Thursday, February 9, 2006

  

To those of you who don't get Shojo Beat (magazine) there was a little thing i found pretty interesting and you may as well. pleeeeeease read it- i'm going to spend a while typing this by hand-- no way of copying and pasting T_T "Enemy soldiers surround your castle. Your own men, bruised and battered, are vastly outnumbered and don't stand a chance. Do you- a.) pinch youself (this must be a dream, right?) b.) surrender, or c.) fight to the bloody (and boy, you can bet it'll be bloody) finish? if you chose option c, you're either crazy or very much in tune with the japanese code of bushido- or maybe both. Bushido translates as "way of the warrior", and is roughly equivalent to the western concept of chivalry. For centuries, it guided the actions of japan's samurai warriors- and some argue that it continues to influence the country even today. although bushido wasn't codified until te 17th century- after japan entered the peaceful edo period- it existed for hundreds of years before that. it drew on the principles of buddhism, shintoism, and confucianism, ephasizing qualities like loyalty to one's lord, frugality, and restraint. so far, so predictable, but one of the bushido's core tenets is a little harder to swallow: a samurai must at all times be ready and willing to die. at the end of his life, respected samurai yamamoto tsunetomo (1659-1719) created the hagakure, one of the main texts of bushido, which opens with these words: "the way of the samurai is found in death." indeed, it was widely believed that a warrior could only perform his duty properly if he overcame the fear of dying. this ties in with another important aspect of bushido: honor. for samurai, it was shameful to surrender or run away during a battle, because dying for one's lord was the highest honor imaginable. they also regarded the notorious act of seppuku, or ritual suicide, as an honorable way to die; they often used it to avoid capture, or to atone for shameful acts." WARRIOR QUIZ: 1. DO/DON'T put your lord's interests first, no matter what. 2. DO/DON'T have a hobby. 3. DO/DON'T turn your back on the enemy during battle. 4. DO/DON'T pretend that you're dumber than you are. 5. DO/DON'T speak up. 6. DO/DON'T carry makeup with you. i'll give you a minute..... AAAND... ANSWERS: 1. DO. being a samurai requires total loyalty. 2. DON'T. warriors don't have time to read manga. 3. DON'T. it's better to die than to hightail it to the hills. 4. DO. no one likes a know-it-all. 5. DON'T. you'll learn more if you listen. 6. DO. it'll come in handy if you need to freshen up after a rough night.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

At peace

today i just felt really really... caged. my little world felt even smaller than it usually does... so i just left the house on an impulse and took a long walk... i know you can't walk away from your problems... but it's not like they're going anywhere. and sometimes the way people have to make things so damned complicated makes me so mad... it felt really good to not be with people for once and be with things that have been around much longer.. anyway... walked for a while, then went and did some trespassing on somebody-or-other's "private property" where they have a little lake that i haven't been to in a while.. and it was really, really beautiful there for so long my mind's been taken up with loving and worrying, and it gave me a chance to stop worrying, and love more. it really cleared out my mind and my heart i'm really glad i did that...

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Saturday, January 21, 2006

   bored

there's nothing to do around here... maybe i should go across the bay with my mom... even if getting my hair trimmed isn't very exciting i need it, i've got split ends real bad>_< maybe that's why my hair only grows a freaking inch every two years (okay maybe i'm exaggerating a LITTLE bit, but not much) i haven't actually had it CUT (i'm not counting trims) since i was in first grade, and it's just this year gotten four or five inches past my shoulders. that's kinda sad, y'know? anyway enough about my hair-_-' and i'm still bored i can't find my freaking yukio mishima novel i was READING that! and i think the poltergeists stole it away or some such thing, i've looked for it everywhere ah well doesn't seem like a book i'm going to like very much seemingly it's about some forty-some year old japanese guy who's chasing some too-young-for-him woman... which is what i gather from the back that says "the story of a man's pursuit of one beautiful woman" or some such stupidity and that guy was the ONLY good character in the book where he was 19 and now there ARE no good characters because he's turned into an old perv>_< *sighs* i know i get too upset over these things. but often what happens in books is more important to me than some things than happen in real life. and that's one reason most everyone thinks i'm crazy. there are many others XD anyway this ran long and i never said a single relevant thing. so i'll let you go now. have a more interesting day than me!

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

not much going on...

just going to put up a song by the beatles yep LOVE ~~~~ love is real real is love love is feeling feeling love love is wanting to be loved love is touch touch is love love is reaching reaching love love is asking to be loved love is you you and me love is knowing we can be... love is free free is love love is living living love love is needing to be loved a simple song but a really nice one...

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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

   lol kinda

i'm bored. *sighs* parents got me a celtic cd from a band called "brady's leap" music is pretty good, they have a good female singer, but there's an annoying poet guy who's all melodramatic, and most of their songs are about death, love, and drinking, sometimes about all three at once, and drinking being the prominent theme. and one got stuck in my head while i was TRYING to study XP something like "once i had a lover he was tall and 23, i can still recall every caress he gave to me, his mouth would bloom with kisses, more sweet than words can say, and i haven't met the whiskey that could wash that taste away" playing OVER and OVER and OVER in my head gets REEEALLLLY annoying see, i TOLD you they managed to say something about alcohol every ten seconds XD ah well most of the songs were pretty good nothing else to say really later

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Monday, January 16, 2006

   pics

i've submitted that demented artwork i might have mentioned a while back.. with a video game picture... so go see them, please. you want to make my boring day, don't you? and i should go study... mid-terms coming up starting thursday>_< but i wanna drawwww i hate math. *sighs*

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

   life in general

confusing. and PREJUDICED. we are currently being forced to read out romeo and juliet in english class. well. i got stuck as juliet's mother--- once again i am cast as someone's vain, materialistic, uncaring wife. i'm freaking sick of that>_< anyway- it's better than knox- she got stuck as juliet from what i heard while half-paying attention. that sucks even worse. anyway... IS there such thing as a GOOD part in that play-_- *siiiiighs*

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Friday, January 6, 2006

   More than anyone ever wanted to know about wombats (if indeed they wanted to know anything to begin with)

i'm so freaking sick of my computer class's work>_< just for the sake of researching something, he's having us research wombats... this has been going on for quite a freaking long while... i'm SO SICK OF THE DUMB WOMBATS argh-_-' this is messed-up.... i'm gonna start dreaming about them if my computer teacher doesn't have mercy...

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Sunday, January 1, 2006

   haha

i think i'm drunk and i find that pretty funny right now anyway wheeeee happy new year and ~**lemons are good for the soul**~ to you and DO NOT go crazy with the sprinkles, whatever you do you can't read the icing when that happens. it's sooooo sad yay more sake kidding ...i think... *confused look*

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Friday, December 30, 2005

just another assurance that i'm not dead... i just... don't have anything to write about... you can't tell anyone what's really in your heart... can you?

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