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.