good morning. gosh, it’s freezing cold again. and raining. i thought i was going to freeze to death when i rode the bike to 7/11 this morning. and no oden? shock… anyway, it was yet another long and fun day in japan yesterday. went to the jack johnson concert in yokohama. i thought it was going to be at some bar or club so i was looking forward to it. i thought i was going to be able to say what’s up to him but i was wrong. i see jack johnson all the time in hawaii and he’s like a regular guy. super friendly and just an ordinary surfer. but in japan, jack’s a freakin superstar. oh my gosh…. there were ten of thousands of people packed like sardines in this huge park. jack johnson is huge in japan. went to a beyonce concert in osaka last year and there were 10x more people yesterday in yokohama…

this was the mens bathroom. only in japan….

at $6/beer, this is a lot of beer….. i haven’t drank beer in the daytime for a long time. it was going down like water… and i haven’t seen such long beer lines in my life. it took 30min to get a beer…. yikes…

we were kind of in the back but once jack came on, i was saying “excuse me” all the way to the front. i haven’t gotten so many stink eye in my life. haha…

this was the crowd. from singing in little bars to such a huge concert like this, jack has come a long way… it’s so good seeing a surfer from hawaii making it big….

this was where the concert was. check out yokohama city. beauty….

after the concert, there’s nothing like good chinese food in china town….

i haven’t been to china town in a long time and forgot how beautiful it was….

left at 1:45pm and got back home at 2:30am. gosh, it was a long day… a long fun day…

check out this short video clip i took yesterday. surfing shonan…..

good morning. wow, had such a cool day yesterday. surfed shonan 2x, which is pretty rare for me. i surf shonan once or twice a year and no way 2 sessions in one day. but i had fun because the waves were fun and i was surfing with friends.

i bumped into seino-san from click surf shop in tokyo. i haven’t seen him in a while. i use to go hang out over there and go on surf trips and drinking trips with them. gosh, those were the days. back then, i was pretty wild…. haha… but it was good to see seino-san in the water. what a small world….

my 2nd session, i had to put on my wet wetsuit. it was so cold and i was freezing before i even got into the water. the sun was out so i was lying on the beach trying to warm up. that didn’t work… so i just jumped in the freezing dirty water and tried to have fun. and i actually did….

came back and once i turned on my computer, kelia and alyssa gave me a ring on ichat. so we chatted for a while. for some reason, the video wasn’t clear. i think the reception was bad or something. anyway, seems like the weather and waves have been junk in hawaii. that makes me a little happier….

alyssa’s blog is pretty cool. she’s going to high school and loves to surf. i think this girl has the personality and looks to make it big. not to mention, she’s fluent in japanese. we rap once in a while and she speaks japanese much better than me. CHECK OUT ALYSSA’S BLOG….
**anyway, took video of my wonderful day yesterday. will post it later… have a great day!!!!