We both choose to work pretty much right up until we were about to move. It made sense, we weren’t leaving till the 24th so why bother with worrying about taking off from work. WRONG!! We were both so busy with working and hanging with friends and family that we practically didn’t sell any thing in our apartment. My TV and the bookshelf. Yup, that was it. Basically everything was either given away or thrown away and boy was there a lot. Moving out of an apartment with the notion that not much is coming with you is crazy. Usually with my last few moves, I’d move in to a new place just before I had to move out of the last. This way I can take my stuff and stick in the next no problem. In this case that just couldn’t happen. Everything had to go. So right up until our landlord came to check us out of the unit were we almost completely done.

Leaving the Aina, my only home. This is the tough part. We drive out back to Ewa Beach so that we can help drop off some stuff at my mom’s place. She can’t carry any of that up the stairs so it was cool. Then later we go visit my grandma. She almost got me crying so hard right then and there. I never felt her hug me so hard. I love her so much. I will be back for her 80th birthday in July. I will try and make it no matter what. Then off we go to the airport. We get to the airport and I’m struggling to carry everything to the check-in booth.  Talk about back breaking work. OMFG were these boxes and luggage heavy. We had to pay a little extra for two of them as they were well over 50lbs. We make it past that, then say goodbye to friends and family at the security check point. I almost cried with my mommy but I had to stay strong. If I didn’t I’m sure she would have balled out in tears. :’( Big shout out to my brother and Mina for helping with the luggage. Justin, Stan and Dominic for showing up wishing us luck and saying goodbyes. That was cool guys. In an interesting turn of events in an ironic sort of way, Julia found an old Co-Worker who was working that night with TSA from Home Depot. It’s interesting because you realize just how small the island is. She said her goodbyes to her and we were off to start our travels.

So we looked for the cheapest flight we could find and oh boy was that a stupid idea. Seriously fucking retarded LOL. Step one of our trip was to Fly from Honolulu to Bellingham airport in Washington at 11:50 pm. I thought to my self no biggie, I’m gonna be tired anyways so I’ll just sleep through the flight. WRONG! Trying to fall asleep on an airplane just doesn’t work for some reason. Julia can fall a sleep any where but not me. Especially since I was having an acid reflux attack mid way through the flight. Oh also my nose kept running so I’m irritating the guy next to me sniffing all the time. Then when I finally get a chance to nod off a little; it happens, a child starts crying. FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! So I stayed up all night and watched some Anime and Hawaii Five-0. Kinda funny though I didn’t know Don K-Won was in that episode LOL. Good thing I loaded something on my Kindle. So as we start getting ready to land, the plane descends and Tiny instantly knows something is going on. LoL He’s crying and we can’t do anything but just try to keep him quiet.

So we finally land in Bellingham and OMFG! WE HAD TO WALK OUT SIDE?! AT 5AM IN THE MORNING!!! FUCK THAT WAS COLD!!!!!! Anyways, so we hear over head on the plane before we got out, “look to the TVs for information on your next flight if you are transferring to another flight.” Bullshit, there was only news on each TV. LoL So we just sat around waiting for someone to at least announce our flight numbers. Had some couple just totally PDAing on a set of chair right in front of us. LoL I guess they were going to Vegas and were all up in wanting to get busy before they get there. The boyfriend went some where and she came over to play with Tiny. Was hella funny since everyone thinks Tiny is this beautiful cat, and I agree with them. However, if they ever get to play with Tiny when he is full of energy they will understand how much of a terror he is. (No seriously. As I’m trying to type this Tiny is trying to bite  my arm because it is going over his head and he don’t like it. EXCUSE ME PUNK! NO ONE SAID LAY DOWN ON DADDY! LoL)

