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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Shots from my Maui Wedding...
SHOTS FROM MAUI Po'olenalena Beach - My favorite beach in Maui
If there's one thing that I love about Maui, it's that there's a Kripy Kreme there. Everytime I head there to do a wedding I always end up eating nothing but Krispy Kreme donuts for the entire day. Anyway, here are some effect shots that I took the other day with my snapshot camera, G10.
Alright, I'm off to answer more email. Blog you soon.
THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR Prince Williams and Kate Middleton tie the knot.
The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was truly the wedding of the year, probably the decade, quite possibly, even the century. And guess what? I missed it. I was busy watching Korean movies at night here in Hawaii while they were tying the not, and after that, I went to sleep. In fact, I didn't even know that Prince Williams and Kate had gotten married until I woke up. I honestly thought their wedding was happening on Saturday.
So what did I think of their wedding? After viewing videos on Youtube, I thought it was cool. Very royal. Princess Kate, well...she pretty much is what you would expect a princess to look like: beautiful, classy, luxurious. And Prince Williams, boy-o-boy. I remember when I was younger, Prince Williams was said to be handsome and that he inherited his mother's good looks. Well, it looks as though the inbreeding bloodline from his father has caught up to him.
Their wedding ceremony was good. It was your traditional ceremony with a few Catholic traditions thrown in. The video coverage was perfect. The three camera coverage which I perform at my weddings is very similar to the ceremony coverage at their wedding. I honestly think my coverage is better. The camera cut away from Kate a bit too much during her vows in my opinion. But with that said, the cameras gave the TV audience the best seat in the house.
The procession back to Buckingham palace was probably the best part of the wedding. What a spectacle. Now, I believe the more horses you have at a wedding, the more you look like royalty, and the more poop there is to clean up. Take a look at the video above. That's a lot of poop on the streets! I thought it was just rather funny to have the Royal Newlyweds, riding in their carriage back to their palace, and at the same time, to have their carriage wheels rolling over horse poop, flinging off the wheels in every direction. I'm sure it smelled really bad too. Fresh rolled over horse poop smells awful.
Princess Kate's wedding dress is one which I really didn't care for. It's much better than Princess Di's dress, which looked more like a failed weather balloon experiment. But I thought she had lace is all the wrong places. Her dress is probably one that photographs really well, but in live action shots, it doesn't look as good. I believe though, that she is probably one of the few women in the world that could pull off wearing a dress like that.
My final thoughts on the wedding of the year? I hope it last. And I hope Princess Kate doesn't get hounded by the press like Princess Di. I hope she's ready for the limelight.
For Andy, it was a usual day. It was a crisp sunny day in Wisconsin. "Sunny, but blistering cold," Andy corrected. He showed up a little early for work as usual. Never the first one in, but early enough to impress the boss, as usual. And as usual, Andy turned on his computer, tapped his fingers on the desk as he warmed himself up with that horrible bitter coffee he had picked up on the way to work. But before he could settled, the call came in over his police radio. They needed him at the crime scene, a-sap. Andy grabbed his crappy coffee off his desk and paced out of the police station. "Still usual..." Andy thought.
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"Another day, another crime, " Andy said to himself as he stepped out of his issued patrol car. "Just another...wait a minute..."
Andy's head swiveled left and saw her. She was amazing. Her hair, brilliantly shimmering in the cold Wisconsin sunlight; her skin, smooth as porcelain; smile, perfectly bright. Like Andy, she was dressed in her blues and had been called to the crime scene. Andy, while still keeping his cool, eagerly approached her.
"You must be new around here," Andy commented.
"Transferred in. I'm from Minnesota."
Crap, Andy thought. What if she's a Viking's fan? He continued, "Well, welcome. We could use some new blood here."
"Thanks. Karen," she said, extending her hand.
Andy shook her hand. "Come on, lets see what we got here." He said as he escorted her to the crime scene.
Suddenly, through the thick packed snow, ninjas jumped out from the snow armed with three-foot long swords!
"Stay back", Andy said as he drew his knun-chucks from a secret pocket in his pants leg.
..........aaannnnd......scene!
