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Buy Back The Beach 2012 Benefit Luau – Five Things +

By on January 24, 2012 in Arts and Culture, Beach, Blogging, Community, Events, Family Fun, Photos, Uncategorized, Where Local Eat

Imagine Maui with very limited access to the beautiful beaches around it. Imagine it very crowded that you can’t see the ocean while driving down the road. Imagine… Can you? I can’t. Or at least I wouldn’t even want to. Part of  Maui’s beauty is it’s open space, it’s beautiful beaches and access to it. And I would want my kids, and my grandkids, to experience the same.  This is why I am participating in this Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau. To help me organize my thoughts, I decided to break them into “Five”

Hula dancer at @oldlahinaluau #BBTB

Five Facts About Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau 2012:

  1. Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau is an annual fundraising event by Hawaiian Islands Land Trusts and it is now on it’s 11th year.
  2.  This year’s BBTB event will be held on the beautiful grounds of  the Old Lahaina Luau on January 28, 2012 at 5:00PM.
  3. Aside from the award winning Hula by the Old Lahaina Luau,  entertainment also includes a private concert by HAPA.
  4. Tickets are available online at Eventbrite, or you may call (808) 244-5263.
  5. Cost of Tickets are $150 per person and $1,200 for a table of eight.
Five Reasons To Attend the Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau:
    1. To support Hawaiian Islands Land Trust ‘s (HILT) mission of protecting and preserving the land.
    2. To enjoy a great entertainment by the award winning Old Lahaina Luau and private concert by  HAPA
    3. To indulge on the onolicious  food that will  from the Hoaloha family of restaurants:  Aloha Mixed Plate, Old Lahaina Luau, Star Noodles and Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop.
    4. To find some great deals on their Adventures For The Aina auction, maybe purchase one or two or more.
    5. To have fun with family and friends.

Five Ways to Support The Mission of Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

  1. Attend the buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau.  Tickets Available here (oh I already mentioned this? :) )
  2. Not available to come?  Live on a far away place? Then how about making “cash” a  donation via Paypal and help us raise $5,000 to fulfill the challenge and have a donor match it with another $5,000.  ( I was informed we need help in this are so I made it multi-colored :)
  3. Bid on an auction item, or share these auction happening with your family and friends and encourage them to bid also.
  4. Show appreaciation to the major donors and sponsors of this event: Old Lahaina Luau, Mana Foods, Skyline Adventures, Sempra and Boeing.
  5. Participate in the current Buy Back The Beach Social Media Campaign (see below) 

 


Five Ways to Participate in HILT’s and BBTB’s Social Media Campaign. 
  1. Like HILT’s Facebook Page   Join the conversation
  2. Follow them/us on Twitter  Join the conversation
  3. Discover what our bloggers are sharing about HILT and BBTB and please share them with your circle of friends too: A Maui Blog, The OhanaMama, Non-Stop Honolulu and Barefoot Studios.
  4. During the BBBTB Luau, follow the social media team @spectekula @roxannedarling @peterliu47 @melissa808, @theohanamama and @amauiblog all the other social media enthusiasts (like @DaniaKatz)who will be livetweeting from the luau. The hashtag we are going to use is #BBTB2012. Would be great if you would re-tweet (RT) our tweets as well.  It will be a huge help to us. Let’s all do this together!
  5. Read Roxanne’s post for more….

That’s all for now friends.  And I hope to see some of you there, or interact with you via online on  Saturday.   Aloha! (P.S. The photo above is the Social Media team for Buy Back The Beach 2011. :)

PHOTO CREDITS: photos taken by Peter Liu Photography. Posted on Kaiscapes’ Flickr Acct.  and the last photo is taken by Paula MacCutcheon.

THIS POST SPONSORED BY: Aloha Luxury Properties – Maui Luxury Vacation Rentals.

 

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My TEDxMaui Story

By on January 13, 2012 in Blogging, Community, Events

If you’ve been following me in many of my social media networks, you will know that I am a TED Talk fan.  I like watching TED Talk videos and I usually share the ones that I think are impressive like what I shared at Liza’s Eyeview and Hawaii’s Premiere Mortgage.

On January 22, the first ever TED Talk is going to be held on Maui at the MACC Castle Theatre.  It’s called TEDxMaui.  And many of us are very excited about it.

Wanna some of my TEDx Maui story? OK, let’s talk story …

The Courage To Dream

The Courage to Dream is the theme of this first TEDx on Maui. And boy did I apply that in this story :)  Guess what?  I applied to be a speaker for TEDxMaui! Eeek! I know, it’s delusion of grandeur.  It’s a “what the heck? who do you think you are?” kind of stuff. Me? Applied to be a speaker at TEDx? Ha! What was I smokin’? LOL!

I knew it was a long shot and it will take a miracle to happen. I do not have the solid credentials to go with what I wanted to speak about. And so the miracle didn’t happen. It was not supposed to happen.  Just one look at the final list of  TEDx  Maui speakers and we’ll know there’s no way I would have been chosen.

But why did I do it? I applied to be one of the speakers at TEDx Maui to fulfill  the theme itself: The Courage To Dream.  I  wanted to share about  ”The Power Of Encouragement“, how an encouragement given at the right time can save people’s lives or how an encouragement can empower a person to fulfill their dream, to do things that they never thought they could.

Was I embarrassed by my courageous act of submitting an application to speak? Yes, kindof, but not totally (or else I wouldn’t be sharing this story with you).  I do not have any regret that I did.  It actually empowered me. It confirmed the fact that doing something beyond my comfort zone, to go after a dream, is actually worth doing, even when the outcome is not what I desired.

So how about you?  What is your dream? What’s holding you from actually doing what you dream to do?

Since we are on the topic of TED talk, let me share another TED Talk that inspires me.  This is actually the kind of talk I have in mind when I applied to speak at TEDxMaui. I wanted  to speak only for a short time to share a few thoughts that would spur the audience into action.  May this little video do just that for you. Take little steps to fulfill your dream. Do it for 30 days:

Tickets are still available for the TEDxMaui Event.  Click HERE for more information.

Attend TEDxMaui and be inspired!

 

Mahalo to Maui Country Farm Tours for sponsoring me to

attend to this TEDx Maui Event

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