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ICoffee Lovers, Say Hello To Jell-O
’m happy to welcome a friend and colleague, Wayde Nakasone, the
HBear, Here
LANAI
mortgage guru at Aloha Mort- gage Advisors, into the kitchen this week. Nakasone hails from the Valley Isle and is a graduate of Maui High School. He lives on Oʻahu now with his wife, Erika Buder-Nakasone, and has two sons, Logan and Treyden.
ack in June, I attended an outdoor wedding. It was great to be around other humans and feel relatively safe for the first time in years. Event hosts painstaking-
He leads a team of custom- er-centric, solution-oriented, committed individuals (a branch of Kama‘āina Mortgage Group), whose sole aim is to get the job done right. An avid golfer, he’s also tried to help me improve my game. I’m still working on that.
ly placed people (as always) at appropriate tables to maximize conversation and revelry. But just as we began scarfing down the post-nuptial meal, the wedding DJ inexplicably cranked up the music like he was emceeing a Euro-rage event where everyone’s buzzed. Buzzkill!
COFFEE JELLO
Ingredients:
• 3 cups hot water
• 4 envelopes plain gelatin
• 3 teaspoons instant coffee
(Folgers preferred)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 can condensed milk
RUBEN CARRILLO PHOTO
Directions:
Mix water and gelatin, making sure to remove any lumps. Add coffee, sugar and condensed milk. Stir thoroughly.
Strain into 8-by-8-inch pan. Chill until solid. Cut and serve.
Conversations came to a screeching halt, as did event en- joyment. Talking Heads once sang, “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco,” but this was a party, cut short by mistimed, throbbing, pulsating beats.
The author and Wayde Nakasone
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In this issue, he whips up coffee Jell-O, a true favorite when our gang gets together.
My frustration continued at a wonderful brainstorming convention last month. Again, great efforts were made to split up 150 attendees at dinners to ensure maximum social- izing, idea-sharing and perhaps even some problem-solving creativity. And then the live musicians began to play loudly, quashing any repartee. Attempts to chat suddenly required more airborne particles spewing forth than can be tolerated semi-post-pandemic. This wasn’t supposed to be a dinnertime concert, but it had the numbing and unintended effects of one.
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As I’ve previously stated, nothing stimulates more parts of the brain than music. I am a lifetime music fanatic; it’s sim- ply the best. But at times, it needs to stay in the background, simply turned down. By the way, side note to headlining rock concert performers: We paid $150 per ticket so you “don’t stop believin’” but please don’t turn your mic toward the crowd at chorus time and encourage the world’s worst mass karaoke moment! We know you’ve aged, but c’mon, you sing it — please.
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Finally, I attended a well-done awards celebration break- fast, and after everyone played the awkward “and-what-do- you-do?” game in the buffet line, they returned to their tables only to hear the duo up front playing at decibel levels that precluded normal small-room conversation. Again, we’d been placed at tables to chat, learn, exchange business cards and ideas, but were stifled by a stultifying American Idol tryout unnecessarily taking place.
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So, note to event organizers: Music is stimulating and vital. But at events designed for small group reverie, interaction among participants, and getting-to-know-you engagement, music should be dampened; it’s not a Woodstock/Coachella gala. Groups, soloists or DJs should know if they’ve been hired as background, not foreground or fairground, entertain- ment. It’s hard to listen when you can’t hear.
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