The Cherry Blossom Tree

Recently, I had to write a sonnet for Honors European Literature. It took a lot of effort, but I thought it turned out not terrible. I based it off the life of a kamikaze pilot...so it's a bit depressing >.> 

The Cherry Blossom Tree

Beneath the fragrant cherry blossom tree,

Two callow lovers make a tender vow

For love! For timelessness! For destiny!

Quixotic visions capture them, for now.

But soon the heartless fates blow mirthful wind

That scatters clouds of petals swirling down.

He leaves to war, departing with a grin

And her sakura branch to battle grounds.

For him, she waits for days and months and years

In hopes that he’ll arrive each coming spring

As flowers do; But he has disappeared.

And so she sits beneath the tree, crying.

Because she knows his fleeting promises

Have blossomed into tragic emptiness.

Traditionally, in Japan cherry blossoms were regarded as symbols of beauty, love, feminity, brevity, and some other stuff. But in World War II, Japan used cherry blossoms as a symbol for their kamikaze pilots. It emphasized the brevity of life, and pilots were compared to the petals that fell to the ground. I think it was said that the kamikaze pilots that died in war would be reincarnated into cherry blossoms (which doesn't sound great to me, but who knows). Some pilots brought sakura branches from loved ones to their suicide missions, and others wrote many poems about them. Many of the pilots were educated students that had prospective lives in front of them, so they were pretty good at pondering life and writing depressing literature.

Anyways...yay history!I should probably write more because I'm really terrible at writing....sooo

Yay Posting on my blog

Yay I've decided to post on my blog after 2 YEARS of hiatus. I'm a junior now, if anyone can believe it. I know I can't xD
I been swamped with lots of school, chorus, fencing - all that stuff has been going on for the last two years! And I guess I just kind of drifted away from my blog...At any rate, I'll try to update more frequently I guess. Not just about my life (because it's really not that interesting), but maybe also about dreams, stories, poems? Who knows what will happen~
At any rate, keep in touch with my blog :D Oh yeah, and I made a storenvy a lonnnggg time ago selling various keychains. If anyone wants to check it out:
soooookawaii.storenvy.com
Don't judge the domain name, I was pandering to 10 year olds.

Summer Vacation: New York :D

Hey guys! Long time no blog :P I've been my usual lazy self and I haven't really caught up with my blogging. But anyways~
I'm in New York again! If you didn't realize from the title :3 And this time, I've been training a lot for fencing.  I've been training and actually both NJ and NY, and both are really helpful. But I've seriously been worked to the bone, and I'm looking forward to my true vacation in Asia (we're going to Korea and China after NY).
We've done a lot of things here. We ate this AMAZING FOOD cuz that's what New York is all about. X3 There's this super good food place in the middle of Manhattan that is freakin expensive but sells REALLY yummy yakitori. At least, I think that that is what the food was called. My parents bought some thirty-something dollar sake also. Also, at Central Park, there's this insanely yummy waffle cart with the BEST toppings, called "dinges". It both sounds and tastes yummy. X3 And in New Jersey, we ate at this Veggie Haven place which had a bunch of Asian meat dishes that were all vegan. The vegan cheesecake was also super delicious :D I actually have a couple of pictures, but I'm too lazy to upload them.
But the best part of going to New York was the Broadway shows. Oh my god. They are the most amazingest bestest things ever. XD We watched Wicked and Lion King. I personally thought that Wicked had better singing, but Lion King was much more...visually enhanced, I guess. The people acting as animals had these masks and costumes and stuff and it was really cool :D And it was fun and easy to follow the plot. I have to say though that I liked Wicked better. I think that it had a much more complex plot, and there were many deep and meaningful points and themes throughout the entire show. Plus, Glinda (aka Guh-linda, with a silent "G" XD ) was just so funny. And the singers were AMAZING. I seriously do not regret getting the Wicked CD. Though I personally liked the new singers live than the old singers on a CD.
Unfortunately, I don't have pics of the shows I went to either, cuz its not allowed. I do have pictures of the sets the shows were on, though I am too lazy to upload those as well. Maybe later XD

AWESOME PICS

Here are some pics of the cat. It still comes to us, but we don't let it in anymore D:

Whatcha lookin' at, fool?!

 I may look cute and innocent here, but I'm actually a RABID CARRIER OF ALLERGIES!!!!

