LUNCH IN CHINA TOWN….

good morning. 6am and it’s pretty dam windy and cloudy outside. a great day to work on my computer so that’s what i’m going to do. i checked the waves and it’s really small. actually the smallest it’s been for the past 3 months. is our best summer over? i hope not. i’m here for 2 more weeks and i want to get a few more barrels before i go to okinawa and get a few more. haha… gosh, i have a busy busy traveling schedule this year and i’m freakin ready. all i need is one surfboard, one spear gun, and one camera. oh, and my passport. since the airplane tickets from japan are so dam cheap now, i’m going to be on standby to fly to anywhere. even fly back home to hawaii for a few days if i can. i heard it’s only $190 for a round trip ticket so why not? anyway, i better get going because if i don’t finish up with my work, i can’t go anywhere…. have a nice day!!!


i was looking through some old photos yesterday. i found this one. i took this at a secret spot a few years ago from a secret mountain with snakes and monkeys. do you know where it is? pretty nice wave yeah? and if somebody can tell me who this is, i will send him this photo for his own memory. japan doesn’t get big often so days like these are the days to remember….


if i had to describe aki ogura in one word, it would be “COOL.”
i met aki about 5 years ago on a 2 week luxury boat trip to the maldives. we had a blast!!!
then last summer, we went on a trip to maui. that was super fun too!!
aki’s really photogenic and has different kind of looks in different kinds of photos.
this is my favorite photo of aki on that maui trip….
a pro bodyboarder that’s living out her dream in hawaii.
now you can check out her lifestyle on her blog…..
**CLICK HERE FOR AKI OGURA BLOG….
**CLICK HERE FOR GO-NAMINORI BLOG PAGE….

good evening. surf in the morning, work in the afternoon. that was how my day went. oh, and watching the michael jackson memorial. gosh, his music touched so many people around the world. especially “we are the world”. do you remember where you were when every radio station in the world played that song at the same time? i do. i was camping at makapuu beach with my high school friends… anyway, better get back to work…

12 year old shun is here!! he came to hawaii for an intensive 24 day training program with coach tony moniz. the kid rips already and if his surfing improves in these coming weeks, he’ll go back to japan for contest season and blow minds. after i picked shun up from the airport, the first thing he said was “i want to surf”… so i took him straight to bowls. it was head high for shun and perfect….

shun, gen, and isaiah all surfed bowls with me this morning. i was so happy to see them all surfing so good….

and i wanted to thank shun’s mama and papa for the present all the way from japan. fresh fish!!! yeah!!! i’m so happy!!!

now i have dinner for the rest of the week!! itadakimasu!!!!
**here it is. WE ARE THE WORLD changed this world. michael jackson wrote it for a fundraiser for the hunger in africa. he got the top artists from the 80’s and pulled off one of the hugest successful fundraisers to date. “WE ARE THE WORLD, WE ARE THE CHILDREN”…… [:????$B”L(B?:][:????$B”L(B?:][:????$B”L(B?:] don’t forget it….