Just yesterday, Ah Heng told me about Life of Pi. What's that? I asked; and why, it's the award winning American Taiwanese director Ang Lee's new movie about a 16-year-old boy, Pi who survives the
sinking of a freighter and gets to share a lifeboat with an
orangutan, a hyena, a wounded zebra and of all thing, a Bengal tiger! Living with a tiger especially sounds rather dangerous and near to impossible but while in the airport in Yangon, Myammar, I have met a woman in brown who put her vocation in her name card as a globetrotter and she said she was catching a plane with several fellow Buddhists to visit a monk living with a tiger in a cave in northern Myammar. Monks living with tigers should not be news in Thailand where it was said there are over a hundred tigers in Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua aka the Tiger Temple. Some foreigners believed the tigers there are drugged but whatever it is, Life of Pi may reminds one of Noah's Ark, in which case, the animals in the ark,most probably were not drugged or it would be stated so in the Bible. Life of Pi by the way, is originally a novel by Yann Martel and explores issues of spirituality and practicality. Monks and Tigers...
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