As much as i complain about being away from home, i must admit that there really is a LOT to do in California and, at times, it can be rather entertaining.

this past tuesday, i was comfortably tucked into bed at a reasonable 10pm when i get a call from my mentor/friend, Nadim. Nads: “Kera, get ready. we’re going out.” Me: “Nads, Im already in bed.” Nads: “Okay, be there in 5″.
Nadim is from Lebanon and apparently they don’t take no for an answer there. We ended up eating at Katsuya and then hit up S Bar where I had the BEST martini of my life. It was called Grasshopper or something and consisted of celery, jalapeno and lime juice…sounds weird but I promise it was stuupendous.

On Friday, my roomate Morgan and i decided to get the haaayss out of LaLa land and headed down south to San Diego. Morgan is from La Jolla which is this adorable little beach town that reminds me of my home in Kailua. I loved it.
here’s morgan risking our lives, poding and driving at 80 miles an hour on the 5. thanks morgs!

Morgan pretty much lives in my dream house. I swear it’s like straight out of Martha Stewart living. They even have a gym and, not to mention, *cough* Wine on tap! *cough*.

I’ve also decided that Morgs looks like kirsten Dunst.

On Saturday, Morgan took me to the beach right near her house. Wow, sooo SD beaches killll LA beaches.


We then hit up some local Mexi joint. I thought LA had good mexican food, but turns out SD’s is wayyy better. Here’s my little Cholita grinding a basic bean and cheese at Ortegas.

The ASR trade show was going on at the San Diego Convention center this past weekend, meaning Downtown was purdy darn fun!
I saw my little Brookerson running around barefooted outside the Hurley party at the TinFish and nearly tackled her bc i was so excited/surprised to bump into her. I love that hippie.

Wait a Minute! that sign looks awfully familiar! CHEE PARTY.

[OUTFIT CHANGE]
I hit up another ASR after party at BELO and met up with, none other than, the famous RADICAL RP! It was neat hanging with a familiar face!

Naturally, RP and I were spreading the VJ Aloha everywhere we could. “hey, ladies, would you girls mind taking a picture with…” SURE!! These girls were more than stoked to support the cause. I LOVE DRUNK CHICKS!

Yo, Shwayz-a-nator! Whatchu got there?

oh, i don’t know, maybe some CORONA AND LIME!

ALSO, Shwayz, since when did your security rival that of the President of the USA’s? Holy torpedo! the Girls go crazzzy for this fella. Luckily, with a little wink and a VJ sticka flash, he let me into his small but extremely chaotic sectiony deal. What a cutie!

After a funfilled weekend of comfortable home lounging, beaching, and Downtown SD nighttime playing, it was back to the kicker. ughh..LA, WHY why WHY do you have traffic on a SUNDAY NIGHT!? You are lucky you boast a beautiful sunset to redeem yourself.

mmkay bye.

im no kera “wong” singing karaoke by herself in her room,but you guys get the picture. we have been building this party for a few months now and everythings coming to a head. like i said on the vid… do not miss it and get there early cause… well u know why. see y’all tomorrow.

Sorry, but this is important! im sitting here, going through all my albums and dieeeing of laughter. Thought i’d share with the world some funny ones that i’ve yet to leak anywhere else. enjoy.

SOOooo I thought it was funny when…
I found a super old album from summer 05 entitled “pics from RP (that guy who is always at o lounge).” LOOK AT us back then. Since then, we reached for the stars and look where we are today… VJ interning rocks!!

I almost pissed myself when i found this bad boy…oh em gee DEFAULT STATUS, Mmmike!

Woah there…EEASSAAY, boysies

well this one is just preshh. so candid.

remember when Kays and amber had a one night love affair?

and when amber had fun at our party WITHOUT complaining? (Totally caught you having fun, beyatch!)

Blainer rockin the smirk. always a flattering pose.

Sorry, Bones..Wrist or no Wrist, you will wear a band!

oh, and this is the night Mikey and i signed a BFF peace treaty and….

joined forces to start devising plans of mischievous, like, for example, the time we thought it necessary to rip out a lock of Peezy’s hair.

Psssst! sorry, Boys! not a real human! that’s a statue!

ahhh, remember when Alex and i were oh soo sweet and brought cupcakes to the Lounge for Canoes bday?

Only to have them tossed in our faces. Yes yes YES!

Russel Inouye..Drop this guys name and you’re good to go. “uh sorry officer about hitting that old woman in the cross walk back there…..russ inouye?”

