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http://www.figureskatersonline.com/JohnnyWeir/journal.html This journal was wonderful and very touching. I don’t remember how many times I got that same feeling seeing and reading about his life. Although he is one of the top athletes, an Olympian, I’m often feeling like he is one of my family. One of the nice things about reading Johnny’s journal every time is that he always shares his true feeling with many details, not only the things he feels proud of, but also both good or bad. Things change so his mind may not be always the same. I didn’t think his result of last season as failure, it was just one of the results he received one his way to get to his dream. I believed that he will be okay and he has experienced tough times in his life many times, so he can handle it again. Seeing Johnny’s experience, I can also learn many things, and apply them to my life as well. I believe so do many people, and never give up or lose your dream. It’s also very nice to hear about that he has ...

Seems like Johnny’s film has been getting all positive reviews so far. I wish they would also show it in Arizona area. Or I wish I was living near New York or if there was miracle door which can get to everywhere wherever I want by just opening the door. The film sounds really awesome according to all the reviews. It started from Johnny’s cool triple axel (?), and his childhood, how he got into skating till 2006 season. Also the strictness of his training required by the sport, and his need to freely express himself at the same time . You can hear Johnny talking throughout so you get to listen to his explanation about events described or shown. It will be published in DVD in this fall . I can’t wait to see it ! On June 11, Johnny was at his movie premiere , New York and the video was already up in ice network.com and also in life skate.com http://www.lifeskate.com/ Must write about it. I really loved this interview. There are Part1 , Part 2 for the in...

I sometimes check Japanese Amazon.com site to look for some interesting books, and while I was surfing around the site, I happened to find a Japanese long time best-seller cartoon “ Mask of Glass “ by Suzue Miuchi ‘s series 43 finally ! It’s a series from a long long time ago, since when I was a child. I started reading the cartoon when I was 13. I collected all of them which were published until series 42 and was waiting for the next series coming. It’s one of my all time favorite cartoons, because the story is really interesting. The main story is about two theater actresses who were born in different situations, different type of talent. both girls challenge to perform in the legendary award story which is owned by a genius actress called Chigusa who was the only person who could perform the drama, and is considered as very difficult to perform. The main girl called Maya in the story was born in poor surroundings , with her mother who worked for a tiny noodle res...

I remember that while Ray was watching American Idol, he said Brian May and Roger Taylor who are members of the English rock group Queen, asked Adam Lambert who was in the American Idol show if he would be interested to be the singer for Queen. Seems like Paul Rodgers and Queen already broke up after 4 years together. And they might be looking for a new singer for Queen. When I first saw Adam Lambert in American Idol, somehow he reminds me of Emanuel Sandhu who is a Canadian figure skater . I don’t know why, but he really reminds me of Sandhu. Even though their faces are different, but hair style and looks are something similar. And we noticed Lambert is a great singer, and it may be great if he joins Queen as lead singer. Paul Rodgers is a great singer who has nice voice, but I thought he was not really fit with Queen’s music. I like Paul Roger’s some of his solo songs, but with Queen, Ray and I both already had the strong impression of Freddie Mercury’s stage performances ...

Time passes so fast, another weekend has comes ! And it’s already June ! Recently, we found a delicious Italian ice cream store in a shopping mall. I usually don’t eat ice cream because whenever I ate it, I got a pimple on my face next day and it took a while to fix the problem. So originally I love ice cream but for that reason, I was avoiding to eat it. But in very hot day, sometimes I feel I’m really wanting to eat particular food when it comes to my mind. And this time, it was ice cream. Depending on the ice cream store, I found the taste is very different. Even for drinks, like coffee frapuccino, when taste is so bad, or just not my taste , I’m very disappointed, and feel like what a waste. For drinks, coffee frapuccino, Starbucks is still the best. Maybe I care for the taste too much. For regular ice cream this Italian Gelato ice cream store ’s taste made me so happy and so did Ray. Last time, I tried “ espresso “ and Ray tried “ Swiss chocolate “. Both of them...

It’s a cloudy day today !  Cloudy days in Tucson are fantastic, because the killer sun is behind the clouds, but not dark and not gray sky , nice to walk around the nature. Love it. Seems like Johnny selected his new choreographer David Wilson for his new program. Maybe both programs ? I liked Yu Na Kim’s last season’s SP for his work, her FP looked similar choreography to her SP though, and for Jeffrey Buttle’s programs , I was not so crazy for any of his work except for Buttle‘s 2005-06 season’s FP. But it may be great choice for Johnny, since David Wilson’s choreography usually received high mark, especially under COP. At least better than Nina for competition programs. Adam Rippon’s choreographer for next season is also Wilson ? I’m not expecting too much until seeing the programs. Hope David will make impressive one for Johnny which fits him with different type of choreography from any other skaters , with two different choreographies, SP & FS. With Johnn...

I’m very excited, figure skating GPS assignments has just published yesterday ! Johnny will skate in Cup of Russia and NHK , maybe that what he requested ? I’m very happy, he got what he wanted ! I’m also excited to see Sasha Cohen , Evgeny Plushenko, Daisuke Takahashi and also Shen/Zhao will be back ! I was away from pair skating since Tatiana Totyama / Marin retired and Shen/Zhao haven’t competed. Because after them, I felt bored and thought it all became like technical part, and no artistry. Only one Russian pair looked good, but still unpolished. I loved those two pairs T/M and S/Z. For ladies, Sasha Cohen was my top favorite ladies skaters, because of her exquisite skating plus, her musicality , well balanced movements, I especially loved her passionate, powerful SP more than lyrical style of music. No matter the result, I will enjoy her skating. For men, It’s so exciting, Plushenko will be back !! Figure skating needs charismatic star quality skaters who make big impa...