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I remember that while Ray was watching American Idol, he said Brian May and Roger Taylor who are members of the English rock group Queen, asked Adam Lambert who was in the American Idol show if he would be interested to be the singer for Queen. Seems like Paul Rodgers and Queen already broke up after 4 years together. And they might be looking for a new singer for Queen. When I first saw Adam Lambert in American Idol, somehow he reminds me of Emanuel Sandhu who is a Canadian figure skater . I don’t know why, but he really reminds me of Sandhu. Even though their faces are different, but hair style and looks are something similar. And we noticed Lambert is a great singer, and it may be great if he joins Queen as lead singer. Paul Rodgers is a great singer who has nice voice, but I thought he was not really fit with Queen’s music. I like Paul Roger’s some of his solo songs, but with Queen, Ray and I both already had the strong impression of Freddie Mercury’s stage performances

Time passes so fast, another weekend has comes ! And it’s already June ! Recently, we found a delicious Italian ice cream store in a shopping mall. I usually don’t eat ice cream because whenever I ate it, I got a pimple on my face next day and it took a while to fix the problem. So originally I love ice cream but for that reason, I was avoiding to eat it. But in very hot day, sometimes I feel I’m really wanting to eat particular food when it comes to my mind. And this time, it was ice cream. Depending on the ice cream store, I found the taste is very different. Even for drinks, like coffee frapuccino, when taste is so bad, or just not my taste , I’m very disappointed, and feel like what a waste. For drinks, coffee frapuccino, Starbucks is still the best. Maybe I care for the taste too much. For regular ice cream this Italian Gelato ice cream store ’s taste made me so happy and so did Ray. Last time, I tried “ espresso “ and Ray tried “ Swiss chocolate “. Both of them

It’s a cloudy day today !  Cloudy days in Tucson are fantastic, because the killer sun is behind the clouds, but not dark and not gray sky , nice to walk around the nature. Love it. Seems like Johnny selected his new choreographer David Wilson for his new program. Maybe both programs ? I liked Yu Na Kim’s last season’s SP for his work, her FP looked similar choreography to her SP though, and for Jeffrey Buttle’s programs , I was not so crazy for any of his work except for Buttle‘s 2005-06 season’s FP. But it may be great choice for Johnny, since David Wilson’s choreography usually received high mark, especially under COP. At least better than Nina for competition programs. Adam Rippon’s choreographer for next season is also Wilson ? I’m not expecting too much until seeing the programs. Hope David will make impressive one for Johnny which fits him with different type of choreography from any other skaters , with two different choreographies, SP & FS. With Johnny’s

I’m very excited, figure skating GPS assignments has just published yesterday ! Johnny will skate in Cup of Russia and NHK , maybe that what he requested ? I’m very happy, he got what he wanted ! I’m also excited to see Sasha Cohen , Evgeny Plushenko, Daisuke Takahashi and also Shen/Zhao will be back ! I was away from pair skating since Tatiana Totyama / Marin retired and Shen/Zhao haven’t competed. Because after them, I felt bored and thought it all became like technical part, and no artistry. Only one Russian pair looked good, but still unpolished. I loved those two pairs T/M and S/Z. For ladies, Sasha Cohen was my top favorite ladies skaters, because of her exquisite skating plus, her musicality , well balanced movements, I especially loved her passionate, powerful SP more than lyrical style of music. No matter the result, I will enjoy her skating. For men, It’s so exciting, Plushenko will be back !! Figure skating needs charismatic star quality skaters who make big impa

Besides extra virgin olive oil, I’ve been doing a mixture of another great natural formula since two weeks ago. This information came from Ray who happened to find about Ninon de L’Enclos ’s amazing story concerning her youthful skin. According to the article, Ninon de L’ Enclos is known as a famous French beauty from the late 1600s. She kept her youthful skin until 85 years old when she passed away. Even in to her 80’s she was attracting many young men who fell hopelessly in love with her. She never published her secret of her youthful skin until the end , only telling her special friends about her secret formula. There is no photo of her, but seeing her painting in other websites, she looks in her 30’s when she was 85. According to the article, her face was as smooth and free of winkles in her 80’S as it had been at 20. She hated wrinkles and successfully kept her skin youthful , using her special secret formula. This information blew me away, and immediately

Yesterday, I made one of our favorite pastas for lunch. The taste is more like Japanese taste because of the sauce. It’s very yummy. Ray ate it within a few minutes as usual. Pastas and noodles are always his number one favorite meals. Ingredients 1. Davinci brand Linguine ( made in Italy) 2. Japanese cabbage ( Hakusai in Japanese) 3. Green asparagus 4. Beans Sprout ( Moyashi in Japanese ) 5. Pork ham 6. Vegetable oil Sauce 1. Mirin - ¼ cup 2. Cooking sake - 1/8 cup 3. Soy sauce - ¼ cup 4. Sesami oil - one or two table spoons 5. Chili hot bean sauce - one tea spoon The point is the pasta. I have tried some pastas which were made in the USA, but I found Italian pastas are more delicious and it was so different, so I don’t use American pasta anymore. After boiling the pasta ( until becomes not too soft but not too hard ), stir pork ham, then all the other ingredients in a frying pan. Then mix the pasta with those ingredients in the frying pan. Then pour the sauce about two ( or t

