





eat food. ride bike.
weekends used to be the beginning of something blissful. but with a majority of friends attending college, weekends have become dark holes of homework and part-time employment.
a few evenings ago I ate my first satura cake cupcake. satura cake is one of those kitschy desert shops that are swarmed with college kids and forty-year old women after their workouts. because I have an untamed sweet tooth the idea of gourmet sugary cakes was appealing.
so imagine my disappointment moments after I consumed my cupcake. for four dollars, a tiny cup of flavored sugar and flour should have been something magnificent. the cupcake was barely mediocre…it was bloody terrible.
but whoa did it look pretty.
afterwards seth, aly, and I walked over to z pizza. the chain restaurant triumphs their use of organic and local ingredients. I had the vegetarian pizza of the day –the napoli— while seth had both the napoli and some meat infused pie slice.
now the pizza was delicious. but the price tag: $3.50 per slice was a bit high. the next time I win the lottery I am going to z pizza. -sau
after a nice afternoon cruise out to costco, complete with excessive headwinds as usual, sau challenged me to conquer the zippy's ultimate donut. after stuffing the whole donut down my throat i thought i had been victorious. on the ride home i quickly realized that i was wrong and had simply become another victim of the hideous ultimate donut-induced death, complete with the perpetual waxy coating on the roof of my mouth. my girlfriend is worried sau is goint to kill me before she gets to see me again and she is probably right. here's to another fun day of food (and indigestion)!
on a side note, i find it interesting how local residents of hawaii who always pride themselves in their limited honking of car horns do not hesitate to let you know they are unhappy with the fact you are (legally) riding a bicycle on their streets.
anyways, now it's time to get back to homework. -seth
on a blistering ninety degree -with unmentionable humidity- day, aly and I headed towards the land of organica retail store in downtown. land of organica (located at 900 maunakea st) is a fruit sorbet and juice company specializing in organic and local ingredients. the results are an assortment of vegan sorbets (using agave nectar instead of sugar to sweeten) that are stunningly delicious.
sadly the retail store was closed on 09.09.09 when aly and I arrived. so we rode our bicycles to the down to earth market and bought a green banana sorbet (it reminds me of a particular dr. seuss story). it was there that we encountered john hamilton who informed us that he was the only caucasian kid in his hawaiian creole english class.
thank you to jesse whiles for introducing land of organica. -sau