#47 - miss japan

dang, miss japan is HOT! i didn't watch the thing on tv, but i saw on the news that miss japan won miss universe 2007 and i was shocked because japanese girls aren't really that pretty. i mean, with all those weird japanese trends that they've got going now some of them come out looking pretty toasted. but this miss japan is smokin' hot.

which brings me to my next point: dating japanese girls.

dating japanese girls is hard. i mean, growing up in my family (and in mililani) i think that my parents expected us to all date other japanese. but look what happened! my sister married chinese-chinese and my other sister married a mexican, haha. my mom was floored both times. so now they expect me to find a nice, plain, japanese girl to marry. but i don't wanna do that. i mean, japanese girls can be pretty, but for some reason i'm not all that attracted to them, maybe because i've only grown up around japanese girls and so anyone not japanese looks really exotic to me, haha, that sounds pretty stupid, but to some extent it might be true. besides, i think japanese girls in the japanese culture are way too reserved, of course, that's true of my family, but i don't want to start my own family being all restrictive and over-reserved like that. and the japanese girls i've dated tend to be like that... then again, maybe i just have a problem finding the right girls?

of course, this is all a gross over-generalization and completely not applicable to all japanese girls, but i think i'd have a problem dating a girl who was super-reserved, what would we do together? we'd just stare at each other during dinner and not say anything, haha. anyway, the search continues i guess... until then at least there's miss japan.

#46 - early to rise

so, while i don't like waking up before the sun (i think that's completely against nature and should never be done by the way), it is pretty cool to change up your POV every once in awhile. it's been forever since i've been early morning fishing with my family (mostly because i don't want to wake up early on my weekends), but it was nice going out early this morning for a waimea bay fishing session and being out on the beach as the sun comes up. i was freezing my ass off before the sun finally came over the mountains, but it was pretty nice anyway.
oh, here's a turtle that i "made" (and by "made," i mean "found already made and took a picture of").
anyway, waves were up in the morning, love that waimea shorebreak yeah?

aah, beach... summertime... good stuff.

#45 - get summer started

a pretty great weekend i think. i'm already ready for summer already so i got out early on friday, had a little afternoon surf session and headed out again on saturday, then checked out that yardhouse that night (kinda overrated i think, although tons of beer on draft which was great). sunday was tennis day, plus drinks with some co-workers and then early morning fishing on monday. isn't that how all weekends should be? anwyay, here's a pic of ali'i from saturday, it was crankin on the sets, decent inbetween, pretty clean, semi-glassy. the best part is not too many people out there for a saturday afternoon and the sun was out so that made it a real nice day.
good time to sit out on the sand and watch the waves roll by...

i'm liking the beginning of summer so far.

#44 - my new hero

this guy:

#43 - ready

ready for summer yet? damn, i am.

i finally got to go surfing again this weekend, for the first time in like a month. man, my arms were sore after but it was nice to be back out there again, i had forgotten how much i like it. it was kinda crowded too, but the waves were semi-crankin' so it was all good, clean too, which i like muchly. anyway, that put me in a complete summer mood... a few more weeks to go and i'll be out there everyday, can't wait.

in the meantime, i've still got a few weeks of work to get through, and helping me do that is tv. haha. season finale time, here's my picks:

1) heroes - not bad at all. as far as season finales go, this one i liked. they FINALLY finished off that whole "bomb" scenario, albeit very cheese-ily, but that little end twist was alright. and, instead of leaving off the season with a total cliffhanger, they nicely ended the storyline and started a new one. i like that. it shows that those writers know what they're doing (not like some other shows, ahem **lost***cough**)

2) lost - okay, so i just ragged on lost, but i'm still gonna watch the 2-hour season finale anyway. hopefully they actually answer some stuff... geez. and we all know they ain't getting off the island 'cause they've got three more seasons to go so all i can hope for at this time is that they tell us all that crap they've kept "secret" since season 1... y'know, the stuff we all forgot about and don't care to remember again? but, dammit, i'll still watch

3) the office - this one was last week, but it was still good, and since it's a comedy they don't need huge plot changes and whatever, but they manage to put them in in a nice timeframe and heck it's just a great show anyway

4) american idol - i'm so sad melinda is not singing in the final. not that i really care who among the three of them was gonna win, cause they're all gonna have careers anyway, but poor melinda. anyway, i like blake but i hope jordin wins because she seems like she can profit most from being an american idol. blake and melinda will be fine. and hey, remember all those other people that people used to care so much about when they were on tv... everyone forgot all about them huh? just like next week they're all gonna forget about these two as well... haha.

on a completely different note: contacts suck. i've been having such major damage with my contacts this week that i've had to resort back to glasses... see?

can you tell what's wrong with my eye? hell if it know.

