good evening. another long ass day today. woke up early to fix my boat. finished by 9am so had to go test it out. the waves on the north shore were junk and the waves in town was flat. i ain’t missing anything….

no, this is not miso soup. this is the ala wai harbor. do do water and really stink too. if this contaminated water got on my cut, i would probably have to cut my leg off. i was really careful. but once we got away from ala moana, the water was really clean. and on the way out passing bowls, it was completely FLAT!!! not even one guy out. i’ve never seen bowls with nobody out before. flat waves and miso soup water is keeping surfers away. we ended up testing my boat from waikiki to the airport. and by mistake, i forgot to take my diving gear out of my boat from last time. so i had to dive… haha…

we dove all the way until evening. while coming in, the sunset was freaking awesome. so beautiful that i forgot to take a photo. anyway, check out my new trailer and i guess the hole in my boat is fixed because we didn’t sink today. this is my brother standing on the trailer trying not to slip into the miso soup ala wai. and yes, right after i took this photo, he slipped and fell in. it was pretty funny. hope he takes a good shower tonight. and that’s shawn driving my boat on. i was sitting on my rocking chair drinking my beer when i took this photo. haha.. just joking….

shawn fujimoto is such a good diver. i try to follow him around and watch how he stalks fish. and i’m learning a lot. it’s amazing on how deep he goes, and how long he can stay down. he’s so relaxed on the bottom that he looks like he’s sleeping down there. maybe he takes naps or something. every time i come up and look for him, i can’t find him. and that’s because he’s down more than he’s up. that’s nuts… anyway, here is just 2 of the 20 or so fish he caught today in town. this photo is 1 hour old. if you dive or ever tried to dive in town, you know that there’s no fish. and if you can catch fish in town, your a pretty good diver. i still don’t know where he found these big “munu’s” but he’s going to have the best dinner on the island for sure…. today we started off slow because we went blue water diving looking for ono’s and mahimahi’s. one big ono swam by but just out of range so no sashimi tonight. then we went reef diving and filled a cooler up with fish. great day for diving. and yes, my boat is running pretty dam good…. good night…
**big swell this weekend. stay tuned…

good morning. 6:30am on this chilly north wind morning. gosh, feeling more like winter now. i actually used a blanket last night. it’s chilly but i like it. but it’s just a little harder to get up. still got a solid north swell out in the country. the conditions look much better than yesterday. town is flat and the water out at bowls looks dirty again from all that rain last night. so far, no sewage spills but i’m keeping an eye on the news. anyway, the waves suck today so i’m going to finish up fixing my boat. then i might have to in the water to test it out. with my speargun. haha. oh, i was driving by kahala mall yesterday and they were unloading christmas trees. gosh, don’t you love that smell? can’t wait to get mine… in hawaii, christmas is the happiest time of the year. only 35 days away… ho ho ho, merry christmas…..

on our stop over in cebu, hayato, kazuya, and u-ske tried their luck at the lottery there. seemed like everybody was doing it….

hayato was a winner!!! i think he won a dollar or something. but a dollar in the philippines is like 20 bucks to us. it can go a long way… imagine winning a million dollar lottery in hawaii or japan? wait. forget it. i don’t want anything to do with millions of dollars. i seen how money can change people. i was watching a special the other day about the lifestyle of past lottery winners. it was all about drugs, fake friends, and even suicide. a normal person getting millions of dollars all of a sudden will change their lives forever. whether they like it or not. money is evil… i like my life now…. but if you want to give me a million dollars, here is my account number: 867-5309…. just joking… have a nice day…
**haleiwa pro cancelled today. too small and junky. huge swell coming this weekend so expect the contest to finish with a bang!!! bang!!!

good evening. i woke up and my leg was hurting so i went to get it checked out. my doctor told me that some keflex pulvule should make the infection go away so i’m taking 4 a day. don’t know what that is but “what ever works”…. supposed to stay out of the water but i jumped in my friends pool this evening to tune up my guns. i think the chemicals in the pool cleaned my cuts out. i’m still wondering how it got infected? was it the ocean? or was it nuuanu stream? umm… anyway, i have confidence in my doctor so it should be better in a few days…. that’s what he said…

i was running around this morning looking for the broken seals i needed for my. finally found it and with my brothers help, got the motor back together. i also fixed the hole in the hull with some surfboard resin and fiberglass. looking good. just have to sand and paint and i’m ready to rock again. also changed oil in my car. felt like being a mechanic today. got to wash my hands and clothes….

with this rain we’ve been having, there’s rainbows everywhere you look. right after i took this picture, the sky turned black and started to storm. it’s still storming right now. hope no sewage spills tonight….

check out my dinner last night. i went down to kim chee II to get this restaurant special plate. i almost ate all of this including 2 bowls of rice. i’m still full and still smell like kim chee…

i took this photo last summer out at big rights. this guy was taking off so i wanted to get him going left. then he turned right and tried to pull in from behind the barrel. i still don’t know why he went right. for the photo? hope not because i don’t know who he is and he will probably never ever see this photo. but i thought it looks cool….

picture of the week. according to a united nations report published in october, 2007, 3 million people die annually in developing countries from water-borne diseases. this girl was drinking out of a pipe in uganda right after that report was published. gosh, that’s sad….