had an awesome day with Koike-san! surfed some good waves both in the morning and afternoon. nice bottom turn!

one week ago, diamond head was dry and brown. then it rained hard for one day and now it’s all green! it’s so beautiful again!

Koike-san on another perfect right. super stoked to see him surfing so much better.

welcome to surfers paradise.

then we were so hungry so went to have a big mexican lunch. then we left there feeling like fat amigos. omg, we were so full!

then back out for round 2. surfer girls flocking back to the clean ocean again.

then took out Koike-san’s friends for some waves. i couldn’t believe Daisuke-san surfed for the first time! from the first wave, he was so good!

Nori-san hasn’t surfed for a while but he didn’t forget a thing. perfect!

and Koike-san with his burrito energy session. surfing the lefts perfectly.

thank you Koike-san and the boys for a wonderful day of surfing! hope to see you all in the water again!

Good waves.
Good weather.
Good surfing.
Good smiles.
Good laughs.
Life is good!

wanted to empty out a travel folder on my desktop. opened it and found some lost travel photos. this was in thailand a few years ago when i decided to go street walking in the middle of the day. thailand has some of the best street food in asia. it’s so cheap and good!

tried some weird kind of food. not too sure again what i was eating.

i wonder what this was?

interesting things you can see in the daytime. teppanyaki in bangkok?

this place was weird. just by the look of the signs, i’m guessing it’s a place for boys to have fun with boys? not for me.

and you won’t miss this stinky fruit. i tried it once in thailand and will never forget how i almost threw up.

did college class just get out? seen some college girls standing out in front of their school. haha.

once again, not sure what it was but it was cheap and delicious!

now to cuba. walking down these back streets for the first time was pretty scary for me.

i came across an interesting shop. come to find out this is where the cubans come and pick up their weekly portion of bread.

they stand in line and everybody gets the exact same amount of bread from the government. and of course, there is a security guard watching so nobody gets out of hand.

it’s fascinating watching the orderly system in cuba. the people get the same amount of bread once a week, and the same amount of milk, beans, and other basic foods. after coming back to hawaii, i really started to appreciate things much more, especially a fat juicy steak.

heard about that elephant in the zoo that threw a rock outside his pen? it happened to hit a young girl in the head and killing her. i’m still against holding animals captive like this. just way too predictable.