The Hobbits

Today I went out to watch The Hobbits premiere with my sisters, Ci Lisda, Ko Ronald (my coaching teacher) and Ci Mei (his wife). It was my first time going out with my coaching teacher and his wife. Anyway, I'm so psyched to be watching The Hobbits ! I have been waiting for quite a long time, I know I have been patient for so long for this movie to be released. Although I have only read one-third of the The Hobbits parody called The Soddit, I have never attempted to buy and read the real novel myself. I think I might have glanced at it once at my school library, but then I went away reading another book.

The Soddit

So, as usual, went to EX/PI to watch movies. We went there as fast as we could before the ticket counter ran out of Hobbits tickets. I don't want that to happen! Technically, there were only 3 people before us lining up, but the first buyer took so long to buy tickets! I took a sneak peak at how much tickets they had bought, and you know what, they bought a total of Rp. 825k ! They had almost taken half of the theater seats! Fortunately they were buying the 19:30 pm tickets while we wanted the noon ticket which was at 1! 

We got about half an hour to eat before entering the studio. Most restaurants were crowded then because workers were having their lunch breaks. Eventually, we went to Pancious and ate there. It took us half an hour to order, eat, talk, and pay the bill. We were in a hurry as we didn't want to be late for the premiere!

I ordered green tea, red bean waffle with vanilla ice cream on top. tasted so good!

We made it on time for the movie! Bought popcorns and we were ready to be amused by this epic movie!

 

As expected from The Unexpected Journey, the movie was amazing! I can watch it again and again! But at cinemas though. I don't like watching epic movies at home. I don't have the acquired technology to recreate the awesome sound effects like the theaters supply. It just won't be the same watching at home. Besides, I bet for sure that if I watched it at home, I would doze off quite a couple of times like Lord of The Rings.

Then, we said goodbye to Ko Ronald and Ci Mei, and headed straight to GI to stop by at Gramedia for new comics (if any and if they were good). We encountered this Korean-drama-made-into-an-Indonesian-comic. Heartstring... Why would Elex print this! --"

 

Minhyuk's parts! Look willdy!

 What's a day-out without buying a bubble tea? That would be like a day without a sun. Okay, I'm not making sense here.

Took a photo before setting forth too.

looked so grumpy here. --"

 Okay, we departed and we took a bus home. So crowded! Couldn't believe that we waited an hour for a bus! Not to mention after reaching home, I smelled so sticky and so smelly like abang2. EW! Imagining it just makes me sick.

Coraline

For the past 3 days, I stayed at my cousin's house. Apparently, Cim and I are assigned to help my Ie-ie (aunt) with her work during the holiday. My work is just to input data in Microsoft Excel. Despite how simple it sounds, it is perhaps the most tedious and an eye-sore-ing activity. I should really input the data carefully in order to avoid data error. If there was a data error, I should find that specific error from the entire Excel data. On the other hand, Cim was assigned in book-keeping. She learned something from Icang (uncle).

On Day 2, Hans (my cousin) and I watched Coraline together!

Coraline is a creepy and twisted film. Not only the animation is eerie but also I had this chill throughout the movie. This movie is about a girl named Coraline. Her family moved to a new apartment in a new neighborhood. In her new abode, she found out that there was a secret potral linking her world to another dimension where everybody has buttons instead of eyes. 

During my stay there, I got to know my cousins well. too well. But let's just say, I could train my self control there. On the bright side, I always wake up and sleep early. I think there is a possibility of staying there again for the next couple of weeks.

Soul Surfer

In the afternoon, after helping my mom writing down test papers for her students (there are a lot of students having their exams tomorrow), Cim and I continued watching Soul Surfer on the net. 

Soul Surfer, a tear-jerking film starring AnnaSophia Robb as Bethany, finding true meaning of life from an accident that had almost destroyed her surfing activity and other activities that require both arms. However, with motivation and during her mission time in Phuket, Thailand, she finally opened her eyes that the accident she had encountered was nothing compared to the Tsunami accident that occurred in Thailand. From then on, despite her almost giving up in surfing, she started to surf once more and entered herself in a surfing regional competition.

watch the trailer:

 

This is a Christian movie and it is so very ultimately sad! I cried most of the time watching this. Moreover, this is based on a true story too. God really works in mysterious ways. He is such an amazing God.

