good morning. 8am aloha friday. small waves around the island. was just watching the news and the coast guard is searching for a diver off kahala who went missing yesterday. his friends didn’t know he was missing until they were in the car driving home. i hope he comes back safely… anyway, no surf to talk about. not the greatest conditions for diving, just another day to relax. 5 day until the new year and i still have things i want to accomplish in 2008. so i’m going to work on that. have a nice and safe day…
wow, i just heard of some shocking news out of japan. Iijima Ai was found dead in her tokyo apartment. they suspect suicide. when i first went to japan, i use to watch this late night program called “Gilgamesh Night” and Iijima Ai was the T-back queen on the show. i thought she was pretty hot and was her #1 fan. haha. turned out she was an adult porn star. she then quit the porn business and became a television celebrity. yeah, i thought it was pretty weird for her to go from porn star to celebrity in such a conservative country like japan. but what ever works right. anyway, she retired last year and now this. it’s a pretty sad story. there will probably be a lot of unanswered questions…
this is what Iijima Ai looked like back in the days when i first went to japan. i thought she looked like a japanese doll. today, i’m pretty shocked on her death….
**summer big rights session now on youtube. check out shuji kasuya, ronnie yamada, nick mita, and some of the boys at ala moana park ripping up a fun summer swell in july 2008. enjoy…
