Can you believe it’s been 12 years to the day since the tragic September 11 attacks in 2001? Please help me take a moment to remember those whose lives were lost on that tragic day…
Sorry for not posting anything last week. Shmall kine still recovering from last weekend’s Rice Fest. Big mahalos to all of you who came down to support! It was our biggest crowd to date!
With the dust now settled, we’re back in bidness. Let’s do this thang!
Last Week‘s Winners:
* Rice Fest 2012 (Nobody)
* Blue Truck Teppanyaki (Masako)
* Kimukatsu (Lia)
* New iPhone 5?
Are you excited for it? Gonna get one come September 20th? Thoughts on both cheap and expensive versions?
* Samsung Galaxy Note 3?
While we’re at it, we might as well report on the potential release of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 on or around September 25th. Getting um?
* Fantasy Football
You guys playing this year? How’s your team going so far after 1 week.
* VH07V Spotted!
This week’s “SPOTTED!” is another music video, this time featuring the ukulele stylings of the super talented Honoka & Azita covering Herb Ohta Sr’s (Ohta san) Bodysurfing. Buggah is up to 15,300+ views on Youtube already! So awesome to see these girls get the recognition they deserve!
Honoka & Azita – Bodysurfing
* New Design: “???”
Working on an all-new mystery design, that I don’t want to mention yet because somebody else might steal the idea. Haha. Design is actually pretty basic, but the message is cool (IMO). Hopefully others will feel the same way. 🙂 More TBA soon!
* Order Online!
Get all of the latest VH07V gear at:
Sorry peeps. Had one shmall kine family emergency earlier tonight so I wasn’t able to work on this week’s WIH game for y’all (it’s 3:24am as I type this). 😦 Everything is OK for now so no worries, but going have to postpone “Where In Hawaii” for this week. Apologies yo. Hopefully, these bad luck Tuesdays will go away soon. 😦
In the meantime, here are a few things to help pass your time this week:
Follow da sis on Twitter!: Da big sis literally just joined Twitter and she’s already tweeting more often than me. Haha! Follow her for crime/news/traffic related updates (and personal ones too)!
Like da sis on Facebook!: From resisting technology to having a Facebook and Twitter account all in like 2 months… her progress is quite impressive. Chicky-check it out k?
Lemme know if ya wanna play Fantasy Football: Let me know if you want to join our annual WWE Fantasy Football league this year.
It’s that time of year again… Das right! Super Bowl Sunday is right around the corner. On one side, we got Big Ben, Troy’s hair and the rest of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ D, while on the other side, we have the cheeseheads and the air attack of Aaron Rodgers and company. Who’s your pick this year and why?
Super Bowl XLV
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Green Bay Packers
Me? I want Green Bay! Aside from the one week during the playoffs where he sat out and completely screwed my fantasy team (d’oh!), Rodgers was a beast all year! He seems like a nice guy too! Besides that, I’m not very fond of Roethlisberger. Gooooo Cheeseheads! 😉
P.S. While we’re at it, if there are any MMA fans still out there, who are your favorites for this weekend’s UFC 126?
Anderson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort
Forrest Griffin vs. Rich Franklin
Ryan Bader vs. Jon Jones
Jake Ellenberger vs. Carlos Eduardo Rocha
Miguel Torres vs. Antonio Banuelos
Chad Mendes vs. Michihiro Omigawa
Norifumi Yamamoto vs. Demetrious Johnson
Donald Cerrone vs. Paul Kelly
Mike Pierce vs. Kenny Robertson
Paul Taylor vs. Gabe Ruediger
Kyle Kingsbury vs. Ricardo Romero
First off, big mahaloz to Chicken Grease, effenprincess and NeedaHobby for filling in (on short notice) last week with their guest posts! Your boy had to go on one business trip for Road Runner Mobile one quick one, so they chipped in and helped to keep our `ohana entertained up in hurr! Big ups!
