Day 2: Poems by Sharon not Shonagon

 Sei Shonagon has the most extraordinary air of self-satisfication.

Yet, if we stop to examine those Chinese writings of hers that

she so presumptuously scatters about the place, we find that

they are full of imperfections. Someone who makes such an

effort to be different from others is bound to fall in people's

esteem, and I can only think that her future will be a hard one. 

(Qtd. Ozeki 14)

Things That Arouse a Fond Memory of the Past:


Found Grey Grey sleeping in your Crocs.
Talking to your cats assuming they understand. Your cat looking at you like they are listening. 
Taking a 2 hour bus just to eat HotPot. If one go by car, it is only 20 minutes.
Sleepover at your best friends house, cooking whatever you can find in her refrigerator.
Having dinner with your relatives, talking about your childhood jokes and stories.
It is Summer. You and her sitting at a bench teasing each other.

When I Imagine Things:

To have a loving husband and three kids.
To always buy what I want and never worry about money.
Having a boyfriend that pay for everything. EVERYTHING.
Turning into a pretty butterfly, adored by every one.
I am at home, sleeping in my cozy little bed with Cupido and Cupipi.

Annoying Things: 

You clean up the house and the next day it's dirty again.
Cooking for someone who doesn't appreciate.
Spoiled kids that expect everything to be done. Given what they want. Never experience being in a poor family.
Bothered with questions about homework and exams when you are going to sleep.
Awake by the sound of radios and alarms.
To see someone spend their money on brands.

Pleasing Things:

Preparing dinner for your parents. To see them enjoying the food.
Having friends to talk to, play with and eat with.
To get good results. To make your parents proud of you.

Things That Make One's Heart Beat Faster:

One talk to the person one like.
One is stared by people, waiting for one to say something.
Debates, speech and class presentation.
One is listening to heavy music in a car.
Meeting a new friend.
Being in a group of strangers.
Reading Someone Else's diary.
One's teacher is reading one's Poem.