After watching this, my sister and I both went to help my mom helping students to prepare their examination tomorrow. I am really hoping that the students I taught are able to do well tomorrow! God bless them!

ps: In case you didn't notice, Annasophia Robb played as Violet Beauregarde in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Grimm

I was feeling drowsy after I finished my chemistry lesson today, so I drank tea but still no effect, then I decided to watch Grimm.

Grimm is a TV series filled with magical creatures and thrilling excitement from a twisted point of view originated from the Grimm fairytales by the Grimm brothers. Not to mention that there are a lot of homicide cases involved. In a nutshell, there are mystic creatures, thrilling scenes and very alluring detective cases. 

you might want to check the trailer below: 

I've just watched the pilot of season 1 and I once more feel energized watching this 40 minutes episode. This series is beyond awesome. It's a bit similar to Once Upon a Time, but Grimm is more of an action and brutal type. But both really quenched my thirst of watching something depicted from fairy tales.

Oh yeah, while watching the first episode, there was a main theme song called : Sweet Dreams (are made of this) by Eurhythmics. 

I better should start studying now! Two more tests and no more school. HUAHAHA

Life in the Dreamhouse

Never thought I would say this but today I spent the day watching Barbie videos in which I find very entertaining. It all started when I got home from school earlier than usual, grabbed lunch, and when youtube-ing. I didn't know what to watch then, so first I watched a few Annoying Orange videos. But then I got bored and suddenly the most absurd feeling of having to watch Barbie appeared in my mind. I immediately typed the keyword "barbie" on youtube and there were a lot of videos about Barbie.

 I came upon a video about Barbie living in a not-so-happy family. She kept on arguing with Ken. Watch the videos below.

After sometime, I clicked another Barbie video which led me to knowing that a sitcom-cartoon version of Barbie exist. It's called Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse.

I don't know why I got addicted watching these. There are a total of 18 episodes so far, still ongoing. Each brand new episode is out every Friday. whoah, now. I can't believe I began to watch Barbie again..It has been a while and most importantly I always have this chill down my spine whenever I watch a Barbie movie. But I guess, I don't have that sensation when watching these mini-episodes. 

You can watch this series on youtube or you can just click the link--> Barbie Dreamhouse website

Well it's up to you to watch it or not, but I guarantee that Barbie may expose the innerchild in you. *So much for an advertisement*

Chasing Liberty

I've just finished watching Chasing Liberty. Vivi downloaded it on torrent.Oh yeah, today is the best day ever. Finally, my parents replaced our home printer with a new one! Awesome! I have been waiting for this for so long! You have no idea how happy I am. Moreover, another happy thing today is that my piano is finally tuned! After years and years of no tuning, this is the day!

Chasing Liberty depicts a story about a president's daughter, Anna Foster, feeling so imprisoned with the presence of complete security in her surrounding. All eyes were on her and she could do nothing freely without any supervision. At one point when she was given the chance from her dad to attend a Love Parade in Berlin, she made her move escaping from the guards when she knew that her dad had lied to her for providing a whole lot of security guards instead of promising on only with two guards. The First daughter then came upon a secret agent who accompanied her wherever she went in order to protect her. This was presumed as the president's "controlled freedom". Along the way, Anna did not know that she was with a secret agent the whole time until one time that all truths were revealed. Bla bla bla.. Man, like seriously, I'm really lazy writing the whole synopsis. 

So, my point of view of this movie! I feel frustrated watching Anna's spoiled behaviors. I get it why she was really desperate of freedom, but she was too spoiled! I could ticked off any second now. But overall, it was a good movie. It was really entertaining. Pretty sweet-romantic-ish.

Watch the trailer :)

Got the soundtrack already! 

Download link --> Click Here

Dredd

So I just came back home from my day out with my family from EX. We watched a movie, ate something, window-shopping and went straight back home. Just a usual stroll in the mall.

