My posts on other online outlets

Hello everyone,

it's been weeks since I last posted on my blog.


However, here is my highlights that I posted on other  online outlets!

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There's been a bunch of memes complaining that Macklemore won more Grammys than some legendary rappers of the 80s and 90s.

The implication is that that Macklemore is favored over those rappers because of his European-American ancestry!

But I remind people that the Grammy's is a ANNUAL (meaning a year-based) award

 

By the way, you can see who was up for the rap music categories in the Grammy's by checking out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Rap_Album
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Rap_Song
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Rap_Solo_Performance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Rap_Performance_by_a_Duo_or_Group

For solo awards,  in 1995, 2pac and Biggie weren't competing with Macklemore, they were competing with Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" a super mega-hit of the year!

In 1997, Biggie's "Hypotize" wasn't competing with Macklemore, he was competing with Will Smith, who was coming back to making rap songs after becoming a mega-star actor!

For rap albums,  As for 2pac, as much as I loved "All Eyez on Me", it lost because it was competing  against the Fugees "The Score" the same year!

 2pac's "Me Against the World" had some meaningful songs, but it was up against Naughty By Nature "Poverty Paradise"! 

For Notorious BIG, as much as I loved "Life After Death", it came out the same year as his producer Puff Daddy's debut album!


Just like Charles Barkley, Reggie Miller, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing not winning NBA championships, because they played in the same era as Micheal Jordan! Hakeem Olajuwon also outshined those other guys when Micheal Jordan was experimenting with baseball!

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Someone thought they found me on this following article

http://www.movoto.com/hi/hawaii-dating/

 

The person on the right is not me!  But yeah, he does look like me!  I never wore that Aloha shirt, but I like the design :)

Meanwhile that article has some silly stereotypes about Hawaii, but it was obvious that the article was never meant to be taken literally!


One person said the following

Keone Rivers · 

what a load of haole colonialist bull (****).

and someone else said the following

Noah P. H. Dolim ·

Diana Caswell : Haole is an attitude as well.

OK, that the word "haole is an attitude" promotes a racial stereotype, so I said the following

Pablo Wegesend ·

Noah P. H. Dolim imagine is someone said "n---- is an attitude as well"? Well, someone else besides Chris Rock?

BTW, I'm from Hawaii (McKinley grad!) so don't let my looks and name fool you!

That last sentence was to prevent others from accusing me of being an outsider who doesn't understand Hawaii. 

Lo and behold, Keone Rivers  made the following comments

Keone Rivers ·

Pablo Wegesend that is a laughable false equivalent, it only demonstrates you dont know what haole means. haole can indeed be an attitude, ho'ohaole is an example of that. the N word is a racial slur invented by white supremacists, haole is simply another word in the Hawaiian lexicon, that predates the arrival of the first white people. at no time have white people EVER been captured and enslaved for generations by Native Hawaiians, to the contrary it is white people that INVADED US and continue to enforce their white supremacy in our illegally occupied homeland.

I respond by saying  words change meaning over time.

 Back to Keone Rivers

Keone Rivers · 

Pablo Wegesend lol buy a dictionary, what it means is that you are comparing apples to oranges and arent sufficiently educated to even understand that. the fact that some words meanings change over time does not change the fact that you do not speak Hawaiian and do not understand it. do you understand the folly in debating a language you DO NOT know with a native speaker of that language?

Ooooh, I better back down!

Actually, I was referring to how the word "haole" is used in modern times!

Pablo Wegesend · 

You're the expert in pre-colonial meanings. In modern times, people use the phrase "haole as an attitude" with the stereotype of "Euro-American coming with bad intentions." Very few in modern times even fit that description, but as soon as a Euro-American make a mistake (no matter how minor), they get tagged as "f----- haole", usually by people who cant even speak fluent Hawaiian. That's what I meant by "word meanings change over time". This is just an observation of how that word is being used in modern times.

  

Now, it's about to get classic!

In other words, Keone couldn't overcome my 2 paragraphs because ...........it's true!

Well, Keone Rivers had no response (as of this post's publishing) to the following

Now, I don't think "haole" is always used in a negative term.  It can be used in a neutral way (ie. "my haole friend"), or even to refer to oneself (ie . "I was the only haole guy in the class").


But Keone was being evasive in the real issue .................the word's use has changed to refer to just those of European-ancestry (even those whose family has been in Hawaii for generations).  To the point where even immigrants use the word "haole" just thinking it's just another word for "white" .....................because ............................modern people of Hawaii just use the word "haole" to refer to European-descendants!


