I surfed at HB pier on June 1st. I was sitting at rent surfboard for waiting a catch the waves. I saw few people saw around, so when I finished up for surfing and my Best Friend told me the seal was rest and lay on the beach.

Solar Eclipse

I missed the Solar Eclipse bcs of rain in Singapore! oh, shoot!

Kobe will be in Singapore around July 20th.

When: 7.30pm, 22 July 2009
Where: Singapore Indoor Stadium

Ticket Collection:
How: Be the first 1000 to collect your pair of tickets (first 200 pairs of front row tickets) from Nike Store at Wisma Atria on 16 July and at all SISTIC Outlets Island wide from 17 to 19 July.

Note: Tickets are based on first-come-first-serve-basis and given out in pairs. Each person is entitled to a pair ONLY and while tickets last.

Program details:
7.30 – 8.15pm Exhibition match between The Singapore Selection Team Vs The Asean Basketball League Selection Team8.15 - 9 pm The Kobe Training Clinic
T&C apply

SPECIAL: The first 50 customers who purchase an exclusive NikeID Kobe customized tee from 18th July till 20 July at the Nike Flagship store, Wisma Atria will stand a chance to see Kobe up-close and personal on 22 July.

Trial & Selection for Kobe clinic –
When: 2.00 to 5.00pm, 19 July 2009
What & Where: Here’s your chance to be one of the selected youth to be trained by Kobe, the legend on 22 July at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. If you are between the age of 16 to 20 years old, head down to The Basketball Association of Singapore at 601 Aljunied Cresent. Participants will undergo various fundamental drills which will test them on their offensive, defensive, shooting,and dribbling skills. We will look out for not only the best performers but also the hard workers and determined players who amplify the Just Do It spirit on court. Limited to the first 500 participants` on 19 July.
T&C apply.

Jet Li buys S$20 million bungalows in Singapore's Binjai Park

International action star Jet Li and wife Nina Li Chi recently bought two prestigious freehold Good Class Bungalows at Binjai Rise in Singapore's Bukit Timah area for S$20million, each measuring 22,723 sq ft.

Since foreigners who wish to purchase a Good Class Bungalow in Singapore have to obtain a permit from the relevant authorities, there are speculations that Li is now Singaporean. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority quoted privacy as reason and declined to verify if the rumour is true. The staff at the Beijing office of "One Foundation", a charitable organization set up by Li, declined to comment on this as well.

Li's nationality has always been a debated issue for the media. While some reported that Li is a permanent resident of the United States, others wrote that he still holds a China citizenship. His second brother, Li Lianli, once revealed in a media interview that Li is of Chinese nationality but holds a US Green Card.

More recently, there are reports that Li has obtained Singapore citizenship for two reasons - to pave the way for his two daughters, 7 and 4, and to invest in property. If this rumour is true, Li would be the next Chinese celebrity after Gong Li to settle locally.

Li, 46, was born in Beijing and has won the National Wushu Championship for five years running. His first film The Shaolin Temple in 1982 was a great hit all over the world. Later in 1999, Li broke into Hollywood with his most recent film there being The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

After a close encounter with the Asian Tsunami on December 26, 2004, while holidaying in the Maldives, Li the devoted Buddhist set up the "One Foundation" and got heavily involved in charity work.

On receiving news of Li's migration to Singapore, Hong Kong reporters made a trip to Shanghai to check on his mansion which he has spent three years building and found that construction has stopped since last year.

Australian TV journalist freed from Singapore jail

SINGAPORE: An Australian television journalist was freed from a Singapore jail on Tuesday after serving nearly seven months of his 10—month sentence for drug offences, a prison spokeswoman said.

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Peter Lloyd, the former New Delhi—based correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was jailed on December 2 after pleading guilty to three drug charges.

"It is confirmed that he was released today," a spokeswoman for Singapore’s Changi Prison told AFP without giving details.

A legal source said prisoners who behave well usually have their sentences cut by one third.

Judge Hamidah Ibrahim sentenced Lloyd to eight months for possessing 0.41 grammes (0.014 ounces) of the stimulant methamphetamine and another eight months for consuming it. The sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

Lloyd received an additional two months’ jail for possessing drug paraphernalia stained with ketamine, an anaesthetic commonly used at dance parties.

