Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner [2]

Hardly getting any sleep, the morning came, and I narrowly opened the kitchen door and peeked inside.  The rat had already disappeared leaving disgusting footprints on the floor.

First thing I did was to rush to the Carrefour and buy a bottle of sanitizer (if anyone is interested, the most famous brand here is called 84 sanitizer in a white bottle with a red cap).  I sprayed it all over the kitchen, boiled the plates and utensils, and threw out everything else.

Then I inspected the kitchen to find out that there are gaps and holes around the gas and water pipes.  So that’s the path they broke in.  Need to get them sealed asap.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner [1]

I just spent the most horrifying night in my life.  It was about 1am in the middle of the night when I was about to go to bed, I heard ruffling noise in the kitchen.  I froze on my bed for a split second, slowly got up, and approached the kitchen door.  As I put my hand on the door knob, there was the dreadful squeak on the other side of the door.

A Rat!

Although I’d never encountered the creature before, I instinctly knew it was the long-time enemy of us human that invaded into my territory.

Shocked and terrified, I could not open the door anymore, but instead, I frantically banged on it.  That should have badly startled the creature as it gave a few more cries of panic, then the kitchen went quiet again.

Toyota, the Roast Chicken

The Toyota recall incident is repeatedly covered by the Chinese media. As the company’s CEO Akio Toyoda testified for the US House of Reps yesterday, CCTV aired special coverages today on the issue in the nation wide news broadcast.

The basic attitude of the coverage was sympathetic to Toyota in line with Japanese and the rest of the world except for the U.S.

The commentator pulled out the Chinese saying “a bird sticking out its neck would be shot” to describe the fierce accusation of the U.S. government towards the motor giant.  He described the bird to be having “roasted” in front of the world and blamed it to the U.S. resentment towards Toyota’s success amongst the collapse of the American motor industry.  While the coverage also pointed out the unsatisfactory attitudes of the  company in handling the incident, is ended with the interviews on streets of Tokyo with the voices of encouragement.

As the largest growing economy, China might be foreseeing the possibility of  falling into the same position as Toyota in a not so far future.

Happy Lunar New Year

My neighbors shoot fireworks on the New Year Eve.  This basically went on for 24/7 during the new years holidays.

*The movie looks weird on my PC, but  I don’t know if it’s the problem of the video file or my PC.  Search “shanghai fireworks 2010” on youtube instead.