Arnold Gatilao via Compfight

One of Hawaii’s best food-well, dessert, is haupia. It kind of looks like tofu, but it is sweet. It is made of coconut meat, coconut milk, and coconut shavings. It is basically coconut dessert. The best kind is when you can make it yourself. The pre-made stuff is good, but not great. I normally don’t like coconut, but this is good!

~Yoshi

I chose this picture for my header photo because it is Halloween. This was one of the best scary photos that I could find. I used Pixabay to find this. I also kept my Pumpkin Cat photo background.

~Yoshi

One of my fondest childhood memories is of my maternal grandfather. He would let us sleep over quite often,  in their large house deep in Kalihi Valley on O’ahu in Hawai’i. We were never allowed to sleep in the main house, instead we had to sleep inside a spare bedroom underneath the main house. This may sound like a cramped space, but because the house was on a steep hill, there was lots of room.

Grandpa always had an infectious laughter, which always made my two brothers and I giggle. When he put us to bed, grandpa would sit at a small table on the other side of the room to eat dried cuttlefish and drink beer. Of course, we always had a hard time falling asleep and the three of us would be laughing and talking instead of sleeping. Grandpa would turn around and scold us, but not in an unkind way, then go back to his cuttlefish and beer.

Grandpa passed away in 1998 on a United flight returning from Australia. He never met my kids, but I knew he would’ve loved them as much as he loved us.

~Peter Hirai, Royce’s dad

I was “Mayor Royce” last week at my dad’s office. You may recognize this place if you watch Hawai’i news. It is the Department of Emergency Management headquarters.

I am standing at the mayor’s podium and they made me the mayor so they could see what the lights look like. In the back is the Emergency Operations Center, which is a room that everyone is in when disaster like a hurricane comes onto land or near land. You may see Peter Hirai if you watch Hawai’i news.

~Yoshi

The thing about this picture is that it is completely random.

OKNOVOKGHT via Compfight

I know… enough about putting photos on my blog that I can do it. As you can see above, the picture I chose is completely random and represents nothing about this blog.

I use Compfight for all of my blogging photos, and if I can’t find a specific photo, I will use one similar to it. It was kind of hard to grasp the understanding at first, but I eventually got it.

~Yoshi

For my widget, I chose the ClustrMap widget because it is useful to me. I want to see who around the world visited my blog and when. I also wanted to be one of the only ones in HMS(my school) to use it.

ClustrMap is a very interesting widget. It tracks computers to see who visits and what their city and country is. Then, it records it and sends the data to a website where I can check where people come from that look at my blog.

~Yoshi

When I think about a favorite time with my family, I don’t think about a ‘favorite’ time with them, I think about all the times I spent with them. Such as when we went to see the movie “Pan”, or when we went to see the other movie “Hotel Transylvania 2”. Even when we just spend time together sitting down in the living room talking. That’s how I view a favorite time with my family. In simpler terms, every family time is my favorite family time.

~Yoshi

Aitor Aguirregabiria via Compfight

This is a picture of a cat much like another cat very dear to my family named Mau Mau. He was a chubby white cat with blue eyes. When he passed from old age, myy mom was very sad and let my sister and I take a day of to mourn his death. He died in a little cardboard box my sister and I made called “Kitty Kondo”. He had lived in there for the rest of his life after we made it.  He was 17.

~Yoshi

The best book that I read was a pretend kind of book about rabbits called Watership Down. I like this book because it’s interesting. I like books about talking animals and mystery. The rabbits are really smart and can count to four. It is a big kids book and very long.

~Yoshi

When I’m online, I am sort of a different person. I am a lot more anonymous than when I am offline and in the real world. I never do anything that will make me less anonymous. I am also a little more serious online than offline. That is the minor difference of me when I’m on my computer, and when I am not.