Observation Post Hawaii: Honolulu

some observations and an update....

Just gonna throw some ponderings out, they may not be correct and they may be presumptuous and overgeneralized and perhaps a bit prejudice, but then again, we are all racist to some point although one could argue that only the majority could be trully racist....and the rest are prejudice

alright now after that disclaimer....

there really is a very big racial tension and undertone to almost everything here, very strange....

Asian vs Everybody
Japan vs Haole
Local vs everybody
Local vs Japan
Black vs everyone...
Black/White vs everyone.....I have a dream....
Visitors/tourists vs Residents



But it is for real, I mean for real....I get heat on the daily.

heat in the form of stares, odd looks, sudden loss of english language strange behaviors and subtle niceties which pretend to hide the obvious among daily.
interactions.

Some of my wonderings that it was difficult to crack into a few of the Jobs I interviewed here although I cannot totally play the race card (Wow, white man playing the race card, what an awakening, what's next a black president :)

there is also some weirdness between young and old.

and there is a strangeness among the aloha spirit vs the touristy spirit vs the business big city spirit.

more on that later....

alright some lighter stuff

Local real Hawaiian food....sugar fat and heaps of white rice....

Lots of everything is kinda like fast food here, I mean tons and tons of places but realistically speaking it's most is garbage fast food which really limits your choices.

People you Meet...on the street are not that nice....
People you meet through other people you know will actually go out of their way to help you and welcome you....this is true Aloha spirit.

Drivers will take Aloha to the max letting everyone merge and go ahead, letting most pedestrians go so long as they obey the walk/don't walk kinda shit.

Of course like 12-15 people are destroyed per year by traffic....?

oh back to the food and the rice....u can sub the brown almost anywhere

oh back to drivers...they will follow the same route daily, despite traffic..they are like content to let people go and sit in traffic without finding a new route...I mean seriously in rush hour it's like "Hi the light just turned for the 5th time and I still don't think I'll make the next one" hooray scooter!

what else..

oh yeah some real backwards people, really slow, really not intelligent, some people have stated that this is like a town full of rednecks....and to some extent they are correct...I mean It's not like it is a bad thing, but when your treating some of the patients it is rather challenging because of this....

You need to take time, talk slow, and wait...relax and be kinda spontaneous which at the right time makes it really cool and at the wrong time, makes a someone from the northeast crazy...

Not too many white men on scooter LOL

Popcorn is always fresh in the movie theater (i mean I cannot believe we are not in an outrage about this on the mainland, i mean for real i think in Massachusetts it's like shipped in from some scary factory like just another fake item further faketified)
-Also this is cool, when you get the popcorn they give you a little box-it kinda acts as a buffer to the floor, so you don't drop the corn and acts as a way to share the popcorn and you can dump the whole thing thus spreading the wealth of the glorious butter, and you can shake a little salt and evenly distribute this.....


Pickles served with an egg sandwich....who knew who knew.

fried pickles who knew who knew

at 7-11 there are alwasy like 4-5 workers?

Hugs...when you get the normal friendly local's there are ample Aloha hugs...Aloha Hugs are warm and generous and they change your mind about some things...

Prices and the weather change from block to block....literally front yard sunny backyard rainy....ABC store #1 on corner water 1.69 ABC store #2 up from corner water .99

People hike at night and get stalked by boars, seriously these stories are so crazy that I want to witness it....they talk of strange noises and glowing eyes following them along the trail stopping when they stop moving when they move....they are agressive as well and the big ones get big, so I was wise to get the hell out of the Maunawili trail

Sorry to say and make light of the "homeless problem" but these are the fattest most well fed tan homeless persons your gonna see....this really is the place to be if your homeless...so many soup kitchen type things....I mean don't get me wrong many are displaced sufferers of mental illness who cannot function on their own, but like I said.

So I meet these girls...I mean the dumbest, weirdest, flakiest, crassest, shallowest girls...really strange I've met a few like this now...

Like the biggest goal in life is to have a child and start a family...which nothing is wrong with that and one might argue that it is the highest thing you could ever do and that we are merely meant to procreate....but whatever in these instances I find it like this is the only possibility....but then again this is everywhere....but it seems even simpler and more of a life long goal here.


So anyways I meet this girls and I'm like check please, let me get out of here...also be aware no one wears wedding rings in Hawaii.....not sure what to say about this, but it is common...so I leave and I'm disenfranchised and maybe a little down because suddenly I'm reminded that I'm relatively alone in basically a foreign country and I'm not that welcome here.

Up walks this chubby big headed 6 year old Korean girl named June....I drink coffee and eat gelato...she is magnificent, she is so funny cute and intelligent, she kills me when she says "sigh...yeah it is so hard for me to make new friends here, back home it is easy I have lots of friends. but here not so many" I tell here I'm buying what she is selling....she asks me what I'm selling. she asks me If I'm a bad man. She asks me why I move here. She plays with the Iphone and her little 2 year old boyfriend comes along and they are laughing and playing with my phones pictures, we have in depth discussions on shave ice, ice cream, korean names, the sweet life of zack and cody, the other show with the little girl who plays the daughter from the gameplan with the Rock....she sighs deeply and falls back into the chair her big face lights up when I mention the Rock...she has killed me, melted me and I'm laughing the whole time....I feel bad and think the mother is looking at me like I'm a total creep, but then again maybe that's just me.

she shows me how to make a butterfly with an elastic and your hand.

I show her how to make a bird with her hands.

she laughs at my name, she is scared to tell me where she is from then she accidently reveals it and is like nervous and covering her mouth....she tells me she has a boyfriend at home....

She asks me to come back someday, she writes me a note with the Iphone.

"DAIVD YOUR FUNNY!"

thanks little one she changed my perspective