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This survey is from US Figure skating site and I found this info from Johnny's message board. I thought it's cool but it's better to post my answer on my blog instead of Johnny's message board. Survey for 2006 1) What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before? Went to see live COI ( Champions on Ice ) show, built another new business 2) Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Yes, always for my business. Every year I set a goal to reach to my final goal for 5 years later. I love to write down and create my future by myself. because it always works for me. 3) Did anyone close to you give birth? none 4) Did anyone close to you die? Yes, my grand mother passed away in March. I suppose now she must be happy meeting with my mom and my uncle and aunt, her sisters, great grand-pa and grand-ma, and my dear dog over there. 5) What countries did you visit? Unfortunately, I co...

" Exceeding your personal best. " " There is no competition. There is no enermy. There is only the desire to improve yourself. As you improve, the world improves. " I love this quote. I found this quote in one of my favorite book " Attractor factor " by Joe Vitale. I've just sent this message to my favorite skater Johnny Weir. He will compete in Cup of Russia on November 23, 24. Johnny lost his mind-set at Skate Canada and finished at third place. Since my second favorite skater Stephane Lambiel ( from Switzerland ) made big mistake at his SP, and ranked at 7th place, and Johnny got 2nd position at his SP, he could win the competition. However, Johnny said, since he knew he could win this competition, he felt confidence after the SP and before the FP. Once his FP started, and he made mistake at his first jump which was suppose to be combination jumps ( 3-3 ). Then his quad became triple jump and he made another mistake at ...

Johnny was not in this event. But Ray and I were curious to see some of the other skaters, Evan and Oda for men because they are one of the tough competitors for Johnny . and also for women, we wanted to see Miki Ando and Mao Asada . Ray and I love Miki Ando right now. I was not really interested in her skating until I saw her new program at Campbel's Cup , because I thought her skating is boring but now she looked like totally different person from last Olympic and before.  She lost 10lb since last Olympic and looked really nice. She changed her skating style, learned from great Russian coach who were also teaching Shizuka. I loved Miki's both programs ( SP & LP). She is a beautiful powerful skater. I know she is not as good as Sasha especially for her component but I loved her powerful jumps and straight line foot work. also I loved the way how she uses her hands and fingers. Very graceful. Also love her gorgeous costumes. ( SP & LP ) a...

Figure skating season has already arrived since October , and Ray and I both are really crazy for it right now. Our favorite skater Johnny Weir changed his previous style that was very elegant, graceful to more masculine style and nothing was romantic anymore. I was little bit disappointed for it because I thought the old style was what made him so unique and original. It's what made him stand out from the other male skaters. It's what gave his style impact. Although Johnny is always amazing, this new style lessens the impact. If this was the first time I saw Johnny, I would have thought he is like the other male skaters. I'm always glad to see Johnny smile and happy. This new style for this SP is not for me. Although I watched it three times, all I remember is that he did good jumps. And for me, it's not even about feminine or masculine style, because his exhibition program " My Way " was very masculine but it was very beautiful elegant with b...

Before I fell asleep, I always read a book.  That's one of my habit ! Last night, I was reading one of my favorite book called " Atractor factor " by Joe Vitale . It's a self help book , very spiritual and also very practical.  This is not just a new age book and it's kind of like a famous classic book " Napoleon Hill " . But it has more clear information to be successful. I read this book over and over and I'm still getting a lot of help from it.  Every time I read it , I always discovered the key of our life success from it. " The Energy You Give Out is the Result You Get " . " Emotion has Power " " Your Inner Becomes Outer " . The author Joe Vitale says " The energy you give out is the result you get " That's the attractor factor. It's really true !  Everything in the world is made up of energy including human , plants , even furniture and decor...

My husband Ray and I went to Tucson Botanical Garden this weekend. When I first came to Tucson, what I really impressed was trees. All the trees in Tucson are SO artistic and beautiful ! Unfortunately, I have no talent at drawing painting , but I love to take pictures. In the botanical garden, there are 16 different gardens within our grounds representing a variety of gardening traditions and botanical themes. It was very interesting to see each of the gardens. There was a bride and groom holding their wedding party and everyone who were invited was dressing up , taking their pictures . We were the only people who wore casual look. Ray looks serious, he said too much smiling make him look stupid , so he didn't smile. Ha ha.. But I think he is a good photographer.

