Away

This is it...the BIG trip. As a reminder, I'll be away from work for the next 4 weeks. I leave tomorrow for Hong Kong from June 17 and will be back to work on July 15th. If you're looking for a designer (and you don't mind waiting), please do not hesitate to drop me an email to "[email protected]" and I'll be sure to contact you as soon as I return.

I've stacked up my chips as high as I possibly can at this point. Less then 24 hours I'll be leaving and I haven't even begun packing yet. It's been just like those little Ogres in the old Warcraft game "werk werk werk". That's me...the slaving worker. Nah, I shouldn't complain though, I know I would be stressing a LOT more if I didn't have anything to do in my business.

Now I leave tomorrow and we'll just see how those chips fall. I'll come back to clean up what falls in July and just carry on life with my wife then. Yeah, I can't get used to saying that yet. "Wife" That's heavy heheh.

This first leg up to Hong Kong is the intial phase of what's really a 2-part wedding. My fiancee and I both have a lot of family in HK that cannot make it to our ceremony here in Hawaii. So we're going up there first to have an advance reception for them. It's quite elaborate actually...what initially sprung up as just a "dinner" for family has turned into a big affair with multiple clothing changes, slideshows, games, photographers, etc. It's almost like a complete wedding minus the actual ceremony itself. I don't know what to expect yet... while I speak limited Cantonese, I expect half the time I'll just be doing a lot of smiling and nodding to people I have never met before in my life.

All I can expect, is that it's going to be HOT & HUMID. Especially if I will have to jump into a tux. I'm going to be taking a lot of showers and drinking a lot of liquids. Not a lot of sightseeing this time around so I probably won't be coming back with those types of photos. Just wedding ones. It's going to be pretty bad if I look all wet and drippy in those photos. Disgusting huh? You don't even KNOW until you've been to parts of Asia in the Summer. It's like walking under water...warm thick water.

The 2nd leg of our wedding is back here in Hawaii where my side of the family flock with start arriving in mass. My grandmother, tons of aunts, uncles and cousins. It's a pretty big affair...let's just say a reunion of this magnitude hasn't happened in my family for some 25 years or so. My dad hasn't seen some of my uncles in decades. Can you imagine that? Imagine seeing someone decades later...what do you say? How to you catch up? I'm going to trip out on that.

The wedding here will be nice...it's an evening wedding so hopefully we'll catch some beautiful photography on the beach with the sunset. The dream wedding many people wish for. It should be fun and quite interesting.

What I'm most anticipating that's going to happen here is one of my aunts. I love her to death but she's wacky in the sense that she claims she can talk to angels and read the future on tarot cards. But that's cool...the best part about her is that you can tell her she's "wacky" right up to her face and she'll just laugh it off. That's pretty cool in my book. It's a good way to live life actually. So she tells me a long time ago she's going to come and tap dance for my wedding...I don't know if she's serious or if she's just going to do something wild and insane for my wedding just to embarrass her poor nephew. I anticipate she'll be our entertainment, since we really didn't plan to do anything else but go to eat dinner across the street for our reception.

And then I got my buddy "Big Daddy". I think it will be a funny night no matter what. I'll be keeping the liquor far away from those two. Then again, maybe I should get them liquored up and see how funny the night gets?

Overall, I'll just enjoy it. I got tons of stuff I still need to worry about, but I'm going to just set that aside and just enjoy these next 4 weeks. It only happens once!

I better pack..... let's see, 7 shirts, 2 long pants, 3 shorts, 4 socks, 9 bibadees, 1 oxygen mask, ...