Aniki Ken, Day in the life of Ken Takahashi: May 2006

Videos, Noodles & Hanna....

Today we had a meeting with Mr. FF3 Tokyo Drift "Toshi Hayama" (president of Stage10). we discussed about his DVD title "JDM Insider"& the plans to go mass market.

Last night I went out to Pacific Rim visited Jerry (owner) & Dai.
it was far..... Duarte! I got to see there new shop and garage.

checked out Dai's new ride.... not finish yet..

Had noodles with Dai...

Ichishima-san (owner of Spoon) luvs my dog hanna so much he came back to my house just to walk the dog.

Formula D - Atlanta

Welcome to Road Atlanta....!

explaning the line of the course and what we are going to be judging on.

drivers meeting

Andy annouces that Judges are number 1! at TGIF

Hikaru was putting on makeup on Yoshie... yasashi-ne?

Tanner & Steph team AEM....

Dai got in a accedent with Ken Gushi during practice friday night :( baka...!

One of the nice things of being a Judge is that we get our own kart!

it started to rain in the middle of the day. so all we can do is sit and wait. but luckly the rains stopped just in time for compitition.

Good size crowds in Atlanta. but Atlanta has always been one of the most tuffest tracks to Judge. There were alot of tuff calls that day.

Drivers intro for top 16

1st Place Tanner, 2nd Samual, & 3rd Dai...!

Good-old team RMR...!

1st dodger game

Over the weekend on Saturday, I took my duaghter and I to Griffith Parks, Rossevelt Golf couse. I'm a 9 hole but boy! they need karts! it was hilly. I met up with two of my friends (who I use to work with) Noto & Klay.

tee time 12:06pm... ish

Quinnie and I having lunch at the club house...

Klay trying to look cool..........

Noto teeing up... in the horizan you can see the Observatory.

Kimika w/Coco... boy, Coco gottan big

Everything at the stadium is very expensive!
today it was dodges vs. Milwaukee

Had a great day with my daughter....!

3 Kings

Went eating with two of my closest friends at Musha in Torrance, Toshi of Stage 10 & Eric XS Engineering.
Reminiscing about the days when we were young and just starting our businesses in the industry, seeing were we are now, back then it was kinda a uncool to fix up imports or like niche thing because we were asians. Back then we didn't know better it was a way of life....

talking about old time, past relationships, past business partners, good time....

"Tres Generations" the beginning of the end.....

Our good friend Takagi.... Cheers!!!

3 hours later......

Some things you just can't fake...
OG for life!

Hottest Ticket in Town!!!!

This is probably the hottest ticket in town! It's the Sony Party May 11th during E3! but with my luck thats the day I have to go to Atlanta for Formula D... :( sucks huh...

Baby sitting Tarzan's Viper

Since my long time relation with Tarzan and my personal friend Mr. Chiba (owner of Taisan) I kinda became the baby sitter for Mr. Chiba's toys. EX: the Taisan Drfit Viper.
it's a compitition couple that Tarzan Yamada drivers here in the states. While it's not doing demo's it sits at my house...