Start: 11:32 PM CST
Hi guys! Sorry I didn't post yesterday like I should've. I guess I got too excited in making on Gaia! Puahahas, so let's get on, shall we?
Today, I did nothing. I woke up around...12:35 noon, and did...well, nothing. I hung out in my sister's room, and it started to pour rain like crazy. I basically stayed there until...4 or 5 PM, and I went back to my room.
I also watched The Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen! I loved it! It's so funny! Ya know, growing up, you think you would outgrow cartoons and such, but you never do! I hope I stay like this!
That's about it...
Now...what did I do yesterday?
I went to church at 7 PM for a JAM (Jesus and Me) prayer and worship for Vietnamese adults! Entering the church, I saw Nickkie and her mom! I sat by myself in the chapel, since my mom made me angry in the van and I snapped my rosary in half. I don't know why, but my mom has this habit of screaming at us for no reason right before church, and when I enter church, I end up being angry. Now that's not very good, right?
Well, I did prayer and worship all by myself. After the JAM, I walked out of the chapel and into the dark church, where I group of people praying to the tabernacle. To my surprise, it was my old Confirmation buddies! Matthew, Viet, Julie, Trang, Jonathan (both the teacher AND the student), both Jennifers, and Quang! I ended up talking to Quang about my sister seeing him at the eye doctor's place (turns out he was getting a blood check), and it ended up talking about training to become a TA (teacher assistant) at church!
Nickkie went home without me, but I talked with Anne: she works at City Pets now, a pet fish store. I told her that I would visit, but what's the use of buying fish if I couldn't eat them? (It was a joke, don't worry!)
I waved bye to all my church buddies, and we left, after my mom finished talking with Julie.
We bought Church's (coincidence!) chicken and we ate at home. Before church, I told Mom that she should stop cursing and she continued yelling at me. Now, after eating, she said that after she married "my father", she picked up the habit of cursing and that, whenever he cursed at her, she would curse back too. I told her that that was NO reason to curse, and that she should stop her habit. And so we promised. No one in the house curses anymore. Yay! She told me not to curse anymore too. I just scoffed, and told her that I hadn't cursed in more than three years, except the little slippings of when I'm angry.
Oh...my...gosh! Guess who AIMed me when I got on the computer?!?! It was Becky Sue, my lovely Majin Badeek! Oh, she was back from China, and I was so happy!!! She began telling me all about her journey to China, how she watched Chinese anime, but couldn't understand a lot of it, and she even stopped by in Japan for a day before heading to China!
She was at Narita Airport, and Becky and her mom decided to take the JR (Japan Railroad), but they got so lost!!! Becky said that she mainly only saw businessmen on the railroad, and she saw a white girl there who was speaking English, but she looked all slutty and stared at Becky as if she were a dragon. Becky just scooted away, heh.
I missed Becky so much! She had been gone for about a month, and it was really lonely at two in the morning, with no one to give you intellectual stimulation and talks. Ahh...I miss her so.
She never did make that scarf for me! She said that I never decided if I wanted my scarf to be single or a tube! I told her that I didn't mind either, but she just replied, "Well, you should've told me that!"
Oh oh, another thing: Becky wanted to go to the Tanabata Festival in the Shizuoka district of Tokyo, but since she got lost, she never managed to make it there. It's sad though. She said the festival dates were July 3-7. Aww.
What is Tanabata, you ask? Well, Tanabata is the Japanese (traditionally from China), where there was an angel/princess, Orihime, that would weave beautiful patterns in the sky. She would weave each sunrise, each summer sky, and each sunset. Well, she was lonely in Heaven, so she decided to descend onto Earth. There, she met a simple cowherd, Kengyu, and they fell in love and married.
However, after they married, they begin to neglect their work. The cows would just start running around everywhere, and the angel wouldn't weave the beautiful patterns in the sky like she used to.
Well, the King finally realized that in order for balance in the world to remain, he would have to separate them. He went to Earth, and told his daughter to leave to come back to Heaven.
The daughter, however, did not want to leave her husband behind. The couple were crying and begin to embrace each other. The father, the King, however, felt sympathy for them, and he said that every year, on the seventh moon of the seven day, a bridge of fireflies will appear, linking Heaven and Earth together, causing the lovers to reunite once again. But only once every year.
It's quite a beautiful love story, and to tell you the truth, I made up a lot of that right now! Well, I didn't make it up, but I skipped a lot of parts. It's been years since I've celebrated Tanabata.
Also, cool fact: The anime Ayashi No Ceres is based off the Tanabata Festival. Did you know that? It's also based off the Tanabata love story, but of a different branch.
When I mean branch, I mean... Do you know when a story is passed down through different generations, it's often changed very little? And then, the story changes and changes and changes until their plots become very different. But at the root of it, they are the same story.
Well, if you guys want to celebrate Tanabata, here's a cool tip:
Take some colored construction paper and write your wishes on it. Then fold them in half, make a hole through each of the pieces of papers. Take the branch of a leafy bamboo tree and and tie the paper with red string to the branch, and ta-da! You've got yourself a Tanabata Tree!
They say that if you tie your wishes to a Tanabata Tree, then your wishes will come true!
Now let's sing!!!
Oh, Tanabata Tree,
Oh, Tanabata Tree,
Your leafs are mighty lovely.
Oh, Tanabata Tree,
Oh, Tanabata Tree,
My wishes you will grant me.
Like it? I just made it up at the moment. Hehe.
Well, enough fooling around! I'm going to sleep! Happy Tanabata Day you guys!!!
End: 12:02 AM CST
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