Alright! I had to stop myself there before I got carried away. Man, I was having a flashback of my old screenwriting days. Phew! I was just about to write in some crazy ninja fighting scene and have Andy and Karen bouncing off walls. You would have liked that... wouldn't you? I think I already took too many creative liberties on how Andy and Karen met. Truth be known, that Andy and Karen did meet at a death investigation. Their friendship blossomed from there, and about a year and a half later, that's when they started dating. And...I think there were ninja's involved somewhere down the line, such as on their first date or something. I forgot the exact story.
Andy and Karen were one of my 10.10.10 brides. For those of you how don't know the significance of 10.10.10, that's October 10th, 2010, a popular wedding date because of the obvious pairing of numbers. I believe that on 10.10.10 I had about six total weddings at Ko'olina beach. Crazy huh? Andy and Karen were my fifth wedding for the day, and a blast to work with.
So what were Andy and Karen's first impressions of each other? I'll let them answer it for themselves.
Karen: He seemed confident, smart, and was easy to talk to. This was obvious because I talked way too much the first time I met him.
Andy: Listening to her talk, I found her voice to be mesmerizing. :) I also thought she was hot!
Curious on how they Andy popped the question? Here's each of their personal accounts.
Andy: I proposed to her in downtown Minneapolis on a cold November evening. I took her shopping in the Twin Cities and we went for a walk down Nicollet Mall and she complained about being cold. I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me, and she forgot about being cold.
Karen: We had to walk many blocks from the metro train to a park on Nicollet Mall where he proposed. I was freezing and couldn't figure out why we went to an empty park. After whining about the cold, he pulled out the ring and said he had something that would warm me up. As I said "YES" and put the ring on my finger, I practically ran to the train to warm up and enjoy my ring!
Andy truly knows how to warm Karen up for a marriage proposal. Shopping before popping the question? Nice!
Andy and Karen, like me, are big time NFL fans, but their loyalties like on the opposite sides of the river according to Andy. Andy is a die-hard Greenbay Packer's fan, and Karen is a crazy Minnesota Viking's fan. For those of you who are not NFL fans, basically Packer's and Viking's fans don't really like each other. They are like oil and water....
Andy: When I found out she was a Vikings fan, I offered up Brett Favre as a gift! She could have him! She is one of the most knowledgeable women I know when it comes to football, even though she wears "Purple Pride".
Karen: I view his Packer backing as an incurable disease. I, however, am a critical thinker and try to remain open to alternate views and thinking! I forgive his shortcomings!
Andy: Packer-Viking games get very interesting around our house! Aside from the football differences, we find we have a lot in common, including a love of traveling to warm destination (we hate the cold and we WILL be back to Hawaii!). The most important part about our relationship, besides our Pomeranian Sable :), is the fact that we really enjoy each other's company and have fun together.
Well, that about brings my story of Andy and Karen to a close. My last notes on them, Andy and Karen are an awesome couple. When I dropped their photos off to them we spent an hour or so talking in the parking lot about nothing really important. Just having fun.... I'm hoping on their trip back to Hawaii that they look me up! We'll share more laughs and interesting conversations.
Missing in this shot, all of my friends and family, haha....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY...TO ME! I turned 34 on March 27th, 2011
Wow, has it been a few weeks since I blogged? How time flies by when you're not typing on here...haha.
So what have I been up too? VIDEO EDITING HELL! Yes, I've been on my computer almost every night, editing wedding videos. I have about 6 more to go and then I'm completely caught up. I think at one time I had about 20 something videos to do.... seesh.
Also, while I've been away, I managed add another year to myself as I turned the big THREE-FOUR on March 27th. I didn't have much of a birthday party at all. Usually, I have my grandmother and parents over my birthday, and a handful of my close friends, but that didn't happen this year. This year, I just rang in my birthday with my parents and just one friend. My grandmother couldn't make it this year because a tree had blocked the road going to my house; and as for my other friends, we'll...they are either married, living off island, or doing something better with their lives.
