Hi and welcome to the Drupal Association's update to the community. I'm Heather, the executive director of the Drupal Association and today I'm joined by members of our leadership team, Angie, Kerry and Tim. We're going to give you a not so brief but very informative overview of everything that we've got going on since we last met and DrupalCon North America and also in Amsterdam. And I wanted to start by introducing, virtually introducing our staff. As you can see, we've got a fairly small but very mighty staff of individuals that are located around the globe that serve full time with the Drupal Association. And I want to personally thank all of them. It's been a particularly challenging year, given a lot of financial and operational impact, not to mention the pivot to DrupalCon, which we'll talk about. So I personally thank each of them for all the hard work that they do. Also giving hard work, time, talent and treasure is our Drupal Association Board of Directors. Hopefully you've had a chance to meet all the individuals here, but if you haven't, please take a moment to reach out during DrupalCon Global and chat and network and get to know them as well. So I wanted to start by talking about the Drupal Cares campaign. So when we started off 2020 in January, we were pretty solely focused on executing DrupalCon Minneapolis as our big fundraiser and event, and also the myriad of programs that we that we had as part of our mission and vision. Enter COVID-19, which I know has had an impact on everyone that's watching, but it definitely had an impact on the Drupal Association as well. So in March, we shared a statement with our community, because we wanted people to be in the fold with us to understand what those effects were for the Drupal Association. As you can see from our initial financial projections, we were looking at an impact of anywhere from about half a million to over a million dollars. So with that said, we then invited the community to join us in solving that problem. And the way that we did that in conjunction with the community was by launching Drupal Cares. So we started that we asked the community to help us really use charitable giving as a way to fund our emergency funding gap. And while things really got off to a nice start, what really kicked it into gear and gave the campaign a lot of excitement was the matching gift from Dries and Vanessa. So they came to the table and said that we'll match every new donation and new or renew membership up to $100,000 and that really inspired our community. Inspired by that inspiration, the Drupal businesses got together and said, hey, we want to do the same thing. So they said we want to inspire our other business colleagues to get into this as well. And they did their match as well so that every dollar that you contributed had not double but triple the impact on the campaign. This is a look at the companies that got together for that that business match and thank you baddie at one X internet for putting this graphic together for us. And thank you to all of these companies for stepping up with Dries and Vanessa to help us triple that impact. As a result, other members of the community wanted to help as well and did some really creative and encouraging things. You might have been involved with pixels for Drupal. Hopefully you were involved with the Drupal 9 module challenge Jeff Geerling gave a dollar for every like and view on his YouTube channel. And we really had a lot of all that come together so between individuals and businesses and community initiatives. We were thrilled to say that at the end of just over a month we were able to reach our half million dollar emergency funding gap goals. And that really took over 150 businesses and organizations. Over 2300 individual donors and members participated in this and so as I said in the blog that went out, we were excited humbled appreciative and energized by by what the community helped us to accomplish. And because of that we give you our Drupal friends. As Dries said in the press release that went out about meeting our goals. It was really important not only that the community came together, but the speed with which the community helped us meet this funding gap. Not only made sure that Drupal Association could go on and meet our mission, but that we could do it quickly and refocus on things and one of those big things was the Drupal 9 launch which was immediately on the heels of the Drupal Cares campaign. And really quickly wanted to talk about the pivot to Drupal con global obviously you know a little bit about it because you're here, and we thank you for participating as an attendee in this journey. So we knew at the beginning of the year we were planning to be in Minneapolis in May for our traditional in person event. As you can imagine, we quickly learned throughout the spring that that was not going to be feasible or safe and the rights. It wasn't the right idea for our community. So we decided that we could not meet in person, but we still had to figure out given contracts obligations lack of force measure what we actually could do next. And luckily we were able to pivot and create a virtual conference for you. And where we were really committed in doing this was we could have just said hey, forget it we're going to wait until next year but coming off of the Drupal Cares campaign we were so inspired by the community that we wanted to create an event that everybody together. We also saw this as a way to be more global so while a traditional in person event required a certain level of travel and accessibility to be able to participate. This was the idea that hey some of those accessibility barriers are gone. Let's make this a conference as much as possible for everybody in our community. One of my favorite outcomes of the pivot to Drupal Con global being an online event was our ability to provide so many more scholarships and grants for people to attend. The last time I looked at the list we had over 150 people attending Drupal Con as a result of being scholarship to the event. Many of those have never been to Drupal Con before and frankly some of them don't even know that much about Drupal. So this is an excellent way for us to open those doors and get people into the Drupal pipeline that may not have known about us before. And of course none of this would have been possible without our amazing event volunteers. So as I mentioned a lot of planning had been done to prepare for Drupal Con Minneapolis. This is an overview of the volunteers that did a lot of that program committee work. So the sessions that you're seeing are really curated by this group of volunteers and the speaker teams. And then the newest group of the steering committee was brought on only about six weeks ago as we looked at how we could really enhance both the pivot to the online event and also our enhanced main stage content. The Drupal 9 launch but we actually had a project within a project with the Drupal 9 launch and that was creating a new Drupal logo. So part of the impetus was not only to be ready for the Drupal 9 launch but to create a Drupal logo that we call Evergreen. And what we mean by that is regardless of version there is a consistent branding element to the Drupal software projects and 611 helped us with that logo and created this cool video that we'll show you now. Thank you again to 611 who not only worked on this project for us but did it pro bono as a thank you to the Drupal Association and as part of their giving to the Drupal Cares campaign. As you