2012 was an exciting and challenging year. The highlight of the year was welcoming my niece Elyse Aiko Lee into the world. Elyse was born on August 11, 2012 to my sister Mia and her husband Mike, in San Francisco, California. I visited them in San Mateo, California for two weeks in August of 2012.
I ended my Intrenet retail business so that I could focus more on my legislative work, trial work, and my writing project.
I achieved 65% of my 40 resolutions I set out to accomplish in 2012. Some of my accomplishments are as follows: visited my sister Mia and her family in San Mateo, CA; helped Keith M. Kaneshiro get re-elected to Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney; finished the 1st and 2nd draft of my writing project (2nd draft has 77,446 words); exercised 100 times; got the Hawaii State Legislature to appropriate $1,811,133 for the Department of Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, which would add to our $17.8 million budget; got 6 Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney bills signed into law; updated my case law library; attended 24 networking events; cooked 32 new recipes; read 7 fiction books and 2 nonfiction books; remained undefeated in trials for violent crimes where the defendant intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly caused injury or threatened injury to the victim; achieved my best time for the Honolulu Marathon with a 4:41:37; and wrote 59 quotes or haiku poems. As a reward for myself, I plan to buy myself a new office chair.
JON RIKI KARAMATSU 