It's been a long time...

We'll be in town, soon to see you all. Hang up my neoprene in the closet please.

Ever surf at Marineland at Ala Moana BP? This movie is the same thing except this guy is going right. Hey, surfing is fun. Even for newbie attorneys, med school students, single Late Thirty-ish unarried haole ladies, and those who park at Kewalos and think they are actually surfing Kewalos. Aloha@!##$!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Islands

Dog

Your Results May Vary!

http://5tolife.honozooloo.com/2008/

A neat little photodocumentary of Honolulu and it's day and nightlife.

Pre or Post Surf Cup of Joe

Trung Nguyen
Paradoxurus Hermaphroditus - 'Doris Maurice' to his chums
Trung Nguyen Coffee:Inspired Creativity


Dragon Coffee Menu


...or indeed involved at all!

French colonists, realising that conditions were ideal for coffee cultivation, first planted coffee in the South Central Highlands region of Vietnam. The coffee also proved popular with a local resident: the common palm civet (Paradoxurus Hermaphoditus), a weasel-like animal, which quickly developed a taste for the sweet, fleshy outer layers of the coffee 'cherries' - the fruit of the coffee bush.

It was found that the fruit seeds, what we know as coffee 'beans', passed though the civet largely undigested and the resulting beans, when washed and sun-dried, had undergone a remarkable change to produce a uniquely smooth and delicious flavour. Perhaps this was because the civet would choose only the best and ripest beans to eat, but also because the beans had been modified by enzyme reactions on their journey.

Civet The legendary 'Café Chôn' (also known as Kopi Luwak in Indonesia) is rare, very expensive (approximately US$350 per kilo) and is sometimes of dubious authenticity. Indeed, many people who claim to have tried weasel coffee in Vietnam have probably actually been drinking Trung Nguyên's 'Legendee' coffee.
Legendee is produced by an enzyme treatment process developed exclusively by Trung Nguyên that mimics the changes produced in the coffee beans by the civet and produces a coffee every bit as distinctive and good as the genuine article but at about a tenth of the price (and, fortunately, without any involvement from the weasels!).

The special process used in making Legendee seems to release a whole spectrum of flavours that normally lie dormant. Rich and complex, Legendee is superb when served hot, sensational when served iced, and is certainly one of the finest coffees in the world.

http://www.trung-nguyen-online.co.uk/legendee.html

SUP

Stand Up Paul Gross. His stand-up interpretation of George's Velo Kneeboard.

Al on a Stubbie

T-A-H-O-E

California Counterpart

Jdubsingles investigates the fun of dialing in some cool designs for the myriad of fun breaks in SoCal. Jdub demonstrates here that more rail used = high yield in performance. It's a 6'6" Greg Liddle.

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2004)

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones. A good documentary. Worth the watch at 2+ hours. Now beat up the brat with a baseball bat.

Pilioha

Time permitting, please open your ears to Pilioha, a new traditional Hawaiian Band playing every Wednesday at our favorite evening Go-To, Aku Bone.

Click here for a sample of their Hawaiian rendition of "Riders In The Sky."

Kamehameha Grad, Gary Krug's Falsetto is a beauty to listen to.

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Griffin and Sabine Trilogy

Since today is February 14th, indulge yourself in this creative, imaginative "non-fictional" tale, Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence. If you're artsy fartsy and enjoy a good dose of literary romance, give this bit of illustrated reading a chance. This most unusual book captures postcard writings between two artists separated by the Earth's hemisphere. Griffin is an UK-based artist who is intrigued and enamoured with lavishly illustrated and authored postcards he receives from Sabine, a mysterious exotic woman living on a remote South Pacific island. The dialogue that follows is the essence of the book; it is an "extraordinary correspondence."

It's actually a trilogy, but the first installment is the winner.

Amazon Link Here.

Good Luck

Double Rainbow = Good Luck

6 o' clock mellow A-frame.

Evening Cap Logging.

Grandma made Peanutbutta n Jelly Sandwiches

An interesting Swaylock's post from the wise Bernie aka Oneula who says, "We're always reinventing the wheel I guess..."

Jimmy's Bike- Bowls

Sweet custom pinlining.

Goo Monkeys Teaser

Logging

Tradeswell remnants were favorable for some nice conditions for logging. Light trades were blowing, and we could smell the meat from several BBQs on the beach.

Camera Obscura

Her pick from 2006.