Doin work~!

Hopefully I'll remember to bring my camera tomorrow when we go to Hopi Falls. We go down to set prawn traps using coconut meat and then jump into some waterfalls that are running right from the top of the mountains by our house here. So much fun even can sit under one of the falls if you maneuver yourself just right. They have a water proof camera so I might try and take some snaps for on here.

The waterfall isn't too powerful either. It's a bit of a struggle to swim through it without it taking you under, but safe enough so you can let it take you and have it be fun. The jump into is nice too...about 15-20 feet. Have to rock climb sorta out too, good thing I've done a bit of that too. PICTURES WILL BE EPIC I promise.



First stop of the day @ Kelihiwai beach. The point was breaking hard. Found out Ben Stiller lives @ the top of the cliffs on the right there[NAME DROPPING]. My cousin Donovan said while he was surfing over off that point a shark swam through there!!!! It was packed full of like 40 people. Which is super dangerous, I for sure didn't go out there unfortunately. Just not good enough yet it's...that ain't no vacationer spot that's for sure.

Re-set the traps around the afternoon. And hit up this place called Donkey's afterward. Body surfing and got worked! Super strong waves out I would try and dive under and a couple times the wave almost scooped me up! ALMOST GOT CRUSHED!


BTW THIS THING IS THE BEST EVER!!!



INDOBOARD FTW! I bet OK_TEA will like that.

So fun I hope everyone had a good weekend!

Quick glimpse of around the house in Kauai

So far this place hasn't ceased to amaze me. The cousins are getting better @ surfing, the avacados taste better! And I'm not as sunburnt as I will be in a couple days lol. The orchard is looking a lot cleaner too!

Lilokoi!

coconut trees(of course!)

Nice vine!


There's a bunch of other stuff but was only in my bare feet so didn't want to get pricked!!! Full moon last night with a little bonfire at the beach was very nice. It was cool going into the orchard @ night too because it was really bright!! Look a rooster!



If you ever come here this is a super common site, went bodyboarding yesterday and while driving through a golf course to get to the spot we saw about 50 lol! Serious!

So stoked!

That I put out a post and got a response back! hahaha THanks mom! :P But whatevskiz I'm so stoked things are coming together it just want to buy a smart phone and twitter it!!!!!!!



With this Boddingtons, that I orginally bought to replenish the Boddingtons I drank earlier this week. LOL....I am proud to pronounce things are going well and the end of my 26 years of age era is coming to a close rather well. This summer has been quite amazing. Dare I even recap;

Tokyo
London
Bristol/Bath/Wherever we were staying in between those places :P
Paris
Brussels,Belgium
Rome
Nice
Southampton
New York City (METS GAME)
Tampa Back with DAD!
Canada!
Tampa RAYS GAME
LA
LAS VEGAS
Seattle [THATS NOW BTW]
back to Tampa!
Honolulu to heal up!(birfday)

...the back to J-Pizzle to stack cash for career settle down mode to come...and get good @ Japanese. PH ~ LOVE IT!!!! And I can't thank everyone enough! JYEAH 0'10 it's gonna be our year!


WHAT IS EVERYONE GETTING ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

...better hurry up and decide (@&!!!!!!!!!!!)))))))

:P

SEPTEMBER!

I'm stoked! It's even getting a little colder here right on que. Could see my breath when I went for a walk tonight...I can see the Milky Way it's so dark out here at night. The neighbors house behind us has an apple tree in the back and my mom said that she's seen deer eating them!! They just started to fruit so maybe I'll see some deer when I wake up.

Now that it's super foggy in the morning I think I'm going to go trail running when it's like that..I bet it would be a great experience....Maybe I'll bring a camera lol, it'll be like 'YES MAN'...'REDBULLLllll!'

Had so much fun with the kids @ the game and got our bobble head! I want to try and go to another game while I'm here...I feel a foul ball or even a BP homerun would be nice.



And wanted to tweet this sucker right after I took it, but I'm so lazy and really need a smart phone so I can just tweet my little heart out with ease. Everyone should get twitter.



It was funny I was looking at my mom's calendar she has at her shop. Right over the 19th it said 'Brian's 27th birthday'.....gnarly! So stoked I'm going back to Japan in October I didn't really plan anything for my b-day...hopefully I'll just get to see everyone before I go back out there.

I really think a little more time will be good for me out there. All my friends are doing great and I'm not really worried about anyone without me here. Going to miss the family but they'll be ok too. Thinking about possibilities in England for the holiday's too! Rather 'proper' I would think...might have a different feel. Lol it'd sure be a lot nicer than Japan during Christmas.