I had CHOKE errands to do at home last night so I was finally able to sit down and watch an episode of Hawaii Five-0 in real time. And what better way to “watch” it than to join in on the #H50 convos going on simultaneously in the Twitterverse right?
Last night’s episode was called “Hana `A`a Makehewa“, which translates to Desperate Measures. Here’s the show’s synopsis:
“It’s Christmas in Hawaii, but instead of celebrating, Five-0 is negotiating a hostage situation when Victor Hesse, the man who killed McGarrett’s father, threatens to detonate an explosive that he’s strapped to Chin Ho’s chest.”
So wot? What’d you guys think?
Some possible talking points for us:
How sad was Danno’s Christmas tree? Hehe!
“Your house, your king’s English.” LOL!
Ikalani = Ihilani?
Chin Ho’s use of rice to pull the moisture off the SIM card. Gooooo @ricefest, er rice! 8)
Was that local MMA Fighter Harris Sarmiento in the chicken fight scene? First Niko Vitale and now him. Casting directors must be MMA fans! Sweet!
Danno’s hilarious quote, “Next time, shoot him in the face!”
Danno calling Sang Min (Will Yun Lee) the “Asian John Travolta”. LOL!
Since when was Bar 35 a private hostess bar in Nu`uanu?
Was that an Android app that they used to track Sang’s ankle tracker? DROID! 😛
Do coppers really have 28.5 mill just lying around like that in a secret asset forfeiture locker? If so, can somebody make me a copy of that blueprint please? 8)
I’ve swear we’ve all had a run in with a niele ol’ lady like that no!?
Wasn’t it just off hearing Chin Ho tell Kono “aloha” in that context? Didn’t care for that usage very much…
I almost cried seeing da $10 mill go bye bye in the fire. LOL!
How about another former local boy sighting with Mark Dacascos as the evil villain Wo Fat?
Alex O’Loughlin. Grace Park. That is all. 😛
In other news…
Finally catching up with my show The Sing-Off and watched back the first episode of this new season off my DVR. Woah! Committed’s rendition of Maroon 5’s “This Love” was off the chain!
So the other week, my beloved blunt friend Todd tells me that my blog is boring these days and that I needed to spice things up. He misses how I used to post every day.
Granted posting Where In Hawaii every Wednesday has become somewhat repetitious, I had to remind him that to post that one blog a week, I still had to:
1) take the photo
2) edit the photo
3) collect and calculate the stats from the week before
4) write the blog
5) read each and every comment
6) reply to each and every comment
7) rinse and repeat
Oh, and did I mention that I wasn’t getting paid a penny for this, and that my new position at work (my real job) is owning me?
I wasn’t complaining really. I actually agreed that I should be blogging more, but I just had to let my friend know the dealio, real quick-like.
So here I be. Attempting to keep y’all troops entertained. 😉 With Cat’s shocking announcement last week, it looks like there are less and less of us bloggers doing so dese days das why! :
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What Ever Happened To…?
So in honor of Todd, who is single btw (*grin*), let’s do a “What Ever Happened To…” blog today about meeting people/places. The idea behind “What Ever Happened To…” is to let us take a trip down memory lane and take a look back at how things were back in the day. If this goes well, we can continue it with different topics. Today’s topic: Meeting People/Meeting Places.
When I was growing up, cruising Waiks was where it was at. We would go round and round and round on Kuhio Ave – for hours on end – in the hopes of talking to those hotties in da Honda. Some of my old older co-workers used to talk about this thing called socials where clubs/groups from one high school would go out with clubs/groups from another high school. I have no idea what that is, but the concept sounds ingenious! LOL! Anyway, in the comment area below, feel free to post your favorite place to meet people. Maybe even share the story of how/where you met your wife/husband/bf/gf? Lord knows, Todd needs the help. Ahahaha!
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Are You Ready for Some (Fantasy) Football!?
