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I was not going to watch this Exhibition since I knew Johnny is not going to perform. But since hearing that they may show Johnny’s award for readers choice during the event, I just wanted to watch that part and planning to watch it. However, it might be too late ? Or they didn’t show that part ?, when we turned on the TV, it already started and Ryan Bradley was in interview. And was unable to see Johnny in it. I was cooking during the time so I didn’t watch all of them, but Hmm… whole the performances I watched bored me except for some only music. I was disappointed when I watched Meryl & Davis. They did my favorite music “ Don’t stop me now “ by Queen . I felt a little frustrated seeing their performance with the music, because the music is so powerful, exciting , so if they could skate with much more speed, effortless super passionate moves , it would be better.  As it was, I thought it was quite slow.. But some of the choreography was good. Maybe since that ...

Johnny Weir - 2008 Skate America Originally uploaded by WordOfMouth I love the way how Johnny uses his hand, fingers, arms, body, legs, and makes his facial expression , and it is not so easy to make it so beautifully artistic like a museum sculpture.

The Men’s competition was shown live in NBC broadcast on Sunday evening. ….. And it started from Johnny’s Free skate , and seeing his face right before he skated , I immediately felt , oh, no ! he is not on, no fire that was usually there before he skate in the past, and it’s not coming from only the nerve, but physically , something wrong with him. He looked so thin and not healthy. I often saw his tiger fire eyes in the past, and I was hoping he gets those eyes again. Looked like he was putting on fake tan to cover his face color, but even with it, it was clear to see he was not healthy enough. I also felt that when I saw the photo of his Short Program in his fan’s message board. But I tried to think he was just disappointed for his mistakes, and wanted to think he is okay. When the Free skate started, Ray immediately went to the kitchen from the TV after set up to record it, and I went away to my office, but we could hear what commentators were saying for his performance...

Nationals men’s competition Short program will be coming tomorrow. It’s already tomorrow !!! Seems like the starting order might change, and Johnny will skate in last at third group. All his main competitors will be in first group. I don’t know this position is good for Johnny or not, but hope he will focus only himself. Starting order for SP Warmup Group 1 1. Evan Lysacek, DuPage FSC 2. Jeremy Abbott, Broadmoor SC 3. Stephen Carriere, SC of Boston 4. Adam Rippon, SC of New York Warmup Group 2 5. William Brewster, Detroit SC 6. Shaun Rogers, University of Delaware FSC 7. Tommy Steenberg, SC of Northern Virginia 8. Jason Wong, SC of Boston 9. Scott Smith, Salt Lake Figure Skating Warmup Group3 10. Nicholas LaRoche, All Year FSC 11. Parker Pennington, Winterhurst FSC 12. Jonathan Cassar, Detroit SC 13. Eliot Halverson, Ann Arbor FSC 14. Johnny Weir, SC of New York Warmup Group 4 15. Douglas Razzano, Coyotes SC of Arizona 16. Ryan Bradley, Broadmoor SC 17. Dennis Phan, All Year FSC 1...

I found a very interesting info about our brains , and how it influences our taste and our view points when we see things. People’s taste and view points are usually different, so I’m not surprised that people see things totally different from me. Actually, it’s so unbelievable Ray and I have similar taste for so many things. Maybe that’s one of the reasons, it’s so comfortable to be with him. Recently, I happened to find a comment which bugged me a little because it was about Johnny’s “ The Swan “ program in Nationals 2006, and comparing with Patrick Chan’s SP for this season in Canadian Nationals. The comment was this “ I found the swan is too old for Johnny. He has no creativity, no genius to skate such music. I don't know why he continues, every year, to skate to classical music that he interprets with such an old style (and not old in a good way, for me). Patrick‘s term of creative is brilliant. ” When I read this comment, honestly, I thought “ Huh ???” I...

I’ve just listened to Johnny’s teleconference on icenetwork.com. He was asked several questions which were about judging system, US economy etc.. For his concern about the COP ( the new judging system ), it’s almost same as my concern which I have been thinking , which I already wrote in one of my Myspace blogs a long time ago. And Johnny also has been telling about the new judging system is killing artistic aspects in figure skating since a long time ago. I think for Johnny who is a true artistic skater , who is also a perfectionist for every detailed movements , feeling with music, ( his mind, body and music altogether ) , besides all the elements, including smooth landing positions, it’s very important issue that the system has become like a mathematical contest, always need to “ think” to calculate the points instead of “ feeling” with music. Other wise it becomes like Lambiel who is also a true artistic skater, but who rarely skated clean both programs. Actu...

It was a beautiful day today. I woke up late at 11AM, and had a glass of lemonade with red pepper as usual as my breakfast. Ray already got up and was eating a banana muffin at the dining room. I rarely eat sweets except for only Swiss Chocolate , but sometimes once every two month, I feel wanting to eat sweets. Banana Muffins or Banana cream pie or chocolate chiffon cake or cheese cake or cream puff or coffee taste ice cream. Those are my favorite sweets. But mostly , American sweets are too sweet to me so those may be the least sweets here (IMO), so that I can eat sometimes. Anyway, while watching Ray was eating banana muffin , I was influenced and had one of them with Parisian Soup which was our left over from our last dinner. Parisian soup is one of my favorites, it has leeks ( like Japanese green onions) with potatoes. Very simple taste, but has margarine, salt & black pepper and whip cream. In my mind, besides my work, about US skating Nationals often comes...