Mouse/ rat, lucky charm, good wishes on paper, according to the interpretation of the Chinese zodiac, a person born under the year sign of the Rat might be forthright, disciplined, systematic, meticulous, charismatic, hard working, industrious, charming, eloquent, sociable, shrewd, but can be manipulative, cruel, dictatorial, rigid, selfish, obstinate, critical, over-ambitious, ruthless, intolerant, scheming, material prosperity, ‘Year of the rat’; vending along the street, China Town, Bangkok