klinay's Xanga

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:49:41 GMT

I'm ALIVE and still kickin!

Hey yall! so, it's been about 8 weeks since i've been online...connection here is kinda slow and im always too tired to go online. But, just wanted to give a shout out and say that i'm having fun out here...working 80 hours a week. it's been good so far. been seasick a few times..every week. =P dunno how long i'll be here till, just takin things day by day...gonna keep this short. hope alls well back home. miss you guys..well, most of you. =D

come visit and play!!!

Aloooohaaaa!!!!!!!!

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:20:26 GMT

so, im off on another adventure

my new work place and home.......

the Pride of Hawaii

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:04:38 GMT

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!
HAVE A GOOD ONE!
yoi otoshi o

~KY

Friday, July 28, 2006

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 01:58:22 GMT

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. to the hopeful, its encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

-King Whitney Jr.

i'll be home in Cali Aug 14

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:45:48 GMT

pointing towards America...7 more weeks baby!

just some random photos...its all i could get for now...its hard being without a laptop.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:45:14 GMT

IM GONNA BE BACK IN CALI EXACTLY TWO MONTHS FROM TODAY!!!!

two years...two years ive been gone!

Monday, May 29, 2006

Mon, 29 May 2006 23:43:04 GMT

maaan, you all suck at the game, *how much do you love ky* but its ok, i still had fun running, i guess. i did the 10k and i have to say, it was way easier than when i ran the sumpu. which doesnt really make sense cuz i didnt really train much for this one. i dont have any muscle pains, but whats killing me are my shin splints! ive been gimpin and limpin around..ugh!
some things im going to do before i die...
-do the alcatraz swim
-run a marathon
-do a triathalon...i really wish the swim portion were longer and the bike/run shorter...actually, id rather swim the whole thing...anybody want to do a triathalon with me relay style???? dibbs on the swim portion.

...getting a lil anxiety about going home...

good job to ryan besto, blair...omedetou, yoku ganbatta ne!
yumi...can you prove that you actually ran the race? haha, jk...you get a nice pat on the back too...cuz of you, everyone thinks im like a God for convincing you to run the thing.

..off to Tokyo to meet up with my crazy x-roommate Ashthflash! (shes done the IRON MAN-shes my hero...oh ya, and she also has an olympic gold medal in swimming AND shes one of the craziest girls i know...YIKES!)
will be back with stories later

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Tue, 16 May 2006 09:09:13 GMT

WHO WANTS TO SPONSOR ME?!?!?!?
im running 10k for a benefit in two weeks! all proceeds will go to children in Cambodia...so, who wants to sponsor me?!! a penny, a yen, 10 bucks, 100 bucks, 100man, i'll take ALL offerings!
so...let's play a game...HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE KYOKO? shooooow me the mooooney! well, ok, show the Cambodian children the money...

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Sat, 13 May 2006 05:41:28 GMT

man, im really lagging with updating this thing. biggest news lately, i went and visited my family on my dad's side for the first time! i didnt even know that they existed out there! i told my dad that ryan and i were thinking of going to shikoku during golden week and he told me i should contact my cousin...i was all...woooaaah, what cousin. and he told me i have like a million cousins out there, 12 aunts and uncles, second cousins, third cousins, the list goes on. anyways, to keep a long story semi-short, ryan and i went and visited them and it was awesome. at home in cali, its just me, my mom, and dad, talk about small family gatherings. but out in shikoku, it felt like i had a huge family for the first time in my life. it felt so good and it was so fun hearing all of the stories that they had about my dad. i have to say that my dad is the most craziest person that i know. but that explainsa lot about me...heh.
its funny how asian adults take care of the young. they feed em and feed em and then feed em some more...but its just how i like it ya, ryan and i basically got hooked up with a free trip out there, they took us around, and even rented out a cottage at this amusement park place for just the two of us. ahh, so nice to know that i can go back anytime and have family there. one thing though is that i never really got to meet my grandparents. one of my uncles took me to their graves and i got really sad. i felt like i was robbed of having another set of grandparents...i wont delve into it...just leave it at that.
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, i was sooooooooooooooo excited to meet all of them and they were the greatest people, not to mention hilarious. makes my heart warm just thinking about em.
Ryan got pretty drunk trying to hang with my crazy 72 year old uncle who kept ordering more and more sake. its ok ryan, not everyone can hang with the Yokouchi's.
so, yup. ky's got family...a big one. hehheehehe...big ups to ryan for being a trooper. yes yes, you endured ....honma! kagawaben is muzukashii naa!?! demo otsukaresama!

second biggest news....i'm comin home in 3 months!!!!! who's gonna be ready for me??!!?!??!

