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Yesterday ( July 17 ) was my 45 years birthday.  Usually, I’m not so a big fan of doing something special for my birthday, same as other holidays and national holidays. But suddenly I really felt wanting to eat sushi or chirashi sushi yesterday and Ray found a great Japanese restaurant for me and made a reservation for our dinner. Before we took action, we are already careful to choose things to avoid to get disappointed later, and we started checking reviews of all Tucson Japanese restaurants. And we went to one of the best reviewed restaurant “ Sushi on Oracle “ , because it’s the nearest place from our home. It’s a small Japanese restaurant, but the food was much more delicious than I expected.  Surely it was the most delicious Japanese restaurant I’ve ever been in the U.S.A. The staff there ( Sushi on Oracle ) were friendly and polite. We ordered egg roll , a gedashi Tofu , as appetizer, and for main dishes, Chirashi sushi for me, and Teriyaki beef for Ray. ...

It’s so interesting to see how people see things differently in the world. Right now, I’m very into watching figure skating and when watching one particular skater, people’s impressions are so different. I found that the more people try to convince their opinion, the more other people who disagree are coming. Maybe it’s better not to try to convince their opinion to others except in situations where it’s something that is a known fact and truth.  Other wise, people will get more thick head for their opinions. Actually, I think it’s good to have different opinion from others. Just maybe how we all tell our opinion may be more important when it comes to influencing other people’s feeling. When we have disagreement, many people start to talk aggressive ways , correcting which is right or wrong .  So argument starts. I also found that when someone compliment and who gush for their favorite skaters, and putting them up too much , always others come to bash the skaters....

I’m feeling that ice shows are so different depending on country, and my favorite ice show I’ve ever seen is still Olympic French Gala which was held in Bercy, France 2006. Because it was completely entertainment. I could not see the live show and I watched it only by DVD, but I’m still enjoying. In opening show, there were only professional skaters who can dance well ( balletic movement ) And the spot lights setting was very artistic and unique, using variety colors of spot lights. Johnny was also attending the show, and somehow I thought it fits him. Recently , Dream on ice show was held in Japan and it was included all the top Japanese eligible skaters and Johnny Weir, Stephane Lambiel and Sara Meier were the guest skaters. I haven’t seen the complete show, and just watched some skaters performances on YouTube, and could not find the opening and finale show. Many Japanese skaters were doing Latin theme of music ( tango & etc.. ) with black & red costumes. And I’ve read ...