hmm... what else? oh yeah, since work's been kinda slow lately, i've had a lot of time to read all those dumb articles that pop up on your homepage everyday, but here are two that actually sounded kinda interesting: click here

this one says that since my ring finger is longer than my index finger i was "exposed to higher than average amounts of testosterone in the womb" which correlates with a personality that "tends to be logical, decisive, and ambitious." suck on that losers! haha, but go read #4 & 5... interesante?

i thought this onewas even more interesting though... i've been reading research articles lately on the "second brain" (not that one... higher, haha). anyway, the nervous system around your gastrointestinal system is actually a VERY complex network of fibers that have a lot to do with emotion, hormones, and even decision making. weird huh? so this article is proposing that listening to your "gut" and not to your head-brain could give you even more "instinctual" decisions than the ones that you think about. that's pretty cool, and anecdotally makes sense right? this one i'll have to try out...

#42 - science of sleep

i watched "the science of sleep" tonight... i liked it. darn weird movie, but i kinda like that kind, the kind where the plot is kinda irrelevant. i mean, y'know more mainstream movies have a plot and a timeline and usually i sit in those kinda movies and (because there's always some kind of loophole created when the movie gets edited or something doesn't get shot in production or that kind of practical thing) all you can think about are the plot holes. but in this kinda movie, plot holes are so unimportant because the whole thing is supposed to be an alterate look at reality so you don't really need to question why there's a teddy bear band in the middle of the movie. y'know?

anyway, i thought it was pretty cool the way the movie took me away from trying to find concrete-ness in what i see and hear for almost two hours. the ridculousness of the scenes kinda force you to, and that's okay because really, the movie is pretty much a basic date-movie love story, but since you don't get caught up in thinking about the predictable you don't worry about trying to predict, and that was the good thing about this movie. no analyzing, just watching. of course, i do the analyzing thing way too much, so it was nice to watch a movie without the extra thinking. plus, i like accents, and they had some cool french/spanish accents in this movie. now, i just need to find a date to watch these date-type-movies with...

#41 - heroes and gladiators

so forget "lost" already, here's a show where stuff actually HAPPENS. haha, i admit, i was kinda down on "heroes" at the beginning of the series, i thought it was too x-men, then the characters were too "coincidentally" connected, and then that super long break between new episodes during which time about a ga-zillion commericals heralded "four more weeks until the heroes new show!" big whoop. remember when tv used to have a new show each week? i miss those days, save the reruns for summertime. oh, but they didn't even play reruns during that time, they played some other stupid crappy new shows to get people to watch them... man, don't you hate being manipulated by network tv?

anyway, now that the season's almost done, i can forgive the multiple and sometimes-irresponsible connections between all the characters, i guess they had to get everyone together somehow, and actually, since there are so many darn characters now, it's actually more refreshing when they bring back a familiar character (instead of someone completely new that we've never seen before and don't care about **ahem***lost***cough*cough**). and i guess there are those favorite super powers that anyone writing a superhero tv show has gotta say "i've always wanted to make someone who can walk through walls!" and now that they're back to one new show per week, i'm okay with it.

so, one more episode, you know where i'll be next monday...

speaking of heroes... guess what i've rediscovered on ESPN classic? do these guys look familiar?

haha, they've been showing american gladiators on tv again, woo hoo! i loved that show, my dream vacation was a trip to universal studios orlando to tour the studio and pretend i was a contestant (sans mullet) playing assault or atlasphere. man, good times. and how classic are those two up there? gold and nitro. they had the awesomest 80's names.

what i liked best about american gladiators i think was that the gladiators had all the advantage and they were supposed to win each event. kinda like iron chef and all those other japanese shows since the culture is all honorific and everything, the people running the game show are supposed to have all the control and the contestent has none. that's why it's so awesome when someone finally wins because they really aren't supposed too. american gladiators is the one exception to american game shows where that's true, every other game show is just a big sap-fest where the contestent has all the chances in the world. so when someone wins, sure it's fun because they win money or whatever, but it's no big thing to win a Q&A against a bunch of 5th graders (well, i'm sure there's much MORE wrong with that show, but i've never watched it so i wouldn't know). ahh, but for now i'll revel in american gladiators.. 7pm weeknights ESPN classic, be there or be square!

#40 - is it working?

so how has the trying to be more social thing going? not too shabbily. that's probably not a word, but it fits. i don't know what's different, but i met two whole new people out of nowhere since my last post, yeah! okay, that sounds sad, but in comparison to all the ZERO new people that i've met in the recent past that's kind of a lot in such a short time. anyway, then today when i double-clicked on internet explorer guess what was staring me in the face?

dating when you're a short guy

it's like the computer knew it was me or something... freaky.

