My Prince

sick after a wonderful time

So, it was a great ice show the 2nd April. The international skaters, most of them, skated two programs. It was awesome!

And the day after, I got to meet Stéphane Lambiel! I was so nervous all the time, but when we sat in the car and was heading to the airport, it felt natural. The talking went quite smooth, and my english was surprisingly well. He talks good too, in a nice tempo. I couldn't ask him so many things, because the conversation didn't go that way... But watching him all the way to the airport was just so nice. I had a great time, and I won't forget that moment for a looong time.
He's really a prince charming, and I wish we had more time to chat.

Now I'm sick, because my brother have been sick for a long time, and he's been coughing all over the place for weeks! And when I stopped the nervous feeling about the meeting and stuff, the virus got hold on me.... So I've been almost knocked out today. Not much fever, slighly throat ache, but it's irritating. I can't do proper things, but I don't get much better by lying down all the time. So I've been watching "Hotaru no Hikari" a bit, mailing and stuff, but it's not getting better anyway. Now I'm just wishing that the virus gets out of me, as soon as possible....
I was planning to go to the city today to help a friend, but geez, that didn't work out at all...

Not an April's Fool.

So, this is for real.
I'm going to meet Stéphane Lambiel in person.
Yes, I'm trying to write this without getting too hyped, 'cause then I'll write too weird things.

One friend said she's going to drive Stéphane to the airport the day after the ice show. I asked if I could ride with her, and she said yes! So I'll meet him in person, go to the airport together and all the time I'll be able to talk to him, if I have my senses on the right side so to say. I haven't thought of what to talk with him, and I don't know if I want to give a small gift to him that day or on the ice show when it's his actual birthday. And I don't have much to give. The thing is, he's travelling so much now, and I know he don't have much space left for any gifts or so, so it shouldn't be too big in size.
Ah....I really have to think of something. Because tomorrow is the ice show!

What to wear?
Ok, I have to walk the dog, then I'll continue to think.

PS. And this is not an April's fool. This is for real, even if I still can't believe it.

Daisuke daisuki! :D

I AM SO HAPPY!!!

Greatly done, Takahashi Daisuke! You deserve the gold medal more than anyone at this moment, you deserved it at the Olympics too, but here you convinced everyone.

He's amazing and he will always be. One of the few skaters that really touches one right away. He's the same "type" as Alexei Yagudin, every performance struck into the heart. So much emotions, so much strenght and beauty, they show us the whole figure skating. Nothing is missing out, it's perfect. It's beyond anything any other sports can show us.

I mean, wtf?! Quad-flip?! hello...am I missing something..?? He did quad-flip!!! It wasn't completely clear, but he did a quad-flip, during a competition! First skater to do a different quad besides toeloop and salchow. Amazing.
Seeing the judges details, the judges downgraded it, but they put it as a quad-flip.
Means, one day we'll see this man do a clear quad-flip. *eyes wide open*

He's also got level 4 for all spins and step sequences. Besides that, lots of plus!

(The photo shows his previous free skating costume, he changed it for the Olympics...dunno why, I liked this one better than what he weared tonight.)


And our Adrian Schultheiss. Great performance. He's done better before, but this was also great. I mean, he was 7th only in free skating! Made him 9th place overall. Means 2 skaters from Sweden next year! Wohooo!
He did a great quad-toe. And most of the elements he got plus points. It's awesome. I'm so proud! And he's probably really happy too!


I wanted to watch Javier Fernandez and Florent Amodio, but I missed them... But Michal Brezina was 3rd place in free skating! He became 4th place overall. He's also awesome! I hope the coach will pull out more of the coreography from him next time. He's a great skater but I think he has more to show us, more of the passion-side of the skating.

I have to mention, Kevin van der Perren made quad-toe-triple-toe-triple-toe combination, the base value is 17.80..!! And he also got plus, so overall only that combination gave him 19.00 points..!! omg... not bad..!

Happy Birthday Alexei!

