To me its kinda of scarey, claustraphobic that Honolulu has so many high rise resdiential buildings. I understand the concept but still its kind of unsettling. Maybe because I’m a country jack and was never around residential high rises, much less knew anybody in one. Ok wait I take dat back, I rememba going to KPT. LOL Again, back in da day the high rise of KPT was da only residential high rise for miles. SO now, look how many KPTs get. nah nah nah I can’t imagine what the cost of living in one of the townie apartments are. Would it be less den an high rise apartment in Pearl City? I dunno. But if they do it like hotel rooms, I’m guessing whoeva has the prime view pays the higher premium.
Honolulu looks kinda Hong Kong-ish huh. More and more places get high rises rising. Once upon a time an acre of land would have 6 houses or 6 lots. Then to get more money, I’m guessing, an acre squeezed in 8 lots. So now lets just put up a high rise and get more money more tenants more this and that. My forever nagging question when I was home, “where do I park?” Or where do THEY park. Where my sister lives each person has two car spaces. But most households has 3 or 4 cars nowadays. So her whole area is crowded with on street parking on both sides and there is only space for one car to go thru. I met up wit da rubbish man one morning drove straight towards him cause you cannot see around the curve. He looks at me shrugging his shoulders – you know heain’t gonna move – he’s on his rubbish man mission. So I had to reverse, and I so suck at doing that – reverse till I got to a drive way that I could turn the other way. That on street parking is not the safest, especially when you trying to pull out and turn left and you cannot see, you just kinda inch your way out anden chancem’. Auwe.
I live where there is a HOA (Home Owners Association) and HOA gestapo. Who da hell invented that….oh I digressd. So NO on street parking – Frikas will tow your car. Even if in front your own house, shitunot. $150 cash only…how do I frkng know dis…. don’t get me stahted. But yeah where my sista lives they have an HOA – I wonder what it says about parking. Well even if they had no on street parking, it wouldn’t be enforced. The masses would kick somebodys behind, because literally there is nowhere to park. It kinda of irritating but I suppose its the price of paradise. WotEwa.
Get ukupila choke residential high rises now. I always thought high rises were for businesses. Duh? My sista said she heard they like put one high rise on da Kam HiWay Drive In property. But the High Rise building right above that street is protesting cause going block dey view. Well hello all of da high rises is blocking MY view too. *L* Speaking of high rises, who is the architecture of the twin towers in Pearl City – that is a sorryass piece of design – what was the inspiration, Legos? Obviously not a Frank Lloyd Wright piece. sshhheessshh Its such an eyesore of a design. I’m thinking paint it GREEN so it blends in more with the environment. Manana Housing was way moe nice den dat. Shoulda just left Manana Housing. LOL
I drive a truck right, love my truck and here in da Valley of da heat, have no problems parking. Just whippem in. Kinda crooked but hey I kinda junk la dat. So my rental was a Jeep Compass, small SUV – who knew – I thought I was getting a Mini Cooper or something. But yeah I got upgraded for whatever reason. OMG I learned I really do suck at parking. I mean I know I junk but I learned I moe junk den I think. LOL It so tight squeeze. If I parked next to you, I think I hit your car. E kala mai. Seriously. Hooo da squeezee. Anden EVERYbody…. ok most peoples….. do da reverse in parking thing. My sistas parking lot, you can tell who da tourist – me stay park regular style. My sista kept insisting ‘reversem’ in’. I’m like are you kidding you like I karang your car, cause dat what going happen eda dat your neighbas truck. Her expert hah, reversem’ in not a problem.
So den us wen Ala Moana, Magic Island parking lot. Was about 10 in da morning and had choke parking, it was really strange. So my sista tell me. Eh reverse in, no moe dat many cars, practice. I’m like are you serious, practice karang somebody car. So cruising looking for one parking space… looking looking. Find one section, no had cars. I tell my sista, you like I reverse’um in. K, I reverse’um in baby style. So I pull into a parking space and keep going to the one in front of it – so look like I wen revese’um in yeah. Me & my sista was just cracking up. She was like “you freeking lolo.”
And speaking of parking…. if you go to a tourist kind of place… say Waimea Valley…. go early…as in when the open at 9am. Tourist no wake up early. LOL I’m a kapakahi kine tourist I’m outta da house by 6:30am. LOL But seriously the earlier you go, the better parking and the more quiet. Cause once everybody start showing up, hoo da kill joy. And the overflow parking is down da road, you gotta hike.
When I got to Waimea Valley there was like 3 car loads that were there. I neva had to listen to people talking and screaming what not for at least 2 hrs, it was nice. Peaceful. All you could here was the stream and the birds, like it should be. I took my sweet time walking to the waterfall. People were walking fast passing me, gotta get to da waterfall. The waterfall wasn’t going anyplace, going be there when you get there yeah. By the time I got to the waterfall you could here people talking and screaming blah blah blah. There were 2 lifeguard on duty. Back in da day no had such thing yeah. I look at the local lifeguard and I ask him “Bruh you can blow you whistle and tell everybod get outta da pool. I like take pictures without the glare of their bodies. I no like bodies in my pic-chas.” He just started cracking up, “NT No Can!” Fine wotEwa.
I took my pic-chas and had to get outta there. By then the place was getting packed, too many bodies in a small place. So I started my walk back, taking some trails down by the stream that I didn’t go thru on the way to the waterfall. I was on this path away from the main path and I heard this angry piss off man yell “YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE A PICTURE OF EVERY FUCKING FLOWER.” I straightend up and I was about to yell “fkyeah I am” then I remembered oh he wasn’t yelling at me. But yeah crap la dat really pollutes the experience of communing with nay-cha yeah. So go early! LOL
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