Dredd is an action/thriller movie about what America would be like in the future with exposition of radiation. Like Hunger Games, America in Dredd was divided into sectors. There were a lot of cool gadgets, and high-technology in this movie. Basically, these sectors were in a lot of chaos. Like for instance, the main sector portrayed in this movie was Sector 9, Mega City One, where crime rates and unemployment rates peaked the highest. Dredd, on the other hand, was one of the judges that held the power of jury, judge and instant executioner. His job was to eliminate the most devious clan known as the Ma-ma Clan that controlled the whole building called Peach Trees. This clan had total control of the city and obviously was feared. Not to mention that this clan produced drugs called the "Slo-Mo" in which users may experienced a slower speed of reality's normal speed. Dredd was assigned with a rookie, Cassandra Anderson, a psychic mutant, to bring judgement towards the evil clan. 

Frankly, I was in a total adrenaline rush throughout the movie. There were a lot of brutal scenes, especially there were a lot of these scenes shot at slow motion. You could observe how a bullet went straight through a victim's face or body, with all the rippling effects. But I should say that there were some parts of the scenes that were very catchy like for instance, the part when the drug users were in a high state, the imagination of this high state were very colorful and glimmering. 

watch the trailer :)

Anyway, I heard this cool song while waiting for the movie at XXI, called Patience by Take That. So catchy..

 

Just have a little, patience

I'm still hurting from a love i lost,
I'm feeling your frustration,
Then maybe all the pain will stop,
Just hold me close inside your arms tonight,
don't be to hard on my emotions

(Chorus)
Cause i, need time,
My heart is numb has no feeling,
So while im still healing,
Just try and have a little patience,

I really wanna start over again,
I know u wanna be my salvation,
The one that i can always depend,

I'll try to be strong, believe me,
I'm trying to move on,
It's complicated but understand me,

Cause I need time,
My heart is numb has no feeling,
So while im still healing,
Just try and have a little patience,

Yeah, have a little patience, Yeah

Cause this scar runs so deep,
Its been hard,
But i have to believe me,

Have a little patience,
Have a little patience,

Cause i, i just need time,
My heart is numb has no feeling,
So while im still healing,
just try, and have a little patience,

Have a little patience,
My heart is numb has no feeling,
So while i'm still healing
just try and have a little... Patience

lyrics by TheBlackRose017 

After the movie, we went to eat at Mie Laiker, then went to Aksara. Bought these books there. Aksara had this Halloween Theme. There were cobwebs everywhere. Pretty cool.

Grimm's and Andersen's Fairy Tales

Looper

As I have mentioned in my previous post, I am going to blog about my last lab day today! As usual, we have Chemistry lab first which is followed by Physics Lab. What's different about today's last lab is that our Physics Lab was conducted by Mr Arnold, the new physics teacher.

After doing our Chemistry practicals, we still got half an hour more before entering Physics Lab. We ate our breakfast downstairs. I think I'm going to miss the shop's gorengan. Especially the bala-bala. They taste wonderful.

eating2..

 Subsequently, there are still some more time to kill, so we went upstairs again to take pictures with our chemistry teacher, Stephen Fletcher. Alas, Delvin was too busy to join us, so we did the photos without him.

Nicho, Denny, Citra, Felix, Mr Stephen Fletcher, me, Sharon

with Miss Fitri. She's the lab assistant

 Regrettably, we didn't take photos in the physics lab because we were too busy doing two practicals at once. Moreover, we were about to hang out after lab session, so we were in a rush.

Later on, Citra, Nicho, Felix and I together headed to Plaza Indonesia and EX. We were not in the same car though. There was heavy traffic on the way to the mall. Traffic is such a major problem in Jakarta. It should be overcome as soon as possible.

Upon arriving PI/EX, we decided to eat lunch at Fat Burger. Chatted there too. Apparently, there was this cool jukebox inside the fastfood restaurant. I should have taken a photo of it.

my lunch

Citra and Nicholas

me and Felix

 After lunch, the four of us started to stroll around the mall again while waiting for Fenny to arrive. Then we took these photos at an apple store at EX. Felix even set our photo as the wallpaper desktop.. -_-

We proceeded to J.CO for a yoghurt and more chit-chats.

Citra and me

Felix and Nicho

Moving on, Bakerzin here we come! We were actually a bit confused on which shop we should stop by next. We were thinking of stopping by Lamoda but then we have all decided to just come by to Bakerzin.