can see we have a new Drupal logo that that is flows into the logo for both Drupal Con and the Drupal Association so we have that consistency going across as a thread. And we're ready now for Drupal 10 where we'll have the consistency the we won't have the need for a new logo and as you can see there is an opportunity if you want to do the version along with us. The Drupal 9 launch so we had Drupal Cares we got our emergency funding we had the new logo all things are in place for us to launch Drupal 9. So it launched not only launch it in the year that it was planned but on the original month and day that it was playing so it launched not only within the window but in the first possible window for launch so that's a huge huge accomplishment for this community and just many many Drupal thanks to everybody involved in making that happen. As I can say about the Drupal 9 launch and the community's impact on Drupal 9 Dries put together a great video that tells the story much better than I can so I'd like for you to watch that now. I could make it do exactly what I needed to do. So if you'd like more information about Drupal 9 or even the toolkit that we've put together for the community you can get those resources on Drupal.org and there's a Drupal 9 landing page that we have put together for you. One of my favorite things about the launch was the celebrate Drupal initiative so if you go to celebrate Drupal.org you'll see photos videos and lots of fun content where community members all around the world celebrated the launch. It's still open and you can still contribute so let's keep celebrating Drupal all throughout 2020. And while you're here at DrupalCon Global don't forget to check out the sessions that apply directly to Drupal 9 and you can learn more about those here and check it out in the Hopin platform. With that I'd like to let my colleague Angie talk to you about the great work that she's doing in our finance and operations. Thanks Heather. Hi everybody I'm Angie Saban director of finance and operations, and I wanted to talk for a moment about diversity equity and inclusion. So, there are values and principles inherent to our work that tied directly to diversity equity and inclusion. In fact, our Drupal values and principles explicitly state the importance of diversity and equity and inclusion. Principle 8 says the Drupal community is a diverse group of people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Supporting diversity equity and inclusion is important not just because it's the right thing to do but because it is essential to the health and success of the project. The people who work on the Drupal project should reflect the diversity of people who use and work with the software. Back on June 3, Heather, our executive director published the statement of support following the George Floyd tragedy. We acknowledge in this statement as we do now that we have work to do and we're committed to doing this work. I borrowed these slides from the Dreesnow at Seattle. So this is just a good reminder of the demographics in technology at large but also for open source. So the demographics for open source are a little bit worse actually than tech overall. So I wanted to talk for a minute about our internal efforts around diversity equity and inclusion. So I'm sharing this in the hopes that perhaps you can borrow some of the things that we're doing or just get a better sense of how we're trying to advance things. So feel free to reach out to me if you have questions about any of this. But I'm just going to say a little bit about what we're doing specifically. So we know that this journey start from within and this year has marked the most active in the history of the Drupal Association in terms of diversity equity and inclusion efforts. So this is a list of highlights from what we've done. We know we still have a long way to go and that the work requires consistent commitment from leadership in order to embed equity into the organization. So first off, not really the first thing that we've done but most recently the whole staff took an anti-racism training through the Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso. Again this is a start and by no means the only training we will take but given the events of recently unfolding in the U.S. particularly we felt that an anti-racism training was a good place to start. And with our budget we're going to be continuing to commit to investing in our competency around diversity equity and inclusion. We also are working with an assessment tool that will help us develop a work plan in coming years. This will be one of many ways that we approach building a work plan and I'll talk more about this in a few minutes. We have a Slack channel that we recently launched that allows staff to share resources and also talk about their own personal experiences. It's sort of a safe space for the team to have those important conversations. We are also in the process of moving our bank accounts to a community development financial institution. So those are banks that share a common goal of expanding economic opportunity and low income communities by providing access to financial products and services for residents and businesses and underserved communities. So we're super excited about that. The slide represents visually the layers of an organization. And the tool I mentioned in the previous slide is the tool that we're using. I was lucky enough to go through a year and a half long cohort locally where I live that helped me understand how to utilize the tool so I've been able to lead the staff through that and we're sort of in the middle of working on that now. But there are nine domains to the tool that really look at every aspect of the organization. It provides best practices and examples of how other organizations are doing the work and ultimately will result in a work plan for us that will span multiple years. This will not be the only work that we do but this hopefully will be a really pivotal part of what we're doing. So in addition to all the stuff that we're doing internally, we're also developing a new program with the help of community members focused on training. And I want to take a moment to thank when Anelo specifically for reaching out to us about this and really being such an amazing resource of information. So you can see here the outcomes that we are looking to achieve with this program. So we're currently building out the program, both from the perspective of developing a cohort of trainers and also partnering with organizations that will help connect potential students. This is the first phase of the program and it's going to be a pilot phase so that we can learn and fine tune as we go. So stay tuned for more information about that in coming months and please reach out to me if this is something that you're interested in taking part of or learning more about. So we know that learning is important and taking action is important. And while we learn, we want to continue to build the programs and also look at how we change the organization from within. So we're approaching this work humbly and we acknowledge that there's always something new to learn. So we definitely want to hear from the community and collaborate when appropriate. So you can always reach out to me or leadership on the team. When you have feedback. And we just really want to welcome you to to be involved. So changing gears a little bit. As you probably all know, we had the need some for some emergency funding so I'm going to take a