Juliana my vane daughter

Juliana is now 20 months old now and is stringing together three to four word sentences. She understands virtually everything that I ask of her, and for the most part is a good girl. Did I mention she is cute? Anyway, she has discovered Youtube, and specifically, she has discovered the videos of her that I published to Youtube, and she always wants to watch them whenever she is in front of a computer. She used to watch her friends "babu" and "tata" Sebastian and Catalina, a brother and sister combo who she has play dates with in the morning before I head off to work. But now she is totally into watching the videos of herself on Youtube, which is funny as heck. She always wants to watch herself on youtube, and for that she gets the vane award. my daughter, i love her so much, even if she is so into watching herself on the computer.



juliana at 15 months




juliana at 20 months

Barack Obama

America is almost over with the Bush administration, and thank god that John McCain wasn't elected. Virtually the entire world now knows that Barack Obama was elected, by almost a 2-1 margin. The guy is a great speaker, and has brought hope again(literally) to America and hopefully around the world. Im sure that everyone who has an interest in this Man knows that he is half African (his dad was from Kenya) and half American (his mom hailed from Kansas), making him the first African-American elected to the most powerful position on earth. What some don't know is he was educated mostly in Hawaii, attended Punahou School, the most presigious prep school in Hawaii, (which is just down the street from the Viratas summer home in Manoa), went off to Harvard and became a lawyer fighting for the rights of the dispossessed in Chicago.

Another interesting factoid, (and probably the most important aspect of Barack) is that Obama is probably the first U.S. president who can hold his own at Sandy Beach on Oahu. Sandy's as the locals call it, is probably the most fickle, yet dangerous small wave body boarding and body surfing spot on Oahu. I hurt my back there on a 2ft day. I dropped in and my back went bendo, and it was tweaked. Obama has the skills to get tubed there, and for that he got my vote.