On a side note, we’re starting up the WWE Fantasy Football League again. If you’re interested in playing with us, post your interest in the comment area below and I’ll send you the invite. Last year’s rankings:
Sorry, I know some of y’all were looking forward to another Where In Hawaii game today, but I gotsta make a special announcement that trumps that for the time being.
It’s our birthday yo!
Das right! Today, we celebrate our 2nd year in existence. Yay to us!
I started to research all of the blogs I did in the last year and was gonna just link to all of the ones that got high comment counts, but there were simply too many like that to list. Muhahahahaha! Nah, nah, who am I kidding right? But really, we actually did have quite a few that did pretty well. Mahaloz to all of you for always joining in on the convos and making this a fun place for us to hang out. 🙂 Here are some of my faves (high comment count or not) that I remember:
Where In Hawaii is Edward Sugimoto? – April 28, 2010
OK, I won’t make it a boring post and end things there. Let’s combine this birthday celebration with a lil’ WIH action and turn this into the longest blog in Honolulu Advertiser history! LOL! AND… to celebrate our 2nd Anniversary, I’m doubling the points today! Woo hoo! See! Good thing you kept reading/scrolling aftah all yeah? 😛
Points for…
* Name of this establishment?: 2 points!
* Name of new establishment? (see hint below): 2 points!
* Google Maps Street View Link:2 points!
Big ups to last week‘s winnahz rayboyjr, Coconut Willy and Takeshi!
Where In Hawaii is Edward Sugimoto? – April 28, 2010
Hint: On the birth date of WWE (04/28/08), I was here at this location (like how I tie everything together? 😛 ). I know this hint doesn’t really help you (unless you were with me on this occasion), but perhaps this hint next will?: “No longer open.”
Da “Where In Hawaii” Winnahz Circle!
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – April 21, 2010: rayboyjr – 2 points (Name: Laie Chop Suey), rayboyjr – 1/2 point (Where: Laie), Coconut Willy – 2 points (Dish: Dinner Plate), Takeshi – 1 point (Google Street View link)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto kuda.d – April 14, 2010: Takeshi – 1 (Where: Sangha Hall), onecupcoffee – 1/2 point (Who: Wailoa Razorbacks pop Warner football), Coconut Willy – 1 point (How much: $6), tita leerz – 3 points (Bonus: Fried Kole)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – April 7, 2010: Takeshi – 1 (Name of Location: New Elim), Coconut Willy – 1/2 point (General Location : Koreamoku Keeaumoku), rayboyjr, Coconut Willy, HNL2LAS, – 1 point each (Date photo taken?: July 21, 2007)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto hemajang – March 24, 2010: Coconut Willy – 1 (Name of Location: Jane’s Fountain in Liliha), S-Ticket – 1 point (Name of Enka Singer: Hibari Misora), kuya.d – 1/2 point (Object above cash register: Bull Horns)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – March 3, 2010: Takeshi – 1 (Exact Name of Location: Oahu Country Club), Takeshi – 1/2 point (General Location: Nuuanu), Takeshi – 1 point (Google Maps Street View link)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – February 24, 2010: Coconut Willy – 1 (General Location: Waikiki/Kapahulu), Coconut Willy – 1/2 point (x4), and rayboyjr – 1/2 point (Cross Streets: Kapahulu, Ala Wai, Paki, Leahi, Hollinger), Takeshi – 2 points (Google Maps Street View link)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – February 10, 2010: NaPueo – 1 ((General) Name of Business: St.