As for me, even though I got a German last name, I never get called a "haole" because I look mostly Mexican! But my half-brother (with a different father) ..........................yes, he's been called a "haole". 

UPS improvements

Back in August 2013, I wrote a blog post about my dislike of UPS
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2013/08/not-fan-of-ups-policies.html


Here's what I mentioned

You see, UPS does NOT tell you what time they're coming by your house!

So you're expected to wait at home ALL DAY just to receive your package!

Who has time for that?

And if you live in a secured building (like I do), they can't just come in and leave your stuff by your door. Plus, I don't want stuff left outside by my door. You never know who'll be thinking  "hey, free stuff".


And even worse, their delivery workers are not allowed to call the customer's  phone # when they come by my home to confirm I'm home!

That is the most stupidest delivery  policy known to humanity!

So if you're not home when they come by (and they don't tell you when they'll come by), you got to go to their facility to pick up your item.

Their facility on Oahu is on an isolated road near the airport! If you're a bus rider, you got to get off by Nimitz and walk multiple blocks on Lagoon Drive!

and this paragraph

And UPS doesn't automatically deliver to the nearest UPS store even if you request it! You have to call the UPS Store yourself and hope they'll allow you to receive your stuff there!

That has changed!   :)


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Last week, I ordered a book "Modern Information Retrieval" from the Barnes & Noble website.

In the past, I would receive items  from Barnes & Noble via US Post Office.

But this time, the book would be delivered by UPS!

I was expecting the worst! I was expecting to have to call UPS to hold it at their isolated facility!

But this time, I was able to go to the UPS website and they now offer the option to pick it up at the UPS Store!

So much easier than before! 

  :)

Money Down the Drain

Australian golfer Robert Allenby was in the news recently over a bizzare incident in Hawaii.

He says he got kidnapped, beaten and dropped on the road.

Witnesses said the kidnapping didn't happen and his injuries happened because he was drunk and fell down.



Other witnesses said he was at a strip club Femme Nu earlier that night

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20150126_GolfChannelcom_Allenby_reportedly_ran_up_3400_tab_at_strip_club.html?1i

Multiple sources who were working at the club on Jan. 16 told GolfChannel.com that Allenby was there around midnight with "a group of friends" and ran up a $3,400 bar tab.

Now, That is what I want to talk about!


The $3,400 tab at the strip club! 


I haven't been to a strip club in YEARS!  


The last time I went was in 2006, and before that last time, it was Halloween 2004!


And you know what? I don't plan on going back!


One reason! It's Money Down the Drain!

You think you'll only spend an  x amount of dollars? HA! 

You WILL be tempted to spend more!  I know I always did! 

Those girls don't dance for free!  

You just sit in the back, you'd be bored to death! You sit close to the action, you WILL be pressured to pay OR the action goes away from you! 

Those girls don't dance for free!  

It's Money Down the Drain!

It's not worth it!

You'll get much more satisfaction just going to a regular nightclub! 


No, you won't see girls taking it all off at the regular nightclub!


At the regular nightclub, satisfaction is when a girl chooses to dance with you for free! 

That is MUCH  MORE satisfying than throwing your $$$$ down the drain at the strip club! 


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Also, another reason I no longer go to strip clubs?

I've been working as a substitute teacher for 10 years.  That means some of the middle school students I once worked with 10 years ago are old enough to work at the strip club!

That would be extremely awkward seeing them there!  


It reminds me of one conversation I heard on TheBus! A group of tourists talked about one friend of theirs who was a teacher. He went to the strip club and guess who he saw? One of his former students! Both him and his former student felt really awkward about the situation! OBVIOUSLY!

Now, THAT is a more important reason why I no longer visit strip clubs!



I told that story to a former high school classmate and he thought it was funny! It wouldn't be funny if that was your situation!


And this why why I got so mad at one of my former co-workers at Macy's who kept pressuring me to come with him to the strip club.........................as if I never been there before!



Once I went off on him and told him my situation, he was all apologetic!


But yeah, I wouldn't expect me to say all this when I was in my early 20's! But I'm not in my early 20's anymore!

Dads and so-called "self respect"

Many parents want to protect their kids from all kinds of stuff, even stuff they really don't need protection from.

But that's just natural - why wouldn't a parent want to protect their child?