Here’s a fun fact for ya. Bet you didn’t know mikey is of 100 percent Samurai Warrior Ancestry! Look at that face…and that stiff upper lip…STRAIGHT Serial!

i mean…look what happened to me and Nic when we crossed his path. YIKES

but he does have a soft side.

Sooo To all you Pretty Crew Card holders, team meeting this SATURDAY at THE SHACK in WAIKIKI! Also, ladies, mandatory attire for meeting, BIKINIS! Kay see you all then.
Love your P Crew team manager, kera

My shop sponsor, Crank and Carve had recently got into some rent trouble.  Their location in Haleiwa is being taken over by a mainland company.  This company is raising their rent by $1000.  This is forcing this skate and bodyboard shop to move its location.  There will be a new shop being opened in Waialua this coming Wednesday Sept 10th!!  Crank and Carve will also have a dope online shop at www.preservetheride.com 

Here’s a picture of one of the many boards that James from C&C hooked me up with:

My dog Myla seems to be stoked on the sticker job…I gotta get her to start riding derrty like “meaty”

So if you’re near Waialua on the 10th go check out the new shop!!  Another thanks to James and Scott @ Crank and Carve and the Veejay crew for the stickahs.  Shootles.

just in case you guys missed it, here is some video of Steel Pulse jamming with Rebelution at our party on August 24th. it was the sickest shnapsticks ever! as a huge fan of noise in my ear, i was truly honored to be listening to the two bands killing it.

On saturday August 30, The peter Miller Foundation held the 4th annual shorebreak classic @ kalama beach park in memorial of Jason Bogle, David Aluli,and Peter Miller. Waves were barely pushing a foot, but it was more inspiring to see how stoked the groms were to just surf another great session for there lost friends and loved ones.

With the great commentary by Noah Purington and Taylor Cook, just made the contest even better.

Kids were going crazy all day

The groms running to the break hoping to catch the first great wave

Kids were shredding all day long

Judges trying to figure scores for the 1fters

1 footers all day long

Ya VEEJAY!

The Peter Miller Foundation’s goal is to help up and coming surfers to excel in whatever the want to. They sponsor and support kids who can’t afford equipment as well as kids looking for a future in surfing.

Kids like these will never forget times like these…

In loving memory of Peter Miller, Jason Bogle, and David Aluli.

since KERA took up all the blog space again with her novel…let me just squeeze in this one little pic of my family pet dog mimi, who i haven’t seen for a while and i got to see this past weekend, damn she got big. she’s one grandma already so its all good i guess..haha

shooooots

(disclaimer: if the quality of the vids/pics come into question as you read this post, im letting you know now that they were all taken on Brook’s Palm bc my cam ran outa juice. sorrrrryyy!)

Im sure there has been a lot of speculation this past week as to where the heck I’ve been. Rest assured, folks, I am neither dead nor cut from my professional VJ Entertainment interning career but have had to return to Los Angeles for school at USC. Here’s my friend Brook riding my bike in front of good ole Tommy Trojan!

I’m usually pretty sad and boring my first week back to the city, and while that pattern held true for the first part of my week, my weekend, on the other hand, was FAR from it. Thanks to my two saints, Brook and Christian, I was rescued from South Central and got to spend the weekend in a cooler part of town in the Venice/Manhattan Beach area.
Here’s a local eatery that we do enjoy very much so. B ratings don’t stop us from consuming yummy MSGs.

Over the summer, Brook and Christian traded their television set for a snake named Walter. Walter is a pretty and most delightful creature, and he takes to strangers quite well. Apparently, you’re only supposed to feed snakes once a week and, as you can see from this video, Walter must’ve had a tough week cuz boooyy was he a hungry little guy.

On Saturday, I accompanied Brook and Christian to one of their photoshoots near Griffith Park. It was..…fun ….thank god for ipods and snacks!

After a day of shooting, Brook and I were supposed to bartend (mind you, neither of us actually knows how to bartend…but we figured it couldn’t be THAT hard) at this fancy party in Malibu. Let’s just say the house in Malibu was the sickest pad I’ve ever been to. It had its own private beach bellow with a sick little left on one side and a right on the other end of the bay. There were jetskis and baby yachts parked out front, and quads and dirtbikes galore! Obviously, brook and I couldn’t be bothered with work with all that fun to be had and somehow convinced the party thrower guys that It’d be a MUCH better idea if we just played instead of worked.

