Sister Date
It’s very rare that I get to treat my little sister out for movies and food and shopping. Because it involves planning and budgeting haha. I love treating her out, and I tend to overspend.
I’m lucky to have a sister like her– smart, loving and laughs at my cheesy jokes. I guess it’s really so easy to fall in love with her. I’m actually afraid when the time comes that boys come-a-courting. They will have to go though me first.
Hold on. My dad first, then me. LOL.
So seeing this opportunity of quality time out with my sister, I jumped at the chance that we’d watch Ratatouille together once it comes out. We’re both huge Pixar fans, and this will be a great time to share.
The Movie Date
Ratatouille turned out to be a perfect movie to watch together. It’s a great movie– an ambitious concept, a great story line, and wonderful characters you can relate to. And the ending is not your typical children’s book ending, as typical of all the Pixar movies (I can’t say much about Cars though, as I have yet to see it, so don’t take my opinion as a general– well, opinion).
The concept of a rat in the kitchen– cooking food!– is actually ambitious concept since, how will you be able to make your audience relate to a creature we are so used to shriek at/ run from/ kill1 when seen? In the kitchen at that, cooking food!2 But Brad Bird, the same writer and director for The Incredibles (another Pixar fave, and Oscar winner at that)3
And the running moral of the story is of profound truth: True, not anyone can do anything, but if you have the talent and the will, your nurture and environment shouldn’t hold you down.
Anyone remotely interested should watch this movie. It’s a wonderful movie young and old people will love and relate to. The batch of audience we were with today were clapping when the movie ended (we joined of course).
Shopping
While waiting for the movie to start, we went around to look for books. Yes! We are that kind of sisters that go shopping for books and office supplies rather than clothes, shoes and bags. She has a bigger paper collection than I do.
Let me put this in record that it’s actually creeping me out that my sister is very very inclined to go to the reference section and grab books about grammar, vocabulary and language. I know I shouldn’t be creeped out, she’s intelligent (genius, even!) for goodness’s sake! But she’s already so good in math! Share the brain cells! Yes, this is scaring me a bit. But I indulged and bought the books for her anyway.
While she is inclined to go to the reference section, I tend to go and browse the children’s books (and I’m the older one, tsk). Still no sign of The Spook’s Battle. I am now leaning to the idea that I order the book from Amazon UK now. The thing is I already have Pinky:St purchases already booked for the coming month.
*sigh*
Priorities. LOL.
Anyway, bought the Beloved Thud, a Discworld novel. Hee. If he likes it, I’ll give him all the Night Watch cycle books I have since they are unappreciated by yours truly. I enjoyed the stories of this cycle but the political parodies are too much to handle for me. 
Conclusion
It has been a wonderful day, and I wish I could spend more time with my sister like this. But I guess for the coming days, we’ll choose less expensive ways for quality time. ^__^
- Not necessarily in that order. ↩
- This really should be macro-ed, LOL ↩
- TRIVIA! He was also asked to actually direct for The Simpsons movie but turned it down because he was already committed to Ratatouille. ↩
