I started snowboarding in the ’99/00 season, using a board my friend Okamura gave me. I ended up teaching myself and struggling for awhile until I realized that my board was too short for the way I ride. Since then, I started riding longer boards and improved considerably, although I still don’t consider myself that great. In the last two [...]

So it’s been awhile, but I am back. 2008 was a hard year for me, with only the very beginning of the year being truly happy times for me. The rest of the year I spent slowly spiraling down into a dark existence, hitting rock bottom right around the end of the year. In the past year, I’ve lost most [...]

It was, in fact, my birthday yesterday. Normally I don’t really look forward to my birthday. It’s not that I don’t like birthdays, it’s just that I tend to have very unmemorable birthdays, so it’s just another day for me. This year, however, was different. Although my day wasn’t all that great because of some work annoyances, my evening was [...]