Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Y 4:52 PM
i'm posting again! today, i read al2gether of 2 books. one is " Puppy tales" and the other is the "the cat that went to the heaven". i liked the story of "the cat that went to the heaven" as it told mi histories of religious tales.the story is about a poor artist and his housekeeper living in a small, poor house. one day, the housekeeper bought a cat back as she thought that the house and the artist are very lonely. the housekeeper was an old lady, a very sentimental one too. she listens to her owner n she is veri loyal. the cat is veri special as it has three colours on it. the artist was veri objective in having a cat in the house as this meant that there is another mouth to feed. after the artist saw the cat, he liked her veri much as three colours on a cat is veri auspicious.out of the blue, a priest suddenly comes to the poor artist's house to tell the artist to paint a picture of "the death of the Buddha". the priest says that they were unable to decide who to choose to paint this picture so he placed slips of paper on a window and all the paper slips flew away except for the paper that has the artist's name on it.the priest thinks that it is the Buddha's decision and decides to call the poor artist to draw this picture. the picture would be hung on the temple and the artist would be famous. one thing that the artist could not figure out was that the artist did not pray for a long time as he was too sad and the housekeeper was too busy to do so.the artist looked at the picture and saw the cat sitting before the buddha. he knew that the cat was the one who 'prayed' 4 him.the artist got his deposit and was overjoyed. the second day, the artist imagined that he was the prince that had the Buddha spirit in him.the artist drew pictures of the lion, deer, elephant, monkey, dog, bull,deer and other animals, but not the cat. it was a legend that the cat rejected teaching from the buddha and is very petty and arrogant. after the artist drew each picture, the cat would come from behind, trying to tell the artist that it is veri nice but she would like to have the artist to paint in a cat. the cat looked pitiful and the artist knew that if he drew in the cat, the priest would surely have reject his drawing. still, the artist drew in the cat and the cat was so happy that she fell dead. it was a miracle when the picture was really, however, rejected but put on in the temple. the picture of the cat was covered by a piece of white silk. on a statue, there stood a picture of white cat, smiling. isn't it a miracle? to know about the full story,(this is only me raftlytelling u the story) do read the book! :] :) :] :)