So eventually finally the flight over to Seattle arrives and WTF?! we are flying on a two-propeller crop duster LOL FUUUUUU!!!!! At least it was only an hour flight. We both just knocked the fuck out during that flight. So I don’t remember shit from it. Well except for a huge cramp in my shoulder from the odd way I fell asleep on Julia’s shoulder LOL. SO! We make it to Seattle, holy shit wtf? Do all airports on the west coast not want people to use their terminals to charge their shit while they wait for their flights? Ok Bellingham had a plug on the far end of the whole terminal but seriously hows a guys supposed to keep himself busy on a plane if every device he got is dead LOL. Anyways, we waited for the plane about an hour then we’re finally on our way to LAX. That was a good flight though as we basically just didn’t give a damn any more and just kept going through it. Lunch was a dish of fruits, cheese and crackers and another dish of some chicken pasta. It wasn’t to bad actually, just disappointed I had to pay for it LOL. At least on Hawaiian a sandwich is included with your flight. Oh wells.

ALRIGHT!! FINALLY MAKE IT TO CALIFORNIA! WOOOOOO!!!!!! So now what? Well initially I was going to have my aunty help us get to Matson at least to help us get the car but she got sick. I hope she is better by now. GET WELL AUNTY!!! Anyways, so instead I pre-booked a car from Alamo while we were in Bellingham. So we went and got our luggage from baggage claim and tossed it all on a shuttle bus to the Alamo depot. Ok what is the deal with all the car rental places being so damn far away from the main terminals? Like wtf? We get all the way to Inglewood before we even see Alamo. So anyways, finally over there and find a HHR for all of our boxes and luggage. It was a game of Tetris but we sure as hell got everything to fit. One thing though, we tried bringing some asian seasonings with us and well the Sesame Oil bottle exploded. Practically got all over the inside of one bag. So now the car smells like it. Now we are ready for our journey into California. Step one was to get the car from Matson. Step two make it just in time to move-in to our new apartment. Heh oh the things we really didn’t plan for.

Lets start with step one shall we? We landed at LAX about 2:30pm got to Alamo at about 2:45 pm and finally started going at about 3pm. We get “Sheila” going to take us en-route to Matson to pick-up the car. (If you don’t know “Sheila” you really should click on her name to educate yourself.) So as we start going, we realize “SHIT! Matson is in Long Beach?!” Now we really need to hurry. Get to the freeway and FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we are stuck in LA traffic. FUCK! I look around frantically trying to find a faster route on this stupid freeway of doom. OH LOOK CARPOOL LANE!! LETS DO IT!!! Yeah that was not a good idea. Ok so people of Hawaii, lend me your ear! The carpool lane isn’t the same as the carpool lane in Hawaii! Literally in less than 30mins of driving on the freeway I’m already getting pulled over by the police. Apparently there are these double-solid yellow lines for the carpool lane and you can’t cross them until the lane opens up with solid white dashed lines.

The police officer got to the window and says, “What you didn’t see the double-solid yellow lines?”

I reply, “No what lines?” I pull out my Hawaii drivers license and I straight up told him “We just landed and have no idea about the lines.”

He asked, “What? You don’t have double solid yellow lines in Hawaii?” He pointed over to the lines and I notice that they are dividing up the carpool lane from the rest of the lanes of traffic.

“Not for our carpool lanes. We just go in and out as we please.”

Pissed he said, “Man I’m just striking out today. Well don’t do it again.” Not sure what he meant by striking out but what ever.

I asked, “Well can you explain how this works so I don’t do something wrong again?” He continued to explain about the lane and let us go.

Damn was that a close one. I had no idea about the lane though I just jumped right in and out to try and get through traffic. Now with that delay we decided to call Matson to figure out how late they were open til. Call, call, call, automated messaging, wrong numbers, everything going bad on contacting them. At this point it is about 3:30pm, still stuck in traffic, still getting no where fast and getting no answers. Finally about 3:45pm we get someone on the phone and we ask about their hours; 4pm closing time… FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So basically I been stuck in traffic for about an hour for NOTHING! AHHHHHH!!! Now before you start saying, “Why didn’t you just catch the plane to Long Beach?” I was told that the Matson facility was in LA. I didn’t know it would be some long distance drive to get to Long Beach and get to our car. I figured it would be close enough to get to. So scratch that idea of getting the car. So we decided FUCK IT, LETS MOVE ON TO STEP TWO!

