Thursday, February 10, 2005

   chinese zodiac legend
If your a Fruits Basket fan, you should really like this story. The legend of the Chinese Zodiac; of how the twelve animals came to be and why certain animals were omitted. The legend was told many centuries ago, when the Chinese have not invented a time measurement yet. For it, the Jade Emperor (Emperor of Heaven) decided to call for a contest: a race! All the animals of the kingdom were invited to participate in this event that incidentally took place during the emperor's birthday. There will only be 12 winners. In order to win and gain a permanent place in the Zodiac Years, the animals must cross a swift current river and reach the designated spot on the shore.

While we are all aware of the hatred between a cat and a rat, these two animals were actually very good friends once. Good friends they may be, but these two animals are the worst swimmers in the animal kingdom. Although bad swimmers, they were both intelligent. They decided that the best and fastest way to cross the river is to hop on the back of the ox. The ox, being a naïve and good-natured animal, agreed to carry them across. However, when there is a carrot dangling in front, it is sometimes difficult to stick to friendship and the crafty rat decides that in order to win, it must do something and promptly pushed the cat into the river. Because of this, the cat had never forgiven the rat, and no doubt, hated the water too. After the ox had crossed the river, the rat jumped ahead and reached the shore first, and it cleverly claimed first place in the race!

Following closely behind was the strong ox, and it was named the 2nd animal in the zodiac. After the ox, came the tiger, panting away while explaining to the emperor just how difficult it was to cross the river with the heavy currents pushing it downstream all the time. But with powerful strength, it made to shore and was named the 3rd animal in the cycle.

Suddenly, from a distance came a thumping sound and out pop the rabbit. It explained how it crossed the river: by jumping from one stone to another in a nimble fashion. Halfway through, it almost lost the race but the rabbit was lucky enough to grab hold of a floating log that later washed him to shore. For that, it became the 4th animal in the zodiac cycle. Coming in 5th place was the gallant dragon, flying and belching fire into the air. Of course the Emperor was deeply curious as to why a strong and flying creature such as the dragon should fail to reach first. The mighty dragon explained that he had to stop and make rain to help all the people and creatures of the earth, therefore he was held back a little. Then on his way to the finish line, he saw a little helpless rabbit clinging on to a log so he did a good deed and gave a puff of breath to the poor creature so that it could land on the shore. The emperor was very pleased with the actions of the dragon and he was added into the zodiac cycle. As soon as he had done so, a galloping sound was heard and the horse appeared. Hidden on the horse's hoof is the slimy sneaky snake whose sudden appearance gave the horse a fright thus making it fall back and gave the snake 6th spot whilst the horse took the 7th.

Not long after that, a little distance away, the sheep, monkey and rooster came to the shore. These three creatures helped each other to get to where they are. The rooster spotted a raft, and took the other two animals with it. Together, the sheep and the monkey cleared the weeds, tugged and pulled and finally got the raft to the shore. Because of their combined efforts, the Emperor was very pleased and promptly named the sheep as the 8th creature, the monkey as the 9th, and the rooster the 10th.

The 11th animal is the dog. His explanation for being late although he was supposed to be the best swimmer amongst the rest was that he needed a good bath after a long spell, and the fresh water from the river was too big a temptation. For that, he almost didn't make it to finish line. Just as the emperor was about to call it a day, an oink and squeal was heard from a little pig. The term "lazy pig" is due here as the pig got hungry during the race, promptly stopped for a feast then fell asleep. After the nap, the pig continued the race and was named the 12th and last animal of the zodiac cycle.

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Wednesday, February 2, 2005

  

What Does Your Inner Anime Character Look Like? (For Girls) by Rose Lover
User Name
Age
Height
Fav. Colors
Fav. Anime Show
What you look like
Role	Human looking demon
Quiz created with MemeGen!

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Sunday, January 30, 2005

   hiya peoples!
How do ya like my sites new layout? Kingdom Hearts all the way, baby! I'm hyper, yet bored right now. That's the most irritating thing in the world! You wanna do something, but there's nothing to do!!!! Is there any thing you would like to see as a theme on my site? Please tell me, before I go crazy from boredom!!!!!
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Friday, January 28, 2005

   Anime convention update
well, I WAS going to go to the anime convention as Yuna, but I changed my mind. Now I'm going to go as an Unknown from Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. Six of my friends are going to go as Unknowns as well, so if you decide to go to the convention, and see a bunch of Unknowns, thats us! ^-^


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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

What should I do now?
Ok, I'm bored all the time, and to pass the time, I like to find pictures? Is there anything you would like to see on this site? It can be anything from my list of favorate anime on my profile. Please help, I'm bored!!!!!!!!


hahahahahaha!!!! This pic cracks me up for some reason...I guess it's because they look so clueless!
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Friday, January 21, 2005

   anime conventions
there's about to be a anime convention in houston, (It's in march) and I'm thinking about dressing up like yuna from FFX and FFX-2, wearing the outfit that she wears in the real emotion video...is that anime-ish enough for a anime convention? I don't know, this will be my first convention.....what do all of you think?
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

   I hate leeks!!!!!!!
Ok, so if you've ever seen Fruits Basket, you know how much Kyo hates leeks. Well, I was at a grocery store the other day, and I saw some leeks, so I was like, they can't be THAT bad....so I bought some. Thats when it started. I try eating it raw, steamed, boiled in stew, covered in teryaki, soy, and BBQ sauce, put cheese on one, tried ranch and every other kind of dressing, and came to a conclusion.....there is absolutely NO WAY to make a leek taste good.


Kyo-I TOLD you there is absolutely NO WAY to make a leek taste good! WHY didn't you listen to me the FIRST time!?
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Thursday, January 13, 2005

   100 hits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've reached a hundred hits!!!! *throws kyo and riku plushies in the air instead of confetti* Yay!
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

   quizzes!!!

Afterlife as an Angel by childdoll
Your Name
Astrological Sign
Angel Type	Angel of Death
Wing Color	Black
Heavenly Weapon	Staff
Quiz created with MemeGen!

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Monday, January 10, 2005

   new fanart up!
I've put some new kingdom hearts fanart up.....just letting anyone who cares know. ^-^;
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