moment to talk about the final financial health of the organization. I wrote a blog, I believe back in April, with more information about how we calculated the gap range. But this slide will tell you a little bit about where we're currently at. The gap was related to a combination of factors, including some costs for the in person event we had originally planned in Minneapolis. Those costs could not be recovered. And it also factored in the revenue that we would normally net for an in person event. So we're very close to meeting our goal for ticket sales. And I'll have a better sense of the numbers as we wrap up things next week. Things are looking really great. And that's a large part to the generosity of the community. So I just want to thank you again for that. I'm going to hand things over to Kerry, our director of fund development to talk more about fundraising efforts. Thank you, Angie. To start, we can't really talk about fund development and in engagement without first giving a huge thing to thanks to our triple con global sponsors. Most of these organizations were initially triple kind Minneapolis sponsors and then after COVID hit, they pledged to keep their marketing dollars in place with the Drupal Association, regardless of what the outcome of the event was. So please be sure to visit them in the expo hall to have conversations, get some cool demos, win prizes, and thank them for being here. This event would not have been possible without them. There are many ways that organizations and individuals can engage and invest in the Drupal Association and the project from sponsorships, memberships charitable giving contribution sponsored scholarships and technical initiatives. There are many, many ways to get involved. But why support the Drupal Association. Drupal is one of the largest and longest running independent open source communities in the world. And as the nonprofit behind the community were dedicated to accelerating the software project fostering the community and supporting its growth. But what does that look like and what does that mean to you specifically. If you attend Drupal con, if you visit Drupal.org, if you contribute if you rely on the security of the Drupal software, if you've received a scholarship to be here, if it's important for you to see a more diverse and inclusive project. This is just some of the work that we do. To barely to put it very simply, we create the spaces for international community to thrive. I appreciate how Matt Westgate put it during our Drupal CARES fundraiser. Drupal, the software is the engine. We'll always have that and people will continue to work on that. The Drupal Association is the car. It's the vehicle to which we put the engine and to make things move with doors that open to include and invite other people into the project. One key way that organizations can support the Drupal Association is through our supporting partner program. I'd also like to thank all of our Drupal Association supporters, supporting partners, funding from the organizations is key to support all of the non Drupal con related work that we're highlighting here today. A huge thank you to our enterprise, diamond, premium and classic supporting partners and community. That's a new tier that I'll talk about. Any organization can join our supporting partner program. It is particularly important for organizations that are using Drupal and making significant cost savings by not having any licensing fees. Supporters fund the critical work of the Drupal Association's engineering team and the Drupal project contributors. Based on your level of investment, you're underwriting anywhere from one to 10 weeks of Drupal.org infrastructure and project contribution testing fees. So you can think of it like an infrastructure investment plus so much more. There really are a lot of business advantages to joining our supporting partner community. But don't just take my words for it. Here's what some of our supporters and sponsors have to say about contributing and supporting the Drupal Association. Our programs offer thought leadership, accreditation, networking opportunities, talent acquisition support, industry visibility, and they allow you to participate in a change that you want to see by amplifying our collective voice and advocating through the Drupal Association. And now moving on to Drupal Association individual memberships. Because it really is not just about organizations. Members really do make the Drupal Association mission possible too. So I'd really like to encourage all of you to participate in our ongoing individual membership campaign. You can join us while you're here at the conference at the Drupal Association booth or online at Drupal.org slash join. Just some quick updates about a lot of the work that we've been doing to these two key programs during the first half of the year. For individual members, you may have seen some feature updates. We've added the option to pay for membership monthly installments. We've added new tiers for individuals who have the capacity or the desire to give more. We've offered the ability to disable certain ad programs if you're logged in as a member on Drupal.org. And we've provided marketplace credits to organizations for each member of staff who has a membership. For our supporting partner program, in an effort to grow participation from all types of organizations, we've launched a lower priced community tier, which I mentioned earlier, as a way to replace organizational memberships and get people into some of these key business benefits as well. We've added the enterprise tier, which was designed with a focus on larger organizations and their unique business needs. And we've also added new benefits, including complimentary individual memberships for staff and a lot of new marketing opportunities and visibility under Drupal.org. So if you have any questions about that, please come find us or visit us at the booth and stay tuned for new feature improvements like bulk individual membership purchases, updating payment tools to support more currency types, offering lower tiers for regions around the world to participate more easily, and offering businesses the ability to become certified organizations. If you want to hear about any of these new improvements or tell us what's important to you as an individual or an organization, we'd love to hear from you and see you at the booth at DrupalCon Global. So please visit us. We're going to have DA staff and board members throughout the week giving lightning talks, and we'll just be hanging out if you want to come by and say hello. So thanks for your time. I'd like to next introduce our Drupal Association CTO, Tim Lennon. Thanks, Kerry. The first thing I'd like to talk about today is contribution recognition. An open source project thrives on contribution from all of the individuals and organizations around the world who support the Drupal Association and the Drupal project. In particular, I'd like to talk about the ways that we recognize contribution today, which is through contribution credits on Drupal.org, a way that when you contribute code or non-code contributions, you can be recognized by project maintainers, event organizers for those things that you have done for the community. And indeed, you can also indicate that your organization has sponsored you to do that work, and they can receive recognition as well. And this virtuous cycle of contribution and recognition helps to feed into our programs. It's something that's going to become part