Step two, move-in to new apartment YAY! Ok, two hours to get to Victorville, California. We can do this, I know we can. WRONG!!! FUUUUUUU!!!! Remember that traffic I was talking about? Yeah just as bad going the other way. All we had to do is make it there by 6pm. Well when 6PM rolled around guess what? We had just made it to I15… another parking lot. So instead of dealing with that crap, we pulled over at an AM/PM to think for a little while. We both decided to just stay at a Hotel in Victorville so that we could at least get to the town we are moving to and check it out a little. Was that a god send. A place to just fall a sleep for a little while and reset.

Heh sleep… Yeah right. We finally get to Victorville. It is about 8PM by this point. We were pretty hungry so after we dropped off some stuff in the hotel and relaxed a little we then did some exploring around town. Found our apartment complex, closed of course and eager to just move in. Found food, I got my self a chicken sandwich from Burger King. Chicken, shouldn’t be to bad for my acid reflux. WRONG! Anything fast food apparently wants to kill me. Took a shower and stayed up for a good portion of the night tossing and turning. So I went for a walk outside in the freezing cold. Holy shit, 38 degrees that night? I shot the picture above with my dSLR. Talk about having another panic attack at the same time. My camera wouldn’t auto-focus. I was freaking out! I wasn’t ready to just pass out yet so I did just keep walking around. Finally tired of the cold I pop back into the room and try to relax. My dSLR was bothering me though. I needed to know what was wrong. I popped out the battery and slapped it back in, fine. That’s all it needed. Oh wells, finally to tired to give a shit any more I passed out.

So just look at that there… That was basically one day for me. Throughout all of that I had one hour of sleep and a lot of fucking driving HAHAHA. I’m just glad I made it in one piece to the hotel. Now lets move on to day two and the reversal of steps. Step one Move-In to new apartment. Step two get the car.

We tidy up the hotel and check out at about 9:30am. I slept like a mother fucking champ so I’m feeling hella good now. Turn Sheila back on and have her navigate us to our apartment. Yeah I know we found it the night before but everything looks different from night and day. We get there, fill out a ton of paper work, get our keys and finally have our new apartment YAY! Take all of our bags and boxes and shove them into the apartment and head out for step two get the car. At this point it is about 12pm and there is NO TRAFFIC!!! OMFG! We took about an hour and a half to get there. Got a little lost trying to figure out where it was exactly in this industrial looking area but we got it. Left at about 2pm and were on our way. Now here’s the fun part. We now have two cars, the rental and her car. How do we caravan with only one working Sheila. Yes I know I  could have used my phone and her phone except, her phone the GPS navigation works. My phone the GPS chip is shit. (Good job Samsung).  So what do we do? Swap phones and I lead the way. Sheila gets me a good starting route and I get stuck in an exit lane going down some road. Good thing is? It’ll still lead me to Long Beach airport. So fuck it. Realizing I just pulled into a town I figured, great time to put gas in her car and the rental so I don’t have to pay an inflated price for gas. Head down and get lost a bit trying to find the LB airport but I finally get the car dropped off and we are done with everything that needed to get done YESTERDAY!!!

We celebrate by getting lunch close by at Spires and finally head the hell back home… in Traffic. So in short all I have been doing the past few days is FLYING AND DRIVING!!!! I’m so glad to be just laying on my back relaxing typing this. I’ll have another blog later talking about today and the things we did but until then my hands hurt from typing all of this.

Aloha!

CharlieBoy808

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Aloha

PS: Good luck with DST! HAHAHA SUCKERS!!!!

Oh Here are some Halloween Photos I took this year. Enjoy.

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I have recently picked up a GoPro 960 (not the full HD on just yet) and I have to say, what it shoots is simply amazing for such a little thing. Putting something together? well that’s my challenge. I think it’s mostly because I don’t know how to use Sony Vegas hahaha.

