It took about 18 hours flight from Malaysia to Los Angeles and another 5 hours to Honolulu. Which add up 23 hours flight per journey and a total of 46 hours in the plane.

Honolulu is the capital city of Hawai’i and belongs to an island called O’ahu. It is well-developed city whereby the tourism industry has made up the major economic percentage. Among the famous places in O’ahu are the Waikiki beach, Pearl Harbour, and Diamond Head Crater.

Hawai’i is pronounce as Hawai with (e) sound. Many people including the airline staff pronounced it weirdly as in hawai (rhythm with gawai, dawai).

Wiki in Wikipedia is derived from Hawaiian language. The pioneer of WikiWiki Web named it after the Wiki Wiki bus that runs between Honolulu Airport. It means quick. Quick Quick bus, Quick pedia.

ALOHA!

Aloha in the Hawaiian language means affection, love, peace, compassion, mercy, goodbye, and hello. It is used especially in greetings, hello and goodbye. Locals are very proud with their identity and holding strong to it.

They will greet the tourists by Aloha and then ends with Mahalo, means thank you.

Aloha has become more than just a greetings in Hawai’i. The Aloha spirit is considered as State Law and its main purpose is to serve as reminder for government officials while performing their duties to treat people with deep care and respect.

Salute!

After my shopping, I said ‘Mahalo’ to the seller which means thank you. But in my mind, it was actually ‘Mahal lah!’ (Very expensive)

Hawai’i is located at the North Pacific ocean, in the GMT (UTC) -10.00, which means 18 hours different from Malaysia time (GMT +8). It is almost a complete cycle of 24 hours timezone. Hawai’i 6pm Friday - Malaysia 12pm Saturday.

Ala Moana Beach.

All the Hawaiian car plates have the rainbow as its background.

The blue sky - summer.

One of the exclusive 5 stars hotel at Waikiki.

Similar to what they have in Baywatch at Long Beach, LA, they have it too in Hawai’i. But no sight of Pamela Anderson type.

Tram or better known as Waikiki Trolley is a famous way to get around in Honolulu for sight-seeing. Some areas have free trolly services but there are some charged USD 5 per person per trip. So remember to ask before you hop on.

The driver is an excellant tour guide. She speaks in Hawaiian, English and Japanese when elaborating the landmarks. Aloha, Hello, Ohayo!

One of the best place to shop for souvenirs is at the Aloha Stadium Swap Meet. Located near to the Pearl Harbor attraction, it opens from 6am to 3pm, only on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday. This flea market provides you a bargain place, cheaper than what you can get in Honolulu city shops. If it doesn’t suit your budget, just walk away to another stall and say ‘Mahal loh’.

http://alohastadium.hawaii.gov/features/swap-meet

McDonalds at Waikiki. Surfboard is not for sale.

For the very first time I saw ladies in bikini eating Applepie inside the McDonalds. It’s never been so enjoying eating my double cheeseburger.

In case you want to do long jump in a car, you might interest to try the extra-long limousine.

Y2k bug. A computer geek?

Do you notice the rainbow on the car plate?

I laughed when I saw this name at the Hawai’i International Convention Center. Being grown up as a Dragon Ball fan, this name is the most memorable sentence in the comic book. Only when I later found out that Kamehameha is actually the name of Hawaiian first king. I shouldn’t laugh that loud at first.

Thanks Akira.

‘I got lei’d’ for USD 15 .

The world famous beach, Waikiki

Waikiki beach and Diamond Head Crater at the background.

Read my post on the Diamond Head Crater

Waikiki is a place where people sun bath with their makeup on, and wear bikini but never touch the water.

Dead bodies everywhere. It was so hard to walk around without kicking sand onto their faces.

Does anyone bump into each other wear the same bikini pattern?

Crazy for sun. Come to Malaysia and you’ll get fried.

Will this ever happen to Pulau Redang?

Hawai’i is a definately a heaven for everyone. If you didn’t sun bath or swimming .. but instead armed yourself with a camera, this is a place where you can find ..

Paris Hilton …

Colorful europeans…

Gorgeous Miss Latinos…..

Cheeky Blondes…

Lonely Brunettes…

Wet brunettes…

And most of all…

The Japanese…

Hawai’i is a very preferable holiday spot for Japanese. You will find Japanese chicks everywhere, and even the shops accept Yen and the waitress speaks in Japanese language.

Japanese in bikini….

Japanese with her dragon tattoo….

Japanese on the streets…

and The Japanese Honeymooners…

..

..

..

Opps.

And don’t forget the Hawaiian babes. The nicely tanned hawaiian babes.

Also introducing .. the Hawaiian macho dudes…

The surf dude….

You don’t need to know how to do surfing. But if you can carry a 7 feet surfboard, and walking down the Waikiki streets, chick digs you.

Hell yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. And remember.. no sandals. Would be better if you have tattoo.

Well for girls, the attention grabber still fall on the guys who are in the chili-red-pants, six-packs, and hanging around at the lifeguard post.

Exciting stuff to do in Hawai’i? Why not try surfing?

She can do it.

Or you can fry your skin like grilled chicken wing.

Start PicLens!