check out the photo session with Yoshida-san. the waves were perfect this day. this is taken by fisheye photo from my cousin Daniel Pinho.

Daniel also shot this photo with his 85mm. super nice photos and super nice time. these memories will last a lifetime.

and wanted to thank Daniel for shooting me too. i’m trying to become a better longboarder. it’s just so fun on the small days. i can hang 5 already and my next step is to hang 10.

the thing about longboarding is you have to turn much harder and push much harder. then when i get back on my shortboard, it’s just so easy.

and last, my chicken is missing!!!! Pepper hasn’t come home for 2 days. where is she? have you seen her? OMG!

New Flavor: Cloud
Good morning 6:30am.
North shore big at 8-10′ and clean at Pipeline.
South shore chest high and ugly. Eeh? South/West winds already. Junky.
Winds are light South/West.
Weather is cloudy.
I’m going surfing.
Have a wonderful day!

had such a great time with my buddies last night. haven’t seen them in a long time because we are all so busy. but last night everything worked out and it was boys night out. Bobby on the left is the owner of Vertra Sunscreen, and John on the right is one of the most successful businessman in hawaii. these guys are super smart and give me some good advise. i just wish i remembered what we talked about. haha.

how do we do it? i catch a taxi to the bar because there is no way in the world i can drive after a night with these guys. the jacksan/cokes were going down to easy. then after about 10 of them, i started to drink water.

so here i am at 12pm drinking water because it was time for me to go home. i drank glass after glass. then after i had about 4 of them, i looked at john and he was smiling. and when john smiles, something is wrong. i started going into another world as i forgot that as a joke, john fills up everybody’s water with shochu. so i was drinking shochu after shochu and not even knowing. by 2pm, i lost my memory. luckily bobby got me in a taxi.

john gave me a super cool present. this is a breath analyzer. the same ones the police use to catch drunk drivers. you blow in the tube and it accurately measures your blood/alcohol content.

the legal limit for driving legally is 0.08. anything over, you get arrested. i blew 0.106 at 11pm. if i blew again at 2am, this machine would have probably broke. thank you pony taxi for getting me home safe. and thank you john for the present, and for making me special waters. and thank you bobby for getting me in a taxi. don’t call me for a while because you guys are too crazy for me. haha.