Return Of The Rink.

=> After a year long haitus, I return. I can't say for how long, but for now I can say I'm back in business.
=> Now first things first, I feel soooo bad for not having spazzed on and on about the ups and downs of an OLYMPIC season & I apologize. Who's to blame really though, I was working my butt of to get into uni. As a brief once over of last year, I guess I can sum 09-10 as...

Dance:
a) Whole new appreciation for Zoueva and Shpilband especially with both the Goose & the (as I call it) the Backwards Totem (ie. where Meryl's sitting / standing on Charlie's back / leg).
b) Scott freaking Moir is hilariously adorbs especially when topped with Tessa's expression being the icing on the cake. Oh how I love those two. =) & yes I'm talking about the "we lost, just kidding" stint.
c) Then we have Domnina and Shabalin, who really really just need to get their act together and scrap the "Australian Aboriginal" dance all together. I never EVER want to see that program every again unless it's played as an example of what not to do.

Mens:
a) Ugly Face, SUCK IT UP!!! That's all I have to say to that "man".
b) Kuddos for Evan, people do not understand how absolutely thrilled my sister and I was when we calculated that Evan won and how LOUD we were screaming. Our mom actually asked us what was wrong with us... =s Anyhow, yea, we were all "omg, ok he needs this mark, did he get? *tries & fails at trying to add TES&PSC (or whatever those acronyms are) points* *LP score shows* OMG OMG OMG OMG IT'S OVER THE, OMG!!!! HE WON!!! HE WON HE WON EVAN WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
c) Johnny's SP was soooo underscored, not a huge Johnny fan... but he was surely underscored.
d) So here's my theory on what happened at the Olympics... Since so much moolah was spent on Ugly Face's return, he wasn't able to go skate and come back with no results. Therefore, had to underscore those who deserved it just in case they needed the "winning" score to be lower. Now because Evan, be the amazing-moulded/grown-up-with-the-new-system childling that he is (and the fact that he's WC), was simply too amazing for the judges to overlook and therefore couldn't do anything but give him the gold. Since Ugly Face needed something to show for the money they put in, he'll have to settle for SILVER (yes, caps bolded underlined).
e) Yays go to Daisuke for being the 1st asain WC!
d) Which btw... have I ever mentioned that after Evan's last year WC, all of sebj have now been WCs? Now I just have to wait until Brian gets onto the Olympic podium in order for them all to be Olympic Medallists...

Oh gosh, this will be a long post.

Ladies:
Now unfortuntely I was actually sick during SPs... or maybe it was LPs (my memory for those few days is a bit hazy), but I did manage to catch a few programs here and there.
a) Joannie's programs I'm 99% sure I caught. With all honestly, if the world didn't already love her before, the world loves her now. I read in an article somewhere that everyone would understand if she didn't compete, and it's true, we would. There then comes the inner battle within Joannie that because her mom was the rock of her skating career, she "had" to skate; for the sake and legacy of her mom, she had to.
b) And let Korea continue to hail Queen YuNa.

Pairs:
See, there's a reason why I started with dance and mens... that's cause they made the biggest impression throughout the overall year... and that they're Olympic dates wasn't around the time when I was sick. Or maybe I wasn't sick but was just not paying attention. I do know results though... kinda... so wasn't THAT out of it... =) I'm still waiting for the day when the Zhangs are back on top =) not that I don't like Pang and Tong. I mean they're amazing, but somehow the Zhangs beat them in cuteness.

=> So I guess this would be the end of my ramble on 09-10. Don't leave yet! You can't get rid of me that easily, there's still Japan Open & NHK to talk about.

=> Well actually, theres not much about Japan Open... it's kinda always the same every year...

=> There's really not much about NHK either... well a few things
a) DAISUKE'S TANGO LP IS SEX! I wrote that on my memo board, and my roomie wrote back "Do you mean sexy?" Nope. Not at all.
b) Caro needs to stop wearing the full sleeved costumes... especially of the sleeves don't really have a design on them. Kuddos for her though for winning with an injury =)
c) What on earth is going on with Mao? I know she's revamping/relearning her jumps, but really?? With that many falls and these showings lately, she's pretty much off the Japanese Team... or well it'll take a whole lot of special concideration to put her onto the National Worlds Team.

=> With that, I bid thee adieos.

if0nly On Ice.,
- Mag.