Happy Birthday Alexei!! \(^O^)/
I hope you'll having a great day!

ONE OK ROCK has announced that they'll releasing their 4th album 2010.06.09!! I'm so excited and I can't wait!!

work, work, work, work....

I haven't had much time lately. I haven't even had the time to choose a new GLAY-pic for the month..! (I usually change the main pic every new month.)

Well, this is what I've practically have done the last few weeks. Watch the Olympics, work, work with ice show. And the last one has taken most time. Days of just working with it. Search music for each number, that's the hardest work. Finding on Spotify hasn't been hard, but finding actual sound files have been like hell... And I still have some 2-3 numbers left without music. It's an ice show about a family travelling around the world. And totally it contains of 8-paus-8 numbers. So totally around 16 music tracks, or more.
And one of the hardest part is still left, writing the story in actual words, the words the speaker will say.

Tomorrow, two friends from Japan is coming to Sweden (^O^). They're going to stay until sunday, so it's going to be fun! But that makes it hard for me to take time to work with the ice show. So I have to find music as soon as possible to those numbers that's missing music...

Anyway, I have to stop here, to search for the Australian music. The hardest one so far....
Bye then!

Waiting for the time to come

Now it's 0.30am, the men's free skating starts 2am... So here I'm sitting, waiting for the time to go, I'm so excited, I just don't know how this will end. I wish Takahashi and Lambiel gets medals, but it's hard to know. And since it seems that Lambiel's triple axel isn't steady enough, he maybe won't jump it, or maybe fall, many points will fall too. But I won't think this way. He can do triple axel, and if he jumps it, I will pray with all my heart that he'll make it without falling or any other problems.

For Takahashi it's the quad-toeloop that isn't in its place. I don't know whether he's planning on doing it in the free skating or not, but I hope he'll do a great performance.

But I wish all the skaters good luck with the free skating. I hope Adrian Schultheiss, our skater, shows what he really can do, and gets some places up.


Seeing my blog, I haven't written anything about the men's short program...!!
So why not writing about it while I have time? (^^)

There were many great performances at the short. Not many mistakes at all, some small from some skaters, but overall, good performances. Adrian said at an interview that he was nervous 2 days before the short. It's his first time at the Olympics, out of that, he made a good performance. He was one of the 4 skaters who jumped quad. It was quad-toeloop, but not the best landing, which made him do a single-toe, since it was his combination jump. I think one of his spins wasn't so good either. But overall it was good.
He placed 22th and will be skating the free today.

Brian Joubert made many mistakes, I think he felt so much pressure, at the same time wanted to do so good, so everything made it heavy for him. He placed low, around 16th or something. Same with Verner.

Plushenko was in the second group. So he competed early. He made all the jumps inclusive a quad-toe-triple-toe combination. But his spins were not adventurous, and his steps were soso, in my opinion. Even so, he got high scores, 90.85, which made him stand in 1st place after the short.

A super-group was in the middle of the competition. A group with Stéphane Lambiel, Takahashi Daisuke, Oda Nobunari, and Adrian Schultheiss. Among them were a 16 years young Kazakhstan skater, he was talented and I think he's something for the future.
Lambiel made a quad-toe, but the landing wasn't safe, so he made a double-toe after, he got some minus for that combination. But he had the highest program component score. He had 9.15 points for interpretation!! But he only made a double axel, which was a good one, but if he had done a good triple, he would've earned 4-5 points more or something. But the triple axel seems to not be so good, I think that's why he only made a double. We'll see what he does today. He's in 5th place with 84 something points.

Takahashi made a great performance, almost flawless. He became 3rd with 90.25 points after Evan Lysacek with 90.30 points. I just love Takahashi's short program, the music, the choreography, everything! I had his music spinning in my head the whole day after. And of course, great step sequences. Good job! I hope and think he'll get on the podium.

Oda Nobunari, after being away from competitions for a while, he made a great comeback. Great jumps and performance. He made it 4th with 84 something points. Not much before Lambiel.