of things like the certification program that Kerry has referred to and things like the Drupal Steward program that I'm going to be talking about a little bit later on. There are still some problems that we need to solve with our contribution recognition system in Drupal. As much as I think we are the forefront of contribution recognition in open source, there are still things that we need to do. So we want to more completely measure the different kinds of contribution activity that already take place in the Drupal community and have a way to recognize that easily. And then we want to use all of the contributions that we recognize to encourage more people and more organizations to become the makers who build Drupal. We want to expand that community of contributors by recognizing those contributions in a powerful way. To help us with this process, we announced at DrupalCon Amsterdam that we were forming a contribution recognition committee. And these are all of the members of that committee that have been working since Amsterdam to help provide new tools and techniques for doing contribution recognition. As the Drupal Association liaison to that committee, I can tell you that they're all passionately committed. The committee itself has had to take a temporary pause because of the COVID-19 situation and having to take care of both family and business concerns as individuals. It's an all volunteer committee. But despite that they've already accomplished some great things and that means that we don't have to slow down in our work. Some of the things that we're going to be doing moving forward, again, recognizing more kinds of contribution. We've done a survey with the community on behalf of the committee to gather those things that you think might be missing from the current contribution credit system. And we're going to try and make the process of crediting contribution easier, reduce the friction, make it a simpler process to record and approve the contributions that people have been doing. So moving on from there, I want to talk about some Drupal.org highlights. These are just a few of really the many things that we've done in the last six months to a year. It's been kind of a banner year from an engineering perspective. So I'm really excited about lots of these changes. One of the ones that's kind of close to mind at this current time as we head into Drupal con global is community events on Drupal.org. So we worked with the events organizing working group to come up with new features for Drupal.org itself that update and modernize the way that we learn about Drupal community events. So this feature living on Drupal.org basically replaces some of the functionality that existed on groups that Drupal.org and allows you to submit your events, whether you run a Drupal camp, a meetup, whether you're doing some other Drupal related conference, any of those things can be submitted. And this is provided as a feed that you can access from Drupal.org API and therefore these can be pulled into the Drupal cal service if you've used that before and basically help our global community understand where the conversations are taking place about the future of Drupal so everyone can participate. For the engineers in the audience listening right now we've made some significant updates to Drupal.org's packaging and Drupal CI systems. So these are the systems that actually deliver new releases of modules or of Drupal core itself and the systems that allows to test new code contributions as they come into Drupal. So on the packaging side the part that produces the tar GZ or zip files that you download when you're installing Drupal. One of the challenges for the Drupal infrastructure team has been expanding that system to support composer fully. Composers the dependency management system that lets you get external libraries that Drupal might depend on or that you might use in third party modules and really expands Drupal to be part of the wider PHP ecosystem. So when we produce a download of Drupal for you to use we have to do some work to make sure that that download is composed already. So we did that work earlier this year and then updated the pipeline itself to make that process easier to maintain and provide better support for doing security releases that involve these third party dependency management. For Drupal CI the testing system that makes sure that there's strong code quality going into Drupal. We've adjusted the way that that system works so that you can test whether that your contributed modules are ready for Drupal mine. So because of that on the day of Drupal mines launch something like most 60% 65% of the top 200 contributed modules were already compatible before the software had even come out. Since then we've had thousands more. So there's been a tremendous effort by the community thanks to these tools to get the whole software ecosystem for Drupal ready for Drupal mine. And I think never before in Drupal's release cycle has so much of the contributed module ecosystem been ready so soon. I'd also like to talk about the Drupal steward program. So we just announced that this program is launching together with our founding partners. This is a security service being offered by the Drupal Association in partnership with the Drupal security team to help protect sites from highly critical vulnerabilities that might occur in the software. So let me walk you through sort of how this program will work. The first step is that the security team might identify a vulnerability as a highly critical or mass exploitable vulnerability. So some examples of this. There's the very dry name as a core 2018 to also known as Drupal get into this is the kind of vulnerability that would have been protected by this program. The security team will then determine if this vulnerability can be protected on a network level with a web application firewall. Then the security team will release a PSA that says that this program will cover protection for this vulnerability. So in the background between the PSA there's usually about a two week period while the patch is being created so that Drupal can be updated to close the vulnerability. So in that gap, the security team and the Drupal Association and partners create these web application firewall rules that protect you from the vulnerability acting in layman's terms like a virtual patch that protects you even before the actual patch is available to be downloaded and applied to your site. So we'd review this virtual patch rule set in the network application. Check it to make sure that it doesn't have any false positives that might disrupt people sites and then enable it to protect sites in time for when the patch happens. The primary value of this is it means you no longer have to be on red alert when there's an upcoming vulnerability or an upcoming patch release because you're not in a race with the bad actors that are trying to reverse engineer what this vulnerability is. You no longer have to be up waiting for that patch to drop particularly for international teams or teams with large number of sites to manage. You can now schedule this update at your own pace with your own change management processes relying on this virtual patch layer created by Drupal steward to keep your site protected in the meantime. There are some limitations to be aware of so it can only apply right now to these highly critical mass exploitable types of vulnerabilities at the discretion of the security team. It may be applied to certain other vulnerabilities or