Meet Cat, the neighbour's... well, cat. Ever since he got lost to our home couple days ago, he seems to be visiting a lot.

He came again this evening, while I was frying sausages and egg. (Our house is being re-painted for more than a week now. And the dust is driving us insane, my Aunt doesn't even want to cook anymore.)

Cat (I don't know his real name) is a snobbish hybrid. He doesn't linger on your feet, wanting to be hugged or petted. He will run to every direction in the house, smelling every corners. Or sit calmly in the newly-painted kitchen, not even bother to look at people who's calling him.

This evening Cat brought a new toy. A cockroach. Normally, I would say it gross. But Cat seemed to enjoy his play-date a lot. He would let the poor cockroach go, only to run catching it agan. Let free, run catching.

Few times Cat left cockroach lying on its back and it would play dead. Then Cat would check up on him. Once Cat finished helping cockroach on its feet, cockroach would run and Cat would be on his hunt again.

I found cockroach to be disturbing ever since I read Kafka's Gregor Samsa who turned into insect. It's supposed to be beetle, but Kafka's description about the insect also matches cockroach.

Anyway, finally the tiny body of cockroach could not take it anymore. It finally laid lifeless on the backyard.

Cat seemed to be quite taken aback. He tried to wake up the cockroach, but it just wouldn't move. Finally he gave up and moved away.

Then Cat sat calmly, now under the toilet. Ignoring my old, "Here kitty kitty Cat..."

When a young girl accused as a witch was dragged down from her parents, wailing and pleading for the priest to spare her life, I thought I was going to see a good film. Though of course it's Nicholas Cage, who took roles in Disney's National Treasure and Sorcerer's Apprentice, I should've known Season of The Witch would be just a plain fantasy.

Behmen (Cage) was a former knight of Crusade War who decided he had enough serving the Church when his army attacked a Moslem village and murdered hundreds of women and children. He and a fellow ex-crusader, Felson, then left the army and traveled along in search for civilization. After a month, they finally found a village.

Behmen and Felson visited the village just to buy horses and food supply and planned to leave soon after. But a boy accidently dropped Behmen's sword and the villagers recongized him as a deceiver of Crusade War, therefore he also became the enemy of God. Behmen and Felson then being captive and put into the dungeon.

Meanwhile, the so called village was plagued by strange disease. Almost everybody was infected, from the dirtiest scavenger on the street to the holiest local priest.

The Church believed the black witch was the cause. A middle-rank priest found a girl alone on the street, muttering words no one could understand. He's then convinced she's the witch and arrested her. The Church needed the witch to be deliver to someplace which name I couldn't remember, therefore they need some capable hands.

At first, Behmen and Felson refused to do so, having sworn never to serve the Church anymore. But after they saw the girl, in miserable condition to say the least, they decided it was best for the girl to be sent and given fair trial immediately. So then the journey of two former crusaders, a local knight, a priest, a merchant and a suspect began..

From the beginning until 3/4 of the movie, I thought this film would be another critism to the witch-hunt in 1400s. When hundred of thousands of women were captured, drown, hung and even burned alive for witch-craft practices which were never proven to be true.

Like at the beginning of the movie, when a woman said all she did was to give herbal medicine to a wounded man. And when the alleged 'black witch' said that in her village, there used to be a girl who was accused as a witch. To prove her innocence, she was pushed into the river. If she died by drowning, then she wasn't a witch. If she survived, then she was a witch and had to be burned.

Most disappointingly, it turned out that Season of The Witch was just a dull journey of ex-crusaders to escort an idiot devil to someplace. The reason of why the devil ever needed escort was another absurdity.

In the end of the movie, I was thinking: So what's the point? Are they really saying that killing hundred thousands women in 14th to 17th century was necessary?