Ratatouille

Managed to resolve a big issue yesterday for a trouble shipment, which took almost half the day. I left office late and rushed back home in order to take a shower and to reheat the dinner leftovers. Yumz, yam cooked with spare ribs. It's been a while since I've eaten this dish. The way Yen's mum cooked it was slightly different, but tasty. We finished the dish to the last drop, cleaned the plate.

After that we rushed over to Megamall to meet Merv for the tickets to Ratatouille. Surprisingly for a Wednesday, the cinema was not crowded, neither was the parking. Usually it'll be packed. The road going into the parking was free from jam and it was smooth all the way. Is it because of the Hungry Ghost festival that most Chinese folks are required to go home early and not go out?

More on that another time, now back to the movie. I've heard great reviews of this show and all of it were true. Pixar and Disney, you can not go wrong with this combination. So far, Pixar has been well known for their "realness" when it comes to animating hair or fur. Pay close attention to the details and you'll spot that it really resembles the real thing. The fur on Remy and his clan, are so realistically done that you can not believe that you are watching a cartoon done with fantastic CG.

However, rats as cooks? It seemed ironic that they chose rats, I mean, who would eat the dinner? If I were the critic, I'd thrown up upon hearing that. No matter how you look at it, rats are dirty. In fact, three days ago, we set a rat trap in the house. At first, we ignored it as it was just running around the roof and around the back of the house. On Sunday, the little critter got a little more bolder and decided to venture to the living room, where Yen was working. She said that the rat just decided to walk and went galavanting around the house. Enough was enough, it started eating the food around the house and it just squeezed itself through closed windows. How the heck he did that? Apparently, the can manipulate their bones and go through the smallest cracks. Long story short, we caught it and I was the executioner.

Back to the morality story. In Buddhism, we are told not to kill or to make things suffer. So how do you get rid of the rat? My grandparents used to drown it in water, the least painful way to go. My mum used to leave it in the sun so that it'll die of heat stroke. One time, it was raining and sunny, the little critter just shivered and suffered. Yen suggested to let it die of hunger. Isn't that worst than killing it by drowning it? I've seen people taking magnafying glass and burning the rat to death. That's really making it suffer.

Somehow, I don't think this is a suitable topic to be discussed in this post. But rats caused the widespread of diseases and are usually filthy creatures. So, why did the makers choose the rat for this movie? Because, everyone can cook!