The Goodluck Cat

While Chinese culture does not include cat as a favorite pet, Japanese does. I never understand it until I took the Children Literature class at CSULA two years ago. In this class, part of my projects, I had to search for fifty books with author name, title of book, year of publishing and the summary of the book.
I went to the South Pasadena library, spent two hours in the children section, sitting on the tiny, wooden chair, and table. I felt like a kid myself going over shelves and shelves of books. There I found the book called "Manekineko".
The author wrote a story about the boy who loved to draw cats. His parent was very upset and told him to leave. So, he took all his drawings and walked miles and miles away from home. One night, he stopped at ruined temple and went in for some rest. He found none around. Hw started to draw pictures and pictures of cats everywhere on the wall, rooms to rooms ... Hungry and tired, he hid himself in one of closet to sleep. At night, he heard so much noise of animals fighting and screaming. The next day, when he woke up, he saw so many blood stains everywhere. At the time, the monks came out to thank him. The boy knew that the cats from his drawings had become alive and helped to save the temple from the gremlins.

That's why I choose Manekineko for my blog's name!