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:26:55 GMT

This entry is loooong overdue. But, as most of you guys know, my laptop is KaPut. I didnt want to deal with it anymore so I just sent it home with my mom. So, for the time being, I wont be able to really add pictures on this thing. But on the brighter side, you'll get to enjoy more of these fun faced smilies that xanga so generously offers to its subscribers. woohoo!

where was i...so much has happened...

Cha-cha-cha CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!
man, this was an AWESOME trip. the fantastic 4 (me, mich, ry, besto) hit up Beijing, Xi'an, Shanghai, Guilin, Guangzhou, Hong Kong. Here are some highlights.
-climbing the great wall the view was amazing. it was harder then i though, we were on all fours climbing at one point. oh ya, and besto fell on his ass.
-Peking duck! mmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmm the food was soooo gooood!
-cheap DVDs..some of which dont work but, they were only a dolla
-the Li River by far one of the best things on the trip. the limestone mountains were..as my friend quite appropriately described..EPIC
-SNAKE! we ate snake! we saw it get picked from its cage, its head snipped off, the blood drained and its bile removed. we drank its blood n bile n ate the meat...mmmmm, it was soooo tasty! just like chicken! i have it all on tape if anyone cares to watch...ryan?
-cheap food, gifts, clothes..cheap everything!!! barganing was fun, but got pretty tiresome...and we always seemed to find better deals AFTER we bought our things...
-terra cotta warriors. it was pretty crazy how many of them there were, and how detailed and different each one was. we even got to see one of the guys who discovered them.
-Victoria Peak and Dim Sum. Hong Kong was cool, so big and futuristic and yes.. epic. We didnt get much of a view from the peak, but it was still nice being out there. The dim sum was tasty too...i love the rolley carts!
-24 hour emergency room. yes, this made it on the list. so, in shanghai, ryan got sick. the only one out of all of us. little weakling, so, at around 2am, i took him to the ER. everything was in chinese..we were like uhhhhhh. but then thankfully the dr. knew some japanese. he put us into a room so ryan could get an ivy, so we were stuck in this dark, damp, waaaay overcrowded smelly room for about 3 hours. i felt like we were sure to catch something contagious while we were there...but phew, i think we got outta there safe.
-4 minutes of funk.. the theme of the trip...besto knows whats up.
-YUKAR!!!! this goes out to the best yukar partner ever! mich, we rule, the boys are...loooooooooossseeers!! muahahahaha miss you roomie

and..thats it for china!

other updates while im at it..

- i ran the sunpu marathon! 10k! me, besto, blair, n doug ran it...it was so much fun! there were so many people. who wouldve though me, ky, would be running?! heres some advice for you guys who are thinking of running a race...
*dont have any slow jams on your ipod. at one point, i just had a string of barry manelow, keith sweat, frank sinatra....not very motivational when youre running
*dont go ballz out by cheering for everyone and their mother the first half. makes for a very VERY painful second half.
*when grabbing water from people while you run, dont get it up your nose. it stings and makes breathing even harder. i started choking n couldnt stop
*Do drink a can of Boss coffee. that shit'll keep you wired for days. i felt amped up on drugs and even had trouble sleeping that nite it couldve also been the half bottle of ryans energy mixed that i accidentally dumped into my mouth.

-Weekend of Taiko! we got back from china on friday, and then ry and i had taiko performances on both saturday and sunday. one was at a small festival in fuji. the other was in tokyo. so much fun! im really loving taiko now, cant stop wont stop...we gets down baby we gets dooown!! ehh, i forget how that song goes. speaking of taiko, this past sunday, went to go watch a really famous taiko group perform. OnDeKoza!!! they were sooooo goooood! i wished they played more, but man, they were soooooooo goooood! inspired.

-Eriko Momma! yaaaaay, my mom was out here it was so nice being around her. we went to onsens, botanicals, restuarants, karaoke,(i guess i proved that good singing genes didnt get passed down within this family. ) and more restaurants. it was so much fun..i miss her already
thanks ryan for helping me show her around and also for fukufuku!

-Takayama, takayama, Takayama. ry and i just had a weekend of...riding the train. we left friday nite, arrived in Gifu around 11pm. stayed at a karaoke place overnite..yes, we be cheap, then headed to takayama at 6 in the AM. got to takayama around 1030am. saw Hida no sato..the old wooden village, then we went off to the matsuri. it was cool, the town was super nice. really quaint and cute. did i just say cute??? come 420, ry and i wer already on the train headed back to fuji. 7 hours later, we were there. phew.

ok..thats it for now. i dont really like reading long entries, but i guess im a hypocrite cuz i just wrote a novel of one...hope you enjoyed the yellow faces!