Best food I ate: The Prince Court buffet was enjoyable.  We all had a nice time for dinner.  I also enjoyed my downtown doner during the week.

Best thing I listened to this week: I liked listening to Best Coast on spinner.com.  I also took a free listen to the new Cornershop CD; I think Judy Sucks a Lemon was better.

Best thing I watched:  We Bought a Zoo was good.  In the Land of Blood and Honey was depressing and about the Serbian war.  I Don’t know How She Does it was okay.  I am looking forward to seeing the Avengers on Sunday.

Best thing I cooked:  I cooked some kalua pig and cabbage.  I also made some salsa with garbanzo beans, black beans, corn, and tomatoes.  

Best thing I read:  Just the usual online reads.

Best app I played with: Newly downloaded app Spell Tower.

Best food I ate: Ono Hawaiian Food’s salt meat watercress is good.  If you don’t want laulau this is the dish to order.

Best thing I listened to this week: The Descendants soundtrack.  It’s old school Hawaiian and was relaxing.

Best thing I watched:  The Vow, Water for Elephants and Haywire … all were equal … watch at your own risk.

Best thing I cooked:  kim chee soup … all veggies not meat.  It was pretty good..

Best thing I read:  

Best app I played with: I had 100% on WordStorm again.  

Best food I ate: I ate Green Door Cafe for the first time since she moved back to downtown.  I had fresh basil chicken which was not bad.  I also had chicken curry katsu at Hinone Mizunone which was good; I think Taiyo is still  my current fave.  We all had the supersub at Rosarina Pizza and it was good.

Best thing I listened to this week:  I was listening to a lot of Beastie Boys over the week because of MCA’s death.  We grew old with the Beasties.  RIP MCA!  

Best thing I watched:  Hall Pass was the best of the lot and was pretty funny. I slept while watching Columbiana.  The Darkest Hour was okay as was The Smurfs.  We are looking forward to seeing the Avengers.

Best thing I cooked:  I made a chili with turkey breast.  It came out pretty good.

Best thing I read:  

Best app I played with: SoundPrism.  I good keyboard app.  It can make anyone sound good.

Best food I ate: I ate at some pretty good places this past week: Mexico Restaurant, Komala Curry House, Shige’s Saimin and Kuru Kuru Sushi.  

Best thing I listened to this week:  Previewed the new Cornershop and it was pretty good.

Best thing I watched:  We watched MI: Ghost Protocol which was still good the second time.  I thought The Sitter was pretty funny.  The Iron Lady, The Skin I Live In and The Way were okay.   Justice League: Doom was pretty good; it showed Batman’s darker side.

Best thing I cooked:  I baked a turkey breast and it was good.

Best thing I read:  

Best app I played with: Angry Birds Space had an update.

Best food I ate: Anna Miller’s loco moco was pretty good as was Rosarina Pizza’s sausage and pepper sub.  The choices at Shirokiya are overwhelming as you can keep buying food as you like.  I ate the bittermelon, okonomiyaki and the takoyaki.  

Best thing I listened to this week:  Cut Chemist put out a sick remix of Tom Sawyer.

Best thing I watched:  I fell asleep during Footloose 2011.  J. Edgar was interesting but it is not a must see. HOP was different; I did prefer the animated sequences more than the ones with the human actors.  

Best thing I cooked:  I don’t recall cooking dinner.  I did cook some hooroorook with a couple eggs and that was good.

Best thing I read:  We received the comic Giants Beware.  It was pretty funny.  Akira gave it four stars.

Best app I played with: Sketch Nation Studio was released and Akira quickly made several games.

Best food I ate: I ate a pretty good meal at Flamingo’s; ox-tail stew.  Is it really a special if they have it every day?  We also had prime rib for Easter dinner which was good as were all the side dishes.  

Best thing I listened to this week:  Waipuna.  Wow.  My renaissance into Hawaiian music continues.

Best thing I watched:  We watched five movies.  The best of the lot was Three Musketeers 2011. I think my favorite version is still the cartoon.  Tinker,Tailor, Soldier, Spy was okay.  I was not sure what to make of it.  

Best thing I cooked:  The turkey breast ball is a never fail meal as well as steak with onions and mushrooms.

Best thing I read:  Amulet Book 2.  There are two more books to go and a fifth book will be ready in September.

Best app I played with: Back to playing with the iKaosillator.  

Best food I ate: I ate the gyro plate at Good and Healthy Cafe and it’s good.  I also had some good kalbi at Sorabol.  Usually I order the kalbi chim and I will probably order that the next time.

Best thing I listened to this week:  I started to listen to HawaiiKIne 105.1 again.  It’s good to hear traditional Hawaiian music on the radio.

Best thing I watched:  I watched a movie called Carnage.  It had three Academy Award winners in it.  It was funny to me.

Best thing I cooked:  I made some kim chee fried rice.  The usual.

Best thing I read:  I read a chapter from Storm of Swords.  Progress.

Best app I played with: Another 100% score on WordStorm!

Best food I ate: I ate out once this week at Chili’s.  They have pretty good burgers and salads.  We had a birthday party at the in-laws on Saturday which was a nice gathering.

Best thing I listened to this week:  Listening to some new stuff at NPR like Of Monsters and Men, M. Ward and the Gift of Gab.  Some of the stuff sounded like it was from a generation away.

Best thing I watched:  The Muppets and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (US Edition) were pretty good.  I liked the Noomi Rapace as the Girl wit the Dragon Tattoo better.

Best thing I cooked:  I made some gumbo which was good but a lot.  I also cooked some chili for Ivy’s coworkers that was pretty good.

Best thing I read:  I just ordered a bunch of stuff for Akira from Amazon.  Many are trade paperbacks that follow up the first story he read.  He’s been re-reading Zita the Space Girl and Missile Mouse recently.

Best app I played with: I downloaded more sounds for Animoog.

Best food I ate: We ate at Huong Lan in the Chinese Cultural Plaza.  Ivy and I used to go there a lot after Sunday morning exercise.  It was great.  I also had some kalbi chim at Sorabol; it was pricey but good.  The food at the Kapolei High School prom was good; props to the Ihilani.

Best thing I listened to this week: I am listening to Ursula 1000 mixes in the car.  

Best thing I watched:  We watched several movies and My Week with Marilyn was the best.  Martha Marcy May Marlene was okay; not for everyone.  Tower Heist had some funny moments.

Best thing I cooked:  I enjoyed the Palm corned beef and cabbage.  Ivy enjoyed the tuna/salmon and cabbage with Okinawan soba.  I’m trying to cook like the grandparents did.  

Best thing I read:  I am wondering if I should read book two of the Hunger Games trilogy. I still need to finish book three of Game of Thrones.  :(

Best app I played with: Angry Birds Space!

Best food I ate: I ate some ramen from Shirokiya; spicy pork with egg ramen.  It was ono.  That was probably the most I ever spent on ramen.  I also enjoyed my meatloaf and roast pork with gravy from Max and Lucy’s.    

Best thing I listened to this week: There were a couple of good mixes on mixcrate.com.  One mix was indie music.

Best thing I watched:  We enjoyed watching The Adventures of Tintin so we watched it twice.  :)

Best thing I cooked: I cooked some kim chee soup and kalbi chicken that came out pretty good.

Best thing I read:  Zero.

Best app I played with: I see everyone is trying to play that new drawing game.