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London Olympics game is just around the corner !  Watching Olympics game is one of our favorite things every 4 years, both Summer and Winter. It’s so exciting !  Because I think it’s a great motivation for our life to be inspired by world top athletes who have been working hard to do what they love and dream and challenge to be the world number one athletes. I love living with passion to get to our goals, no matter the result.  Another reason is we both love to see personalities through their performances.  Every Olympics, we can find a few inspiring athletes who have their original style, have strong charisma.  We are more interested to see their personality than who will win.  For summer Olympics, both of our favorite Olympics sports are gymnastics , and track & field.   Until 2004 Olympics, I didn’t realized that we can find someone who has interesting personality and originality in track & field, because unlike gymnasti...

My birthday was coming again. But I already received my birthday gifts a few days ago. We are always like that for our birthdays, and also in Christmas days and Valentines days. We felt like it’s better to request gifts of what we really want . So, because of that, no surprise gifts since a long time ago. Every year, when Ray asks me what do you want for your birthday ? Always what comes my mind first is  “ books “ . This year also, I’m so happy to receive books which are very valuable to me and which I feel like priceless and want to read them forever.  Every trip  I will also always bring them with me  or one of them.    I’m a super book lover, and always dream to have a library room in our dream home. I don’t know why, but surrounded by many books always makes me feel happy.      And I got a haircut,  .. about 7 inches off. I had really long hair, I felt my hair is growing fast so this time I wanted ...

If someone asked me when is my best time in my life ,  I would answer  “ Now “ or “ times since I started living with my husband Ray “. And I look forward to our future life as well. pictureTYO via photo pin cc                       ( Japanese money when I was a child to teens in Showa period ) On the other hand, I love to see historical scenery, buildings, old towns , and when it comes to Showa Era in Japan , whenever I see photos or information about Showa Era, it makes me feel nostalgic.    The Showa period started from 1926 ( Dec 25 ) and ended in 1989 ( January 7 ).  I remember that when the Showa Emperor passed away, the new time period called Heisei period started, I was talking with my friends and co-workers, that someday or soon, Heisei kids will grow and we will be called as “ Showa Era people , “ with laugh and excitement .  And now, its already 2012, tim...

This concert is very unique and so much fun to watch !  I really love the idea of it . It was performed in May 2006. Styx , veterans of nearly 35 years of performing, joined forces with Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra.   Except for the conductor, the Orchestra and Chorus students are all teens, from 13 to 19, and they all look like intelligent bourgeois kids. While watching this DVD concert, Ray and I were both reminded of the movie “ School of Rock “ with Jack Black .  This is like the real life version of School of Rock.  Something hilarious and fun.  These Orchestra students are all very excited and dancing and performing and looked so much having fun.  This is my second time to see a performance which combines a classic rock group with a classical music orchestra.  The other one I saw was the Japanese classic rock group The Alfee , in which they arranged their own music mixture with classical music such as Wag...