From the sun-kissed, white-sand beaches and clear, blue waters of Hawaii and Bohol, our holiday vacation was truly blessed with wonderful weather, unforgettable memories and exciting adventures. “Island life” was the theme of our Christmas holiday.
“You say goodbye, and I say hello.” To use the Beatles line to talk about awkward social interactions is to take it very much out of context, but it’s a good reminder that social codes are not natural to us.
The all-encompassing Hawaiian term “Aloha” can mean both hello and goodbye, making it an apt phrase this weekend in Honolulu where the welcome for an Asia-Pacific summit is wearing thin.
While the Philippines is made up of some 7,200 islands, this pocket of nirvana is a cluster of eight jewels located in the vast waters of the Pacific Ocean. This is Hawaii, the 50th state of America that is synonymous with sun, surf, beach, and washboard abs. And you can enjoy a piece of that [...]
Feast on the “Obama” burger made famous by President Barack Obama, the one he always orders when he’s in town: the half-pound cheeseburger at Kua ‘Aina at the Ward Center and in Haleiwa. Definitely one of the best burgers in Hawaii. The Honolulu Cookie Company, for pineapple-shaped shortbread cookies excellent for pasalubong; in Chocolate Dipped [...]
