Just blogging to blog

Hey there,

I‘m just checking in here.  I haven‘t blogged that much this week because I‘ve been busy answering the tons of email inquiries that came in this week, shooting weddings, and not to mention...editing wedding videos!!!  I did take a few hours off here and there to eat dinner and to work out...but in all honesty, I have been a workaholic this week.

I still have a few email inquiries to go...then I should be all caught up with my emails.

Well, Valentines Day is right around the corner.  Do you know what that means?  Well, it‘s a big proposal day, and also a big wedding day.  At one time, I had about 5 inquiries for this day.  For one reason or another, the wedding coulpes either changed theie minds.... so...I only have one wedding on Valentines Day!!!  I‘m actually kinda happy about that.  God forbid I‘d do 5 wedding videos on Valentines Day...that would just push me further back in my editing queue!!!

Now this is my opinion when it comes to wedding dates.  There are two definite dates you don‘t want to get married on:  1) Superbowl Sunday 2) Valentines Day. 

The reason for not getting married on Superbowl Sunday?  Well, women, you just don‘t want to compete with the spotlight that the Superbowl will steal on your anniversary!   If you ever wanted to plan an anniversary party....you‘ll of course have to incorporate the Superbowl.  And lets not forget about your husband who may be a die hard football fan.   He will honestly not want to get married on Superbowl Sunday, more so...he would not want to give up his Superbowl Sunday traditions of bbqing and hanging out with the guys to celebrate your anniversary.  Is that me just talking?  I‘m sure I would not get one man to agree with me on this in public in front of their wives....but in the back of their head.....they are agreeing with me.  Now, if you, the bride, were a die hard football fan and insisted that you‘d celebrate your anniversary by going to the Superbowl every year, my advice to you is to move to Hawaii, marry me, and we‘d live happily ever after.

As far as Valentines Day....well getting married on February 14th will just make every anniversary more expensive and more of a headache.  Flowers will cost three times more.  Hotels will jack up their prices.  Restaurants will be more difficult to book.  Airline tickets will be more expensive.  You get the picture... Valetines Day is the most expensive romantic day in the world.  God forbid the Superbowl would ever fall on Valentines Day.... (this could actually happen if they extend the football season!)

This is all just my two cents of course.  To each...their own.  Anyway...I‘m off to finish up answering the rest of my emails.  Blog you all later

Steve

(blogging from my phone)

SUPERBOWL!!!!

Just us seven watching the game this year

IT'S THE SUPERBOWL!
...the only day of the year I don't take weddings...

I will work on Christmas, I will work on New Years, Valentines Day, even my birthday, but you cannot get me to work on the day of the Superbowl. So don't even think about asking me to marry you on Superbowl sunday. Brides, I'm sure you can't even get your husband to get married on Superbowl Sunday.

This year, like every year, I hosted the Superbowl party. Unlike other years, the gathering was rather small. In the years past, there were quite a large amount of people. My cousins, friends, Uncles and Aunts would come over. In total, we would have around 20 to 30 people at our place. This year, there were only seven. We were missing just one more group of friends because they actually took a wedding on Superbowl Sunday! Crazy huh. I liked having it small this time around. Even though there wasn't as much yelling, there wasn't as much cooking and cleaning. Hey...that's pretty awesome in my book.

The game was pretty good till the end. I was rooting for Green bay actually. Speaking of which, my next couple I'm blogging about are huge cheese heads. In fact, they had their reception on February 5th, the day before the big game. Now, they won their Superbowl....What a weekend they must be having.

Hey, how'd you like the Superbowl commercials this year? To me, it was pretty crappy. There a few funny ones. Now, is it just me or are these Go.Daddy over-sexualized commercials rather uncomfortable to watch. I mean, who really cares about Joan Rivers or Danica Patric, or whoever the next sexy go.daddy girl is. It just seems too over the top for a Superbowl commercial. When that commercial comes on, you have married men who don't want to stare too long so they won't get in trouble. You have wives sitting there shaking their head. You have little kids in front of the TV wondering what's going on. And then you have your drunk friends in the corner yelling at the screen about how they want to have Danica's children. Really Go.Daddy?

Well, now that the Superbowl is over, it's back to reality for me on Monday.

Catch you all soon.


Steve

Things to do in HAWAII that you already missed

Chinese love money, don't you know that? (I can say that because I'm Chinese)

THINGS YOU MISSED IN HAWAII
...but maybe next time you'll catch it....

Hey so this weekend was full of activities. I didn‘t have any weddings from Friday to Sunday so I decided to hang up my wedding hat for once and to see what was cooking outside. And while there was no barbecue going on this weekend, it was smoking...litereally.

My weekend started off with the Choi Chang celebration in Chinatown. Every year, about two weeks before the lunar new years, the streets of Chinatown are closed down and the local Chinese Martial Arts clubs flood in with with Lion Heads to bring good luck to the businesses.

The lions and fireworks are supposed to chase away evil spirits that keep a business from making money.

These guys were fearless. The fireworks were literally at times, inches away from dancers.

Chinese Lions also do acrobatics. I have video of their full performance but I'll save it for another blog.

So does popping fireworks and lion dancing bring good luck business to the Chinese? Lets see...hmm. The Chinese are taking all of our manufacturing jobs and loaning back our money to us in the form of t-bills. The answer is...no. The Chinese are just smarter businessmen than the average American politician, it has nothing to do with luck.

Saturday and Sunday were all about the NFL since the Pro Bowlers were in town. On Saturday, our State closed down the streets of Waikiki and threw a NFL block party. There were five stages which fans could hang out at. Three were dedicated to local Hawaiian bands, one was dedicated towards auctioning off NFL merchandise, the last was dedicated toward the NFL players and fans got to see some NFL all-time greats get interviewed.

Me and my dad at the block party and big white nfl ball


One of the 5 stages on Kalakaua Blvd. The bands were pretty good.



Eric Dickerson to the kids "Listen to your parents because they know more than you."



Marcus Allen to the parents "Everything changed when my positions coach told me to "Make Sure" rather than "don't" It changed my perspective in life and I took careful chances."

Devon Bess, Hawaii's own, starting slot receiver for the Miami Dolphins. To the kids "Work hard, nothing ever comes for free."

Chief's cheerleader is also a school teacher.

Sunday was all about the Pro Bowl. The entire day was an adventure, from the parking lot, to the game, and getting out of the parking lot.

I'm a supporter of Michael Vick.




No anti-cheese here. I'm rooting for the Pack's this Superbowl by the way.


So right by our section was a stage that featured cheerleaders and dancers. These girls looked better than the NFL cheerleaders in person. But in photographs, the NFL cheerleaders looked much better.



Terri Bradshaw. Okay I took this shot after he sneezed. He was looking at his boogers in this picture.

Front and center, the Eagles pro bowl cheerleader! Do you know these girls only get paid $75 a game! Geez.



Yes, my dad is a Cowboys fan.



Look at this line to get on the bus to get to the parking lot on Ford Island! It took a hour to get on the bus!



Taken on my truck bed after we finally made it to the parking lot. It took about an hour to get off Ford Island. Check out the traffic jam behind us!

Well, that was my weekend. The Superbowl is coming up this weekend. Which means I‘ll be blogging about a Wisconsin couple this week. I‘ll see if I can dig up a Pittsburgh couple as well.

Okay folks, I‘m outta here...back to work...


Steve