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After watching & reading about Frederick Chopin , Franz Liszt and also Peter Tchaikovsky ’s bio and life stories, we were also curious to know about Mozart ’s life.  So we watched the famous movie “ Amadeus “ which is about “ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “ one of the greatest classical composers. Also we will check about Johnahan Sebastian Bach ’s life story in the close future when we have time. I had seen the movie “ Amadeus “ sometime in the 1980's once. And Ray had as well. We remembered it’s a great movie, but we couldn’t remember the details much. Somehow, I felt it was shorter than I expected for this dvd film, and then found out that the director cut some parts of the film for the dvd .  We would love to watch original version with no cuts if possible. The movie was marvelous , and I agree this is one of the top best films. I really understand why this movie received many academy awards. The acting and the music in the movie were awesome ! S...

I made a cheesecake today ! It was my first time to bake homemade cheesecake, so I was a little bit nervous to taste it and also to see Ray’s reaction after I made it. There are many kind of cheesecakes, and I was looking for a cheese cake which is moisture and soft inside but not like raw creamy cheesecake.   But I couldn’t find it here in the USA.  So I decided to make it by myself after found the recipe for it. This is not heavy, or too sweet.   New York cheesecake or many other bakery stores cheesecakes are too sweet to me.  So glad, the taste came out successful. Ray was like “ This is the best cheesecake ever, that I’ve ever eaten ,  sooooooo good !!! “ It’s really yummy, and well balanced taste. Here is the recipe of the homemade cheese cake below,   it’s easy and simple. I found the recipe in a Japanese website.   Even though I‘m not good at baking cake or pies, I co...

My favorite moments The Olympic games are over and we really enjoyed it everyday ! Here are my favorite moments in these Olympic games. Swimming * All the Phelps vs. Lotche’s races and also races in which these two participated. It was soooo thrilling to watch them compete. * Men’s 100m freestyle , This race was incredible , the fastest swimmers ( freestyle ) competition ?  Nathian Adrian was amazing and he won this aggressive race ! * The scene showing Phelps and Lotche celebrating Adrian’s win at 100m freestyle. * Men’s 200m freestyle -  Yannick Agnel of France had an inspiring race. * All the Men’s 4 X relay-  100m freestyle -  it was unbelievable Team France   Amaury Leveaux / Fabien Gilot / Clement Lefert / Yannick Agnel  beat this strong Team USA Nathan Adrian / Michael Phelps / Cullen Jones / Ryan Lochte . When the camera was panning in on Michael while he was waiting for the anchor Ryan Lochte to come ...

Here are the results of each women’s gymnastics event. Vault 1. Sandra Raluca Izbasa - ROU 15.191 2. Mc Kayla Maroney -USA 15.083 3. Maria Paseka- RUS 15.050  4  Janine Berger- GER 15.016 5  Oksana Chusovitina- GER 14.783 6  Yamilet Pena Abreu- DOM 14.516 7  Brittany Rogers- CAN 14.483 8  Elsabeth Black- CAN 0.000 Uneven bar 1. Aliya Mustafina- RUS 16.133 2. Kexin He- CHN 15.933 3. Elizabeth Tweddle- GBR 15.916 4. Jinnan Yao- CHN 15.766 5. Victoria Komova- RUS 15.666 6. Elisabeth Seitz- GER 15.266 7. Koko Tsurumi- JPN 14.966 8. Gabrielle Douglas- USA 14.900 Balance beam 1. Linlin Deng -CHN 15.600 2. Lu Sui -CHN 15.500 3 .Alexandra Raisman- USA 15.066 4.Catalina Ponor- ROU 15.066 5. Kseniia Afanaseva -RUS 14.583 6. Larisa Andreea Iordache -ROU 14.200 7. Gabrielle Douglas- USA 13.633 8. Victoria Komova -RUS 13.166 Floor Exercise 1. Alexandra Raisman USA 15.600 2. Catalina Ponor ROU 15.200 3. Aliya Mustafina RUS 1...

In day 5 of London Olympics swimming, there was the 100m free style final race.  And Nathan Adrian from USA won it !!!  Highlights: Nathan Adrian Wins Gold In 100m Free  http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/swimming/highlights-nathan-adrian-wins-gold-in-100m-free.html   “ U.S. swimmer Nathan Adrian wins the men's 100m freestyle in dramatic fashion, out-touching James Magnusant by one one-hundredth of a second to earn gold. “  And Yannick Agnel was also in the race.  After seeing the race, I thought 1 to 6 can probably beat each other at any given time, because they all are almost like tie breaker in the end.  As we can see from the result below, swimmers 1 through 6 all came in at the exact same second !!!  The difference in times were by fractions of a second.  Seems that whoever has the best touch to the wall, wins !!!  Here is the result of the race 100m Freestyle , 1. Nathan ...

Most impressive woman gymnast for me this London Olympics is Viktoria Komova from Russia.  Especially her floor exercise in all-round was perfect ! Sooooooooo artistic and magically beautiful !!!!!  And the technical part was excellent, too.  Landed all the jumps perfectly and spins as well.  We already watched it many times last night. I’m so happy to find my new favorite gymnast because I haven’t been super impressed like this since long time ,since 1980’s Moscow Olympics.   Viktoria’s movements are naturally beautifully artistic and each part flows and connects smoothly to her next movement .   I think she really has natural artistic talent of movements which are really well-balanced.   I really love to see beautiful performance, so her floor exercise was a huge hit for me.  Ray noticed that Viktoria’s music was mixture of different music including Queen’s song “ the show must goes on “...

I wasn’t watching swimming until last Olympics, maybe only one Olympics when I was a little girl, the times when Mark Spitz was winning everything, because my dad was watching it.  But in this London Olympics, we both are very into it because curious to see Phelps VS Lochte .  I didn’t know about Ryan Lochte until this Olympics, but when I checked his career he was always behind Michael Phelps every Olympics although he was on the podiums with Phelps.  People were speculating about Michael Phelps , some say he didn’t want to compete in Olympics anymore and had another new plan for his life but his mother wanted him to compete so he went to London.  In the last Olympics in Beijing he won 8 gold medals.  In London, he was out of the medals in the first day of competition and Lochte won. However, after that, Phelps seems like he brought back his focus, and he has been winning Silver or Gold since then.  Yesterday, it was shame...