Tuiga past times Goddess |
I supply to her blog fourth dimension as well as fourth dimension 1 time again because her writing is witty , refreshingly honest as well as pulls no punches whether she's dealing alongside a rude commenter or the editor of a paper or fifty-fifty herself. She updates to a greater extent than oft than the residuum of us and posts virtually everything from electrical flow events to identify unit of measurement events to non-events.
Her slice titled Fifty Shades of Savai'i had me laughing out loud as well as I honey the fact that she blogs publicly what the residuum of us exclusively dare to think.
Not exclusively is she a savvy blogger , she also makes amazingly gorgeous tuiga (ceremonial head-pieces) , which I don't retrieve many people know how to brand these days.
Enjoy an interview alongside divinity -the ever-entertaining as well as straight-shooting Goddess from Fagogo mai Samoa ,...aue!
1. How long direct maintain y'all been blogging? And what got y'all started inwards the root place?
Since 2006. I was working for a Samoan govt company as well as was truly wary of the dramas inwards reality , therefore I resorted to a weird thing called a weblog , proficient outlet to air things without getting slammed to the wall inwards forepart of Amau.
2. Can y'all tell us a fleck virtually your weblog , Fagogo mai Samoa?
Fagogo Mai Samoa...fagogos were told to us every bit children past times our elders inwards Savai'i. We didn't direct maintain telly but having fagogo was the most entertaining as well as calming fourth dimension of the black , when nosotros were lined on the mats alongside our ie afu [bedsheets] listening to a storey , inwards our illustration , a mixture of legends as well as fair tales as well as whatever our granma as well as uncle felt similar telling...likewise , my weblog is a collection of fairy tales , faiga gukus , as well as whatever is inwards my head.
3. We all direct maintain moments of drama on our weblog (I had a reader cuss me out because a for certain recipe didn't locomote out for them). What's been the most dramatic instant on Fagogo?
- I direct maintain had many. Most dramatic ones are or therefore of our villagers sending me loathe ship service because our identify unit of measurement pop off on winning our matai championship courtroom cases. It doesn't behaviour on me , exactly I am for certain they are getting their wrinkled balls inwards a knot over it.
- The editor of a well-known Samoan paper insulting my sibling because of what I write. Mistaken identity....(nice having sisters sometimes to accept the backlash , cheers sis).
- Another editor telling me to become f*** up. Somehow I have awkward relationships alongside editors.
But I am flattered that people truly read my madness. There are bored people inwards this world. Indeed.
4. What's a weblog you'd similar to encounter individual start?
4. What's a weblog you'd similar to encounter individual start?
Samoan whistle blower - virtually affairs , corruption , anything that is dizzy as well as entertaining , because I'm shallow similar that.
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Onto or therefore nutrient questions:
5. What's your favourite childhood nutrient memory?
The sweetness rich odor of raw dark-brown saccharide poured on a hot stone as well as seeing the liquid puddle into the kava bowl....very manaia watching taufolo as well as faausi existence prepared this agency past times the untitled men (aumaga) spell my highness is perched on the kokosnoot pile waiting for the nutrient to cook. Needless to country , I relish watching others (ideally men) exercise the cooking. The stars are aligned. Amen.
Most traumatic nutrient experience
Watching the size 2 grunter existence choked alongside a ua mea (steel bar) for dinner. Sucks to live a grunter inwards Samoa.
6. What's your favourite Samoan food? Least favourite?
Favourite: faausi , as well as fresh H2O prawn inwards kokosnoot cream alongside taro as well as pork alongside limu , sashimi , oops , Japanese - ahem - sasimi. (:
Least: Suafa'i: stupidest excogitation inwards the history of humanity , I direct maintain my reasons , refer below. I residuum my case.
7. If I'm a tourist going to Samoa , what exercise y'all retrieve is an essential food/drink experience?
Drink: Vailima Beer , mutual frigidness fresh coconut.
Food: Can't become incorrect with marinated fish(oka) at pop places similar Amanaki , Apia Yatch Club , Schwashbuckles etc. Paddles is real manaia exactly y'all don't require to pay heaps to direct maintain a more fantastic food experience.
8. Can y'all recommend a proficient identify to consume inwards Samoa?
Encounters for lunch. I honey that the chicken salad is to a greater extent than chicken alongside a dash of salad....Samoan idea of a dream salad!
Amanaki for poke , oka and other fish dishes , downed alongside Black Russian.
Savaiian Hotel for Samoan food.
Pinatis for later hours as well as I'm-too-pissed to-know-what-I'm-eating cuisine experience.
Amanis for inexpensive exactly cheerful nutrient , similar fancy pork buns as well as mamoe as well as other artery blocking goodness. Uma le case!
Tuiga past times Goddess on a model |
9. How did y'all acquire how to cook?
By doing , watching exactly to a greater extent than therefore from , eating.
By doing , watching exactly to a greater extent than therefore from , eating.
10. What's the worst fault you've made inwards the kitchen?
Being inwards the kitchen inwards the first place.
11. What nutrient volition y'all never give up?
Size 2 crackling , faaausi , pork puns as well as faiai anything.
And lastly , 12. What's your employment with suafa'i?
More to the betoken , whose non-brilliant thought was it to acquire perfectly proficient bananas as well as boil the hell out of them , as well as and then add together a truckload of diabetes into it ...sorry , I meant sugar. This is the silliest thing ever. C'mon! boiled ripe bananas inwards saccharide as well as pe'epe'e? Aue Malia e , it tastes every bit disgusting every bit it looks....and I don't attention what y'all country Panipopo , this it the 1 dish i retrieve is a disgrace. I am prepared to start a facebook page called "Suafai is an insult to nutrient , locomote out the bananas lone as well as walk away"
So the Goddess has spoken.
Although suafa'i will ever live a sticking betoken betwixt the 2 of us , fa'afetai tele lava for answering my nosy questions. I truly relish your weblog (even your identify unit of measurement notices which I experience similar a fleck of a stalker reading) as well as psst...can y'all hurry upwards as well as write the sequel to Fifty Shades of Savai'i? I retrieve the side past times side 1 is called 'Darker'.
All the images inwards this post belong to Goddess. Please banking concern jibe out her blog for her uniquely Samoan accept on life or if y'all require a tuiga for whatsoever occasion.
All the images inwards this post belong to Goddess. Please banking concern jibe out her blog for her uniquely Samoan accept on life or if y'all require a tuiga for whatsoever occasion.
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