No take mah milk D:<

Yeah, stupid cat is giving me allergies =/ But I love it anyways. Even if we lock it up now. I was thinking that maybe we should test its loyalty to us by giving it a bath >:D It would absolutely hate that ehehehe And here's a link that just reminded me of all cats:

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w6zeSR1a1rqqme8o1_1280.png

And here's some other awesome pics of squirrels that I found near one of the universities near me:

MONSTER SQUIRREL

I found it really fun chasing them around. We almost cornered one, but then it scurried up a tree =[

Gas Leak

Today at school, there was a gas leak =_= It started at lunch, when the announcer said, "Don't panic, but there's a gas leak. Stay calm. Just know that you can't come in from the front entrance or go past the gym." And you could actually smell the gas o-o So me and my friends went up to our club to avoid smelling the nasty gas (lol I'm a really immature person). And then naturally, I started freaking out about my science quiz.
After lunch, I went to 6th period science and took the quiz. Then the announcer lady on the speaker started to say in a fear-suppressed voice that we needed to evacuate cuz of the gas leak. It was kind of funny, actually, because she seemed like she was completely freaking out on the inside. And our teacher looked kinda annoyed because she interrupted the exam and was talking so much. It was pretty entertaining, overall. :P So we were evacuated, and I found my other friendsies, and we walked a FREAKING MILE UP THIS LONG WINDING ROAD. =________= My mom picked me up before I got to the Pavilions mall (I never even knew there was a mall near our middle-of-nowhere school lol) and we ate and went home.

btw, sorry for sounding so lifeless in this post. I'm really tired T^T And I got  92% on the quiz. So yeah. Sigh

freaking cat

Oh my God(s? depending on your religion). I have a freaking cat in my room. Like, fur and meows and everything. It's meowing continously and I have no clue what I'm supposed to do =_=
It started off yesterday at around 8:30-9:00 AM. I was on my computer playing games and stuff, and then I heard this incessant meowing. I ignored it at first, but then I decided to go downstairs, because naturally I was really curious. So then I see a CAT ON MY DOORSTEP. And it seemed to love me. So I was like, does it need something? And I dunno. So I freaked out and called my best friend Elisabeth (my parents weren't home and were playing badminton). And she told me she couldn't come over and help me until she finished her homework. Thanks for the help, Elisabeth. =_= So I decided to go to her house instead with the cat, but it didn't want to leave the neighborhood (for some odd reason, it followed me everywhere. Maybe it was just lonely?). So then it struck me, maybe it lives in my neighborhood? I dunno. All I knew at that point was that I had a stray and NO ONE COULD HELP ME T^T
So I went back home, made a mini den for him/her to sleep on (cutting off access to the rest of my house, of course), gave him/her some water, and did my homework near the cat, waiting for my negligent parents to come home. Which was fine and dandy, if I wasnt allergic to cats. T^T Like, what in the world? Why must fate be so cruel? I love cats, but are allergic to cats. This sucks. Anyways, after around an hour or so, my nose and hands were starting to itch and my throat was feeling funny. Also, it wouldn't stop meowing (and still won't)!!!! But it was so cute, I forgave it :3 It kept meowing until it's throat was sore, so I felt like something was wrong with it...I dunno. Then, after a little bit, Elisabeth called and said she couldn't come. ^sighs^
So I wait until like 10:15 with the cat and FINALLY my parents come home. The cat has gotten incredibly attached to me at that point (probably has something to do with the fact that I let it in and made it warm) but were a bit hostile to my parents, not knowing who they were. It was on the verge of leaving, but my parents wanted to play with it. So I beckoned (wth? lol) to it and it came! So we fed it with some salmon we had conveniently purchased earlier in the day, and it got so happy! :3 And it was a little less hostile to my parents.
Then, I played some piano (I was supposed to before, but the cat came). Strangely enough, it didn't leave when I played the piano o-o So odd...and it stayed quiet whenever I played as well. I think that the only times it stayed quiet was when a) It was grooming itself b) I was petting/playing with it, and c) There was some other noise. It is so adorable X) And while I was playing, it jumped ON TOP OF MY PIANO!!!!! Sigh. That stupid cat. But yeah. After I played for a while, it went outside, and I thought it left. So I said, "bye kitty cat!" and it came back! And wouldn't leave.
My dad then just kicked it out, and I went to sleep. But the problem was, the doorstep was right below my room (if that made sense), so I could hear it continue to meow! meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow!!!!!!!! Sighs but I somehow found a way to sleep, once my dad went downstairs and started playing with it.
So I woke up the next day, wondering how the cat was, maybe even feeling a bit guilty about leaving it out in the cold. Then I was like, "nah, strays can survive anything" But my dad had decided to let it back in last night. =_= I was so surprised when I saw the cat with my mom next morning.
Now, I have a stray cat. What do I do? sighs

WHY?!!!!??

Science sucks. My grade es muy feo y no es bonita. No me gusta mi grade en la clase de ciencias naturales. Es horrible. Tambien, la profesor de ciencias naturales es sadistico (?). Ahora, estoy depressed.