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40th birthday with sharks in Hawaii

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40th birthday with sharks in Hawaii I've been busy lately! I was in Santa Monica for a presentation at Apple Store few weeks ago, I hosted a Sumo wrestling birthday BBQ party and I just came back from Hawaii! I was in Oahu for 5 hours last year to meet a cancer survivor, Amber and my friend, Kimi. We had such a great time doing underwater photo shoot but it was too short! I'm glad I'm back on the island for 5 days this time. On my birthday, we did a PELAGIC MARINE ANIMAL RESEARCH DIVE to see sandbar sharks! I was so excited! They came so close to us! We were super lucky to have 100ft visibility! so beautiful... They love to play with the bubbles from the boat! So cute! I felt like I was in a dream, swimming in the deep blue and seeing 20 sandbar sharks. I'm so happy with this shot! Juan and Ocean are so knowledgeable, confident and humble about sharks and the ocean conservation. Please check out their site to learn about them! http://www.oneoceandiving.com AND Ocean is a captain, scuba instructor, freediver, and everything ocean! Super woman!! It's so cool to see a female captain! We stayed at a condo with a beautiful ocean font view in Haleiwa. We snorkeled every morning!   We drove to Honolulu to see my friend, Kimi Werner at Ocean Expo! I see her every year for 4 years now. Since I missed her in January, I feel it's complete! Thank you, Kimi- It was so coincident to...

40th birthday with Sumo Wrestling BBQ

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My special 40th Birthday I'm 40 and I feel healthy inside and out!  I really wanted to do something for my 40th and I put a lot of energy into this! Something fun to remind myself that I'm still young at heart! So... Ja jaaaan! YES, SUMO! Japanese represent! Since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a mermaid and a wrestler! I always wanted to rent this SUMO suits so I made it happen!! It was kind of hard carrying this heavy and puffy body suit... We had too much fun!!! Specially after these drinks and food! Then we started SERIOUSLY wrestling-!  And I can't tell who in these pictures! Amy and Pamela's battle... My mom was into it! after her battle... Thank you, Travia! Thank you, Rose!! Thank you for helping me organizing this SUMO birthday party, Jeff! My friend Shanti brought his cute puppy-!!!   Thank you so much for taking pictures, Jeff, Rose, Amy and Doreen!!! So happy to have these fun memories!!! I want to do another SUMO next year or sooner! Any party...

Underwater Healer Project Book Release Party

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Underwater Healer Project Book Release Party Thank you so much for coming to my book release party!! It was a full 3 hours and I hope I've got to say Hi and Bye to everyone! I was selling my first self-published book from the cancer survivor campaign. All the money is going to be spent for Tokyo Gallery show in May. My mother was helping me out all night long-!   I was also selling my metal prints from my Japanese Folklore Yokai Project. It was selling a lot! All the small ones are GONE! I printed 10 canvas gallery wraps from my cancer survivor project and these are shipped to Arizona for Genentech Conference. I packed and shipped on Monday! I hope they arrived safely.... One of the cancer survivors, Sante came to support my party! I'll be going to Arizona with her. She is giving a big talk in front of 500+ audience about her experience of  transformation and letting go. She is also going to mention about the underwater healer project experience. I'm so thrilled and grateful to be a part of medical conference with my project! I'll be showing my work and Q and A after Sante's talk. It was so nice to see everyone. I was really nervous how it was going to turn out but I'm happy with the result! I still have some books left before I take them all to Tokyo. If you are interested, please email me. Thank you so much again for your support! I'm grateful...

Before and after series

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It is so nice to see my clients after they give births! I remember them being pregnant last year and it's been a year already! They are so happy to welcome a little new member and still looking fabulous! I would love to keep in touch with all of my clients forever. Thank you so much for thinking of inviting me to the one year old birthday...