Things are coming together in J-land happenings. Just got my receipt for my ticket in the mail...it was shocking see actual proof of hopes and aspirations on a piece of paper...ONE MONTH AWAY. Still figuring out where I'm going to live...found a couple apartments to choose from but without really looking at them it's hard to decide. There's plenty of options when it comes to where to stay for a week or so if I decide to peep them out beforehand.

Most important though is picking what mountain I'm going to get my season pass @....

@ Misaka; closest...least amount of park
@ panorama; not as close, little bit of park, biggest resort
@ fuji-ten; best park, farthest, most crowded, maybe smallest resort. but on mt.fuji.

Working a lot on the weekends which is great...on that paper chase!!!!!!

a potential project...

With all the projects going on around the house I think I may have found one for me.



Found it in the backyard when I visited last Christmas and the tires still had some air in them(a good sign). The chain and gears are a little rusty but I think with a little TLC I can make a decent road bike out of this NISHIKI. The front brakes are pretty cool too.

I think it would be fun to go into Seattle or Bellevue with this sucker and roam around. Since I'm really only driving my moms mini-van(AHHH) right now this could be a cool other means of transportation.

Other than that things are going well. No serious complaints. Managing my moms shop this week it's fun!

Ok quick update.... SUMMER '010

OK

Getting back on track after a lot of hustle and bustle. SEATTLE is great, but being stuck in traffic isn't and there's a lot of it around here. j33z I don't even know where to begin. BUT a lot of people surprisingly asked me why I didn't keep this up(mainly probably just my sister ROBYN(g-chatting me when i'm just in the other room).

Right now I can't find my pictures :( my old iphone is my main camera but I'm working on upgrades eventually. I figure everyone will facebook me pictures anyways.

This week has been super busy and productive. Exhausted from playing in my first official soccer game since I was 11. So much fun, but working 8 hours @ CABLEPALOOZA(seriously that was the name) throwin crab cakes, vietnamese spring rolls, and 'a sesame crepe with asian duck and a little arugula' at peoples chitter-chattering lovely faces the next day has me aching. Haha but it was pretty fun and working on the water front has it's perks. Also got some cool free swag(MAN v. FOOD cooking aprons!)and touch L.E.D lights(probably perfect for camping!) so it was alright.
HAHAHAHAHA while in traffic today I seriously contemplating driving with a mannequin in the passenger side all dressed up because I was going CRAZY. Found out the air conditioner didn't work but luckily Seattle @4pm with the windows down is 85 but still just sitting in the car changing the radio station and hearing that SAME FRIGGIN EMINEM WHOEVER GIRL SONG was wearing me down. I don't think I was ever happier to get to work and out of the car in a while.

anyhow...

Working weddings all weekend and trying to help my mom out with her shop. To help I have to do the one thing that made me change my major in college and hate business stuff = ACCOUNTING. Going to attempt to help map out the sales of the shop and work on getting some sort of cool graphic exel chart things(SO EASY) just to try and document what really sells and what lags.

Also really trying to get everyone pumped up around here. I used to love DVRing everything but this household take it to the EXTREME. Unfortunately I have taken a turn for the worse also and can't play online chess for maybe about 2 hours a day. I was(am) even contemplating going to the Seattle Chess Club to their once a week 'Meet & Play' every FRIDAY NIGHT @ 7pm. And I think I'll beat like 2 people there!!!!

We'll see how my Friday night will turn out! Much more to say but I want to keep the audience interested (HA). Hmmm let me find a picture I can put up I need something on here!

Quiz time!!!

Haha this will be funny....

This past week/weekend had a great time. Archery on Sunday and also went to some great restaurants. Thursday went to a sushi bar with a great chef. In Japan a lot of the chef's and people who work at these little sushi places also own it, in Japanese they're called SHOCHYO(I think) but you can also call them just 'master' lol it's pretty fun. Anyways my friends were talking so I started talking to the Master about this and that, then asked if I can take a picture with one of his sushi knives. He loved this then started showing me all of them and the differences. This was funny because every knife he showed me he was like,"Ok, take a picture..."

It turned out to be not only a great way to practice Japanese, but I also learned a lot about different types of knives you use for sushi. NOW, for the quiz...which one of these bad boys is an UNAGI knife(unagi = eel).








Hmmmmmm, GOOD LUCK.

So that was Thursday, Friday went to Yakitori...was very very good! Met another different "Master" because as we got there some good friends were leaving, peeps I went camping with and since it was our first time to this place(and they've been going for a couple years) they brought the master over and basically told him to hook us up :P (just got some fries!) But, quiz question number 2! Anyone care to take a guess at what this delicious thing is :)



Fast forward to Sunday...



And some Karaoke @ night(GAGA!!!)

Very fun.


2 weeks until I need to be out of my apartment!!!