Evan Lysacek made a great performance. He got second highest score, with 90.30. He actually cried when hearing his scores. Well, you say Kiss'n'cry, the place where the skaters sit and waits for their scores. What I didn't like with his program was his costume. I mean, a whole black costume, even the gloves. Why? But otherwise, good. He maybe will stand on the podium today.

Johnny Weir, haven't seen him for awhile. But he made a good performance too. He did a good triple axel. He's an unique skater, either you like him or not. And I do like him, even if people around me just say "nah....". He draws attention, and that's a good side as a skater, people remembers you. So I'm curious of his free program. Yes, I can search it on YouTube, but no, I'll wait for it today. He's 2 points behind Lambiel, so currently on 6th place.

I hope the judges will judge by seeing the performance, not the name. Because when I looked at the scores, Plushenko seemed to have received some plus points just because of his name and comeback... So, please, make a fair judgement.

Only one hour left.

I stayed up!

I managed to stay up for the Opening ceremony. I was quite tired while watching, but I did see the whole thing. Even the little miss they did with the Olympic fire.
Stéphane Lambiel was holding the Swiss flag! (^O^) He looked so excited like a little child. So cute!

I was amazed by the Canadian indians. Their culture is so amazing... I can't describe in words, but I really love their culture and beliefs. It's so cool that they were there to welcome the olympics into their territories.

I watched the reprise of Pairs short just now. Only the last two warm-up groups. I really wonder which pair will win this time... The points are close. There are many pairs that skate good and I don't know which pair I like the most. Well, they'll skate their free programs today. But I won't be up to watch, I'll watch some reprise.


What bugs me all these days are a story to our skating club's ice show we'll be doing in March... I really can't come up with something great... I don't know what to write... It's going to be an "Around the world" story. But how, I don't know....And we don't have much time left....!!
So that's what's inside my head all the time the past time... Help me someone..!!

The Winter Olympics Vancouver!

Winter Olympics in Vancouver starts today! I want to watch the opening ceremony, but it's going to be airing live at 3 am.... I don't know if I will be able to stay awake the whole ceremony, but at the same time, I won't be enjoying it as much if I see it as reprise...

Anyway, I can't wait for the figure skating competitions!! There are so many skaters I want to watch, I won't ramble them up here, it would take too much space and time... haha.

Let's enjoy the event!

Ladies and Exhibition.

They've now announced that Adrian Schultheiss will represent Sweden in Olympics. I think he's in best form out of them two, and maybe Kristoffer would feel more pressure than Adrian would when being there. There's only one ticket to the Worlds in March too, I wonder who'll go there. I hope that Kristoffer gets the chance, but if Adrian makes good skatings at the Olympics, maybe he'll be the one at the Worlds too.

And the ladies. I didn't see Viktoria's free skating, but she ended up 11th place. Only a point to the 10th place, which would've given us two tickets to the next year's Euro, but a good result anyway. Heard that she didn't jump all the triples she was planning to. She'll be the one at Olympics. It's less than a month to it!!
I think the ladies did quite many mistakes this time...that worries me a bit for the Olympics. Carolina Kostner skated beautiful, and her jumps are really great, but I hope she'll skate much better, she has to, because the world has more to give at the ladies side.

Saw the Exhibition today. Samuel Contesti, the showman, great performance, fun to watch his last season's free program. I liked it! Stéphane, beautiful as always, great skate. I do like his free program more, but he skates great to anything. I have to say, I looove the way he has his hair now! He shouldn't get longer or shorter hair, he should just have it like that, natural and free. And I fell in love with him, again, no wonder haha.
Plushenko good too. Kiira Korpi did an interesting interpretation of Beyonce's "If I were a boy". Loved her first costume.

Well, I probably will ramble on, so I should end the post here.

Lambiel is BACK!!