Well here are some videos, I hope you like them.

More coming soon I hopes!

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As of late, I have grown very very tired of my once great SideKick. It was once at the front of technologies that no one had in their phones. However, the times have changed as of late. With the iPhone came a change in the way phone are designed now a days. People want touchscreen, a wide variety of applications to choose from, play movies, awesome camera, and above all now a days social-networking capabilities.

Let’s look back at what the Sidekick has done though. It was an all around device. It had it’s own operating system designed by Danger Technologies/HIPTOP. This particular OS ran off of back-end servers as an industry first for such a wide range of users. This meant that everything a user did on the phone was backed up in a central unit. If you were to break your Sidekick, the replacement you got would in turn just download everything you had on your last Sidekick with ease. Now a day it is called the “cloud” or the location where certain information was stored. It works, but it isn’t the same as how Danger developed it.

Another key feature that the Sidekick had over all the other phones on the market? A fantastic keyboard. It was the soul reason why I loved the Sidekick so much. Don’t get me wrong, it has the best Messaging platform around still beating out millions of other apps on the market, and the best stable OS. However, without that keyboard it would have been pointless.

Let’s go back to the beginning. I bought an original Sidekick Color off of a user on FH (yeah that’s right, I used to post there). I had been eyeing this phone for a very very long time. I had seen someone using the Black and White version and he even let me play with it for a while. Instantly I fell in love. The user who sold me his wanted a good $130 for it and I was down to help him buy the car parts he needed. I called up T-Mobile Sidekick services department and in a matter of minutes my new SKC was rebooted and set for me to go crazy.

I had my regular phone plan of 500 minutes at the time and a $20 SK data plan. I still have this plan for myself too. The SK data plan came with Unlimited Data! This was unheard of on any phone. I was so happy because I was someone who would send over  3000 texts a month. Yes back in the day I would sent that many text all on my Nokia 3390 mind you. It was how you could do AIM back in the day. You text a number to see your buddy list and then you text a number referring to that buddy. It was practically caveman technology compared to what we do now. However, here I was on the rim of the future. This phone came with it’s own AIM, Yahoo, and MSN Messenger. Along with messaging applications it was capable of syncing up with your email addresses and so much more.

Let’s kick up the year a bit to last year. I have my latest Sidekick, the Sidekick LX 09. Through the year Danger and Sharp have done a very nice job in terms of build quality, and the overall OS in keeping Sidekick style. It’s all about user ability to do what it needs to do and do it quick and easy. Then Microsoft buy out the developer Danger Technologies. When I heard about this, Rumors we’re popping up all over the place about “Maybe Danger will help design the next iPhone killer by designing Zune Sidekick.” That was a great idea we all thought. A phone that was running a Windows OS with a Sidekick designed user interface and back-end services from Danger. That was going to be something else. Plus it was going to be something like a Zune?

That whole dream never came real though. The first leaked images of what the two companies came up with were a complete let down. Earlier named the Turtle and Pink. No one knew what to think of these phones. They are now known as the KIN 1 and KIN 2. So in turn what had ended up happening is Microsoft took the technology it purchased, raped the developers, then made their own thing and branded it their own. :’(

So the question is… buy a new phone? End up with buyers remorse? Wait for the next big thing that Project Emerald is? or wait for the rumored HTC Vision (which is looking pretty good).

ARrrrGhhh! LOL

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Day 158 – @KristiKubota’s Bday (Pic 142)

Anyways about the photo! Friday was Kristi’s birthday party at The W! It was a great birthday party! Check out the blog post

Day 159 – A festival? Across the street? (Day 143)

The “Rediscover Makiki” festival was being held right outside my window and as cool as that was boy was it noisey. Good thing I didn’t stay home the first night because they were play Madagascar 2 on a giant screen and I could hear every word of it. It was cool to see, but the grass is all F’d up now lol

Day 160 – MJ’s got this guys back LOL (Pic 144)