vulnerabilities and certain contrived modules, but that'll be communicated in the public security announcements so you'll always be able to check the PSA to know if a particular issue is going to be covered or not. And it's also possible that certain kinds of vulnerabilities simply can't be protected by this kind of technique. So if that's the case it'll also be indicated. I want to thank the various partners who are going to be involved in the Drupal steward program. So firstly our founding platform partners aquia and pantheon have both provided seed funding that's making this program possible. So they're participating to protect their hosting platforms as a whole and also to provide the funding that allows us to create a community tier of Drupal steward to protect all of the sites out there small to large who might not be hosting on these platform partners. We're also going to be working closely with our agency partners who are supporting partners at various levels so that they can protect their clients as part of this program as well. So we're really excited about this and happy to talk with you about it more at the Drupal.org panel which I'll talk about in a little while. Finally, again for the developers out there issue forks and merge requests. If you have contributed to Drupal in the past well in the past almost 20 years. You've done so by providing a software patch patch file and frankly that's getting pretty old fashioned these days. Most code contributions come in the form of pull requests or merge requests as they're sometimes called. And we're really excited that these are now coming to Drupal.org and in fact already available for a number of first beta projects. So how does this work. We continue to have the original Drupal.org issues which are the place where the discussion about a software problem in Drupal takes place. In any issue you can generate a workspace and issue fork where you can make your changes and test out a solution to that problem and then open a merge request so that the maintainer can review your changes and merge it back in. Because of this change and the use of GitLab on the back end as the code repository and code contribution tools for Drupal.org these changes do not require you to have a local development environment. They don't require you to use the command line. You can actually do everything from your browser creating a clone of the software editing the code in a Web IDE and opening the merge request without ever having to open up a terminal window. So it should make it much easier for existing contributors and for people who are new to the community to contribute to Drupal. This is what you'll see in the sidebar of projects that have this feature enabled. We're still updating the user experience and trying to make sure that it's simple and clean so there'll be some changes as we go but we'll talk about that more at our session. And this is what a merge request would actually look like once it's been created with someone's change and this little demo merge request was created again entirely in browser. So I hope you'll join us to find out more information about all these initiatives for the Drupal.org engineering team that I've just spoken about and also several others that we didn't have time for in this presentation today. So the Drupal.org engineering team panel will be on Wednesday at 1015 Pacific time and you can check out the schedule for more. And with that I'm going to hand it back to our executive director Heather to talk about the Drupal Association Q&A and close us out. Yeah so if this robust overview leaves you with some additional questions or need for information we hope that you will join us on Wednesday as part of DrupalCon Global. We'll be doing a live Q&A. We'll be joined by some of our board member, our officers will be there as well. It's another opportunity to talk to Dries so if that's the draw then we're more than happy to have you there to ask Dries some additional questions from a governance perspective as well. And we hope that you'll also join us in the booth as Carrie mentioned. It's a great way to come by and have casual conversation and say hi. So just another thanks to you for participating, for being an attendee at this first ever groundbreaking DrupalCon Global all online event. Thanks again to this team and then Tim I'm going to have you put us all on the screen so we can say bye. Thanks everybody. Thank you this week.


What's up, cutie gang? It's me, Giran, your friend from the internet. And you are watching Artifact, the cool stories of the cool stuff behind the scenes at Conte Dream. And today's item is... Ho ho ho ho ho ho! Not here because it actually wouldn't fit. Today's item is... Kara. And we are going to try to answer the question, is Kara a character or an idea? A symbolic embodiment of a philosophical reflection of what it means to be human. Whoa! It was very boring. Let's talk about the figurine itself, shall we? Because that's the cool story. This figurine of Kara is unique. Everything started with Tiri Prodom. He's our art director in charge of character design. It's not just a name I'm made up right now. And here is what you need to know about Tiri. First, in English, his name would be Terrence, or Terry. Not relevant, but accurate. A year before the release of Detroit become human, he was convinced that the character of Kara would become iconic. And he thought that making figurines not just of Kara, but other Conte Dream characters would be a good idea and actually a good gift for you guys, the fans. So he figured that the most efficient way to convince everyone would be to build a prototype. So he designed this beautiful Kara, and he asked a 3D printing company to... Well, 3D print it, I guess? And immediately the studio loved it. Actually, everybody loved it. Look at it! It's beautiful. And one thing leading to another, we even came up with a full-size one. An actual, real-life 1 meter and 60 centimeter Kara statue. That was made for a special Detroit become human event in Paris. By the way, for you non-metric people, 1 meter and 60 centimeter is 5 feet 2. And also, just use metric. Anyway, the full-size masterpiece is now on display in a special Detroit become human room at the Musée Grévin in Paris. It is the French wax museum. Or Madame Tussaud in other countries. So, right now you might be wondering, why don't we use metric and say Madame Tussaud everywhere? That would be so much easier. Why? Why? Well, that, I don't know. What I can tell you, though, is what inspired this very specific posture of Kara. Thierry used the original pose of Kara from the short film that inspired the game. It premiered in 2012 at the Game Developers Conference. And then he wanted to convey Kara's path to become human. That is why the pose is so gracious. A bit like me. And why her body is only partially covered with those type of plates. And to convey the fact that it's all about letting go, he made her look like she's levitating or falling, depending on your interpretation. It's a little bit like the dress. Is it white and gold or black and blue? Your choice. Yes, I made a Facebook meme reference in 2021. This OG figurine is also what inspired the one you can find in the collector's pack still available on the eShop. So just let me know for you. Is Kara levitating or is she falling? Am I levitating? Am I looking stupid? Tell me what you're thinking in the comments. And also, would you like me to host this show looking like Kara? Please say no to that. See you next time, fam.


