Nice to be able to flush toilet paper down the toilet bowl and not have to divert my eyes from the garbage bin full of tissues and other grosser things. It’s also bizarre to walk down the neighborhoods for several kilometers without seeing a single soul on the streets or drive the highways for tens of kilometres with hardly any cars . Almost feels like I’m in the apocalypse or some weird Tom Cruise movie. Maybe not as weird as ‘Vanillla Sky’ but still, weird.
Jesse was reprimanding Kaile the other night and said, "I don't like the way you're talking. You're being sassy. Come back here." I guess I've only ever used it in a positive term of describing a beautiful woman with a little bit of edge but not as an adjective for kids being impertinent. I like it though!
Also, was joking around with Elton the other day and he said, "Whoa. You're salty!". I didn't quite know if it was a compliment or an insult. Here it's used as a adjective to describe someone who's bitter.
Also, was joking around with Elton the other day and he said, "Whoa. You're salty!". I didn't quite know if it was a compliment or an insult. Here it's used as a adjective to describe someone who's bitter.
The population here seems to be the 180ยบ opposite of that on the mainland (of USA). The majority population here are the Asians - Japanese, Filipinos, Chinese and Koreans in addition to many mixed blood Asians. Sort of the equivalent of the inter-marriage of european hereditary line across the Anglo-Saxons on the mainland. Here in Hawaii, there's hardly any Mexicans or African Americans. Not meaning to sound racist in any way but it is an interesting contrast to what I'm used to seeing on the mainland.
Besides calling people who are of Hawaiian descent Hawaiians, the term is used very discrimately. Whenever I say, "Is that a Hawaiian thing?" or "Is that a Hawaiian meal?" or "Hawaiians are so friendly." Elton growls, "You can't say that.". The proper way is to say or call them 'locals' since 'Hawaiian' refers to the bloodline race.
The locals here also love eating dried fruits as snacks from what they call 'crack seed stores' (funny!) which only sell hundreds of these dried fruits. Either salty, sour or sweet, they give a punch of flavor in the mouth. I think in this sense, the local tastebuds are adapted to the southern chinese. These ones are Li hing sweet mui (sweet dried plums) and lime balls (sour).
The locals here also love eating dried fruits as snacks from what they call 'crack seed stores' (funny!) which only sell hundreds of these dried fruits. Either salty, sour or sweet, they give a punch of flavor in the mouth. I think in this sense, the local tastebuds are adapted to the southern chinese. These ones are Li hing sweet mui (sweet dried plums) and lime balls (sour).
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