The Best Movie Ever

The Fault In Our Stars

The best movie that we had ever watched so far is "The Fault In Our Stars". It is about two cancer patients who are in varying stages of their disease. They are trying to live lives that are as normal as possible. They fall in love and their diseases progress in positive and negative ways. We're pretty sure that you have heard about this movie. In case you haven't seen it, here is a "short" summary about it. ;)

Here's the whole sordid tale. Dying girl meets hot boy. Hot boy and dying girl fall in teenage love and go on adventures to Amsterdam together. Dying girl is disappointed by her meeting with a certain author whom she idolizes. Dying girl and hot boy admit their love to each other and have physical relations. In a horrible twist of fate, dying girl lives while hot boy dies. The end.

Confused and a little intrigued? Don't worry about it—we'll go a little slower (and add a little detail) to make the summary just a bit more palatable and easy to follow.

We open up the story with Hazel Grace, who is your average teenager except for the little fact that she's got all sorts of cancer inside her body and her lungs aren't working very well.

Hazel is in Support Group one day when a new boy catches her eye. Well, to be accurate, they catch one another's eyes. Soon enough, she and Augustus (aforementioned hot boy) are flirtatious friends and talk to each other about everything. Hazel shares her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction, with Augustus, and together they obsess about the unsolved ending. Augustus manages to somehow get through to the author and when Hazel emails him, he invites her to come to Amsterdam to discuss the ending of the book. A fan's dream come true.

In the meantime, Augustus and Hazel's good friend Isaac is losing his eye (the only one he has left) so that he can be cancer-free at long last. In the process though, he also loses his girlfriend Monica, who can't "deal" with having a blind boyfriend. Yeah, we think she's a little superficial too, but whatever.

So Augustus surprises Hazel by telling her that he still has his wish (the "Wish" that they grant to dying children) from when he had cancer and lost his leg, and he'd happily use it to take her to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten, reclusive author ofAn Imperial Affliction. Ah, true romance. Hazel of course, is over the moon about the whole idea, but first she has to convince her hovering, worried parents and her skeptical doctors.

Eventually, they manage to get their trip in order and take off into the great unknown with Hazel's mother in tow. They go to Amsterdam and have beautiful and romantic times, but when they meet Peter Van Houten, it doesn't exactly go as planned. First of all, he's a mean drunk. Second of all... well actually, no, that's totally it. He's just a mean drunk and doesn't answer any of Hazel's questions. Hazel is angry and upset, but Van Houten's assistant Lidewij takes her and Augustus out to explore Amsterdam. They see Anne Frank's house, where things are kind of redeemed because she and Augustus finally kiss. Ooh la la. They go back to the hotel room and even steamier things happen. Yowza.

Augustus then drops a bomb: his cancer has returned. This is very, very bad. When they return to Indianapolis, it's clear that Augustus's health is deteriorating and he might not have much time left. In a heartbreaking scene, Hazel and Isaac even share the eulogies that they wrote for him. Throughout it all, Hazel is there with Augustus, until the very end.

When he dies, Hazel is shocked and filled with grief. At his funeral, though, she gives a different eulogy than the one she had written him. Why? Well, she realizes that she needs to deliver something that's tailored to his parents, who are the ones suffering now (not him).

At the funeral, she's shocked to see that Peter Van Houten is there. She talks to him and realizes that he wrote An Imperial Affliction because he had a daughter who died of cancer. She's no closer to liking Van Houten as a person, but she understands a little more why he's so tortured and crotchety. She also learns from Isaac that Augustus was writing something for her before he died. She proceeds to go on a kind of crazy search for what he's written, which she thinks might be the alternate ending to An Imperial Affliction that she wanted so badly. She also learns that her mother is taking classes to become a Support Group leader, and is relieved that there will be life for her parents after she dies.

At the very end, she learns from Lidewij that Augustus wrote her a eulogy that he sent to Van Houten. The book ends with her reading the eulogy, which states that he hopes that she's happy with the choices she made.

Hazel says that yes, she is happy.

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10 Types of Phobia

Specialists may prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms such as personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and avoidant personality disorder. 

