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Ray was flipping through the TV channels last night to see if there were any movies on , when he ran across a biography movie about the classical music composer Tchaikovsky. Recently we had been listening to his music, so we decided to watch it. We missed the very beginning of the movie, so it started from a scene showing Tchaikovsky as a young man, first time performing his Piano Concerto N1 ( which is now one of the most popular piano concertos of all time. It is also one of my favorites of his music ). After he finished playing he was criticized directly by a music critic, who called it worthless and unplayable. I was thinking  “ seriously ??? Such an incredible music, there was a person who was saying this is worthless and horrible music ?? " It reminds me of a story about when Beethoven was young, he was told by his music teacher that he had no music talent . After watching the movie , I read some bio information about Tchaikovsky online ( NWE: Peter Ilyic...

Johnny Weir is Mr. Entertainment. And the entertainment never stops. He is in the Honor of Grand Marshal in today's Pride Parade at LA , is leading the parade and over 400,000 people are expected !  Johnny Weir talks about the honor of grand marshal in Sundays pride parade Whenever I take a break from his news, when I come back there is always a lot of catching up to do. lol His twitter followers are a veritable legion, now numbering 94,829 ( as of the date June 12’ 2011) , and his followers are still increasing every day. It will soon be over 100,000. It means he is still attracting new fans (?). And also his face book has 60,208 followers. Until he started doing twitter in May’2009, the only way we could get his new information was his journal, and also Q&A, sometimes his old fan site( which disappeared now that his activity is mainly on the social net work ) and his media interviews. I was always looking forward to his journals an...

Mayan pyramid Chichen Itza _________________________________________________________________ I was writing about the mysterious Mayan Calendar and the importance they give to the date, December 21’ 2012 in one of my past posts at the link below, and at that time I didn’t take it so seriously much. http://miho-entwistle.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-is-meaning-of-date-december-21.html Thank you for visiting my blog, that post is still one of the popular views in my blog and I would like to expand some more about that topic. I feel my initial idea about it is still a strong possibility, but I also got an idea about another possibility after reading “ Conversations with God 3” by Neale Donald Walsch. There is a section in this book where the Spirit Guide or God talks about a highly advanced ancient civilization on our planet which ended up destroying itself because it did not have an equally high spiritual frequency. In other words, they couldn’t handle the technology they h...

The song Ave Maria was performed by several skaters, with different singers and Johnny Weir and Emanuel Sandhu ’s Ave Maria have been the most magical performances for me so far. If I didn’t watch Sandhu’s Ave Maria, there was no other competition for Johnny. Both of their Ave Maria are breathtakingly magical which gave me goosebumps, made me tears. Their emotion, water flow graceful movements, sensitivities, lines, expression, beauty, it was so hard to find these artists and I’m so glad to find them in men’s skating. Johnny Weir and Emanuel Sandhu , these two artists are my all time favorites forever. Comparing artistry of Sandhu and Johnny Weir is like trying to compare Tschaikovsky ( Piano concerto No 1, Nutcracker ) and Saint Saens ( The Swan, Danse Macabre ) and trying to decide which is better composer. Both are just incredible. One thing I noticed Sandhu and Weir have in common is that for both of them, their main leg they use is their left leg while ...

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...