There is no dim sum in Maui. Oh please, I love Dragon Dragon but I don’t count their five offerings off the menu–you need carts. So when I went home to Honolulu ( yes, I still call that home) I asked my good friend the PR Diva where I could get great dim sum? I expected the usual culprits…Happy Days Inn, Mei Sum, Golden..something (haha) however she named a restaurant near Chinatown that I had never heard of.  Wanting to get my dim sum fix, of course I asked her …

My friend recently got married…she’s 24.  It happened all of a sudden. She met a guy, they dated for five months, she moved in then six weeks later BOOM! They decided to get married, at first her family and friends were shocked, some questioning. some supportive.  I, of course was the latter.  If you know, you know!  What does Patti Stanger (Millionaire Matchmaker) say? if you don’t know if you want to marry someone in the first couple months…you never will.  This made me question what I was doing with …

The other night I went out with my (holy shit! I don’t know what to call him since I didn’t get response from my “Relationship Labels” blog) male friend at a Westside watering hole. There was only one seat at the bar so of course my friend had me sit.  We ordered drinks and since we knew a lot of people there we started socializing. My “friend” was mingling, which is what we both do when we’re together, and so did I.  The guy next to me struck up a …

Ok so over the past months I have tweeted and posted about my “fake boyfriend” and  my “un-boyfriend.” Which brings me to really ask,” What the heck each term means?”  At first, I thought that the “Fake BF” was one that you didn’t want to acknowledge a relationship and your friends didn’t either. The “UB ( Un Boyfriend) was someone that you acknowledged you have a relationship with each other however not with anyone else. WRONG or maybe not, you can still help define it. I’m not sure that my …

The other day  I got up and my eyes were literally glued together. I couldn’t understand why. I wasn’t sick, my eyes weren’t swollen, no pink eye.  ?????  When I got to work my co-workers were all talking about the vog and how bad it was. Sure enough I looked out toward Lana’i and the haze was so thick, Lana’i was only a slight outline in the distance. (Did I mention that my office is ocean front? well, I guess you get the picture you can turn green with envy …

I clean my closet out at least twice a year.  I usually give it to the regulars, my Filipino mommy, Haole Girl, and CJ.  My Filipino mommy sends the clothes to her family in the Philippines and I often see my personal fashion show on Haole Girl and CJ.  I never really thought about what happens to the clothes if they don’t want it–until the other night.
The girls met at R&B Black Angus Steakhouse ,I mean come on…if you sit at the bar it’s 50% off pupu all night. As …

I was so looking forward to the Universal Show Queen Pageant this year, being it was my only get together where all my OaHU’s were in one place at one time. Instead of going to a restaurant for dinner like last year, my OaHU’s all had rooms at the Ala Moana Hotel.
This year we got there early so we could be apart of all the mingling and pre-pageant festivities outside the ballroom of the Hawaii Convention Center.  There was so much to look at– I mean straight, gay, questionable, closet, …

A couple years ago my OaHU’s ( my gay entourage from Honolulu) started a tradition by going to the Universal Show Queen Pageant.  Yes, it is a drag queen pageant that has been going on for over 20 years. I actually went to my first pageant in 1989 in support of a co-worker who ran. Anyway, when the tickets were available for sale in March, I reserved two.  My OaHU’s wanted me to bring one of the HU’s (gays from Maui) with me as well. Little did I know that …

I like to bake.  It started when I was in elementary school. My dad used to make these killer cornflake cookies( I think I still have the recipe). I know, it’s usually mom–I never said my family was anything near conventional but that’s another story.   Anyway, over the years I discovered I have a knack for baking and the uncanny ability to pick recipes out of a cookbook. Come on, when you buy cookbooks not all of the recipes are winners. So I’ve decided that you all will be my …

For the past several weeks I have been doing promos with the bellman, valet and front desk employees of various hotels to promote our new restaurant–Star Noodle.  Basically I invite  them to dine at our communal table and try a variety of our shared plates and house made noodles.  Restaurants usually invite the guests then have the manager stop by the table at some point and say “Hi.”  Not us. What makes it more intimate, I actually sit and dine with them.  For a lot of the hospitality industry …

Couple weeks ago, I had a Me, Myself and I day–you know massage, do the hair and a pedicure. I tweeted my whereabouts so my friends and followers could somewhat be with me while I pampered myself. I posted a picture of my first pedicure in a long time, after all my feet  were  borderline tragic. Wouldn’t you know I got a response on  Tweetdeck complimenting me on the fancy toes. Curious, I checked out his profile and low and behold– He likes feet.  I mean really likes feet. In …

http://twitpic.com/13zk25 – i just made blueberry muffins w/cinnamon crumb topping