New Year Lions Backstage 你好

A  L  O  H  A - Nihau - 你好

We see and taste,

and live China's culture

all over Honolulu,

all through Hawaii.

 Chinese New Year

  is a special time of year to me.

We Hear it,

See it, Taste it,

and 

SMELL it!

End of a Long Day - Heads OFF!

 Not ALL

 of the lion dancers are teens, 

OR Chinese.

 "Secret Alley" 

Chinese Cultural Center, Chinatown Honolulu

Lions in ones and twos,

retreated behind a closed door

while I took the shot 

above this one

(and some in our party

drank some "Alley Beers")

I snuck the door open a 

crack and found

the secret Lion Store Room!

The Year of the Wood Horse

starts Jan 31st.

Honolulu is just

getting started

GUNG HEE FAT CHOY!

Wishing YOU

the best year yet!

Leave a comment :)

                  Fondly, cloudia

PRO BOWL STARTING

A L O H A !

Welcome

 Pro-Bowlers & Fans!

NOT Super Sunny today in Honolulu

But it is Warm & Wonderful!

=^..^=
' Take Peace & Smiles - Leave Your Comment '
Thanks for visiting!

                     Warmly, cloudia

    A      L      O      H      A   !  

 “ Beautiful things 

don’t ask

 for attention. ” 

Sean O’Connell

" No,                             

 they command it! "

cloudia

I rounded the hedge, there he was: 

staring into my eyes! 

Didn't care to be photographed-

Click on this photo to gloat at the prices ($ USD)

Waimanalo, Oahu (LINK)

" The day, water,

 sun, moon, night -

 I do not have to 

purchase these things

 with money. "

Plautus 

=^..^=

' Take Peace & Smiles - Leave Your Comment '

Thanks for visiting!

Warmly, cloudia

Hawaii's Highway

A      L      O      H       A   !

Most goods come to Hawaii by ship

" William Matson (1849–1917)
 was the founder
of the Matson Navigation Company.
 He was born in Lysekil in Västra Götaland
County, Sweden,
 and orphaned during childhood.
He arrived in San Francisco
after a trip around Cape Horn in 1867.
Working aboard the Spreckels family yacht,
he struck up a friendship with sugar tycoonClaus Spreckels,
 who financed many of Matson's new ships.
 In 1882 the three masted schoonerEmma Claudina
ran to the Hawaiian Islands.
The enterprise began in the carrying of merchandise,
especially of plantation stores, to the islands
and returning with cargoes of sugar. "
Wikipedia

LINK

Click photo to see the cars aft.
Those tiny boxes amidships
tower over one's car as trucks take
them about our highways.

" Matson is credited with
 introducing mass tourism to Hawaii
 with the opening of the historic Moana Hotel
(March 11, 1901
 now known as the Moana Surfrider Hotel)
 and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki
 on the island of Oahu. "

Wikipedia

CLICK TO ENLARGE Tiny Barge!

Barges like this one,

 towed by great oceangoing tugs,

 take goods from Honolulu Harbor

to the neighbor islands

Many shipping lines call at Honolulu

" The sincere friends of this world

 are as ship lights

 in the stormiest of nights. "

Giotto di Bondone 

Do click on photo to see
 aircraft on the runway behind ship

" Four hoarse blasts

 of a ship's whistle

 still raise the hair 

on my neck 

and set my feet 

to tapping. "

John Steinbeck 

Aircraft, 

like this jumbo military fellow,

 bring people,

and time-sensitive supplies.
Hawaiian Airlines is regularly
the most on-time airline
in America!


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Thanks for visiting!
             Warmly, cloudia

Google/Blogger Problems

A      L      O      H      A   !

" Intellectuals solve problems, 

geniuses prevent them. "

Albert Einstein

   > <  }  }  ( ° >

Could it BE?!

Google Down?

Blogger Down,

then Up,

then

Down Again?

!

Friday, January 24, 2014 at 2:50:07 PM EST

"Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World,
 Service Returns After Roughly 50 Minutes"

LINK

How very strange-

Did you experience it too?

Thanks for making it here!

Comment if you CAN

                     Warmly, cloudia

Resting for the Dragons

A     L     O      H     A  !

Koko Head Crater (Link)

" Cease to inquire 

what the future has

 in store, 

and take as a 

gift 

whatever the day 

brings forth. "

Horace 

" The mind 

ought sometimes 

to be diverted

 that it may return to 

better thinking. "

Phaedrus 

" In our leisure

 we reveal

 what kind of 

people

 we are. "

Ovid 

  =^..^= 

Getting healthier every day,

cleaning up, stocking up,

resting up!

Saturday will see

Honolulu Chinatown

E R U P T

with 

Lunar (Chinese) New Year

Celebration:

Dancing Lions, wandering

dragons, crowds,

calligraphy to buy,

Horoscope books

for the 

Year of the Horse.

I wish YOU prosperity

in every shape 

and form!

Thanks for visiting

"Comment" us :-)

                       Warmly, cloudia

Impromptu Adventure

A     L     O     H     A   !

 "An adventure

 is only an inconvenience

 rightly considered. -

- An inconvenience

 is only an adventure

 wrongly considered. "

G.K. Chesterton

" We are each

 gifted

 in a unique and 

important way.

 It is our privilege

 and our adventure

 to discover 

our own special 

light.  "

Evelyn Dunbar

> <  }  }  ( ° >

Most of my adventures

take place

in my own head

these days.

Routine can be 

comforting

when life has been

anything but -

Ye,t it's good

to shake things up

once in a while.

I drove to shop

in Hawaii Kai,

and the highway 

going back to Honolulu

looked like a 

parking lot.

On islands,

the main roads

are often coastal;

Not too many 

options.

But I decided

to make it an adventure

and continue around

the isle,

and come back

to town over 

the Pali Highway

through the 

Ko`olau mountains

H = Home, S= Shopping

P= Pali Highway

I chose an adventure

over a traffic jam.

Right choice!

I fell in love

with Oahu all over

again.

What a gorgeous day!

(Just sayin`)

& Sharing it with

YOU

is the best part.

Please keep safe

in Your adventures-

Toodle-OOO

       Warmly, cloudia