-Germain Bakery), NaPueo – 1/2 point ((General) Name of Location: Beretania St.), rayboyjr – 2 points ((Exact) Name of Location (based on web site’s description): Beretania Times Arcade), Rosey – 2 points (Mushy Valentine’s Love Story: guy has 50 cents…)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – February 3, 2010: BananaFysh – 1 (Name of Restaurant: Sansei), Takeshi – 1/2 point (Name of Location: Waikiki), kuya.d – 1/2 point (Name of Island: Oahu), tita leerz – 2 points (Timestamp of Photo: 7:41PM), rayboyjr – 3 points (Most Comments: 102!)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – January 27, 2010: snow – 1 (Name of Beach: Waikiki Beach (Kuhio)), rayboyjr – 1 point (Name of Island: Oahu), rayboyjr – 1 point, Scott – 1 point, and tita leerz – 1 point (Three Funniest Captions: “Buns and a Weenie”, “Dude, I am so missing Hawaii right now!”, and “I wonder, do GUYS ever wanna stick your face in that like you wanna in boobs?”)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – January 20, 2010: Dave – 1 (Name of Establishment: Tsukiji Fish Market), rayboyjr– 2 points (Game: “first plug up each urinal … 3 guys, with six-pack of beer in hand … first one to guzzle down the beer and fill up the urinal wins … disqualified if you cannot aim straight and the stream hits da floor!!!”)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – January 13, 2010: BananaFysh – 1 (Name of General Location: Chinatown), kuya.d – 1 (Name of Specific Location: Maunakea Marketplace), Coconut Willy and rayboyjr– 1 point each and Takeshi– 2 points (Guess what the sign said: “White Headless Shrimp – $4.95”)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – January 6, 2010: Takeshi – 1 (Name of Business: Foodland), Coconut Willy – 1 (Location of Business: Market City), kuya.d, rayboyjr, and tita leerz– 1 point each and Rosette– bonus 0.5 point (Top 3 Captions: “Ed Sugimoto with a tan”, “Tiger ain’t got nothin’ on me!”, “Boobs, it ain’t just for women” and Rosey’s “YES ADD an inch to my chest…!” was too good to pass up!), Takeshi, David In Oregon, BananaFysh, rayboyjr, kuya.d, and Coconut Willy– 1 point each (Names of Celebs: Tosca Reno, Amanda Bynes, Pink, Rihanna, Joel Stubbs, Kim Dolan-Leto)
Where In Hawaii Is Edward Sugimoto – November 25, 2009: Coconut Willy and rayboyjr – 0.5 (Dole Park in Lanai City), rayboyjr – 1 (Lanai Airport), Coconut Willy and snow – 1 (Hulopo’e Beach at Manele Bay), snow – 1 (Lodge at Koele), kuya.d – 2 (Tanigawa Burgers from Canoes Lanai)
A-ight peeps, as the end of December quickly approaches, I, like the rest of y’all, will be taking a little break for the holidays. Let’s face it… many of you are probably not reading during this time anyway. 😛
But before that, I wanted to take the time to thank all of you wonderful readers for supporting WWE these last few years (can you believe April 28, 2010 makes 2 years!?). It’s been fun and it seems like we’ve been through a lot together, even though many of us have never met IRL. Gotta love the power of the Internet eh?
I’ve had the pleasure of playing fantasy football with some of you, and have even met a few others in person. Speaking of which, much love to bruddahs hemajang and MakiSushi for their gifts of T-shirts, and bruddah bB for his furikake and stone cookie omiyage (brok’ da mout’ literally!) from the B.I.! Hopefully, I was able to repay the favor to some of you with my movie pass and UH basketball ticket giveaways, local reviews/articles/interviews, and overall silliness of this blog. Hope it helped to play at least a small role in your otherwise busy lives.
Your Fave Holiday Memories?
K, let’s do a quick Flashback Friday kine moment hurr:
* Since the holidays are a special time we share with our loved ones, let’s use this moment to share with each other, our favorite holiday memory/mammaries. 8). Use the comment box below to share with da WWE `ohana. Yes, sorry, that was a lot of “share”s. 😛
For me, I think the most recent memory was making mochi at grandma’s house last year. As Japanee as I am, that was the first time I ever did that. Fun fun!