back from the run today and yes I had a little bit of a eureka moment out there let me ladies and gentlemen butter it all right back from the run today and yes I had a little bit of a eureka moment out there let me explain basically you know I've been doing ultra running for the past four and a half years about and this is my one of my vests that I wear when I'm out there for three hours four hours five hour long runs I long runs up in the mountains especially and a lot of times I'm carrying my phone in a pocket right here and then my GoPro right over here sometimes the drone is in the back which probably looks a little muddy right now in addition I'll have gels well I noticed today running in an urban environment at seven so today's run 705 a mile 13 miles there it is in kilometers on your screen but I noticed so remember last week we talked about I want to improve my efficiency and running form leading into the Houston marathon on January 19th and so my arm my arm carriage is I think one of the most important components of my gate cycle and my in my running form that I need to improve upon and I noticed today wearing the vest that I was dropping my arms lower remember I said like up in the mountains when I'm doing mountain running I often drop my arms today I noticed that I did it again and I prefer especially for faster paces just right here right here kind of a little closer to the body not elbows out like I also noticed my elbows out were my elbows were out a little too wide today instead I wanted I want to keep them right here right here nice and efficient just kind of a little a little tighter to the body rather than kind of down I don't even know if you can quite see that but down and elbows out so it was a eureka moment for me it tells me that I got to be careful how much I wear the vest over the next six seven eight weeks leading into Houston okay soccany mad river trs pulling their weight in the urban environment the trail shoes I threw the mud the the ice the snow they are pulling their weight it's awesome and yes I put the spenco in there just for a little that's that green cushion that you saw me put in at the beginning of the vlog just for a little extra cushion on the concrete and pavement because all the dirt trails right now are completely covered with snow and it's just it's just not fast enough for road marathon training to run on snow that's not uh yeah it's just it's just not fast enough there's no other way to say it okay everyone a lot of updates to share with all of you first of all um I'll go with this first okay merch real quick merch is 20 off right now in case you did not see the second video that published yesterday down below the uh code for 20 off is holiday 20 holiday 20 merch is 20 off if you haven't picked any up yet definitely go down and check it out I explain the merch situation in yesterday's second video and some boxes arrived thank you so much so here's the deal uh I am not a tech guy I love I think my as I've said before my my real passion is recovery and recovery gear and tools uh the foam rollers the stretching uh band all those recovery tools that I have tech is not my thing even like this Sun2Watch um I don't even know yeah I think I gave a full review but I just like I don't know all the intricacies of all the running tech gear out there and heck let's do it right now question of the day what running tech what running gear tech I don't even know how to say it what running tech are you most excited about uh around maybe you're you have something in mind to buy for yourself or for someone else uh during the Christmas season so what running tech are you most excited about or for Christmas or for early 2020 is there a piece of running gear that is tech related uh that you're excited about that is the question of the day okay let's open this up what could this be um okay thank you FedEx what is in box number one bow oh my my can you see that there it is the next watch to arrive to the rotation is the KOROS Apex Pro now any KOROS fans out there it's a from what I know I think they're a newer company spelled C O R O S I'll link down to their website down below in the description um this is the Apex Pro I love if it if this is a green well let's open it up hold on boom let's see oh nope not open hold on there we go ready for this nope here we go I think we're ready now ready boom there it is oh it is a green band oh they know me well they know me well oh my goodness oh that's beautiful that is beautiful all right so real quick I have the Sun 2 5 that's what I wore today I've got the Polar Vantage V and then the now the KOROS Apex Pro believe it or not I am feeling a little more comfortable with the interface and the overall uh how easy is it to use all the the Polar watch and the Sun 2 watch now I will start putting the KOROS watch through the paces unlike running shoes where I'm very familiar and I feel very confident giving my opinions I don't feel confident yet giving my opinions too strongly when it comes to watches but just keep giving me time the more I use all the watches um every single day that I go out for a run I will get more and more confident and um yeah just confident that I'm giving you sound information and sound opinions on what user interface is the easiest to use etc etc so KOROS UROCK thank you next package okay this is from this is actually connects to the watch a little bit so this is from uh Europe and uh I forget where in Europe here we go pulling this out oh man oh so there's there's a note here okay seek beauty work hard and love each other Seth DeMors sub 219 edition oh my goodness sunny there it is sunny shout out to sunny so what is this you better believe it everybody a stride you all know once again that I'm not a big tech guy but I'm willing if you all are interested in me wearing a stride on my foot to I guess uh track better power numbers uh pacing um all sorts of different stats and again I have no idea how to use this thing I will be using the stride for all of you and then transferring the data somehow over to Strava hold on here there we go oh beautiful oh beautiful card okay let's see so he says hey Seth accurate pacing is super important and when you're uh trying to hit specific paces I find that nothing comes close to what stride is doing uh here's the pacing out the perfect sub 219 you inspire runners globally your running family is here for you oh gosh this is a journey for a lifetime onwards and upwards your friends in Yorkshire awesome sunny uh and Jane it looks like oh my goodness I love it uh send our love to true love and the kids you rock ah come on now so this is this is cool this is cool okay one more package thank you sunny and everyone for just the support oh it's it's humbling it's oh okay okay we got it what is this guy oh man I don't know I oh yeah this is tech related as well all right time to rock out baby time to rock out whoo headphones okay shout out to Jaybird Jaybird in the house Vista and Tera Pro so I don't listen to music when I run guess what I listen to a lot right now audiobooks I don't know about you but I'm really really really oh it's so sad because I'm editing the vlog at night back three and a half years ago I used to read at nights before going to bed and I can't do that anymore I'm just I'm just too busy and I'm too tired because I'm editing the