I was looking for shirts to give away back home and found this web site. I know my relatives back home will appreciate and love this shirt so I ordered a bunch of it at blue falcon. They have good quality and wide variety of choices and it's the original. My brother wanted the Army and Navy shirts. Hope it will come on time so I will be able to include it on my package to be send home by next week.

This is one of the flora that I saw up at the KST trail. It's a tree bark that was overgrown with wild orchids and moss. I was walking on a muddy stiff trail when I saw this and I stop just to snap this picture. I always snap pictures when I'm on the trail especially a challenging trail. My point is, soak in and enjoy the view and snap pictures a much as you can because you never know when you going to check out this trail again.

One of my dear friends works in one of our famous University in the island. I have this idea of getting him a cubicle name plates that he can use in his office. I know he will appreciate it or it can be personalized just for him. This will be his Christmas present from the hiking group. He just recently joined us hiking and I can tell he love the challenge although he is a little bit scared of heights but he is getting better each time we hike high mountains with stiff drop offs. 

This is what I am up too recently. With the first attempt to go up the stairs failed, we decided to do it the long way 3 weeks after. We planned to do the middle ridge but we miss the turn and ended up doing the long way which turned out to be the "BEST HIKE" I've ever did in my life. The experience and challenge was awesome. I will post a detailed info about my awesome experience later after I settle every thing.

I love QuickBooks software because they are making my life easier in dealing with our small business. I use QuickBooks to keep our books in order and for me to easily transfer it when it's tax time. Now they have this intuit pos that is connected to your QuickBooks to easily track down your sales and do inventory faster and easier. I also have our business website with them. I am so grateful for the people that made this software which really help me and our business.

My round 2 record breaking hike to the top of Koko crater that took us 30minutes. The first time I came here with the group it took us 1 hour. We are trying to do another repeat and do it in 20 minutes, good luck to me. We might also do the stairs and descend on west rim, that would be fun but we need to be quick with agile feet.

I got hooked on this online jewelry site where they have deals every day. The daily jewelry deals are really good and usually you can get it for 65% off the regular price. I told my friends and relatives about it because it's just too good to pass on. I was just browsing online one day and came across the website and from then on I got hooked and got most of my jewelries from them. I am eying on a 14K 1carat diamond ring which regular price was  $1,700.00 and it's now on 70% off. I will get it before my birthday.

Found it online by accident while I was checking for the latest blog post update from a hiker's blog that I followed. This is one of his recent post, I checked out for the direction and head there two days after. I believe that this is a beautiful waterfalls specially after a down pour. I am going to plan to visit this again because it has 3 waterfalls or maybe more. I climb to the second but leave the 3rd waterfall to be explored on my next visit with friends.

It is always good to have electric fireplace like what my sister have. They live in San Francisco but she has young kids and pets so they need electric fireplace. It still does keep their room and warm with the feel of a real fireplace. I was checking on it online, it's so cool because you can choose from different design like linear wall mount for modern & minimalist look, corner and stove fireplace. I like the wall mount because I want the minimalist look on it.

It was a crazy month for me so I was not able to update my blog. I'm juggling real life work and hike with friends & family to the point where we were hiking almost every weekend and my off day on weekdays. I came to the point where I was so exhausted that I told myself to "Not think of Hiking" on my off days but did not really work well because I still did hike.

This is the image of Mt. Kaala on the west side, the highest peak on the island of Oahu towering at 4,050 ft. This is one of my priority to hike for this year 2012 and of course haiku stairs. I will see when we could do this hike, provably on weekdays when we don't have ant kids to think of and possible on a clear summer day. I heard that the Pros hiker in Oahu must and had gone to this Mountain if not then you are not a PRO.

I am planning to get this for our guest room, dual purpose. This twin over queen bunk bed could accommodate a grown up guest as well as younger guest. In case our grand kids will come over they could share it. It looks fun so I am sure who ever our guest will be will enjoy and have a good night sleep on this semi theme room. I might also repaint the entire guest room and put some new fixtures to make the cabin feel.

My husband will do a job that will require welding. He might hire a welding contractor or he will just let his worker do it and buy the welding equipment, either way as long as he will deliver the job to the clients taste and approval. If he will keep accepting jobs that required some areas to be weld, in my opinion it is better to just get the equipment because he could always use it on his future jobs.

This will be my last attempt on fondant. I cannot make it right. It's either the cake is too soft for fondant or I'm rolling the fondant too thin or doing it on hot season. I give up on cake decorating for good. I'll just bake goodies and continue to be a good cook but no more fondant for me.

My husband is a grandpa too. My step-daughter and I are planning to surprise grandpa on Father's day with goodies. He does love sweets like cookies and chocolate covered strawberries, so we decided to order it online because they carry wide assortment of goodies for grandpa. We might also add a bottle or two of champagne for him and the grand kids will give him a surprise visit, they are flying in that they from the mainland for vacation and they planned to arrived on Father's day.

This trail starts from Aloha stadium to Waipahu depot street. My guess it's about 7-8 miles long of maintained bike trail known as "Pearl Harbor Historic Trail". They are planning to connect this trail from the Aiea Stadium to Waipahu to Ewa, Kapolei and Nanakuli which will be 18 miles long. Hopefully I will not be to old when this things will happen, I'm sure I will be one of the people who want's to do a record.
 This the trail the inspired my 2012 to get into my health and fitness. This is also the reason that I am a self proclaimed "reclaimed hiker". I love hiking when I was younger but I did not realized that I am a hiker because there is not really a know trail back home, with trail or without when you walk on foot for miles and miles and enjoying the scenery and crossing town-to-town on foot then you are a hiker.
Thanks for this awesome 2012 that made me and my husband realized that there are so much thing we could do and enjoy without shelling money. I am glad that he is now loving and enjoying hiking. My friends including my husband appreciate the trails we go and enjoy the scenery so much that they don't even know exist. There's so much more to see in the island of Oahu alone. Hopefully we could check out other island on the weekend and hike too.

We live close to a park and there are always games on the weekend and practice on weekday's afternoon. Last month the kids had their last game and potluck and we could hear the cheering and screaming of parents and team mates. I saw that both teams had their trophies on respective tables with goody bags for the kid's final game. The kids looks excited to play for the last time to end the season also excited to receive their trophies and goodies. Few weeks ago they started practice again for the summer season.

I did strike a post for my 15th trail, the 17th hike I did since January. I am thankful that I found my hiking buddies who made me "hiking addict" and organizer of twice a month group hikes that we are doing. Originally we planned to do once a month hike but since it's not enough we decided to do twice a moth hike. It is awesome to have my friends, they inspired me to do my hardest on hiking as our health & fitness. I saw results, I did lose one size and planning to lose another size and stick to it my maintaining it. I don't wanna be too skinny though I still love my curves. So more updates on my hiking adventure since I have trail line ups and also repeat trails to do.

Summer is fast approaching but I can already feel the summer sun and heat, well yeah it's Hawaii always sunny but summer here is hotter than other seasons of the year. I am already getting back my tan skin, we always do hiking at least once a week for the fast months but this couple weeks made me really dark, the sun is like biting my skin but it would not stop me from hiking though. Some girls they are using fake bake flawless tanning gel, last couple years I was using tanning gel but I am skipping it this year since I am now officially a reclaimed hiker. It's addicting to do nothing on my day-off but I kept reminding myself to at least rest from work and hiking at least one day a week to re-energize and relax.