2016 - Monkey Business

13 days into the new year. As always, I'm keeping this blogging thing tight and timely! How has your 2016 been? If you haven't debauched yet, you're doing it wrong. It's the year of the monkey, which means it's time to break into people's houses and eat all their food!

Incidentally, this fool and it's buddies did just that at my brother's place 2 days after I shot this. 

Boerewors Brilliance

Meat is a vital ingredient of the South African lifestyle (Japan’s staple is rice, France’s is bread and South Africa’s is meat). In particular, meat cooked over the open flame. Don’t mistake it for a BBQ though. In SA… that shit doesn’t fly. If you want to grill meat…There is only the braai.

I wish I had a Unicorn…

My buddies back home freestyling at my last braai during the holidays back home,
You want to know where I come from.... This is where I come from.

Incidentally this has nothing to do with Japan.

The Pilansberg National Park: 2

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With the elephants behind us we headed off to ward the middle of the park where there is a bit of a rest stop. A long the way we encountered some striped donkeys.

The Pilansberg National Park: 1

The Cat’s folks came to SA to meet my folks and since they were there I figured that They can’t be in Africa without going on safari. We didn’t have enough time to go all the way to Kruger so we went to the closest big 5 park to Joburg… The Pilansberg National Park…

Johannesburg

I didn’t realize how much I missed home till the cat and I got home. The skies. The food, the vibe. It’s home right? It was particularly nice to take the cat there. She has been to many places in Asia and all around the USA but never Africa. Never even the southern hemisphere. I have tried to explain it to the northerners up here but the truth is

Joburg is like nowhere else on earth.

Shots #78 Red Bull gives you wings!

Shot just off Long Street in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan 2012

Shots #77 Devil’s Peak at Night

Devil’s Peak from Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa. January 2012.

TUNE TECH RACING e30 BMW cup car

One of the many racing cars built by my cousin’s company, TUNE TECH. Incidentally, if you own a BMW and are in Joburg, go to them. They are the best. Really. BMW dealerships go to them when they don’t know how to fix things.

If there’s grass on the wicket…

On my third day in 'ape town I met up with my oldest and best friend (We have been friends since grade 2) We hit up day two of the third test at Sahara Park Newlands. For those of you that have no Idea what I just said… Basically we went to watch cricket live.

Shots #75: Closer than I appear.

Cape Town

While I was back home I took a trip to the sleepy city (they call it the friendly city but the only friendly people I met there were the one’s who were not from there originally. Go figure. I daresay it is still the most beautiful city I have ever been to in my life.

Happy fappy for Jesus H Slappy

Yes. Our heathen family had a Christmas lunch. For me t was an excuse to consume copious amounts of epic food and enjoy the weather in the back yard with family (whome I may not see for another 3 years) so I put up with the fact that it was marked on the supposed birth of that guy. We’ll try ignore his flock of sheep for the rest of this post though because Tubby is so damn cute!

Shots #74 Hooked.

It’s settled. I NEED an M3. My Nissan Silvia is awesome… no doubt, but the M3 is a whole new world… Without the singing Arab thief and his pet monkey.

Summer Holiday

In the middle of winter. Yes. I went home for 3 weeks, hence the lack of activity here. Internet in South Africa is SHIT! but hey, who cares about service delivery when you can milk the client and pay yourself a R10 million (1億円)  bonus right? F@CK TELKOM!

Anyway, for R17000 (170 000円) I flew Emirates and thus got a short stopover in Dubai where I met a buddy of mine from Osaka who was also heading to SA to see his lady and so we kicked the second leg together.