINGS I LEARNED FROM: Glee
1. Metaphors are important
2. All the Asians in school are named “Chang”
3. The square root of 4 is rainbows.
4. Cheerleaders wear their uniforms all day long, everyday.
5 Ballads are male ducks.
6. The fastest way to sell cupcakes is to use Nana Connie’s recipe.
7. Mohawks are heritable traits!
8. Sunglasses automatically make you cool.
9. America needs sunshine and optimism….and also, angels.
10. There’s nothing ironic about show choir!
11. If you don’t know who Josh Groban is, you should kill yourself.
12. Everybody Loves Disco
13. School pictures are great practice for the paparazzi
14. Girls want sex just as much as guys do!
15. Single Ladies is the answer to football victory
16. Having two gay dads is the key to getting your way in life
17. Ovaries are exposed when cheerleaders bend over
18. Caning works
19. Don’t fall in love with a kitty cat
20. Spanish Is a Dying Language
via allthingsalishan: werefreakingoutman: hipsterical: hipstopotomus: bloowind: kelliethegleek: graceinsmallthings
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Le sigh. Ever since we started planning to go to Vegas this upcoming April I’ve been checking and waiting for Garth Brooks to announce what dates he would be performing at the Wynn. I figured the odds were not good that he would be there the same weekend I was. But he will be. For the exact same time!!! New concert dates were announced on Wednesday. Tickets went on sale this morning. And so by the time I learned about it this evening, they were sold out. Err!!!!
Articles have said there are preventive measures against scalpers - I hope this isn’t true… I REALLY want to go!!!
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In times of emergency, spam is still king.
After hearing that the tsunami (triggered by the earthquake in Chili) had reached Hawaii, I nervously dialed 10 digits and was met with relief when my dad answered and assured me that all was fine, and that no deaths or even property damage had been reported.
Best line of the conversation: “Thank god nothing happened - we only had 1 can of spam in the house.”
We both laughed at my Dad’s joke - and over the fact that it probably really wasn’t a joke.
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I don’t understand why everyone calls me the bad one.