Singapore’s attorney general earlier withdrew a charge of trafficking 0.15 grammes of methamphetamine, an offence that carries a prison term of between five and 20 years as well as five to 15 strokes of the cane.

It was unclear whether Lloyd would return to Australia. He was arrested while on holiday in Singapore on July 16 last year.

His lawyer had argued that he was suffering from post—traumatic stress because of his work as a journalist covering wars and disasters in Asia, including the 2002 bomb attacks on the Indonesian island of Bali.

Lloyd took methamphetamine as a way of dealing with nightmares caused by the tragedies he had covered, his lawyer had said.

Singapore, one of Asia’s safest cities, follows an uncompromising line against drugs and other crimes. Trafficking certain amounts of drugs is punishable by death, a sentence carried out by hanging.

— AFP/yt

new business for my own time: 5 spots in Singapore

This is Paulus... I trained him at NTU at 1pm I will put more info... I will put photos tmw.

Junichi on june13

Last saturday, June 13, I had been busy all the day... I will given you more detail sooner.

June 11tth

I cooked for our families! I will given more details very sooner.

New LCD TV on June 9th

Memories Day

Memories Day, I did not go to surf this morning due to drop my friend off! oh, shoot! The waves size were one to three feet. I know the waves were good this morning. I have few friends surf there.

Last Saturday on May 23rd

Mohan,Me, Sandra Sui, Miquel, and Darvin went to Regal movie for Open captional for Star Trek... The movie is quite good... I like this movie very much, and a lot of action.

Kazu got asthma again!

Karen:Kazu got asthma and got wheezing again on his chest when given medicines.That happened same last year,so my mum and i brought him to see another doctor again.He got abit better but still wheezing so i use puff on him but he cried and dont want to.we told him if he don't want to use puff,then he will not able to fly with us to Langkawi on this Fri so he agreed.after a while,he got better now.hugs

Kenichi: How did he get a Wheeze?

Karen:I don't know why.my mum could hear his breathing hard.then he woke up and sneezed alot.then he started to have running nose.When I reached home,he looked fine but mum said better bring him to see doctor early before we fly to Langkawi,Malaysia on Fri.so I brought him to see doc where we brought to see doc last year,remmy?That's how he got wheezing again after taking medicine.So my mum not happy and we brought to another doctor and showed medicines to him.he said both medicines are correct but one medicine is wrong and expired.sigh....anyway,he's better now.Glad to hear he will remove cast tomorrow morning finally! he can't wait to move his right arm soon! sigh....

Tiger Woods's boat was in St.Augustine,Fl on past weekend.

Was over the Vilano way Sunday afternoon and saw Tiger's boat in town. He didn't win the golf tournament, but he did win the biggest boat award at Comanche cove:

Kazu's arm :(

Posted by wright-karen at 5/12/2009 10:45:00 AM

Too bad,my company holiday falls on last friday while my son and niece's school holiday falls yesterday.Also my elder sister's company holiday yesterday.So she brought them to Chinese Gardens to feed fishes yesterday morning.They must have a great time.I believe that some of you can see Kazu's cast in the photos.He had a fall from playground but Thank God,the x-ray shows his bone elbow is not broken but the doctor believed hairline cracked so it was only minor injury since Kazu kept saying his elbow was very painful after fall.That's why I brought him to see x-ray if he's okay or not.However,he's still too active and back to normal.His injury will heal in 3 weeks time.Hope his injury will be healed on time before we will fly to Langkawi soon.sigh...

Snoop rocks the city

Best friends Christina Lacerenca and Brian Dunbar celebrated a reborn St. Augustine Friday night at Francis Field's Ancient City Crawfish Boil.

The two joined scores of people taking in the smells and sounds of one of the most star-studded concerts in the Oldest City's recent history.

"Two years ago, this would have never happened," Lacerenca said of the concert featuring rap artist Snoop Dogg, current alternative hip-hop "it" band G Love and the burgeoning rock band Flyleaf.





Both Lacerenca, 19, and Dunbar, 20, grew up in St. Augustine. They now attend college in Central Florida.

"He goes to Stetson, I go to UCF, and we came to our hometown -- St. Augustine -- to see Snoop Dogg!" Lacerenca said. "It's amazing! Last week I saw James Taylor at the Amphitheatre, and I cried. I'm so proud of the progress we're making."