But their child grows up, becomes an adult and want to do adult things!


It takes a certain level of maturity for a parent to be at peace with their no-longer-child doing raunchy adult things!

Which brings me to Brian Williams, the NBC reporter.

His daughter Allison Williams was in a cable TV show "Girls",  in which her character ...................................had something freaky but consensual done to her.  So freaky that I personally wouldn't do it!

Brian Williams reaction?
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/16/in_praise_of_cool_dads_why_brian_williams_support_of_allisons_girls_sex_scene_is_important/

Only fanning the flames was the fact that her father not only watched the scene, he was also totally cool with it. “She’s always been an actress,” he said of the scene. “For us, watching her is the family occupation and everybody has to remember it’s acting, no animals were harmed during the filming, and ideally nobody gets hurt.” In fact, Williams has always been nonchalant about his daughter’s sex scenes. In 2012, when Vulture asked him how he felt watching “Girls,” he said, “It’s kvelling, pride. It’s incredibly great.” Then his interviewer clarified, “You’re fine with the awkward sex scenes?” He replied, simply, “Unmitigated joy.”

The article's author Tracy Clark-Flory reacted with these classic paragraphs

This man deserves a “Father of the Year” mug. I mean it. As does any dad who manages to confront the idea of his daughter’s sexuality without withering to the floor like the Wicked Witch. The Williams’ case is extreme, of course: Few daughters are actresses starring in a raunchy HBO drama. Few fathers have reason to see their adult daughters semi-nude. But most fathers, most daughters, could learn something from this family. 

Dads have so many opportunities to positively influence how their daughters feel about their own bodies and sexualities. They have so many chances to not teach them shame. They have so many ways to communicate that it’s a woman, not a man — be he her father or husband — who owns her sexuality. If more dads did this, we wouldn’t have headlines wondering, “WHAT DOES HER DAD THINK?” about a 26-year-old grown woman doing her damn job.

Now, look at that bolded part from the previous paragraph! 

I'll repeat it again

They have so many chances to not teach them shame.

Dads have so many chances TO NOT their daughter's shame in whatever sexuality they have!


I'm tired of people saying stupid stuff like "she has no self-respect" whenever a woman does something raunchy in the clubs or in a video!

Because when you say "she got no self-respect", you are NOT promoting "self-respect", You are promoting SHAME! 



So an adult woman does a lapdance for a popular male celebrity?  Well, two did for Tyrese for his recent birthday! It went viral!

And we have chumps who said "those women have no self-respect"


Lighten up FOOLS! 


Those woman DID NOTHING WRONG!


They just (gasp.........OMG........nooooooooooooooooooooooo!) did something they considered fun!


They didn't injure anyone!


They just  (gasp.........OMG........nooooooooooooooooooooooo!) did something they considered fun!


So they did something you don't consider fun? 


SO WHAT?


If you don't want to twerk, THEN DON'T!


But don't give me this crap that adults who twerk (or lapdance or "work the pole" or whatever) lack "self-respect".


Because this "self-respect" nonsense is a bunch of crap from uptight, repressed party poopers who can't stand when people have a different type of fun from them! 

This criticism goes out to BOTH the ultra-conservatives (who want everything prim & proper) and Radical Feminists (who think just because they don't want to twerk, they assume all women twerking in videos are being "exploited" by men) 

As for parents freaked out by all this, remember, while you can cherish all the memories of your kid's preschool times all you want................................... kids can't be stuck in that phase forever.

Life goes on, they become young adults and some (many) want to try freaky things   .......... freak dances, you name it!

It takes a certain maturity to be at peace with it!


Mr. Williams is at peace with it! That makes him the perfect role model for parents out there!

You Need to be Able to Adjust to Culture Shock!

Adjusting to culture shock is one of life's most important skills!


Culture shock is just a normal part of life!

Even if you're from a diverse place, other places have a different mix than yours!

For example, Honolulu and Miami are both known for diversity, yet they have a different cultural mix!

And even within the same city, you can face culture shock going from one school to another!

I remember going from McKinley High School ( an inner-city school with a mostly immigrant population, with an  Asian majority as well as Pacific Islanders as a major minority) to the University of Hawaii, which obviously has students from all over Hawaii (meaning I'm attending school with rural and suburban kids too) plus students from continental US (many of whom are European-Americans from Oregon and Washington State).  So yeah, I experienced culture shock in my own island!