BAKERZIN

My greentea and red velvet macaroon @ Rp.8,5k each

Citra's millefeuille

citra, me, felix and nicho

nicho and felix

tasted really good! my macaroon craving has been fulfilled.

unaware of using other people's property

I forgot what I was doing then..

mirror, mirror on the wall

 At about 4, Fenny came after submitting her research essay to Uniprep. It was time for Citra, Nicho and Felix to leave for PIK too. They had another outing which they had to attend. So we bid goodbye, and I started going around the mall with Fenny. But first, we bought movie tickets. It has been quite a while since I watch movies at the cinemas. We bought movie tickets to watch Looper at 5 in the evening.

In order to kill time, we went to pancious, Fenny was craving for waffles, so there we went. We talked there too :)

Fenny covering herself

Ice Green Apple Tea, really refreshing! *must-try

Fenny's waffles

 We talked for quite some time. Thank you Fenny for the drink :)

At 5, we went back to the theater for Looper.. Looper sounds so cute. Doesn't sound that intimidating at all perhaps.

 

The movie for today would be Loopers, starring Joseph-Gordon Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. A story about a futuristic city with the presence of time machine and the power of telekinesis that connects the past and the future of everybody. Basically, 'loopers' is a term used a lot in the film which means a person who is in charge of killing future people sent by the time machine at a specific time. Obviously, loopers were quite the trendy job in the film. They were rich because after killing the "loop" (the person delivered by the time machine), they would get silver bars and golden bars which were the currency in this movie. Apparently, loopers were bad people and in 30 years time, there was the so-called Rainmaker who had taken control of the 5 (or maybe 6, I forgot) major parts of the world to wipe out these loopers. A guy named Joe decided to demolish the Rainmaker when it was his turn to be killed by the looper who turned out to be himself from the past. Not to mention during the process of him being taken as captive, his beloved wife was shot dead. To seek vengeance, he decided to track down young Rainmaker and kill him before he had control over the world. To make a long story short, past Joe decided to sacrifice himself in order to save young Rainmaker from having to have an evil future.

You might want to check out the thriller-action movie yourself to see more details in the film. Honestly, Fenny and I had some shocked moments. It's a good thing, we have covered ourselves with a blanket.

watch the trailer 

ps: I feel Joseph-Gordon Levitt looked a bit different than he usually looks, which bothers me a lot

After the movie, we bought some bubble teas before crossing for Grand Indonesia. Oh yeah we met Diana too at EX. What a coincidence. At GI, we strolled around, window-shopping @ Forever 21, then we went to this cute Japanese shop called "Scoop" . It is incredibly adorable. You have got to visit it. 

Scoop

scoop

ps: I took the risk of taking these photos, there were people looking. --" 

All in all, awesome day and no more waking up early to Subud for lab session. Yippee

Pitch Perfect

I'm so psyched for the movie Pitch Perfect to be released on theaters in Jakarta. Pitch Perfect is a musical comedy starring Anna Kendrick in an acapella group trying to compete against a male rival group. 

Watch the Trailer:)

 

Anyway, I'm so glad that I finally have downloaded the soundtrack from torrentz! The music is awesome! ARGH! Freaking out again! 

Download torrentz piratebay--> click here

1. Don’t Stop the Music – The Treblemakers

2. Let It Whip – The Treblemakers
3. Since U Been Gone – Ester Dean and Skyler Astin
4. Cups – Anna Kendrick
5. Riff-Off – The Barden Bellas, The Treblemakers and The BU Harmonics
- Ladies of the 80s (includes Mickey, Like A Virgin, Hit Me With Your Best Shot)
- Songs About Sex (includes S&M, Let’s Talk About Sex, I’ll Make Love To You, Feels Like the First Time, No Diggity)
6.Bellas Regionals – The Barden Bellas (includes The Sign, Eternal Flame, Turn the Beat Around)
7. Right Around – The Barden Bellas (feat. My Name Is Kay)
8. Pool Mashup – The Barden Bellas (includes Just the Way You Are (Amazing), Just A Dream)
9. Party in the U.S.A. – The Barden Bellas
10. Trebles Finals – The Treblemakers (includes Bright Lights Bigger City, Magic)
11. Bellas Finals – The Barden Bellas (includes Price Tag, Don’t You (Forget About Me), Give Me  Everything, Just the Way You Are, Party in the U.S.A., Turn the Beat Around)
12. Toner (Instrumental Suite) – Christophe Beck and Mark Kilian

Credits soundtrack list--> songonlyrics

The Secret Life of The American Teenager

I got bored during the afternoon after I came home from church. I should have just hit the books or practice my piano or something studious. Instead, I browsed for a TV series. 