Went and took a ride around with @gnelle sunday to hang out and stuff and we drove past the smooth criminals mural. This guy just so happen to be standing in the right spot at the right time lol. Well if it wasn’t for the people in the background taking a pic too it would be flawless, but I wanted to capture this guy with MJ’s arm around him. LOL so cool HAHA

Day 161 – Laundry day… (Pic 145)

Yay… laundry (can u sense the sarcasm in there some where…) Yeah and I have to do all of it before I go to work… Work Work Work i want more play play play! LOL

Day 162 – Coconut M&Ms? (Pic 146)

yes thats what it says… it’s ok. tastes like lil mini mounds lol but its missing that real coconut flavor. like they should actually fill it with some sort of shredded coconut or something lol

Day 163 – My New view (Pic 147)

It’s not as spectacular as my last place but it’ll do. I would be happier if i didn’t have these stupid windows and had some kinda big glass or something lol Well when my financial situation gets better I’m going to look into buying.

So that’s it so far. I really love all of you who stuck in there with me. It’s been a long road back to where I want to be and soon there will be more, but for now I have to stick with what I have. I just hope I make enough money with all of this to survive again. Can’t just have one job in this dying economy.

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So for now I’ve put the whole project on hold until I either replace my cameras or just stop caring. I’ll post up the rest of the photos that I have not posted yet here.

Day 137 – I didn’t feel like cooking so I ordered from @PizzaHut (funny story)

So I guess the delivery girl she was down stairs for a while.She called to tell me she as on her way, but I didn’t think she’d get here so fast so I didn’t go down to get my order, so she sounded a bit mad on the phone when she called to tell me she was down there. I get there and all the mad went away because I think she thought I was cute or something. To bad she was like 50+ or something haha

Day 138 – Fire in Waikiki

This was an interesting one yesterday… I’m on my way to Shack Waikiki to MC and as I’m walking there I notice a ton of smoke coming out from the sewer drain! Crazy! I mean literally there was a fire under ground. I don’t know how it started but it was crazy lol.

Day 139 – Well it’s like still 4th of July fun

but it was also the 5th of July too lol so this counts as my next day of 365 days project. it was a good fun night with lots of friends i haven’t talked to in a while plus i was hanging out with @kristikubota which made it even more fun too. yes this would be my normal goose 7 (which is most of the time sprite but watever)

Day 140 – My Cold Remedy

rrr i got sick again rrr well this is my usual remedy.. i hope to be over it soon

Day 141 – Ono Chicken Oh how I missed you…

AAA BBQ i love their Ono Chicken always good stuff lol

Well that’s all there is left. I want to thank all of you who have been faithful to my blog and project, but the time of CharlieBoy808.com Photog has come to an end for now. I do still plan on buying a new camera, just when I can afford it.

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This time though I’m getting insurance… It’ll be almost as important as my Cellphone bill.

TTFN oh and HAPPY VD!!

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Apparently someone thought it would be a good idea to walk off with a bag that just so happened to have my $3000 setup of camera equipment in it. My dumb fault for leaving it at the radio station and forgetting to take it with me. However, after all the things that I have done there, you would think that someone would have the decency to leave peoples shit alone!

I know I maybe blowing this way out of proportion here, but its $3000 worth of equipment… I think I’m staying in my zone by not calling every person in my phone book and interviewing each person one-by-one grilling them till they call me daddy.

Update: No new news about it, but here is a list of what is missing.

• Canon 30d
  
• Canon 17-40mm L lens
  
• Canon 580ex Mark II
  
• Sto-fen
  
• Small Blue Camera Style Backpack
  
• LED Flashlist 

All of this was worth $3000 new.
Since I’m not in the photo update mood here are a few links to what I was doing before today.

Yard House & Tsunami’s  – January 21 & 22, 2009: Went out a few nights… First night went to Yard House and had dinner with Dave Hisaka, Haz-Matt, Mortuary Chris, Chris Hughes, Ciara, and her friend Octavia. I had the (Mac + Cheese)2 and it was to die for haha. Next night had a sort of Tweet-up at Tsunami’s on Keeaumoku with Monchi! Haven’t hung out with her in forevers. always a good time with her hehe.