And yeah, I've been to Mexico, where my dad is from! Culture shock during my visit? Definitely!


However, some people just can't adjust to culture shock! They mistake curiosity and harmless ignorance as "micro-agression".


One example is Priscilla Ward, who wrote about her experience as an African-American living with European-American room-mates and working with European-Americans.

http://www.salon.com/2015/01/20/im_tired_of_suppressing_myself_to_get_along_with_white_people/

I started to worry about all the other things I might have to explain: My hair, the food I eat, why I like Miles Davis, Nina Simone and Marvin Gaye. Maybe I should have considered it a teaching opportunity. But I wasn’t feeling generous. I was all twisted up inside, ablaze over racial dynamics and anxious what other minefields my roommate might stumble upon. I hoped he wouldn’t say something really ignorant, causing me to just snap and go off on an angry rant. Then I’d have to make my living situation salvageable by pocketing my black rage, putting on my best smile and telling him, it’s all love.

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 I was tired of catering to everyone else’s comforts. How much of my day-to-day experiences as a black woman do I have to filter? I replace “hey girl” with boring hellos. I eat my leftover fried chicken outside the office. In order to have some common point of identifiable communication, I pretend to care about Taylor Swift, or white movie stars on their I’ve-lost-count remarriages and those other white pop stars I could not care less about. “Oh yeah, she’s cute,” I tell them. “Yeah, that’s cool.”

I'm sorry, but this is just someone who is unable to adjust to culture shock!  I mean, I'm not censoring whatever pidgin or hip-hop phrases when I'm interacting in casual conversations with people! I mean, yeah I might be a bit reserved with someone I just met (aren't most of us?) but once you had a few conversations, all this uneasiness should fade already!

And her "not caring about white stars"?   I mean, I like hip-hop better than country or alternative, but still .................. I respect what those other genres mean to the cultures they come from!  And you know what? I can enjoy the music of  Pitbull, Whitney Houston, Bryan Adams, Willie K, Selena  and a whole bunch of musicians of different racial backgrounds! It's called being culturally versatile!

And sometimes, I might be working with someone with different pop culture references. They might LOVE talking about "Game of Thrones" or some other TV show that I have never watched in my life? SO WHAT?   I don't feel the need to fit-in with everyone anyways!   I could sit & chill while others are talking about something I'm not interested in! SO WHAT  -- THAT'S  a  part of LIFE!  You can't expect everyone to share your interests!


I know might be saying -- "who are you to talk down to Priscilla Ward, you're not African-American like her".   The overwhelming majority of African-Americans I know are much more secure with being around different cultures than Ms Ward is!

Look, my city might not have as many African-Americans as Atlanta, but it was the birthplace of the 1st black President (sorry Kenya).


Ms Ward can even come here for Rumours Nightclub on Friday nights! Mostly playing modern hip-hop (at least 75% Southern hip-hop)  and attract a lot of African-Americans. They don't leave the dancefloor just because the DJ played Pitbull or Iggy Azalea! If it's a good song, it's a good song!

(note: Rumours Nightclub is more famous for its Saturday nights with its 70s/80s/90s disco/funk/R&B/old-school hip-hop, and a more multi-racial fanbase. Major reputation as "cougar-town")



And does Priscilla Ward know about the being part-Latino in Hawaii? I do! Here's what I wrote on the comments!

Dear Priscilla Ward,

I know what it's like to be an extreme minority, being a mixed-race person of mostly Latino ancestry and a German last name growing up in Hawaii with mostly Asian & Pacific Islanders. 

However, you take everything way too personal! I mean, I had Pacific Islanders ask if my dad (who is from Mexico) use words like "vato" and "ese". Instead of getting overly sensitive, used that moment as a teaching opportunity to inform those Pacific Islanders (many of whom are Samoan or Micronesian) who are not familiar with Mexican culture that movies based in East LA life do NOT reflect real life in Mexico!  Some of them also assume MS-13 is a "Mexican gang", and I inform them that they're Salvadoran, and just like how Samoans and Tongans are similar but different, Mexicans and Salvadorans are similar and different. You see, I use such moments as teaching moments instead of "agonize with over-sensitivity" moments!

I also didn't have many Euro-American classmates until college. I had a few college classes in which they are the majority. SO WHAT? I remember one group project (w/ 4 Euro-American women from the continental US, 1 Euro-Canadian and me) with questions about surviving in the North American wilderness! They obviously had more experience on that topic, but you know what? I didn't feel any stigma, in fact we all just joked about it because that's what Secure, Confident people do!  By the way, one of those Euro-American woman  was working part time at an urban Honolulu high school (which was a rival school to mine) and yeah, she had  her culture shock which me and her discussed like confident, emotionally secure adults!