I wish I could have taken more pics of the house and the actual party (which was freakin NUTSOs) but I feel like that woulda been kinda Hillbilly. Anyways..here’s me riding the quad at moc speeds. Im quite the daredevil.

That was by far the best job I’ve ever been on. Brook and I just crazy lady danced the night away sipping fancy pants Champaign and girly martinis. We looked like total raggamuffins considering the rest of the crowd was dressed to the nines and we came in rubber slippers that we ditched for barefooting halfway into the night. Sometimes I kinda like working in LA.

The next morning, Brook and I woke up late and decided to go for a little trampoline bounce to perk us up. Trampolines are my favorite! They make me feel like such a little child and I cant ever help but laugh my arse off the whole time.
HAPPY TIMES

We then skated down to Venice boardwalk…

and got to hang with people who, if you can believe it, are actually weirder than us! But first we stopped to pet the police horseys…

These horseys used to be race horses, but they weren’t fast enough so they became cops instead.

After playing with the horses, we sat to watch some hiphoppin rollerskaters…if you squint, you can sorta make out Tara Lipinski in the background. I guess times were tough in the ice skating world and she moved on to street skating at Venice boardwalk.

Later that day, we headed down to a park in Manhattan Beach where national recording artist, ZOLA MOON, was rocking out like there aint no tomorrow. I couldn’t figure out why, but Brook, Christian and I were like the youngest boogiers there! Seriously, though, that crowd of oldies could get doowwwnnn.

Check Zola out here …. www.myspace.com/zolamoon
Boys, I feel like we have a chance with booking this talent! I’m sure she’s busy, but I’ll try and get a hold of her publicist.

After the concert, Brook and I checked out the playground to see if we could find some friends to play with and found a neat little munchkin with cool pink leopard leggings. Lexi is the coolest 5-year-old in the world! She’s great and can throw a mean kartwheel.

Not thinking, I thought i’d join Brook and Lexi with their gymnasticsing and ended up giving the whole park a peep show of my blue panties. YIKES! Sorry, children…and parents!

WE then took to grassy hill bombing on the skateboards…it was so fun and I only ate shit once!

That just about sums it all up on my side of the Pacific. If you thought my previous entries took up all the gigabites on this thing, THIS blog oughta trump it by twenty. Anyways, I miss you all and I can’t wait to see pictures from the new SHACK PARTY THIS SATURDAY!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some smog to go breath.
Toodles from Down Town Los Angeles,
Kera

Sunday is the big day folks.  im really feeling sick right now but i REALLY hope that i can make it out on sunday.  in case u dont know what im talking about, the sandbar is like a mean little sand island in the middle of kaneohe bay.  we used to throw FREE concerts out there until the scrappaz who cant handle their liquor caused all kine fights that got us on the front page of the honolulu advertiser.  so if you dont know how to handle your liquor in the sun,  PLEASE PLEASE STAY YOUR ASS AT HOME UNTIL YOU LEARN HOW TO SOCIALIZE LIKE OTHER ADULTS!!!  their are families with kids and stuff out there, so no get nuts. i have posted some  pics of the previous concerts that have made us “famous” to some degree.

This was our stage compliments of the Manatad Ohana.

the stage during peak time.  Nekens in effect.  i miss those days.  Waynes says they are ready to play again, we shall see.

EW!!!

Head bangers Ball???

Even Flash made it out.  i dont think i have ever seen him during the day…

good times…

And this is how it all ends… shitty, i know.  but now u  can see why we are always encouraging everyone to just GET ALONG. so if you are out there this weekend  and one of your friends is getting all nuts, do us all a favor and just stop him or her at all costs.  bumbai no one is gonna be able to hang out over there.  see you guys this weekend!!!!

shoobies,

B

oh yah and DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FORGET ABOUT SURF SHACK SATURDAYS GRAND OPENING SATURDAY SEP. 6TH.  THIS PLACE WILL BE LEGENDARY AND YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS INNAUGURAL EVENT!!!

This past summer Veejay held a fundrasier for the Peter Miller Foundation. There was a awesome turnout for this great cause. We took some of the proceeds and used it towards getting 2 custom surfboards shaped by “keoki surfboards” which we will giveaway at the Peter Miller Shorebreak Classic in Kailua this Saturday, August 30th.


The boards have custom designs on it which include our Vertical Junkies logo, Peter Miller Foundation Logo, and the Keoki Surfboards Signature. Thanks again to all of you who came out for the fundraiser and a big shout out to the PMF and Keoki for taking the time to shape a couple boards for us!!