Monday, October 13, 2008

First Ever Real Life Post . . .

So, um, I guess I have a blog now. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, I just hit the button that appeals to me the most at the moment, and voila, words. It's kind of an impulse thing, gotta go with my gut instinct, ya know, testing the water, seein' what else is out there. I'm the new kid in town. There's plenty of fish in the sea, and I want to be a shark!!!
So I'm sure you're wondering what the heck 'I Pa'ipunahele Hau'oli means, and if not, feel free to skip this paragraph, because I'm about to explain. It started off with me trying to translate "I love books" from English to Hawaiian. A simple enough sentence, I figured it would be no trouble at all to get it translated, but no, here I've been for about an hour now, rifling through website after website, looking for a simple translator. Most of them were trying to sell me "great and affordable tickets for the whole family," needless to say, I wasn't interested. Finally I found a semi-promising site. I translate the word "I," which turned out to be I, that was a real shocker right there. After recovering from that lapse insanity, I translated "love," as you can see, love is much bigger than our simple four lettered counterpart. Then it turned out that there is no Hawaiian translation directly for book, apparently when saying book, they just substitute the word "happiness." So technically, my title says "I love happiness," which is true, just not exactly what I was going for. In case you are wondering, I myself am not Hawaiian, nor is anyone in my family, or anyone I know. To be honest, I was surprised that they actually had their own language (no offense to any Hawaiians out there), I just figured they spoke English and said "Aloha" instead of "Hi."
From that very subtle introduction, I'm sure you would have never of guessed what this blog will be about. Books. Lots and lots of BOOKS!!! (and a few movies, and maybe a little music) A personal favorite of mine is books made into movies, because rarely do they turn out good. It's really kind of hard to talk too much about music because there's more to it than a story line, it has more background than any book or movie.

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