happy sunday evening. started off a pretty mellow day. headed off to do some shopping for my japan trip. first stop, wallmart…

when my japanese friends come to hawaii, i always try to make them do thing for themselves. that’s the only way they will learn english and learn how to be independent in hawaii. so today was shun’s turn. he bought some gifts to take back to japan. when we went to the check out counter, i told him “your on your own”… he said “ehhh??” shun got so nervous and couldn’t stand still. but shun did a great job…. now he can shop at wallmart by himself… step by step….

then it was my turn. for some reason, i misplaced my ipod. i’ve been searching my house for the past 2 weeks looking for it. spent over 10 hours digging and searching with no results. for me, time is money so i gave up and just bought a new one. and i’m pretty dam happy about it because i deserve it…

shun and i went diving at kewalo’s and shun speared this big marlin. look how happy he was…. wait, i’m just joking….. we pulled up for a surf and seen this fishing boat that caught this huge marlin. so we stopped for a photo…. shun ended up surfing and hayato and i ended up diving. we poked some fish so it’s all good….

talking about poking fish. check out this 18lbs omilu gareth sugihara poked in town a few weeks ago. pretty sick…

i hope he got these fish printed gyokatu style because you ain’t going to catch fish like this in town too often…. good job gareth….
**plans for tomorrow? dive and surf. can’t wait…

good sunday morning. gosh, how time flies. in 1 week, i’ll be in japan already. looking forward to it but still have so many things i have to do. and so many things i want to do. ahhhh… well, it’s 7am and the waves are small but looking super clean. waist/chest high in town with 15 guys out at bowls. gosh, it was so fun out there yesterday. but shun told me that he wants to surf kewalo’s so kewalo’s it is. the waves are a little too small for me so i might have to do a short dive out there while shun’s surfing…. oh, i’m still tripping out about that owl we seen in the mountain yesterday. some of my friends emailed me saying that they didn’t know we have owls here. i didn’t know either. trippy…

no this is not a fire, this is the beautiful sunset yesterday afternoon looking from champa thai. the only thing that was on fire was my mouth after eating the beef salad there…[:????????????:][:????????????:][:????????????:]
**shun’s first day in hawaii, i took this short video clip down in waikiki. it came out pretty cool so check it out. have a safe and fun sunday….

good evening. went to surf bowls this morning and it was pretty fun. chest high and perfect. finally shun got to go frontside and i got to go backside. i think i had more fun than him.. haha… but yeah, the boy was ripping….

then headed into the mountains. but first, needed some razor sharp tips just in case a pig crossed our path…

my friends back yard leads right into the mountain. went to take a hike up to the ponds in the back….

on the way up, brandon used his techniques to catch live prawns… i would have to kill you if i told you… but you know what, it was the funniest way, but the best way to catch prawns…. i still can’t believe it..

brandon and hayato caught all these. i was just laughing and watching….

this is a true story. at this very pond back in the valley, king kalakawa’s two sons fought till death because only one of them could be the next king. my friend duke said that there is so much “mana” back there. kind of scary…

have you ever seen an owl in hawaii before? shit, i didn’t even know we had owl’s here. this one was lying dead on the rocks. he must have fell or something. but it was pretty cool to see an owl in hawaii, even though he was dead….
anyway, had an awesome day in the ocean and mountains. i’m exploring this island more and more and finding pretty cool stuff. i’ll be back there for sure exploring more. and maybe next time, i’ll get a better shot on a pig so i can make a smoked pork party…. sorry guys we lost the pig. my bad….