YES!! Lambiel did it!! And I just fell in love with him for the million time!! His short program is great, but his free program is everything!! The whole choreography, the whole thing is just so damn good made! And it fits his skating like nothing else! Oh, I just can't describe it in words. Just GREAT!!

And Plushenko is back too. He is great in jumps and all, but still, I can't become his fan. I love his jumps though, but it's not enough for me. And same with Brian Joubert. He's good technically, but doesn't convince me at all... And his choice of music, especially the free program music, it's not getting better... I mean, I know he loves Alexei Yagudin, but can't he show his own skating for once?

Unfortunately it didn't go so well for our two men, Kristoffer Berntsson and Adrian Schultheiss. Both are great, but it didn't go as good as expected, which is sad. Because Kristoffer apparently said in a press conference later on that he won't skate in the Olympics. I hope that was only what he felt that moment. They haven't decided yet who will go to the Olympics. I love them both, but I hope Kristoffer goes, because Adrian is still young and has still time to get to the Olympics in future, but maybe not Kristoffer, and after all, he's the one that skates most beautiful out of them. But we'll get the answer on sunday.

And today was the ladies short. We have one skater, Viktoria Helgesson. She skated good, but she can do better. She said that she was very nervous and that made her not skate that fast as usual. But because many other skaters did worse, she ranked 12th after short. So I think she has a good chance on getting into top 10. That would give us two skaters to the next Europeans.

Now is the ice dance. I haven't watched anything of it, so I'll watch their free skating now. I have actually no idea which pairs are in it... so I have to see that now.

And tomorrow will be a competition for my young skaters. Early in the morning... The thing is, they haven't put the starting order yet, which makes me angry since one of my skaters will skate in the first class 9 am. If she starts late, we'll have time to sleep a bit. So I really wanna know the order, but nothing has come up yet...

Cold again

I didn't think I'll get the cold twice! I rarely get cold more than once every winter. But yesterday, I even got fever... Now it's better, much better, but not totally recovered. I was going to be at the skating rink today, but couldn't go. Tomorrow is my youngest brother's birthday.

I have to find music to at least half my group, which means 3-4 skaters. I'll start with programs to them soon, but haven't find music to everyone. I have at least to those I'll start with first, I hope I can make good programs, it was a while ago I did one...

Nothing much...bye then.

"Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer"

ONE OK ROCK has finally announced their next single! It's going to be released next year on the 3rd February, so it's quite a long time ahead. But whatever, I'm so happy!! It's the new song they've been playing during the Overcome Emotion Tour. "Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer".
Totally awesome song, and I can't wait to hear it again!! (^O^)


Tomorrow is a skating competition early in the morning. I'll have to wake up around 6 am, tomorrow and on sunday. Two early mornings in a row....hate it...
So I'll have to go to sleep soon.

Lots of things

Wow.. I haven't written in more than a month...!
Quite much has happened since last time. I've had so much to do, and all this stuff I was busy with is only figure skating. Yep, we have issues all the time at our club. We've "moved" out from our place that we've had ever since I-have-no-idea. Now we have our so-called office in an another room just outside the one we had until now. And our coach dressing room has been moved down to a small room outside the entrance to the ice rink. The previous boys dressing room. So small we barely can have all our stuff there...! The lightning in that room is awful too. But ah, we only take our skating shoes on and off there, not a place we "hang out" longer than some 10 minutes or so. Our previous dressing room had a window to the rink, so you could watch when the skaters started to go on the ice etc. But anyway. We got more ice hours now.

And the skating school has begun, but there are so much less kids this time than the previous season... I hope our economy will go round without problem... But the information has been awful too. It's because we've changed people and the new "staff" isn't getting the whole thing yet, so that's why it's been problems after problems. I think that's one of the reasons we have less kids, the info hasn't arrived on time, and people are planning other stuff instead.
Anyway, I think it's starting to getting better now. Still much to do, but not as much as at the start.

Well, tomorrow we change the time into winter time, or standard time. I hope everyone remembers, or they'll come to the rink one hour earlier... Not my problem, I've informed the coaches at least.