Since I got to watch Johnny’s Poker Face program, it blew me away and didn’t have time to watch any other performances for a while , but finally I could watch his other program “ You impressed me “ by Korean singer recently. OMG, this performance is breathtaking, very dramatic , beautiful romantic story and I even got tears while watching. I of course have no idea what the singer was saying in the song, but Johnny’s emotional performance plus the music and the singer’s singing voice hit my heart. I suppose Johnny is knowing the meaning of the song. There are two video which are from different angles and one of the video was more of showing whole the performance rather than close up to his movements. But from the far away, how he was moving , his pantomime in the beginning of the program, I could feel his emotion, every detail of his movements . It’s very imaginative, and I almost forgot he was on ice, the background became different world. The story looks sad ending

Two days ago , finally I got to see Johnny’s Poker Face by Lady Ga Ga on the video clip !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCGoAuFnt3I also from another angle version, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9_iwGaqS-U This is one of the best hit !!!!! Johnny was super entertainment and showed a completely different side of him ! I really loved his last one which he did in Fashion on ice New York show in February, but this one is even more , with his new costume he designed by himself and also arranged choreography !!! First impression when I saw him in it was that with this costume, his body doesn’t look very thin , so I wonder it’s because of the camera angle ? He looked thin in the practice scene in the day before the event. Anyway, this performance is a gem ! Camera work doesn’t look good though , I thank to Korean TV that showed Johnny’s this performance. Although the camera angles aren’t the best, it’s wonderful to be able to see it. I think he is THE Mr. Entertainer

OMG, I can’t even focus on other things during the time Johnny is in Festa on ice. There are so many information for it already and I have been watching many videos and photos for it. Starting from Johnny singing “ Ain’t no sunshine “ in his fan meeting at an art hall. That’s was soooooo fun. His voice is great , it was unexpected voice and he was singing with emotion from his heart many part, with the wrong tone at times. LOL. So it was soooo funny and cute. It’s never boring. I think depending on the training, he can fix it quickly, because his other parts were great. But that way may be more fun though. LOL. Johnny and Stephane Lambiel did throw triple salchow during the practice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8P-XpohHUU This is amazing. I really hope they will do it in one of the events during the time. If not, in Japan or someday when they got together again in a same show. Johnny’s jump was beautiful and also lambiel’s artistic pose after he threw him, and Johnny’s

Johnny’s schedule seems like Korean ice show called “ Festa on ice” from April 24 - 26. But before that, he had a fan meeting in an art hall and there is a stage which was set up for welcoming Johnny, and according to a Korean fan’s report, he sang "Ain't no sunshine”. and sounded like they all had a wonderful time with him, dancing and singing. Johnny’s fan service is just amazing as usual. Besides Russia, Johnny said he has Korean face book site and when he opened it, it hits over 100,000 within a week. I guess it’s more than Russia. His popularity in Korea may be much more than I think. I always love to hear Johnny is popular and treated like a rock star. In Japan also I think he is very popular, he needed four guards around the hotel he was staying because his fans are so avid. There are many other skaters who are very popular but what I realized that is differe nce between him and other skaters is that Johnny has a lot of rabid fans. I’ve heard that aft

Wow, It was quite fun seeing Ladies event this season and the result made me a big surprise ! I also watched men’s event for a few skaters on TV but I was unable to make extra time for pair and ice dance. Yu Na’s victory was quite sure for me before it started , so it was not a big surprise but her performance was amazing, especially her SP ! And what made me and Ray happy and excitement the most was Miki Ando got on the podium !!!! Great comeback from disappointed last season! We didn’t expect her to be on the podium even though we really wished. Seeing the whole season’s result and performances for top ladies, my original prediction was 1. Yu Na 2. Mao 3. Joanne I was hoping if Miki could get on the podium but I thought it may be difficult so at least if she could be placed within 5th, because we love her. So this result was a big surprise for me ! 1. Yu Na 2. Joanne 3. Miki 4. Mao 5. Rachel And Ray and I are so happy for Miki. She was the only medallist from Japan in

It was a busy Saturday ! We went to a shopping mall to buy a new CD player that we can easily move around because our old one has not been working well. It’s already ipod generation and it’s hard to find a CD player right now but, we need it. First we went to “ Best Buy “ where we usually can find a good one. However, unfortunately they didn’t have one we would like to purchase. We were also looking around the store, and it was interesting to see many kind of digital camera, cell phone, and also Hd TV.   Next, we went to Circuit City, However, seems like the store was already closed. Because of the bad US economy ??? Even “Best Buy” didn’t look so busy on Saturday afternoon. Then we went to a Tucson shopping mall, and finally found a it’s okay CD player made by Sony. We have a good experience for Aiwa in the past, but they didn’t have one, so his time we purchased Sony. RCA must be one of the worst.  It’s broken very soon ( within a year ) while Aiwa had b