For my birthday, there was only one thing that I wanted, and that was a god-made, heaven sent, gigantic cookie cake from Sam's Club. I tasted this cookie cake about six months ago at a child's birthday party and thought it was the next best thing to that hot Korean woman that I have been calling for the last 4 years of my life. So a few days before my birthday, I ordered an "Optimus Prime" cookie cake....
Is this what Heaven looks like? Maybe in Robot Heaven.
Now that I'm thirty-four, I feel as though I'm a bit wiser than I was when I was 33. Have I learned anything new in the last year? No, not really....but I FEEL wiser. Isn't that the new-age thing? To "feel" everything out rather than using actual logic and reasoning? Gotta love my generation.
WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF BIRTHS...
TRUMP'S VIEW...DO YOU AGREE?
While I'm on the subject of birthdays and births, let me switch gears and chime in on Donald's Trump's latest heated topic regarding Obama's birth certificate. Trump, like the birther's, claim that Obama has not yet produced a valid birth certificate that would validate that he is a U.S Born Citizen, and therefore, not eligible to be the President of the United States. Is Trump and the birther's crazy conspiracy theorists, or do they actually have a case? Here are the plain simple facts that you have not heard about in the media.
Here is Obama's "birth certificate" from his website:
This birth certificate is actually a "Certification of Live Birth" and not a birth certificate. All this says is that Obama was born. This certificate though, can be used to get passports, driver's licenses, and even a marriage license. But if you are Hawaiian, it cannot get you Hawaiian homestead land... Why? It's because this certificate is a short abbreviated version of the real birth certificate and it can be amended, unlike the original "Certificate of Live Birth". So if someone wanted to get homestead land, which is basically free land, technically one could just amend their certificate to say they were 100% Hawaiian.... This is why the Office of Hawaiian Affairs demands those receiving homestead land show the original.
My father's birth certificate! The real one! It reads "Certificate of Live Birth" not "Certification"
This is a picture of my father's birth certificate that shows the attending physicians, mother, father, legal name, sex, weight, registrar, etc...etc... It is also shows where he was born, and his ethnicity as defined by the doctor. I have one exactly like this. If Obama was born in Hawaii, he should show this one..the black one.
As you can see, here in the State of Hawaii, amendments can be made to the issuing birth certificate, but not the original. Those who had a sex change can actually change their sex information on their birth certificate! Children who were born in another country, can be adopted in Hawaii, registered with the State of Hawaii, and then issued a local "certification of live birth" as though they were born here... But, they cannot be issued a "certificate of birth."
Obama's birth was announced in two newspapers, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and Honolulu Advertiser in the classified section. Announcements of all births, including adoption amendments are issued by the Department of Health to the newspapers. What's strange is that the address listed for Obama is not his mothers, but his grandmother's address. His mother did not live with his grandmother during her pregnancy or the birth of Obama.
Obama with his grandparents, the two people who raised him.
We do know that Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, raised Obama from a child, not his mother. She was one of America's first female Bank Vice-Presidents, an extremely successful woman, and rather wealthy. While her daughter gallivanted across America, she raised Obama and sent him to Punahoe School, and took the role of mother to Obama. Now, what happens in America when a parent goes AWOL and the grandparents are forced to take care of that child? Well, the grandparents usually end up adopting that child rather quickly so they won't lose it to social services. Could Obama's grandparents have adopted him, therefore amending his birth certificate? Could this be the reason why Obama's grandparent's address is listed in the newspapers and not his mothers? Things that make you go hmm...
There's only one thing that could clear these questions. Obama could just show his original birth certificate, as how I showed my father's. This would shut the birther's up, and allow the country to be focused on other things. But until then, Trump or the birther's are not wasting their time as they are upholding the constitution.
Other questions? Why has Obama spent millions on a shield of lawyers that would sue anyone from peering into Obama's birth records to academic records to previous work records. Why is there such a secrecy.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings to make sure John McCain was eligible to run. CLICK HERE for more info on that But not one hearing was held for Obama?
Birther's just have questions. They are not racist, bigots, or crazy conspiracy theorist. They just have questions. That's all. Questions...just questions... Now it's time for you to decide where you to stand...and for me to get back to VIDEO EDITING HELL....
