i love toothless. it's the cutetest cat-like dragon ever. haha!

i finally watched 'how to train your dragon' and i kinda liked it. it was a mild like, nothing full-blown

or excessive; it was just a flawed but enjoyable cartoon. Felt that it was a pity that many of the characters weren't really given room to grow and develop as full-fledged characters in a sense- i didn't really feel that they were real people but they felt very, erm, two-dimensional. Like fierce-angsty-suddenly-lovey-female-love-interest. Very shallow plot device that could have been done without....

The dragon is just cute, anyway. period.

Maybe it's because it looks and acts a little like a

cat, which i am totally bias for >___<

Anyway speaking of cat- i read a book some time ago while killing time, it's a book called 'dewey', the library cat, and (it's supposed to be) about a true story about a kitten that was dumped into the library book drop (>__<). The town library board (mostly ladies) decided to adopt the kitten as the official library cat and named it Dewey Readmore. cute, no?

Would never be feasible here but- it's a lovely thought.

No comments on the book because i think you should read it for yourself, and also because i read it all but skipped the last part because i guessed and didn't want to read about Dewey dying =( would be too sad...

so i guess it turns out i'm going to be blogging about cats, or why i have a soft spot for them. I still remember during an interview i was asked by a neuropsychologist (he's the boss btw) if i had a choice, what animal i would be, and i answered 'cat' almost immediately. He gave me a rather shocked look- which means it's not a common answer i guess, and asked me why.

So why? before talking about how and why i love cats, i guess i have to start with dogs- because i didn't always like cats more/better. I was always a dog lover, from young. It was my biggest wish (besides going to Iceland) to have a huge dog (maybe a golden retriever) in our house. Alas, it remains unfulfilled. Just imagine all the hair (and maybe poo) lying around- my mother would freak out and faint. My long hair lying around is bad enough.

So going back to the question- i guess the main reason why i made the switch from dog to cat was because it reflected a change in mindset and attitude towards life for myself. As a small child i was young, naive, and somewhat needy (aren't most children? even more so nowadays). I disliked cats because i felt that they were sly, and clever, and you could/would never guess what they were thinking. I liked dogs because i felt that they were loyal, friendly, trusting, and dependable. It was only as i grew older that i felt and realised that this sense of being loyal is sometimes to the point of stupidity and 'gullible-ness', and this sense of friendliness sometimes translates to neediness.

It was only i grew older and became more adept at understanding human nature, or the character specific individuals, the more i was able to draw parallels between the character of a cat, and that of human adults. I was able to be more forgiving towards the pragmatic approach of a cat, since it's evident that in daily life we as humans behave like this almost all the time.

If you ask me, to me dogs are like very small children, while cats are like adolescents. Dogs need to be walked, to be petted, to be fed, to be played with. They need care, warmth, and lots of love, just like small children. On the other hand, cats may understand when their owners need comfort, or throw tantrums and ask to be petted, but cats are never needy in a way that dogs are. They often have times that they prefer to be alone, in their own space, away from their owner. A cat will never need it's owner like a dog does, and in that way, a cat will never truly be 'owned'.

Also, cats can choose to walk alway from their owners, refuse to play with them- in a way that dogs do not- and that makes them different. They know that they can live alone, on their own, and that they can roam free. Perhaps if they are hungry they will come back, or seek some other kind pair of hands, but they are free to choose. In that way- i respect and admire that freedom, that sense of non-dependence, and aspire to become someone like that, someone who is truly free.

And this is why i like cats.