anyway, then to top it all off, i was feeling all confident about trying to get myself a new haircut. i know, after that last post i swore off haircuts for the rest of my life, but realistically, i can't go all jeremy and only cut it once every two years, i don't think i could stand that. so, i started building up my nerve to walk into a salon again and i really wasn't going to go back to supercuts (EVER)... but i don't know man... i think it's just too easy and comfortable for a guy to pass up. so i did my research this time and (i'm actually very embarrassed to reveal this now, but i think it will do more good to confess so that any others out there who may be wary about it will find confidence from other people's actions) went online and actually printed up a pic of how i wanted my haircut. okay okay, stop laughing i'm embarrassed enough. i went on the supercuts website and i was thinking, "if i can never get a nice haircut ever, then maybe i should just do something completely different, cause obviously the other way wasn't working." it's like going to jack-in-the-box... my philosophy on fast-food is that it's only worth eating fast-food if it's on the 99 cent menu, then you sacrifice healthiness for price. so the last time i went to jack-in-the-box, well, i know that the food was gonna make me feel sick ('cause it's all fast-food oil nasty-ness), so instead of trying to order either the most "healthy" thing or the cheapest thing, i got the most expensive and most advertised thing on the menu (a 100% sirloin & bacon burger). haha, it was actually not that disgusting, and i didn't feel to sick afterwards.

so when i was looking for a new haircut, i told myself screw whatever i've been trying to do up to now, maybe i just need to pick the trendiest, most different thing and see if that works (and if it doesn't work, then i know i'll be doomed to go a lifetime with bad haircuts). so i was clicking around and looking at me square in the face was it, the world cup soccer haircut. now in my defense, the website commanded me to print up the picture and even on the picture itself it said "give this to stylist." so i couldn't fight it right? i had to give in.... and i felt like a TOTAL dorkus bringing in my picture to supercuts and saying, "make me look like this guy" but it needed to be done. that dagger to my pride and coolness (haha, if i have any coolness left) was a small sacrifice to finally get a decent haircut.

so that's what i did. like a huge dorkwad i went to supercuts, picture in hand, and told the girl to make me look good. she was actually a nice girl (and cute too, a handful of years younger than me but we talked about a bunch of stuff and she seemed cool) and she knew what she was doing. although she did cut my hair WAY shorter than the picture i brought, she did a pretty nice job of it. and she did NOT cut off my sideburns, nope, she actually asked! woo hoo! anyway, i'll definately try going back to her again, although i think the fact that she was pretty may have influenced my view of the haircut itself... but hey, if she can do that again, more power to her. ha.

so here we go... before:

doesn't look too horrible right? but it was growing out all funky since it didn't get cut right the first time... and.... after! haha, okay, well, that's a little extreme... i could make one of those fake-mohawks... but i don't think that's quite for me... so what? do i look like i could play for manchester united?still way too short i think, but at least this time it'll grow out alright. sigh... but now i'm stuck waiting for it to grow out again. it kinda looks like in another month or so it'll grow out into what that picture that i showed her looked like, so maybe really she was just trying to give me a couple more weeks between haircuts? yeah right. sigh... at least maybe i'm getting closer?

#39 - on being social

"i'm a loner dottie, a rebel..." anyone remember what that's from? here's a hint: it's from the same movie that had the all-time scariest ghost story in the history of me crapping my pants. haha, remember, with that trucker lady... i forget her name, nicole remembers.

anyway, in the last post i wrote about going to the expo and ala moana and completely being a loner, and kinda loving it. going out by myself, walking around and going about my business very freely is kinda cool, but made me realize how non-social i can be, and how i still can have a great time doing it.

but the most important thing i noticed at the expo is that no one noticed me! how rude. you'd think that i'd be the ideal potential consumer right? 25 years old, male, steady job, soon to be homeowner, drives a honda... okay, so they don't all of that, but if i were them, i'd want to sell me something! so how come during the whole time i was there, leisurely strolling past booth after booth on either side, i only got approached by one girl. gave me a little flyer for some reggae concert. don't they want to sell me stuff? that's they whole reason they're there! what, am i not approachable or something? does this look like the face of unapproachableness? c'mon!

blah, anyway, i didn't really think about it until i left the expo, so i couldn't really experiment any to see if i could increase my approachability. but i don't think i'm really a hard person to interact with? eh? hmmm... see, and then when i AM approached, i'm so surprised by it that i act like a dope. i don't expect people to come up and say hi or whatever so i'm always caught off-guard when it does happen and i feel like an idiot when i don't interact back when someone finally does talk to me. like today after going to 24 hr. fitness i went to buy something to eat and some guy from the gym said hi, and i completely didn't expect anyone to say hi to me, especially not some random gym person, so i think i said something like "ghaa?" and walked away. what a dope. plus that's kinda rude too, so i need to stop doing doofus stuff like that.

in conclusion, i guess i have to try to be more social. i don't know how to do that... sigh.

#38 - admit it

okay, admit it... that was a pretty sweet performance:



my vote to win is still melinda, but i like this guy and jordin also. i feel bad for chris, i hope he goes on this week. phil NEEDS to go home already, and lakisha has been boring me lately so she can go home too.