Chinese New Years – January 24, 2009: It’s been a while since I went actually walking around Chinatown for Chinese New Years, but this year was a blast. Ran in to a lot of friends and got to see a real competition type lion dance. That was really really cool.

Is that Heald College on fire? – January 30, 2009: Yup it was and I had my 15th floor view from my apartment.

Dave’s Going Away Party – January 30, 2009: This was Dave’s going away party. It is so sad to see him leave but he is going on to bigger and better things. We love ya Dave!! I know he is going to hate this, but “WE LOVE YOU BROTHER DAVE!”

This made me feel better, but if I don’t find my camera… well I guess i’m going to stop blogging. I don’t feel the need to anymore if I don’t.

FUCK!

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So to start things out, lets start from the stage! Hello Peoples.

T-Qron was in the building (btw he is an intern for Da Bomb now!)

Here is one of those bad flash moments… but you can still see aubrie in the background peaking her head over everybody lol

Look at the peeps dancing…

And more peoples dancing!!! WOOOO

Hello smiling faces

Wow… I haven’t been there for so long and now look who is bartending… well she looks good doing it hehe

Another person who always looks good at the bar hehe funny face and all

I caught another funny picture of angela but she said i had to delete it… but it was really really funny hehe

Hi! I stopped them mid stride and said they just had to take a picture… wouldn’t you agree?

I can’t think of anything else better to say than… “Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy”

Being drunk never looked so good…

OMG!!! NICOLE!!! ITS BEEN FAR TO LONG SINCE I’VE SEEN HER!!! I love the candids of her… she never seems to ever take a bad picture i swear…

Now for the momentous award ceremony… may i present to you the winners of the hot girls of the night award! get on your knees and kneel!

DRINK UP!!!

By the look of the crown… i think its someones birthday…

Hey Kera… who are your friends?

hey ladies… why you sitting for? the party is on the dance floor?

Hey Aubrie who’s your friend?

These crazy cats were having all kinds of fun this night.. omg were they haha

See.

TIFF!!! ALICIA!!! I haven’t seen them in a long time too!!! it was like a charlieboy reunion… well for me anyways…

SUP! haha

Ok imma try and just post the rest of the pics…

Schwin looking busy…

But then he some how sneaked in to this one…

And i guess he was asking for a lighter at this point… i think…

wow… somehow perfect smiles do exist in this world…

More cute faces…

He looks like he’s having fun huh?

Edit: I had to delete this pic because someone just didn’t want to be online…

Here are more smiling people…

Bad flash…

Bad flash better charge hehe …

Smaller group shot…

Kissy face…

This isn’t gay at all… oh the things we do when we’re drunk…

ok back to normal.

Well hello there…. some how the camera always seems to find the gorgeous people.

Aubrie, Alicia, and Jasmine making the place shout sexy hehe

Look at Nicole trying to look all sophisticated. hehe always hot.

Its true though that sexy people seem to always flock to the camera…

This is what I call a drunken WAAAASSSSSAAAAUUUPPPP!!!!! moment…

Hello!

Smile for Charlie (not the birdy… thats just weird…)

One more person? ok… my batteries are dead already anyways…

wait… more friends? ALRIGHT!! thats wat i like to see… people bringing who bring people bringing people. is that complicated? think about it.

Woah… wats going on here? My tongue is still bigger…

Strike a Pose!

and the last shot of the evening… HI! (stupid flash…)

Anyways that was an amazing night. More to come soon. By the way I covered Ray J last Saturday, but there are so many pics that I just posted them all up and left it at that. Check it out here!

P.s. Thanks to all those who have tried to keep my head up about my career situation. i still can’t figure out what i’m going to do but i need to do something. Just lost still trying to figure out a plan. If any ones needs a tech guy let me know i’m ready for ya. let me know!!!

charlie@charlieboy808.com

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