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World Travel: Tsunami warnings

Aloha family, friends and people! Hawai'i is safe after Tsunami warnings. Here I am going to share my experience. Last evening dressed up for Halloween party in Chinatown and friend's birthday party in Waikiki. Left home at around 7pm and headed to Chinatown. 

There were bunch of cool customes and shows then left for Waikiki for Brien's Birthday. On way to Waikiki, we got a text message of a friend as he said there will be Tsunami. At first we thought it was a joke, we texted other friends and checked news online. It wasn't a joke! News said Tsunami will arrive at around 10:30 pm, at this time we had 8pm. We still headed to Waikiki for seeing friends for short moment. We checked roads, people, shops ... nothing, no weird reactions but later we found out some stores closed and people were using their phones lots ... traffic was starting worse.



We decided to leave for home, it was around short before 9pm. Bad luck, we stucked in traffic ... moved hardly, a lot of people started to heading to higher grounds. From Waikiki to our apt, it should take around less than 15 minutes. In traffic I started feeling nervous and kept thinking of getting of car and walking home. But we tried to stay in craar, much later we got out of traffic and arrived home at around 10pm. 

It took almost one hour from Waikiki to our apt! Waiting for some breaking news, watching news ... after 10:30 pm, no bad happens ... but found out some small waves from tsunami already hit islands. we were still awake but later at around midnight, we decided to sleep. Next day, today ... a normal day but it was a new experience and glad nothing bad happens! 

Hope there will be not bad happen in east coast where will expect a hurriance.

project: surfboards artworks!

Here some artworks of surfboards ... painted my longboard and we (me & Trey) painted his shortboard :) he gave a name to his shortboard: Moby Dick!

world travel: days in North Shore

hiiii ... here just wanna write a little message. found out, i am lazy at posting :D prefer being outside lots n seems other things make me attracting to them. but here let u guys know that i am doing great n enjoying life here. i try to surf more, every day ... been out of city for two days, was in north shore with trey. kinda two "holidays" :))) delicious foods, fun, swim, snorkel, taking photos, film, curise around, walk, watch sunset, nap, more ... decide to post some good pics from north shore here.

18 days left til i will leave here for asia! time flies faster than i thought. halloween is coming, i am so exciting! have my costume :D guess probably best costume ever i have. will paint trey's surfboard also, prepare for asia. some friends wondered me abt my foot, oh yes i can surf again!!! lucky can go surfing after one instead of two weeks! will try to post before asia!

world travel: $104.08

That amount I need to pay for my foot. first I can say that lucky it didn't happen worse than this ... but it's frustrated to have to rest at home for around two weeks depends on progress of cure. Ysd there was deaf heat at surf contest at Kewalo. went there for filming contest but deaf heat started early so that I missed filming heat. There met ppl and a nice hearing girl named Melinda who moved to Hawaii from Mainland and her boyfriend is deaf. Somehow she asked me if i surf ... I do but my board was at apt at this time. She got idea that she would drive me to apt for picking my board up, really nice of her and great opportunity to surf a girl at this day! She wanted to surf with a girl and she is a beginner like me. She had a rent car, a suv ... there were two boards already inside, the third board (my) came in ... lucky all three boards fit in a suv but had to hide myself in back haha. Back to Kewalo and we were so ready to surf with boys together. Kewalo has a long rock wall, it is little too awkward to get in water from rock wall. We tried to find way to go into water. I made it ... I was in water and she gave my and her boards over. Boards were then in water with me, she came in water also. we started to paddling. Somehow me looked back and saw some blood on my foot. My first thought was, just a little cut off which ain't bad cos didn't feel anything. But in fact it's fucking deep ... a hole, the first layer of skin is cut off :( had to paddle back and wasn't sure if skin was grazed or just a cut. The wound was so opened, some people saw me and helped me cleaning dirt off and binded my foot with bandage. Bad luck, didn't have my mobile phone with me ... but lucky there were Akiko and Jared who borrowed me his mobile phone. Trey was working so that his parents came immediately. We went to private ER and got anesthetic injection ... about ten times injected, direct in my wound ... ehhh. But I survived ;-) had a nice doctor who is a surfer also, where wound happened is her fav spot. Funny? But funniest is Trey got cuts in his feet last two weeks ... and I am next. Weird happen? Maybe a test for us? Got nice color bandage :D now I have to rest lots and I am already-ready to surf more! Here some pictures :)))

P.S.: I hope will have my $104.08 from my insurance back!