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This season’s figure skating competition sounds interesting ! I haven’t been watching most of skating competitions since last Olympics ( Vancouver Olympics 2010 ), only US Nationals and a few skaters , but always checked the results for all the senior events for men and ladies. But it’s excited to know that some skaters who were taking breaks are returning to competitions this season such as Johnny Weir, Evan Lysacek ( both took breaks since last Olympics ) and also Evgeny Plushenko . For ladies, Miki Ando and Yu na Kim . Things are changing every season, I wonder how they will compete with present top skaters. I started watching men’s skating since 2006 Torino Olympics and I still love those days top skaters especially the ones who skated in the finale group in the free program. ( Evgeny Plushenko, Stephane Lambiel, Johnny Weir, Jeffrey Buttle, Brian Joubert, Daisuke Takahashi ) I was shocked to see these charismatic unique skaters in the men’s skating world, I didn...

Perhaps the most mysterious legend about Mozart is that of the " Masked Messenger ". This mysterious masked messenger is also known historically as the "Man in Gray" , "The Mysterious Messenger" , "The Gray Messenger". The story of the masked messenger was featured prominently in the movie “ Amadeus ".           Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart How much of this story is true ? When Mozart died in the early morning hours of December 5, 1791, he left his final masterpiece, the Requiem , unfinished. A few months later, a completed score of the Requiem was delivered to its anonymous commissioner. How was the Requiem completed and how would Mozart have completed it had he lived? These mysteries have tantalized musicians for over two centuries. Mozart received the commission to compose the Requiem from the “ Mysterious Messenger" in the summer of 1791.  The Messenger paid half the commission in advance, ...

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 ...