vlog every single night and therefore I I told true love like it makes me so sad I stopped to read like I'm not really reading much so now it's audiobooks while I'm running and working out so I'm and I listen to podcasts as well I never listen to music really sometimes the radio but this is amazing Jaybird this is the Vista the truly wireless version and these are the Tera Pros I've heard incredible reviews about Jaybird headphones so these are headphones for running and this is um they're basically talking and I'll give I'll open these up and give you my full thoughts after testing them out but they're basically um Jaybird is create they're creating headphones that are not tech I gotta be careful what I say it's not tech it's gear meaning their headphones are designed to be beaten up and rough they're like you can drop them in the mud and they're and they'll be okay you can take them rock climbing and if you drop them uh drop them off of a cliff like they should be okay they're supposed to be really really uh high build quality which I'm always talking about build quality when it comes to running shoes and so I really appreciate well built running gear so this is awesome shout out to Jaybird again I will link down to them below two more quick updates take out your calendars right now here we go I'm pulling up my calendar right now so when you're watching this it is Tuesday December 3rd if you're watching it on the day it publishes tomorrow Wednesday the fourth at 7 p.m mountain time is the next running shoe giveaway 7 p.m mountain time that's 9 p.m on the east coast 6 p.m on the west coast and uh again for everyone over in Europe we will do running shoe giveaways at at an earlier time so you all can watch live as well but the live stream for the 50 000 subscriber mark it worked I I figured out so I'm using a different camera which is why I think it worked so this is good news Wednesday tomorrow 7 p.m mountain time here in the studio we've got a lot of running shoes to give away right there okay now next date for everyone in Colorado or anyone around Colorado Saturday December 7th 10 a.m wash park group run will meet at south high school south high school parking lot 10 a.m mountain time Saturday December 7th this weekend coming up we're going to do two laps around wash park it's about five miles and then uh maybe I'll have a little surprise for everyone at the end of the group run sound good I love you thank you for being here I will send out a a notification on the demore global running Strava group for the group run boom boom boom boom boom thank you thank you thank you humbled humbled that's it humbled I'm going to toss it back to just goodness just tossing it back to goodness because I love you guys all right see you guys tomorrow bright and early and uh onward and upward butter that bread butter it all day all right seek beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow


Let's get over to our mammoth, the Basel Chapman, as we do each and every Tuesday at 20 past the hour. And don't forget, folks, Basel does an outstanding show here every trading day, 10 to 11 Eastern Standard Time. Also, there's a great newsletter, the Opening Call. Now, it's very easy to get the Opening Call, folks. You come over to our website at TFNN. You go into Newsletters and you're going to see the Opening Call on the left-hand side. Just hit that Subscribe button. You get the Opening Call for one month for $149. You get it for six months for $695, which is a savings of $199 at 22 percent. And you get it for one full year for $1195, which is a savings of $593 at 33 percent. Now they all come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Basel has approximately 10 to 11 archives out there. You really get to understand the Chapman wave and how Basel rides that wave each and every day. Basel Chapman, what's going on? Well, what's going on is, I remember last week I was looking positively and said that we've been adding to our long position in the Dow three times long. But all of a sudden here, let me show you something. First of all, for those people who are not used to my work, let me show you the Chapman wave methodology. The core is that we try to identify the low bar. We've been very fortunate. We've been able to pick lows for a long time. And most of the key low points in the Dow. But this particular one, when I look at the wave form, when you get to the fourth highest peak, that's when you've got to be cautious. And we are looking at the Dow. We're in leg C today. We made a fraction of your high before we pulled back. Quite sharp. You know, sharp is the big gain yesterday. So this is still leg C. This is the daily chart. The weekly chart is still within this rectangle formation. And the monthly chart has this downtrend line called as the falling accident. It looks like a declining cone pattern to break out of. But if you look at the SNP and the reason why I'm a bit cautious is that when we get to a peak D or E in the Chapman wave methodology, yes, you can go higher, but that's when I get kind of that's where I'm anticipating that it could be some kind of a pullback. So if you look at the SNP, it's in leg D. So it's already accomplished what I call the buy signal upgrade to buy mode, which says you should go to at least a peak, not to you, but the price that we follow should go to at least a D. We made the D in the weekly chart. Look at that nice cup formation. And we're going towards the top. The nine feet in the weekly chart is still very the nine feet moving averages above the 14. The bank is good. Stochastic is kind of weak. And the monthly chart here as well, you can see we're bumping into this trend line that says you've got to break out of that decisively to start improving that monthly chart. Then we get to the QQQ one to three. There we go. This is the NDX 100 Trading Vehicle, the Invesco QQQ Trust series. You can see looking at the monthly chart, it's actually a little bit better. It's making a nice arch formation, but it's just bumping into this instance. You can see in the weekly chart it today made that leg D. So I was saying to subscribe. We want to be a little careful. We're not going to add, we've got some very nice positions. We take a little bits off to take profits. And I got a little bit cautious here because once we get to this D, I have to analyze and see how the market appreciates the technicals, if they improving, that's a very good sign. And to tell you the truth, the stochastic, which I look at for a long time. And if you look at any technical textbook, it'll say over 80% is overbored and under 20% is oversold. The implication always is if it's overbored, that means it must get underbored. I say no, no, no, over 80% is good. Over 90% is really good. Over 95% is fabulous. That's what you're looking for.  