Oh, it's already the last week in October. Geez, I can't believe how fast the time goes...! It makes me sick....honestly. It feels like my life will go so fast that I'll end up doing nothing, becoming no one. The future bugs me all the time. Why can't I choose a path and go?

Oh yeah, I started to read the manga "BECK" (I ended it today). It's about a band called BECK after one of the guitarist's dog. They're young guys trying to make it in the Japanese music industry, but always gets pushed back because of a leading music producer. Very interesting, kept me busy the last two weeks or so. Sad it's ended.

Ok I don't have time to sit here and write. Have to take a shower before going to sleep, but before that, I have to print some documents, and probably walk our doggie 'cause no one else don't want to do that...

I think I'm a pro at writing weird and not-so-good blog entries.... This one is also a total fail. But I don't care. Just writing to get things out of my head from time to time. And now I've got like 1% out of my head. The rest, well, dunno when I'll write it down...
But for now, this has to do. The dog is yelling, wants to go out, I have to go...
Bye then.

PS. Oh, forgot to write, I can play GLAY's "I am xxx" on bass now. So bad, I've only learned one single song since I arrived home....have to work harder...

"It's called a lance, hellooo"

Yesterday, me and my friend watched "A Knight's Tale" with Heath Ledger. It was quite a long time since we saw it last time, so we decided to watch it yesterday, even if we knew how the movie is from the beginning to its end. But I love this movie, it's one of the few movies I can watch over and over again, without getting bored. It has so many fun moments, and so many jokes taken from the movie. I can't believe Heath Ledger isn't alive anymore...R.I.P.
Everything is just great in the movie!
We also saw behind the scenes, and deleted scenes.

And today, we had a practice. Or, running in the woods... I haven't been training for so long, probably over 2 yrs. So it was very hard for me to follow. We were running for a time, stopped to let the skaters do some exercises, ran again, exercise, ran, exercise, etc... Okay, I didn't do the exercises, but I ran almost all the time. I really hate to run, above all the sports exercises you can do. But it was kind of refreshing to run, especially with people around you. Some were dead only half way, but there were some few skaters who actually did every exercise and the running between.

In about an hour, we're going to the B-ambassador. They're doing a 'party', dunno exactly what, but dad said something about kinds celebration or something.. Anyway, I don't know what to wear, I don't have nice clothes these days... Didn't find anything good on friday when I went to look for clothes... So I'll have to end here, so that I can find something to put on.

Overcome...

Today I finished reading this book: "Overcome - Alexei Yagudin". A biography of Alexei, I bought this book some years ago, but didn't have time to sit and read it. But now when I really got time, I started to read it before go to bed. But it was so exciting to read it, so I ended up reading it as soon as I had some time doing nothing. It was really interesting, and you got to know what really happened in his mind and around him during all these years until his rise as an alltime champion. Sometimes when I read the book, I watched his performances on YouTube to really understand what he meant in the book. So I was watching at the same time I was reading. It was good, because then I got the chance to watch his previous programs around 10 years ago from now.

The book was published year 2004, I think.

After reading this, I really understand now that it takes so much to really become a champion in figure skating. Looking at my brother, it seems like he's got no chance. Okay, if he only wants to participate, then okay maybe. But to really become something... And I think the same of Evgeni Plushenko, I think he was giving everything too and wanted the same thing as Alexei.

So, first of May. Time to turn the next page of the GLAY calendar of 2009. The coming two months, I'll be looking at Takuro. The last two months were Teru. Now's the leader. And it's the time when I really have to do something.

The trees and everything blooms now, everything is slightly green and I think that makes my eye still red a bit, and it's only the left eye. So I haven't been wearing my lenses today. Which means, I have to wear glasses, which means that I can't see that clear.

Oh, how much I hate to have bad eyes... I really envy my second brother, he's the only one in our family that got splendid eye sight.

Anyway, I have to go and eat something.