I love books, and I love to spend my time at a book store sometimes .  American book store is very convenient because I can read whatever I want , sitting at a sofa, drinking coffee at the star bucks there before I buy any books.  I don't have to buy it if I didn't like it. It's like a library beside the books are all brand new. Since I came in the U.S.A., I hadn't been reading Japanese books , but I had ton of books in my book case in Japan, and I brought only my favorites ones and gave the rest to library and sold them to used book stores.  I wanted to bring everything, but I had too many another staffs to bring and send for moving, so I couldn't. Anyway, yesterday , I found one of my old Japanese book called " " 10 Rules to Boost Your Luck " written by Two Japanese authors , while I was cleaning my book case. I remember, when my feeling was down, I purchased this book and really loved it at that time . Soo...

I have several favorite quotes.  Here are the new ones I recently found.  Some are very simple , some are very deep and all of them hit my heart and got big impression. " You have to be hard on yourself to be successful in any industry. I don't believe in sugar coating things " by Johnny Weir This Johnny's quote is very simple, and everyone knows about it , however , sometimes I was thinking about that if there are any sugar coating things to be successful in my life and this quote woke me up ! Thanks Johnny ! " To me a positive role model is someone who isn't caught up on being a role model. I don't want to see someone changing their thoughts so they can appeal to a certain demographic.  I believe in pleasing yourself first, naturally, so I am not out looking for role models or to be a role model.  I think people need to make their own mistakes, learn from them and grow, and there's nothing that a pop star, figure s...

It's been a while since last post and today, I want to write about review of COI ( Champions On Ice ) Glendale, Phoenix , AZ and our phoenix trip . The purpose of my husband and I went to COI is to see Johnny Weir of course ! I've never been to see figure skating live show before even I love to see it on TV, because no one ever made me so crazy until I saw Johnny in last winter Olympic. Johnny is just special for me, and my husband also feels the same way. Anyway, before we left home, we made a big sign on a poster panel with the words " Johnny Weir We LOVE ( heart mark ) YOU " to support him. We thought many of the other people will do the same things for their favorite skaters. To our surprise, no one in the Phoenix audience had signs of support for any skaters, I guess in Phoenix, the audience are not deep fans of skating, just casual fans. So we were the only ones in the audience of thousands of people who were holding up a poster. ...

Shakira, She is my new favorite musician. Shakira is from Colombia and she is a composer and also can play most of musical instruments and also great dancer. Especially I love one of her music Objection ( Tango ) .  It's like mixture of Tango and Spanish hard rock. She is fantastic ! Maybe I will buy her DVD so that I can enjoy her performance. I found her music when I was watching " 2004 World championship figure skating Exhibition " DVD, one of great skater Stephan Lambiel who is from Switzerland was using her music ( arranging to without song ) for his program . I like Stephan Lambiel's skate becasue his dancing is incredible, very fast , creative and artistic. Very fun to watch.  Also his music taste for his program is always great.  Of course Johhny Weir is my favorite, but Stephan is my second favorite skater.

Freddie Mercury I didn't know about Freddie Mercury except the name of English rock group " Queen" until a year ago. Queen  is famous all over the world. But maybe I didn't know much about them because Freddie's looking was not my type and so had never paid attention to him and Queen. I'll get back to Queen in a minute, but first, a little background about my music interests. I have been big fan of Japanese rock group " The Alfee " for a long time . Once I saw their live concert, it was really difficult to get big impression with other musicians' music. Because all of Alfee's music is very unique and variety, rock, classic, heavy metal (classic style), dancing, acoustic, and also simple music when they need to make a music for TV drama and movie. Their live event set was always amazing , big fireworks, colorful spot lights were always beautiful. Their lead guitarist is Toshihiko Takamizawa , and he is also the composer of al...

Here is my impression for this year 2006 Marchall's international showcase, Johnny Weir - His talent and skating level is far above any others. I could feel Johnny is telling the story of the music, words, it was really excellent , he is naturally feeling the music and rhythm from beginning to the end , his slow movement was very deep and enchanting.  Also for example " wait for me, wait for me " his arm position and movement was very expressive. another example is his last part that super flexible position, I can't write enough to describe our deep impression.  Too many things to write .  Just really really amazing. Evan Lysacek was fun to watch with three different kinds of music. Different from competition. His dancing was great. EVGENY Plushenko was good, but always same music , style and image, felt little bit boring. Matt Savoie , the music was not really fit with his image and also no impression. Irina Slutskaya was great, sh...