The Secret Life of The American Teenager, the title explains it all. This TV series revolves around the life of American teenagers. Well, adolescents are just beings trying to find who they truly are. Due to a lot of curiosity, they ended up experimenting lots of things. Moreover, based on the few first episodes I have just watched, I found that male teenagers are eager to have sex. They think doing it is the new big thing. 

Anyway, the episodes of this ABC family original series has a 40+ minutes duration. In my opinion, it's actually pretty interesting. Not to mention that at every end of the episode I would get this tingling feeling of having the urge to watch more and more. There are some touching parts too. Oh yeah, speaking about the life of teenagers, there are some betrayals too in this film, which actually annoyed me, and I feel completely irritated. 

watch the trailer

Happy Sunday, all :) God bless :)
ps: I have gone through the most heart-throbbing moment of my life having to play the keyboard in front a room full of Sunday school teachers. I usually play in front of little kids. This time was different. And I was literally having cold sweat due to the fact that after long hours of practicing on the piano, I was provided with a keyboard. On top of it all, the keyboard doesn't have a pedal. Luckily, a senior came by and helped to adjust the keyboard setting to have a string-y dual sound effect, so that the sound I produced didn't sound too detached. But all good things came to an end, and I did pretty okay for a noob. LOL.

Bridesmaids

I have watched Bridesmaids for like the second time already. It was on HBO last night. 

Bridesmaids is about a story about the competition of the maid of honor with one of the bridesmaids of being the bride's best friend. Together they encountered lots of incidents that might ruin the wedding. But all in all, the wedding was under controlled.

This movie was a romantic comedy. There was some vulgar scenes too. Not to mention that I was watching this movie with my mom. And it was really awkward to watch those scenes with her. Although, I didn't like those types of scenes myself, my mom kept on nagging me why I was watching that vulgar movie. I closed both of my eyes and ears okay! I find those scenes really disgusting. ewwww

Anyway, the movie is really funny! hahaha.. watch the trailer:

Another thing, I'm in love with one of the soundtracks entitled "Paper Bag" by Fiona Apple. The lyrics are down below.

I was staring at the sky, just looking for a star

To pray on, or wish on, or something like that

I was having a sweet fix of a daydream of a boy

Whose reality I knew, was a hopeless to be had

But then the dove of hope began its downward slope

And I believed for a moment that my chances

Were approaching to be grabbed

But as it came down near, so did a weary tear

I thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag

Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills

'Cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up

I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love

And I went crazy again today, looking for a strand to climb

Looking for a little hope

Baby said he couldn't stay, wouldn't put his lips to mine,

And a fail to kiss is a fail to cope

I said, 'Honey, I don't feel so good, don't feel justified

Come on put a little love here in my void,' he said

'It's all in your head,' and I said, 'So's everything'

But he didn't get it I thought he was a man

But he was just a little boy

Hunger hurts, and I want him so bad, oh it kills

'Cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up

I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love

Hunger hurts, but I want him so bad, oh it kills

'Cause I know I'm a mess he don't wanna clean up

I got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love

Hunger hurts, but I want him so bad, oh it kills

Because I know that I'm a mess that he don't wanna clean up

I got to fold because these hands are just too shaky to hold

Hunger hurts, but starving, it works, when it costs too much to love

credits to azlyrics

Definitely, Maybe

I have done my presentation about Domestic Violence and I feel absolutely relieved ! I'm free from the presentation! yeyey. To celebrate, I awarded myself to watch a Romantic Comedy, Definitely, Maybe. 

