Miho's favorites

I found a beautiful letter from Emanuel Sandhu to Japan in his fan’s blog at the link below, http://emanuelsandhu.jugem.jp/ - ( thank you to the blog owner for sharing his letter ! ) He sent this letter below, around April 29. “ To all of my Japanese skating fans and to all of the marvelous people of Japan, As the World Championships continue, I think of you often and pray for you often. There are no words that I can say that will mitigate the hardships that you all must have and continue to endure after the tragedies of the earthquake and tsunami. I can only hope that by watching members of your country skate, in fact all the skaters, that you will be able to find the inspiration to be stronger and fight harder just like they do everyday. Skating is not only a sport but an art and art is the freedom of self-expression. You too must make the journey to meet yourselves within and learn things about yourselves and others that lie in dark places. Brin...

I was watching biography & the success story of Howard Schultz who is the chairman of Starbucks coffee , on TV the other day and I was inspired by his amazing passion for coffee which he offers in Starbucks and his heartfelt communication with customers and people, besides his success story. I love to read biographies, and success stories about any kind of topics, business, health, wealth, beauty, happiness, etc.. and always love to learn “ How “. and finding the common between all the successful people. He is famous and I suppose everyone knows about his biography and his success story. I just wanted to include his story in my blog Miho’s Favorites . Howard Schultz described his business and his selling of delicious coffee this way, “ This is not a transaction, not a calculation , no, it’s a passion ! and it’s about communication with people, with heart ! “ Especially this his quote above was very impressive and is spinning around in my head. Also, ...

Today, I would like to talk about Miki Ando who has just won her second world’s gold medal on April 30 2011. This news made me and my husband so happy ! Since last Olympics ( Vancouver Olympics ), we hadn’t been following skating competitions like before, mainly because we are just not crazy for the COP system, and so we were only checking the results of each event. Miki Ando’s victory was very impressive to me and I have been inspired by her strength this whole season. She won everything except GPF, and had a very successful season. She said “ I fought for Japan and wanted to give power and strength to all the victims who suffer from nature disaster, who lost their families and many other things they had . “ According to her, her health condition was not really good though, she learned how to handle the competition under that condition. She also had lost her father by car accident when she was a little girl, eight years old, so she knows how hurt it is to los...

I love to find my favorite quotes and I was making a document file for all my favorite quotes I have collected. Albert Einstein’s quotes have been in my top favorite list. This genius’s quotes are so deep and I learned something new from some of his quotes. Some of his quotes I agree with and love them. gallery.xemanhdep.com Here are my top 10 favorites of his quotes. 1. “ The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead : his eyes are closed. “ ( whoever does not feel this emotion who can not stop and wonder and be amazed by the mysterious , is the same as being dead, his/her eyes are closed.) I think we can take this quote in many ways. There are many mysteries in the world, and I’m always intere sted and curious to figure out mystery. About art, I often felt art without emotion is not...

Johnny made a great idea to help Japan by joining forces with Tadashi Shoji and it was announced on March 29. The T-shirt was designed by Tadashi Shoji and Johnny Weir . All the sales will go to Japan Red Cross . http://fashionetc.com/news/news/1270-johnny-weir-tadashi-shoji-t-shirt-japan-relief And my order T-shirt arrived here 2 days ago, and was delivered by UPS Ground. Johnny's words : “Join me in letting Japan know: We’re behind you and we believe in you…. Let’s pull together and take action to help Japan.” http://www.figureskatersonline.com/johnnyweir/home/events/t-shirt-order-page/      When I joined it, my feeling was I want to do anything which can support Japan or go to red cross is fine, and the t-shirt was a way to do that  But I’m also happy to receive the t-shirt when I saw it. The T-shirt was longer than I thought , and I really like it. As all the Johnny fans may already know, the design symbolizes Japanes...

When I saw this music video, " I'm going slightly mad " by Queen for the first time, I was like wow, it’s like a Dali art, and Dali is my favorite painter ! Ray and I were re-watching “ Classic Queen “ video last night. “The greatest hits “ and “ Classic Queen “ are my favorite Queen’s music video collection, so we sometime watch them whenever I need extreme power and energy. Of all the music videos, “I’m going slightly mad “ is my absolute favorite of all. Freddie Mercury’s creativity for this is one of the best ever for me. Amazing thing is this music video was made only nine month before Mercury passed away. And yet he looks vital, energetic, smiling and obviously still full of creativity . The lyrics are sad because seems like it was his feeling after he got illness , but he sang it in a humorous way and I love the song and the music very much. It’s very unique. Freddie’s performance is very theatrical. Reminds me of a theatre show you mig...

Laughing lifts our spirits and improves our moods, and relieves stress. It has been said laughter is the best medicine, plus it can also help improve our life as well. I think making people laugh so hard is actually a difficult skill. More than the words themselves, people laugh from one’s expression, how they tell the story, how they act naturally while telling the story.   I‘m more like easy to laugh at any kind of thing which is more natural. Because when I feel a person is trying to make me laugh, it often doesn’t work for me. Laughing taste may be different depending on the person. Which films made you laugh from the bottom of your heart ? Here are my top 10 funniest films , 1. Money pit This is an old movie (1986) but it’s still unbeatable. Not only I couldn’t stop laughing but I got stomachaches, could not breathe from laughing too hard, and rolling on the floor with laughter. There are so many funny scenes in this movie. One of the funniest scenes...