1. Thermophobia

• Thermophobia (adjective: thermophobic) is intolerance for high temperatures by either inorganic materials or organisms. The term has a number of specific usages. 
• In pharmacy, a thermophobic foam consisting of 0.1% betamethasone valerate was found to be at least as effective as conventional remedies for treating dandruff. In addition, the foam is non-greasy and does not irritate the scalp. Another use of thermophobic material is in treating hyperhydrosis of the axilla and the palm: A thermophobic foam named Bettamousse developed by Mipharm, an Italian company, was found to treat hyperhydrosis effectively. 
• In biology, some bacteria are thermophobic, such as mycobacterium leprae which causes leprosy. Thermophobic response in living organisms is negative response to higher temperatures. 
• In physics, thermophobia is motion of particles in mixtures (solutions, suspensions, etc.) towards the areas of lower temperatures, a particular case of thermophoresis. 
• In medicine, thermophobia is a specific phobia, abnormal fear of heat and hot places. In addition it may refer to a sensory dysfunction, sensation of abnormal heat, which may be associated with, e.g., hyperthyroidism. 

2. Sesquipedalophobia

• Sesquipedal(i)ophobia is the fear of long words, a branch of logophobia. This term derives from sesquipedalian, which is a long word or a person who uses long words. A person suffering from this phobia is called sesquipedal(i)ophobic. 

3. Hypnophobia

• Hypnophobia, also termed clinophobia or somniphobia, is the often irrational and excessive fear of sleep. It may result from a feeling of control loss, or from repeating nightmares or anxiety over the loss of time that could be spent accomplishing tasks or maximizing leisure time instead of sleeping. The prefix Hypno- originates from the Greek word hypnos, which means sleep. 

4. Cyberphonia

• Cyberphobia is a concept introduced in 1985, described as a specific phobia expressed as "an irrational fear of or aversion to computers" or more generally, a fear and/or inability to learn about new technologies. 
• Some forms of cyberphobia may range from the more passive forms of technophobia of those who are indifferent toward cyberspace to the responses of those who see digital technology as a medium of intrusive surveillance; more extreme responses may involve anti-technological paranoia expressed by social movements that radically oppose ‘technological society’ and ‘the New World Order’. 
• Suggested treatments include hypnotherapy, Neuro-linguistic programming, and medication prescribed for general symptoms of anxiety or phobias (SSRIs, MAOIs, Beta blockers). 

5. Anthophobia

• Anthophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of flowers (from Greek roots anthos, flower, + phobos, fear). 
• Though sufferers generally understand that they face no threat from flowers, they invariably experience anxiety at the sight or thought. Any genus or species of flowers can instill fear, as can any flower part, such as a petal or stem. 

6. Androphobia

• Androphobia is the abnormal fear of men. The word is derived from the Greek άνήρ (man) and φόβος (fear). Should not be confused with misandry, the hatred, dislike, contempt for or ingrained prejudice against men and/or boys. Its antonym is philandry, the fondness, love, or admiration of men. 

7. Melophobia

• Melophobia is a fear or hatred of music. It is derived from the Greek words melopoeia (which is the art of forming melody) and phobia (meaning fear). Melophobia is considered a specific phobia 

8. Sophophobia

• Sophophobia is the fear of learning. It come from the Greek word sophia, meaning "wisdom" or "knowledge". It is considered a specific phobia. It is related to epistemophobia and gnosiophobia (both meaning fear of knowledge). 
• One common causes of sophophobia is the belief that learning causes lack of success in the life. In more remote cases, partially educated parents can cause children to have sophophobia. 
• Sophophobia doesn't necessarily caused by education, but by the fear of attending school (scolionophobia). Medical symptoms include parched mouth, breathlessness, panic attack, trembling, nausea. People who is sophophobic sometimes ask about not going to school. 

9. Vestiphobia

• Vestiphobia is the fear of clothing. The fear can lead to claustrophobia, fear of no escape, especially when wearing tight clothing. It can also be triggered by the fear of nudity. People who are allergic to fabric in clothing can also lead to fear. Vestiphobes may want to ever wear oversized, loose clothing, or no clothing at all. Vestiphobia derives from the Latin word vestis, meaning clothing, garment or covering, and the Greek word phobos, meaning fear. 

10. Tetraphobia

• Tetraphobia (from Greek τετράς - tetras, "four" and φόβος - phobos, "fear") is the practice of avoiding instances of the number 4. It is a superstition most common in East Asian and Southeast Asian regions such as China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

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