Francis Field was filled with activity on day one of the two-day crawfish boil. A booth hosted by the U.S. Marines had pull-up contests for men and "flex-arm hangs" for women.

With a suspension time of 91 seconds, Flagler College student Emily Whritenour was the champion hanger and was "crowned" with a T-shirt.

"The other girls must not have been trying their best," Whritenour, 21, said, refusing recruiters' prompts to try to best her time.

Ashley Young, 19, won a lanyard for her time of 20 seconds.

"It was a blast," she said.

Major League Baseball sponsored a contest to see who could light up a radar gun the brightest and had a batting cage in the middle of the field as part of its road show.

In the shade of a large MLB trailer, 22-year-old Halligan Rountree of Jacksonville, decked out in a Beatles T-shirt, waited for the arrival of Snoop Dogg with friends Maggie Pulido and Krystal McKinnon.

Pulido said she was glad there was an event for which she could convince her friends to drive to St. Augustine.

"I'm always trying to get them to come here, and I'm always the one driving to Jacksonville," Pulido said.

Jen Wages and her boyfriend, Jimmy Link, said the concert has been the hottest topic for weeks at the Bayfront Hilton, where they work.

"This has definitely been the talk of the town," Wages said. "Saving Abel and Flyleaf are my two favorites."

Saving Abel plays tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. Gates open at 2 p.m. Wages and Link purchased the event's two-day ticket.

Fans walked quickly toward the stage Friday when G Love began playing just after 7 p.m. One man with a determined stare wore a T-shirt depicting Frank Sinatra's mug shot from the time the crooner was arrested for keeping company with another man's wife.

As G Love sang their hit "Booty call," 56-year-old Suzie Stotler came from behind the beer stand she was working to dance.

"I love it," Stotler said. "This is my town!"

But the greatest enthusiasm was saved for rap impresario Snoop Dogg, who came to the stage minutes before 9 p.m. in a long black coat and sparkling silver T-shirt.

As the slight, then heavy, smell of marijuana floated among the cheering throng, Matt Corvado lifted Ellie Taylor onto his shoulders, where she snapped a picture of the rapper.

About 30 yards behind the bouncing mob, as Snoop Dogg sang his once-mega hit Gin and Juice, 9-year-old Haley Kane, who has cerebral palsy, danced jubilantly in her wheelchair, smiling wide at the dark gray sky above her.

President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama takes aim with a photographer's camera backstage prior to remarks about providing mortgage payment relief for responsible homeowners. Dobson High School. Mesa, Arizona 2/18/09.
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

Andy Sherwood's graduate Day at Flagler College on April 25

It is 6:30 on a chilly February morning in Santa Barbara, and a photographer and his crew are gathered in the parking lot at Rincon Beach Park, waiting for Kelly Slater. "The light is perfect," the photographer says. By 7 a.m., dark clouds are creeping north from Los Angeles. The sun disappears behind their thick wall, stealing the photographer's perfect light and adding to the chill. "I think the rain will hold off," he says hopefully. Slater's publicist arrives. A videographer. More photo assistants. They wait. 7:30 … 8 … The rain arrives, but still no Slater. 8:15 … 8:30 …



In his new book, For the Love, Slater's co-author, Phil Jarratt, jokes that he wanted to title the book Waiting for Kelly. "This was my experience more often than not," he writes in the introduction. Slater's peers accept his well-documented tardiness, though if he shows up late to a contest, he's lambasted in the press as an undedicated prima donna. Then, when he wins the event and perhaps the world title, as he's done nine times since 1991, all is forgiven.

That's what happens at today's photo shoot: Slater pulls up in his black Toyota Tacoma, apologizes and gets straight to work. "No worries at all," the photographer says. "It's only 8:30." Some things, it seems, are worth the wait.

The same could be said of Slater's blueprint to reinvent his sport, a plan nearly 20 years in the making. "I've been thinking about this since I got on the Tour, in 1991," Slater says later in the day, over lunch, when he sits down to discuss an extreme makeover of pro surfing and to play EXPN's version of Scrabble (to see the results, check out page 44). Not surprisingly, the übercompetitive Slater attacks both with the zeal of a finals heat at Pipeline. "I don't want to trash pro surfing," he says, fingering the seven tiles he's drawn from the bag. "It's the reason I have the friends and experiences I've had. But there are ways to make it better."

Here, in Slater's words, are 10.