“Half Ass” in english means “Chutohanpa” in japanese. get this story. when i renewed my passport 2 years ago, i requested extra pages because i knew i was going to travel a lot. when i got it back, it seemed thin but i didn’t bother because i thought the USA passport agency would never make a mistake. sure enough, my passport pages filled up after a year and a half. so i went down the other day to find out what happened…. well, they forgot to add the pages i requested so they took my passport and said they will do it. i got it back yesterday and when i opened the envelope, i thought it was a joke. who ever added the pages in my passport did a terrible job. it actually looks like a preschool child did it. i’m sure i will be stopped at immigrations around the world of my now suspicious passport. look at it!
what should i do? take it back? get a new one? i’m confused. my newly passport looks pretty dam fake now. i’m super bummed out on the whole thing and kind of worried on my 2 upcoming trips to indonesia passing through japan and malaysia. will i get stopped and have to bribe my way out of it? ahhhh!!!
Half Ass means Chutohanpa!!!
moving on to brighter things. many of you young surfers don’t know what hawaii use to look like. when i was growing up, between pearl city and the north shore was either sugar cane or pineapple fields. now? houses, bushes, highways, and all kinds of man made stuff. so as i was driving to the north shore yesterday, i stopped to take a photo of what is probably the last remaining patch of pineapple fields on the island of oahu. i bet you in 5 years, this will be gone too….
and last, waimea bay was picture perfect yesterday!!! clean, fun, and empty!!!
