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There should be no excuse that you are still shopping at the super market for your produce, fruit and vegetable. Yes, KCC Saturday Market is little too early and sometimes too crowded for a lazy start of the weekend morning. But farmer’s markets are spouting in different neighborhoods for your convenient. A list of farmer’s market can be found in the Edible Hawaiian magazine. The new Blaisdale’s Wednesday Market did not make the list yet.

http://www.ediblecommunities.com/hawaiianislands/farmers-markets/farmers-markets.htm
http://www.ediblecommunities.com/content/edible-publications/edible-publications.htm
http://www.ediblecommunities.com/hawaiianislands/
 

Black or green.  I like the original white logo on black wood slats.  It was classic.  Do you think the new green color wood slats are better or worse? Cast your vote. Leave a comment.

We are born burden of the world. (May be that’s why God said we are all born sinners) You can live your life as a big burden or a little burden. Turn on every light in the house or just enough to do your tasks. Take a 30 minutes shower or just 5. Buy a new cell phone every 6 months or 36. Use 2 Styrofoam cup a day or 1 ceramic cup in 2 year. Trash your recyclable or recycle your trash. The list goes on and on. The choices are there for you to make and the result would be you being a big burden or a just a little. So when we reduce that burden to a manageable level, we call it sustainable where we can co-exist with the environment. It is like fishing for food without over fishing. Cutting a few trees to built a home without deforestation. Cool the buildings without depleting the ozone. Getting to places faster without CO2 pollution. Leave no mark is ideal but may be leave fewer trace is more realistic.

With all this marketing about being green, sustainable, environmental, etc. But don’t be fool. There is no way construction can make the natural environment better. In some sense, the green movement is simply making construction to do “lesser harm” to the environment. Construction is a big burden to the environment from inception to construction to demolition. How do we lessen the burden? How do we leave a smaller footprint?

I was thinking about Hawaiian motif belt buckle this morning. http://www.iolanipalace.org/history/military.html I was thinking about fashion last week. How can aloha attire tradition be a tradition when it started only back in July 15, 1936 by Mr. Chun? A 73 years tradition? A three generations tradition? I suspect it is time to welcome a new look by the next generation aloha wearer. It is easy to go through the same mechanic that created the original aloha attire. Import, twist, and claim. We did well adapting the surfer and skateboarder style and twist it with an island flair. The next fix would be our working attire and semi formal aloha attire. It is so 1936. I looked forward on seeing what men will be wearing to work in the next few months. Aloha pants? White dress shirt and Pacific Islander influence lava-lava? Hawaiian motif belt buckle?

Honolulu Zoo presents free ($3 donation) summer concerts. Many thanks to Kathie Fry at doitinhawaii.com for providing the extra links to the individual artist’s website. Very nice and helpful. I’m quoting the schedule below. Bring food and drinks and beach mat. Enjoy the shows.

Concerts at 6-7pm and gate open at 4:30pm 
June 10 - Simplicity
June 17 - Maunalua
June 24 - John Cruz
July 01 - Roy Sakuma & Friends
July 08 - Hot Club of Hulaville
July 15 - Manoa DNA
July 22 - Rolando Sanchez & Salsa Hawaii
July 29 - Jake Shimabukuro
August 05 - Natali Ai Kamauu
August 12 - Jimmy Borges & His All Star Jazz Band

http://www.doitinhawaii.com/forum/showthread.php?p=222
http://honzoosoc.org/calendar.htm

Window display will play an important part to boost sales in this slow economy. Before there may be enough shoppers that you can afford to lose a few customers who didn’t walk into your store because they were not intrigue by your window display (didn’t find any displayed merchandise worth checking out) . Remember, the customers have to make that step into your store to make a purchase and your window display is the only thing that separate your customers with your cash registers. If you have no clue what to do with your window display, make a few visits to the mall and check out the latest trend in window display. Still don’t know what to do, consider hiring a visual consultant.

Stephanie Lake and Debbie Hedrick, visual consultant for shopping malls and business.
Creative Solutions
Notes: Clients - Pearlridge Center, Kahala Mall, Ala Moana Center, Windward Mall, Whaler’s Village, Hawaii Kai Towne Center, Aloha Tower Marketplace, mall managers, concept, theme, sourcing, purchasing, installing, window displays for empty stores, assist small business owners with merchandising, traffic flow, window displays, catalog stylings, marketing campaigns. men-of-all-trades are Uncle Bob - ex-academy dean and art department at Punahou, Dave Porter ex-chef. Star-Bulletin 6/22/09.

Clothes Chick is on the Avenue. Is this a 2nd location to its King Street store or is it a transfer? Located at the previous Aloha Pantry next to Chevron Gas Station, Clothes chick offer women’s wear for youth, professional and some are designer clothing and accessories. For more high-end designer wear, handbags and high-end jewelry, check out The Ultimate You at Hee Hing Plaza.

Love the carving by Dietrich Varez, Take a look at Volcano Art Center

Congratulation to these fine Kapahulu establishments for making the Hawaii’s Best (Star- Bulletin and Midweek poll.

7-eleven – best spam musubi
American Saving – 3rd best bank
Bank of Hawaii – best bank, best financial planning, best mortgage company
Cold Stone – Best ice cream
Diamond Head Theatre – 2nd best live theatre
Edward Jones- 2nd best financial planning
Foodland – 3rd best fresh fish, 2nd best fresh meat, best poke, 3rd best wine place
Farmer’s Market at KCC – 2nd best fresh produce
First Hawaiian Bank – 2nd best bank
Fujioka’s Wine Time – 2nd best wine place
Genki – best sushi
Goodyear Auto Service Center – 3rd best oil change place
Hee Hing – 2nd best Chinese food
Honolulu Zoo – 2nd best family attraction
India Café – Best Indian food
Jack in the Box – best fast food
Karaoke Hut – 2nd best Karaoke place
Leonard’s – best malasada
L&L – best loco moco, 2nd best plate lunch
Napoleon’s Bakery – 2nd best bakery, 2nd best desert
Ono Hawaiian – Best Hawaiian food
Panda Travel – best travel agency
PETCO – 3rd best pet store
Pizza Hut – best pizza
Platinum Limousine – best limousine
Prudential Locations – best real estate company
Public Storage – 2nd best self storage facility
Rainbow – 3rd best loco moco, best plate lunch,
Safeway – best fresh meat, 3rd best fresh produce, 3rd best poke
State Farm Insurance – 2nd best insurance company
Taco Bell – 3rd best Mexican food
Teddy’s Bigger Burgers – best burger
Waiola Shave Ice – 2nd best shave ice
Zippy’s – best bento, best late night eatery, 2nd best loco moco, best oxtail soup

See Full list at midweek.com

Reduce energy consumption by 5 to 12% and lower electric bills without yelling at your kids to turn off the light or turn down the music. Sounds too good to be true, but it is. Did you know that eletricity from your local utility company comes into your house and business in a wide range above and below 110 volts (114 to 126 volt). And it is when the voltage that comes in high, you’ll be charged for higher energy that your electrical equipment will never be able to used. Check how close you are located away from a substation, the closer you are, the more likely your electric voltage is coming in too high into your home or residential. This is because utility company needs to make sure customer at the end of feed will receive the minimum standard of 114 volts during peak load.

http://www.microplanet.com/index.asp

Who would thought of this? Greg Wiegand did.