Silly Nalu

I'm so thankful I have my little fat cat to keep me company at my place. It gets lonely sometimes but he always makes me feel happy!

Yummy Homemade Potato Chips

College Graduate out of work

Who will hire me, a college graduate? I've been job searching for months and it seems that my college degree was a waste of time. Did I get a college degree to get paid minimum wage at a mediocre job? No one will even hire me, so minimum wage is out of the question, it's zero. What do I need to do to get a job? I see now, why all the locals are moving off this island. Locals aren't wanted here. Especially if you graduated from UHM. It means nothing. At least that's the impression I'm getting. No wonder why there are so many "foreigners" on this island. They are the ones getting hired. They don't tell you this stuff in college. They don't prepare you for the "real" world. They rush you in and out and leave you to fend for yourself. Maybe with my college degree I can be a barista girl at Starbucks, or better yet I can work at Longs or Safeway! Yeah! That's exactly what I got a college degree for! I didn't get a college degree to actually EARN a living. Who needs college? Who needs school? Baristas and supermarket girls don't! Next time you think about going to college in Hawaii, DON'T! Cause it doesn't even matter what you study, you'll never get a job doing it. Especially here.

Endless summers make broken boards

But there is an end to summer. And now that it's over and the south is flat, what better thing to do than fix boards?

Do you believe in ghosts?

My friend sent me this picture that she took. This is her note, "ok so i went to fort pulaski is savannah and i took this picture when i was in the part of the fort that was used as a jail. When i took this pic i was with other people but i waited for them to move behind me so i could take a decent picture BUT you can clearly see that in the one door way there is someone standing there even though im positive no one was there when i took it. You have to zoom in on it to really see that it kinda looks like a soldier, at least to me it does." it looks real to me!

PSH Grand Opening

Raffles, free food, and prizes!

Delicious Salty Gold

This is what three large sized orders of McDonalds French fries looks like! And no we didn't eat them all and yes we had three people to help eat them!

More Underwater Photos from Waikiki

Clearfin Lizardfish

Blackfin Chromis

Big Eye Emperors

Yellowtail Coris

Snorkel Buddies

REEF Fish ID EXPERT Surveyor! 99.5%!

I took the level 5 expert test to be a REEF expert surveyor and I passed with 99.5%!  I am now an expert at identifying most marine life by their common names, although I do know quite a few scientific names too.  This morning, Ryan and I woke up at 5:30am to drive to Hanauma Bay and snorkel on the outter reef.  I've never done that before so I was really excited!  It was so good that we snorkeled for two hours and now I've got a ton of photos to share!!!!!  Ryan took a lot, a lot, a lot of photos of coral and algae, but I don't know most of them so I didn't post them :)  Oh and all of these photos were taken by Ryan!

Juvenile Reef Triggerfish (Humuhumunukunukuapua'a)

Bluestripe Snapper (Ta'ape)

Blacktail Snapper (To'au)

Yellowstripe Goatfish

Bluelined Surgeonfish

Rubbery Zoanthid

Teardrop Butterflyfishes and an Orangespine Unicornfish

False Brain Coral

Pinktail Durgon (Triggerfish)

Sleek Unicornfish

Blackside Hawkfish

Slate Pencil Urchin

Peacock Grouper (Roi)

Saddleback Butterflyfish

Spectacled Parrotfish

Pearl Wrasse

Bird Wrasse

Palenose Parrotfish

Blenny

Snowflake Moray Eel

Squid