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3. Mystic Seer ( Nick of time ) This story is about a newly young marriage couple who go into a café restaurant and there was a little toy machine called “mystic seer” at their table, with instructions on it that say that , for a penny, it will tell the future. Like a fortune cookie. The husband is curious so he tries it and puts a penny into the toy, asking a question about whether he had gotten the promotion today that he had been trying for. And the answer was “ it has been decided in your favor “. He then calls his company in the café pay phone and asks about it, and finds out that it’s true he really got the promotion.   At this point, the husband starts asking many more questions. And everything the mystic seer answers to him turns out to be true. So he becomes even more crazy, like obsessed, to ask many questions, such as where to live, west or east or north or south. The wife gets fed up with his actions and tells him they should not be a slave of th...

Since New Year’s Eve, we have been enjoying watching the 1950s classic TV series Twilight Zone marathon. Twilight zone is one of our favorite TV series. There is a Japanese version of Twilight Zone and I knew only the Japanese version until I moved to the USA and I didn’t know about the classic Twilight Zone. I think the Japanese version got some inspiration from this original series , and I found many people might get some ideas from the classic Twilight zone for their books or cartoon books, or other movies because I’ve seen many similar situation or themes in the classic Twilight Zone . Ray and I both love this kind of thought provoking themes and we found most of the episodes have important messages which can help in real life situations. I found myself that I love any kind of art or performances or stories or music , films, paintings, which have thought provoking points or messages or themes to improve my life and myself. For example, this is why I love Johnny We...

I can’t believe another year past, and it’s 2011 ,now !!! When I think about my childhood & teenage years, at that time I thought 2000 is like another generation, and it was far from then, and now it’s already 2011! Computer, I-pod, I-phone, music, everything became digital. But cars are not flying yet, like the movie “ back to the future part 2 “. gallery.xemanhdep.com Maybe around 2500 ?? I wanted to write many things by the end of 2010, such as another SWTS’s reviews , Johnny Weir’s awesome performances ( Bad Romance & Ave Maria ) at Kaleidoscope on Ice, etc.. Fortunately my work has been busy for Christmas season every year, so could not make to write my personal blog until now. The most surprising things I did in 2010   Quit smoking. Yes ! I quit cigarette on October 24, 2010, cold turkey ! This was not in my list of the resolution for 2010, and I didn’t think I would quit smoking cause I always enjoyed smoking. I decided to quit. when ...

Looks like every week the required elements is getting more and more difficult. And during the week at practice, two skaters got injuries, Rebecca Bidig and Brook Castile ( who is Jonny’s partner ) and one skater, Brandon Smith got illness and was carried by ambulance to the hospital and could not attend the show. Even though I’ve heard and knew how hard and dangerous sports figure skating can be, seeing these celebrities challenges during the training in this show, it shows even more clear. And also as Johnny said, the fact is that skating judges don’t care skater’s health condition at events. They see and score how they performed in the competitions. At least in STWS, judges don’t judges based on performer’s reputation, political connection. It looks fair no matter what celebrity‘s fans wish to think. When skaters got injury and announcing about it, I’ve seen skaters were criticized by skating fans when they had to withdraw from the competition event. Most...

Skate for Hope Johnny Weir Bad Romance This is one of my favorite of Johnny’s performances. It’s really an amazing art to me and his movements and body language gave me chills. Love his beginning pose which is so artistic like a beautiful statue ! His natural expression , body language based on the music always amazes me. I love the costume and also he acts the character of Bad Romance of the story, so I love him with make-up for this performance. While watching his performance, I’m watching the story and the character he is acting for every program. Love the costume very much, too. I always love to hear his opinion of artistry, and skating because I see him as a genius creative artist. There are many kinds of skaters and dancers, and there is always a taste and I love uniqueness, detailed sensitive movements and beautiful line, natural expression with deep emotion , besides musicality and rhythm. Johnny Weir , Emanuel Sandhu , Tatiana Navka these three a...

It's so nice to have something exciting on Monday night again ( just like Johnny’s be good Johnny weir last time ) , we really enjoyed watching the Episode #2 of Skating with the Stars on Monday night. It was sad Sean Young / Denis Petukhov team were eliminated in this episode. We loved and enjoyed very much with their performances. I thought Sean Young has so much personality in her performance ( and also off ice ) and has a big impact whatever she does. Denis ’s music selection ( I always loved his music choice for his and Melissa’s programs ) and his interesting choreography and creative idea were fantastic. It was also interesting to see Denis took Sean to indoor sky diving place . I thought it’ a great idea to take her to the place to catch “feeling “ , without “ thinking ” for her performance, and it was sweet of him to do it. The sky diving looked so much fun BTW, I want to try it ! For performance itself, my favorites were Rebecca & Fred , and...

We were watching “ Skating with the Stars “ at 8:30 pm ( ABC CH ) on November 22, because Johnny Weir was there as one of the judges, with Dick Button and Laurie Ann Gibson . Seems like it was about 6.5 millions viewers ! I never knew such a large amount of people were watching this show. I’ve never seen this kind of show, like “Dancing with the Stars“ , and would not care for it if Johnny was not in the show, but it was really enjoyable to watch. Also I found I can know three situations through watching it , as a judge’s side, as a challenger’s side, and my personal view. This way I can objectively watch it to be fair. I could view like that while watching figure skating competitions, but as being a huge fan of a particular skater, judge’s side was often ignored from my mind. But since Johnny is one of the judges in this competition, I also viewed from judge’s side and found new discovery. The performers are Rebecca Budig / Fred Palascak, Bethenny Frankel ...