P.S. I won’t completely disappear from your life though! Shucks huh? 😛 I’ve been getting a few Christmas/holiday related forwards lately, so I may be posting those from time to time, to pass your time (to time). 😉 Don’t want ya to forget about WWE after all! 😛
Have a safe and happy holiday season gang! See y’all next year! *wave* 🙂
Another quality post that I’m sure will get 1000s100s10smaybe 1? comment below… Riiiight? 😛 But seriously, it’s Friday, so I thought I’d give y’all a break from thinking and send those of you – who are remotely interested in Fantasy Football – into the weekend with some mindless giggles. As you may or may not have known, we’ve started our inaugural WWE Fantasy Football League draft with 10 brave participants…
1 – che
2 – bB
3 – Coconut Willy
4 – S Ticket
5 – kuya.d
6 – World Wide Ed
7 – NeedaHobby
8 – BananaFysh
9 – soogs
10 – mypassionbucketisfull
and in that order, we’ve been drafting aimlessly (or at least I have). You can click on the link below to watch the results in real time, or as often as we can get to it.
Check out how the teams are starting to stack up below. In the comment area below that, feel free to laugh, cry, yell in anger or otherwise harass us with your tips, advice, words of wisdom, or silence. Hopefully, not the silence part though. 😛 And WWE playaz, feel free to trash talk up in hurr as well.
che
QBÂ Peyton Manning
RBÂ Adrian Peterson
RB Ryan Grant
WR Desean Jackson
WR Santana Moss
R/W Felix Jones
R/WÂ
TEÂ Tony Gonzalez
KÂ
Bench Ben Roethlisberger
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF Pittsburgh
bB
QBÂ Matt Ryan
RBÂ Michael Turner
RB Darren McFadden
WR Calvin Johnson
WR Greg Jennings
R/W Derrick Ward
R/WÂ Braylon Edwards
TEÂ
KÂ Stephen Gostkowski
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF New York Giants
Coconut Willy
QBÂ Drew Brees
RBÂ DeAngelo Williams
RB Thomas Jones
WR Steve Smith
WR Roy Williams
R/W Willie Parker
R/WÂ Julius Jones
TEÂ Antonio Gates
KÂ
Bench Hines Ward
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF
S-Ticket
QBÂ
RBÂ Matt Forte
RB Clinton Portis
WR Wes Welker
WR Bernard Berrian
R/W Marion Barber
R/WÂ Beanie Wells
TEÂ Dallas Clark
KÂ
Bench Matt Schaub
Bench Lance Moore
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF
kuya.d
QBÂ Tom Brady
RBÂ Maurice Jones-Drew
RB Kevin Smith
WR Dwayne Bowe
WR Vincent Jackson
R/W Joseph Addai
R/WÂ Steve Breaston
TEÂ
KÂ
Bench Kevin Walter
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF Baltimore
World Wide Ed
QBÂ Jay Cutler
RBÂ LaDainian Tomlinson
RB Brandon Jacobs
WR Marques Colston
WR Brandon Marshall
R/W Terrell Owens
R/WÂ Knowshon Moreno
TEÂ
KÂ
Bench Jamal Lewis
Bench Carson Palmer
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF
NeedaHobby
QBÂ Philip Rivers
RBÂ Steven Jackson
RB Ronnie Brown
WR Larry Fitzgerald
WR Anthony Gonzalez
R/W Santonio Holmes
R/WÂ Reggie Bush
TEÂ Chris Cooley
KÂ Jason Elam
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF
BananaFysh
QBÂ Donovan McNabb
RBÂ Frank Gore
RB Pierre Thomas
WR Andre Johnson
WR Reggie Wayne
R/W Chad Ochocinco
R/WÂ Ray Rice
TEÂ Greg Olsen
KÂ
Bench Domenik Hixon
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF
soogs
QBÂ Aaron Rodgers
RBÂ Steve Slaton
RB Marshawn Lynch
WR Randy Moss
WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh
R/W Larry Johnson
R/WÂ Donald Brown
TEÂ Jason Witten
KÂ
Bench Donnie Avery
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF
mypassionbucketisfull
QBÂ Kurt Warner
RBÂ Chris Johnson
RB Brian Westbrook
WR Roddy White
WR Anquan Boldin
R/W Cedric Benson
R/WÂ Eddie Royal
TEÂ
KÂ
Bench Tony Romo
Bench
Bench
Bench
Bench
DEF
Don’t you want that 10 minutes of your life I wasted back? Sorry! 😛 Shoots! Have a good weekend y’all! 🙂
By popular demand (from about 3 of you), we’ve started up a WWE Fantasy Football League and are calling all interested playaz. If you’re interested, please email me at world.wide.ed@gmail.com and I’ll send you all the league info.