So yeah, start building your inner confidence! Start loving yourself! Start understanding that minor misunderstandings shouldn't be treated as intentional micro-aggressions! And get professional help!

1st blog post of 2015

It took me 13 days to start blogging in 2015. Sorry for the delays


A few thoughts

1) New Year's party

For New Year's, I went to Kakaako Waterfront Park for the New Year's party. It's like a block party, but with grassy hills between stages.  There were multiple stages and of course fireworks.



Unfortunately, right after the New Year started, a few guys started fighting. It wasn't a play-fight either, it was rage-filled punches. And it wasn't one-on-one!  Security wasn't evenly distributed throughout the park, so I had to look for security to break up the fight!



After security intervened, things were smooth again!


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Here are my YouTube videos from the New Year's event

"Bottled Water: the Ultimate Party Drink"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfX-n0Mfcg

"Pablo dancing at Kakaako's New Year's party"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzC2mleuXic

2) College Football Playoffs!

Finally, there's a playoff in Division 1-A college football!




For a century, college football just determined a champion based on 1 out of many bowl games!   So you had years where you had 3 undefeated teams, but only 2 can go to a so-called "national championship" bowl game!  This made college football "championships" a joke, and a reason why I used quotation marks around the word "champions" and "championship".






Since a lot of people loved the pageantry of bowl games (especially the classic ones like the Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Fiesta, Orange............................. and the "high-and-mighty" Hawaii Bowl), the NCAA decided instead of abolishing the bowls, let's just use some of the bowls as semi-finals in the playoffs!  And those who had winning seasons but can't make the playoffs can still play in a bowl game. It's a win-win for everyone.






Yeah, there's only 4 teams in the playoffs this year. This year is just a test-run.  Since the ratings were so good, you can bet the playoffs will expand to 8, and even 16 teams in the future.


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Here in Hawaii, since the UH football team hasn't been great lately (thanks to the "geniuses" who "retired" Coach Mack and replace him with Norm Chow), nearly everyone has been jumping on the Oregon bandwagon.  While Oregon has long recruited players from Hawaii, this time, it has a great star QB from Hawai --- Marcus Mariota.




Now, Mariota's family has been telling the media that UH didn't offer Mariota a scholarship! Whoooooooah! Wait a minute there!  Yeah, Oregon offered first!  But it wasn't as if UH was deliberately ignoring a star high school QB.




Let's talk some facts! Oregon made its offer in the SUMMER BEFORE Mariota's high school senior year!  And get this ...................... Mariota wasn't even a star in the high school scene, he wasn't even his team's starting QB! Understandably, UH was reluctant to offer a scholarship to a second-string QB!  And get this....................... this was BEFORE Mariota's senior year in high school. He had a one more season to prove himself worthy of a UH scholarship!






Plus, Mariota wouldn't have been able to sign the papers to play for a college team UNTIL the February of his senior year. He could've waited circa 8 months from summer to the following February to see if UH was willing to offer a scholarship!




And Mariota did start and did have a great senior season in high school! His team even won the state championship!




But Mariota didn't want to wait for UH to offer, and Oregon offered first!




Give Oregon its credit for being able to detect late bloomers among high school players!


But please, Mariota's family, stop acting as if UH totally ignored Mariota when it was officially signing day! Just be honest and say Oregon offered first!






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While I'm not going to wear the Oregon colors anytime soon, I did like it when the Oregon players taunted their semi-final opponent's  QB (Jameis Winston) of Florida State with "No Means No".



(watch here)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8HZDdCDWo

So the Oregon players were accused of "poor sportsmanship". But they DID STOP when their teammates said "cut it out"




But did Jameis Winston stop when his rape victim asked him to stop? NO!