Definitely, Maybe tells a story about a young man named William Hayes and his daughter, Maya. Maya was depressed to know that her parents were getting a divorce. Due to this she requested her dad to tell her everything about her dad's past relationship which also involved with Maya's mom. William agreed on a condition in which he would use different names and let Maya to guess herself who her mother was from his stories.

This movie lasted for 2 hours. Frankly, I was a bit bored during the movie. The story was a bit confusing too. On the other hand, I would have never guessed who the mother was in the first place. It was surprising.

watch the trailer :)

Sorry, I Love You

Yesterday, when I reached home from school, I was really bored that I decided to rummage through my box containing DVDs. And I found a Thai movie called Sorry I love you. I have never watched this before and so I gave it a try although I dislike the girl. 

The story is about a Korean drama fanatic Thai girl, who went on a trip to South Korea to meet her idol. 

That's what I got from watching this. Honestly, I didn't watch it completely. There was something wrong with the subtitle. So I could not really understood what they were saying. 

Out of the three guys on the poster, my bias would be the guy on the right whose name is Ratchanon Sukprakob. Man, that name is a mouthful.Second bias would be the center guy, Sarun Sirilak. 

Thai is such a fun language.

Becoming Jane

Three movies in a row today! LOL! Way to spend the day! My heart is contented! Last movie for the day would be Becoming Jane. 

Becoming Jane tells the story of Jane Austen's life before she wrote famous books in the English Literature which includes Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and many others. The incidents of her life influenced her works.

In Becoming Jane, all girls about the age of Jane should be married as soon as possible. And certainly to a wealthy man, of course. Jane's mother told her to marry too. But she refused as she did not want her life to turn out to be like her mother's; living a life without affection with her husband. Subsequently, Jane met Lefroy. They fell in love with each other, but both sides of the family did not accept them being together. In the end, they both parted ways. Lefroy went on with his life. He was married and named his eldest daughter Jane. While Jane on the other hand, she stayed un-married, standing firm as an independent woman. In addition to this, her sister, Cassandra was unmarried too.

This movie lasted about 2 hours. I love it. I would have never guessed that her background made her to be such a great author in writing stories about strong women character. She is amazing!!!

Watch the Trailer :p

It's A Boy Girl Thing

 After three days of tiring house chores, I finally got the time to watch a chick flick movie. The movie for tonight would be It's a Boy Girl Thing. I was actually trying to do my English homework. But every time I opened wikipedia for some background, my computer shut down by itself. It happened twice in a row. So I went browsing for movies in IMDb instead. 

A romantic comedy involving two nemesis Nell Bedworth (Samaire Armstrong) and Woody Deane (Kevin Zegers) having their bodies swapped. At first, they hated their situation and were actually trying to wreck each other's life. But along the way, they found the meaning of true friendship and true love. 

This movie got an easy-like from me! The trailer itself was really appealing that I was eager to watch this. My instinct was absolutely right about this movie turning out great. Because it actually is! The movie has a lot of humor, romance and some Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet storyline attached to this movie. You've got to see it for yourself. Try watching the trailer below: 

I used to see this poster in a DVD shop but never attempted to purchase it. I should have watched this years ago. This movie was released in 2006! 

btw.. Notice that I keep on watching 2006 movies; coincidence much? 

Stick It

I have watched Stick It just now! It was great. The main character looks a bit like Kristen Stewart in a whole better way. She is so cool! It is released in 2006. I have no idea why I keep on watching old movies. LOL. 

Stick It is a story about a rebellious girl named Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) who was forced to enroll to an elite gymnastic academy coached by Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges) to reflect her misbehavior of too many run-ins with the law. She used to be an obedient gymnast up till the time when her family was broken. This led her being tough; playing by her own rules. With her presence in the gymnast department, she began to show her inappropriate routines which turned gymnastic upside down.

Frankly, I love this movie. I rarely watch movies about sports. And I should say this movie is great. There are a lot of cool gymnast moves, humor, and tear-jerking moments; all packed into this awesome movie.
ps: There is Kellan Lutz too on the film. He was not buff yet when he played there. LOL.

Watch the Trailer :o

It's available on the internet, youtube! Or you could just watch it here as I am kind enough to be willing to post it here. Credits goes to the uploader. The clips below are not mine.

I'm still enjoying my holiday! One more week to go before I give into the treacherous world of studies.