The good news is that I really suck, so you’re at least guaranteed a 2nd to the last place finish. 😛
In the meantime, can you help a brutha out and post your suggested top 5-10 draft choices in the comment area below? From what I’m hearing Adrian Peterson is the consensus #1. I have the 3rd pick in my work league (there’s a trophy anderrything!) and am wondering what kinda gems I could get there.
Other possible things to post below could be your fantasy sports victory or defeat stories, your draft strategies, making a party out of your draft day, your favorite fantasy player, your favorite NFL team, etc.
Yeah, I realize this is a pretty narrow topic and probably won’t get much action below, but it’s a good excuse to further our WWE bonding outside of this blog no? 🙂
The Playaz (so far) * bB * kuya.d * NeedaHobby
* S-Ticket
* Me
This afternoon, the defending Superbowl Champ New York Giants host (Colt Brennan and) the Washington Redskins, a game that will kick off the 2008 NFL Football Season. Seventeen plus weeks of beer drinking, score checking, and overall lazy unproductive Sundays are on the horizon. Caaaaaaan yoooooouuuuu dig it?
I can almost hear the collecting groans from wives and girlfriends across the country, as their significant other morphs into a pizza eating, tv watching fatty in front of their eyes!
And even though I still maintain that baseball is the greatest sport on earth (yes I’m one of the few), followed closely by MMA, and then basketball… football has found a soft spot in my heart. I could care less about rivalries or which teams perform well or even who will win the Super Bowl. For me, it’s all about who’s on my Fantasy Team(s)! As long as they stay healthy and perform, I’m G double O D good!
Here’s whatcho boy got. Whatchu t’ink?
Friends’ League
QB Donovan McNabb
QB Marc Bulger
WR Andre Johnson
WR Torry Holt
WR Brandon Marshall
WR Bryant Johnson
WR Derrick Mason
RB Brian Westbrook
RB Larry Johnson
RB Jonathan Stewart
RB Ronnie Brown
RB Ahmad Bradshaw
RB Warrick Dunn
TE Tony Gonzalez
K Shayne Graham
DEF Jacksonville
D Jonathan Vilma
DB Roman Harper
Work League
QB Marc Bulger
QB Jake Delhomme
QB J.T. O’Sullivan
WR Andre Johnson
WR Chad Johnson
WR Steve Smith
WR Bryant Johnson
RB Brian Westbrook
RB Frank Gore
RB Thomas Jones
RB Chris Perry
RB Rudi Johnson
RB Maurice Morris
RB DeShaun Foster
TE Todd Heap
TE Randy McMichael
TE Greg Olsen
K Neil Rackers
K Rian Lindell
DEF Minnesota
DEF Tennessee
DEF Arizona
DEF Carolina
DEF Houston
Talk to me!
* Are you looking forward to this NFL season?
* How do you think Colt will do if given the chance to start?
* How’d you do in your fantasy draft?
* How do you think I did?
* Who’s your favorite NFL team?
* Who’s your favorite NFL player?
* How are you gonna spend your Sundays?
NFL Football: Washington Redskins at New York Giants From Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. @ 1PM on KHNL Digital Channel 0008 or HD KHNL Channel 1008
World Wide Ed 