And unlike Oregon (which expelled basketball players accused of rape), Florida State and the Tallahassee police department covered up for Jameis Winston




http://www.thenation.com/blog/193985/reality-their-own-jameis-winston-rape-and-seminole-fandom-florida-state

No one other than Winston, his accuser, and several of Winston’s teammates—who were present at the alleged assault—know whether the Florida State quarterback is a rapist. But we now know enough to be appalled by how Florida State University and the city of Tallahassee handled this entire ordeal. We know that police refused to investigate the original accusation of rape for months and that the school did not interview Winston about the incident for over a year. We know that the police—eventually pressured by the press into investigating the incident—had financial ties as security workers for the Seminole Boosters club. We know that Jameis Winston did not testify at his own student conduct hearing to defend his own innocence except by issuing an appalling written statement where he called the accuser a liar, violated her confidentiality by stating her name repeatedly and posited that this was all happening because she was miffed that his door kept swinging open while they were having sex.

We also now know that Winston did finally talk in his student hearing after being cornered by retired Judge Major Harding. Harding turned directly to Winston and asked, “In what manner, verbally or physically” did he believe his accuser actually consented to sex? Winston’s lawyer’s said that their client did not have to respond, but Winston could not resist. The Heisman trophy winner said that his accuser supplied consent not by any affirmative statement but by “moaning.” Meanwhile his accuser testified, “I remember being raped.… I remember pleading with him to stop clearly.… I remember one of his friends telling him to stop and saying, ‘She is saying no clearly’…. I tried to struggle and resist him.” A victim’s advocate who met with the accuser the next day also testified that her mental state was consistent with someone suffering from the post-traumatic stress of a sexual assault.

So as far as I'm concerned, those Oregon players treated Jameis Winston better than he treated that girl!

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Congratulations to the Ohio State Buckeyes for winning the 1st  REAL national championship in big-time college football!




Before beating Oregon, Ohio State beat Alabama. For years, the talk was "SEC rules, Big Ten going down"! Well, the Big Ten adjusted to the changing times. As for the SEC, they've been winning "national championships" without a playoff for years! Well, what goes up does come down!


My main hope in college football now is for Hawaii to join the Pac-12(or whatever #), go back to the glory days, outshine Oregon, and be able to strongly compete against the likes of Alabama, Florida State and Ohio State  in the playoffs!

And hopefully, Hawaii can be as good as Oregon (and Boise State) is in detecting late bloomers among high schoolers, and not have to rely too much on players who got kicked out of bigger name schools (ie. like that QB who got kicked out of  Colorado a decade ago, hint, hint)

2014 in review: personal life

 It's that time of year again, when I do a year in review blog post

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1) My personal life

I have written so much on my personal life, that I'm not going to repeat them all here. Those who are curious can always click on the dated links on the side.

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But one thing that is different this December from the last 4 Decembers was that this time, I'm NOT working at Macy's this holiday season!

Last year, I was finishing the semester at UHM, working as a substitute teacher AND starting my time as a holiday hire at Macy's  ---- ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Burnout!

Last year, I also worked shifts that ended 2am (yes, 2am). And yes there were people shopping after midnight, even bringing their kids (yes, even after midnight).

Needless to say, it was exhausting, to the point where I got sick after Christmas. That illness (while kept me out of New Year's celebrations  -   :( times a million ) also had its blessing in that I finally got some rest after months of non-stop business! 

So this year, I decided not to work at Macy's this year, and just focus on finishing this semester at UHM and take the last available shifts as a substitute teacher.  While the downside to that is that I have 3 weeks of no income opportunities, I get some badly needed rest! 

One more thing, I really miss being the Macy's worker with the Santa hat this year! 

For those who didn't know me 3 years ago (or weren't connected on social media back then), then this link will teach you the Legend of The Santa Hat at Macys.

I also regret not being able to show off this Santa hat at Macy's this year!

Pablo Wegesend's photo

The Green UH Santa hat

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Also, this past year was my 2nd year as a student in the Library and Information Science (LIS) student at UHM.

I could graduate this coming semester, but I'll extend my time to take a summer class in Books & Media for Young Adults (I really want this class) and to be able to do 2 internships.

The first 2 years were just taking classes about the library profession. This year is about applying that knowledge for real .....................as an intern.

I'll announce where for facebook & LinkedIn followers tomorrow! 

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Other highlights of 2014

"My 15-year high school reunion"

http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-15-year-high-school-reunion.html

Also, for Halloween, I had the green dress shirt and green Afro!

Pablo Wegesend's photo

 I also got tickets for "Heroes & Villains" Halloween party at Hyatt Regency Waikiki. The organizers were great at promoting the event, but were unprepared for the crowds waiting outside. AT one point, they just said "we can't let any more people in", waited for those waiting outside to leave, then allowed people to come in!

It better not be like that for the New Year's party at Kakaako!