Oh Gosh! It's been a while !

Yea, that's right. It's been a while that I am blogging. I just started school. I was in Kauai for a week, two weeks ago. 


This is going to be my last semester at Hawaii Pacific University, but I feel like I am a freshman. I don't have a job and I am taking some classes that are just similar to the ones that I took a long time ago.


Anyway, I'm sending Aloha to all of you. Stay in touch and I will post something new soon.

All about Happy Cake Cafe

All about Happy Cake Cafe

After work and home, I spend most of my time at Happy Cake Cafe. This little cafe on Keeaumoku street (lifelike plaza) is my favorite hangout place for now.

Huge RedVelvet at Happy Cakes

I come from Seattle. I'm a coffee addict! And Happy Cake has the best smooth 100% kona coffee in town. I come here, drink the coffee and use free internet. Guess what ? I'm writing about the cafe from the cafe.
Ladies who work are super-freindly and hot! (another reason to come here :P) . They play cool music, decor is hip and welcoming.


Support small business folks, buy local, support local. boycott giant starbucks!

The Cafe 

Phone: 808-941-2253
for more info about the happycakes click www.happycake.com 
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HawaiianHappyCakes

all about Happycake Cafe

After work and home, I spend most of my time at Happy Cake Cafe. This little cafe on Keeaumoku street (lifelike plaza) is my favorite hangout place for now.

Huge RedVelvet at Happy Cakes

I come from Seattle. I'm a coffee addict! And Happy Cake has the best smooth 100% kona coffee in town. I come here, drink the coffee and use free internet. Guess what ? I'm writing about the cafe from the cafe.
Ladies who work are super-freindly and hot! (another reason to come here :P) . They play cool music, decor is hip and welcoming.


Support small business folks, buy local, support local. boycott giant starbucks!

The Cafe 

Phone: 808-941-2253
for more info about the happycakes click www.happycake.com 
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HawaiianHappyCakes

My First Audio Blog!

My First audio blog: Interview with Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie ! 

How Much Tax Refund Did You Receive ?

This is a hot topic now, how much tax refund are you getting from the IRS?

 Everyone is trying to claim tax on each and every categories to get that pennies back which you've paid over a year- your hard earned money.

But folks! Here's the shocking news! General Electric (GE) made more than$26 billion in profit in last 5 years. Last year their income was $10.3 billion, profit over $1 billion. Guess how much they paid tax to the U.S. Government ? 

Nothing!

Rather they got tax refund of $1.1 billion! 

I can't believe how the corporations are so Smart Cunning to get away with the taxes. 

The top ten worst taxpayers are as follows, who pay nothing or almost nothing to the Government.

Exxon Mobil, Bank of America, General Electric, Chevron, Boeing, Valero Energy, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, ConocoPhillips and Carnival Cruise Lines.

So, people, next time, you want to get away of paying taxes, come up with the corporation, because, this  is the country of corporations,  run by the corporations, and for the corporation. Long live Corporations! 

http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/29/headlines#12

Nobel Peace Prize Winner President cuts the social programs, increases the funding for military to buy weapons!

Nobel Peace Prize Winner President cuts the social programs, increases the funding for military to buy weapons!

Our dear President, who is also the winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2009, is cutting down the funding on social programs like social services and education (200 of those), but increasing military funding. He is announcing $3.7 trillion proposal to build the nuclear power plants ! 




Well does it affect us ? Heck ya, democracynow.org states "  It also calls for cutting $300 million from community development block grants and limiting an expansion of the Pell grant program for low-income college students." 


Ah, well, he won the most prestigious peace prize, I guess, he knows what he is doing. For more info click on http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/15/obamas_37_trillion_budget_calls_for

What's Happening at the Gulf ? Where the oil "spilled ."

A boat cuts through surface oil near the site of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead ,
Photo by National Geographic

Well, first it's not a "spill" although everyone calls it - "Gulf Oil Spill." It is a major leak caused by breaking of insecure materials that was used by Halliburton, a gigantic corporation where Dick Cheney became the CEO in 1995.

Now, there's no news about the oil leak. Everyone's eyes is in Egypt. Many of us have even forgotten about the tragedy that happened in April 2010 and lasted for three months!

In order to disperse the oil, government and BP used a massive amount 800,000 gallons (3,028,000 litres) of chemical dispersants. This cause to disperse the oil, but has alsoe created more ecological problems that we are unaware of .

The National Geographic writes (Jan 27, 2011) :

No one knew how effectively the dispersants would work. But a new analysis shows the dispersants lingered for months pretty much right where they were put—trapped in subsurface plumes of oil and gas....
For the study, scientists tracked a key component of dispersant called dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (DOSS) as the spill's deepwater plume of oil, natural gas, and dispersant moved southwesterly through the Gulf.

Some 640,000 pounds (290,000 kilograms) of DOSS was injected between April and July, a huge number made all the more daunting because the chemical comprises only ten percent of the total dispersant volume..

BP has committed to "clean up" beaches. For more info click : http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=40&contentId=7061813

We'll see what really BP is doing and what is it hiding. What do you think ?