On Monday night we had a last minute bbq at Ala's new house. It was great fun times with the old school bong crew, Ala, Priya, Gav, Cory, and Rissa (we go way back 5 years at least). And Anna came too! Cory and I were in charge of the grilling (burgers and dogs) and Priya was our bartender, she found a GREAT recipe for lychee martinis and li hing margaritas. Ala has been living at her new place for over a month or so, but me and Priya bought her these nice daisies as a little housewarming, don't kill them Bala! We need to have more of these mini-bbq house parties, next time tacos and even more margaritas!

On a more somber note, The Honolulu Advertiser has just been bought by the owners of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. It will be an interesting next 6-8 weeks and hopefully everyone will be able to keep working, we really have no idea what is next. Hoping for the best. Maybe it's finally time to really consider going back to school.

The 2008 hate

2008 was a rough year. I went from happy newspaper part-timer/billabong full-timer to newspaper full-timer/billabong part-timer and just when I thought I've found my career niche now I'll be back to newspaper part-timer/billabong full-timer. I've changed my health insurance 3 times (4 of you count the three months I was on COBRA). My boyfriend said he was going to move back to Maui in May to end up only coming back 2 weeks later to finish school then move back to Maui for good in October. I paid $60 bucks at the gas pump to fill up my '99 Camry. And the worst part was losing my dear Grammsy.

I know, I know, my year could've been way worse, and I am grateful for everything in my life that didn't go wrong. It's just that overall, it was a pretty crappy year. The year wasn't a total waste I did get to see Chris Breezy in concert, fell in love with Gossip Girl, went to my first Birthday Bash, voted for Barrack Obama, my Project Runway pick finally won, got a blackberry, saw HSM3 in theaters, and whoa did Lauren and Heidi actually have a civil conversation last week on the Hills?!?

I'm SO ready for 2008 to be over, only about 14 hours left. Time for a new year and a fresh positive start.

Metromixing

Gannett and Honolulu Advertiser recently launched a new project: Metromix Honolulu. A cool site to check out the happenings around town. Diane and Tracy (my cubicle neighbors) have been working hard on this site, and the site is super rad. You can log in and mark your favorite haunts and even make playlists.
Check mine out: my playlist
...and if you can't head online to find out whats going on, there's always the good ol' TGIF (every Friday and found at Starbucks across the island). :)

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeekend is finallllllllllly herrrrrrrrrrrre.
If I don't make it out to the family festival or to the beach, I might just park it on the couch and watch some Summer Olympics. Tomorrow's highlight: Men's Soccer, US vs. Japan. Only thing sad... Landon Donovan is not on the team. :(

where do you get your news?

daily newspapers? tv? internet?

Living in a time where everything is available on the internet, in 5 years do you think print newspapers will be obsolete?

I personally don't think so, you don't get the same validity from the internet over what you get in the newspaper.