But this is where I start to look at things a lot more carefully and become a little bit more cautious. I do like this 96% in the stochastic and the QQQ. And if you look at the SMHs, you and I talked about this for years now, how the estimations tend to be the market up or down. And I always think of the semiconductor, the chips as the oil of the 1900s that already fed the great economic growth through the 1900s, the 20th century. Now we've got the chips and they basically the same sort of things. So they are commoditized, but they are stalling here. If you look at the monthly chart, they're still way underneath the 318, a high that was made in January of last year and they dropped all the way down to 161. Now they've had a very good gain to 257 and all the technicals are still very good. So I'm looking at this and I'm saying, okay, what are you going to do to change that? And I'll just give you numbers. For instance, SMHs are semiconductors. If they start to trade next week under 250, I'd actually like to say under 247. That says, oh, trend change. That means you're probably going to get the QQQ trading underneath that this point there at 318. If they start training under 309, that's not very good. And the S&P, I'm going to give you the level of, it's already done in this particular path that I talk about this expanding co-information that's declining, I call it the falling ax because if it breaks out to the upside, it can go one to one to the upside. So it's done, not the one to one yet, but it's done a very nice expansion in the same degree with the same number of parts. So if the S&P suddenly stalls in a source to trade under, I'd say 39.92, that's going to be assigned to say, uh-oh, got a problem in the Dow. I'll give you the Dow number at this particular point. The Dow should go to a leg D. It's in the leg C. It should have a pullback to make that peak C so that there's no new high to make that peak C. Pulls back and then it breaks that peak C for leg D. So that says, this got a little bit further to go, but at any point, if it takes out the 32,600 level, that's going to be a problem. So those are the things to look for on the downside. But in the meantime, as I say, the technicals are actually pretty good in most of the indices. And I'm following it, I'm just following a pretty tech if you're based on the Chapman-Wade methodology. And so far, we still remain long. And of course we have a holiday week happening, right? And it's a shortened week. So that means we wrap up Thursday. And that means if you get a down day tomorrow with no new high in the Dow, and then Thursday you pop up, it says who?  But so far, as I said, I've got to wait for those things to unfold. I don't want to over-anticipate. Although as I said, we've already got leg D in the NDX 100, the QQQ, and we've already got leg E in the S&P. So what do you think about these rates? You know, it's so interesting. I was going to ask you this question last week, and I thought, I'll wait, but you've just asked me. I was going to say to you, is there any chance, and I'm just throwing this out, I haven't really got an answer, is there any chance that the market, you know how the market takes a particular issue and then starts to, it's very important. Then it pushes it aside. So my question to you is, do you think that there's any chance that this market could continue holding very well? It doesn't have to break to the upside. It doesn't have to break to the downside, but holding very well, anticipating that it's getting used to the higher rates, because I mean, once the rates start to go up, that's a problem. But I'm looking at many things that say there should be some sideways movement in the TLT. You can see the TLT right here. Look at this, this is the rectangle in the weekly chart. So I kind of dismiss rates for the moment, but so the question to you is, do you think the market could handle just the issue that the rates could go higher or not? Yeah, no, I think the rates have topped myself. I think- Because they stable, yeah, the weekly chart. Yeah. Hey, happy Passover. And happy Easter to you. Big time. And we look forward to the show tomorrow, Basil. Thank you very much. Thanks, man. Stay right there, folks, you're coming right back.


I hope you're well, welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, my name is Seppi and today I'm joined by a special guest, my mom. Hello. This is my mom, Marzzy. Today we're filming something so special. So I, we're Iranian, and I absolutely love Afghan food, okay? So I love Iranian food, of course, but yeah, I love all types of food, but Afghan food is one of my favorite. And my mom's best friend, Hamidah John, always makes the best Afghan food ever, so I love kabalipolo, I love mantel, those are my top two favorites.  If you're lucky you have an Afghan neighbor. Yeah. If you're any for your every victim kind of food. It's so yummy. So thank you so much Hamidah John again, Thank you very much and I'm so excited to try this and we've also got to accompany my mom made some salad Shirazi Which is an Iranian salad and this yogurt Hamid-e-Jun she made. Oh, yeah, that's like fresh-made yogurt And then we've also got some chilies So that is what we're gonna be eating and I'm very very excited So big issue mom what is inside? lovely meat and oh inside is Sultana, carrots for Meat, yeah, lovely meat. Yeah, and Rice And I have to ask Hamid-e-Jun. We don't actually know the recipe because if we did then I would If we did then I would Make my mom make it more often. It's so delicious. Yeah, it's so yummy in general I think there isn't I don't know if there's many afghan restaurants in London Is there any afghan restaurants in London? Yes, there is not many, but there is Afghan restaurant, but you couldn't come for this lovely Gavali polo bit Restaurant so my mom and I are gonna try this now and give you like a little review of what it tastes like ready I Missed this food so much. Oh my god. So is it true so good because it tastes sweet? Right. Yes, but it's also got like that meaty juicy flavor and the meat has been like cooked for hours You can just tell because it's also soft. It's really soft and nice and All kind of test is mix mm-hmm like sweet mm-hmm salty Everything is really delicious. I couldn't explain really because it's so nice. Mom. When was the first time that you tried afghan food? 28 years ago in my parents house. Yeah So like it's always been like when we've tried afghan food. It's always been home cooking. So if any of you guys are Londoners and you can recommend like afghan restaurants to us then please do but yeah A lot of the afghan food that we like is like home food And but my mom doesn't know how to make it and I'm not the biggest cook What was the first food that you ever learned how to make egg? Yes for everybody no, but like fast proper food first proper food probably loopy Apollo loopy Apollo is green beans and meat and Chop small chopped meat and rice is nice I love it. It's really nice. So I can't actually make Iranian food. Like I Know I can't have one of you ever see me make Iranian food, but I can make stuff like Oh my god, I barely know how to make rice, which is so bad, but I know how to make stuff like pasta I'm really good at pasta. I know how to make stuff like Mexican food. Mmm. Yeah, I make really good Mexican food I'm not gonna toot my own horn here, but yeah, I make really good Mexican food raw man Basically anything that like M&S and Waitrose has like all the ingredients there lined up on the shelf and you just throw it in together Your Mexican food is really delicious. It's really nice. Mm-hmm and Italian food and Indian food. Yeah, you make a nice curry. I've never ever made curry in my life No, does anyone else's parents mix them up with like their siblings?  So my mom is here and I have some of the assumptions people have made about me And mom you're gonna I'm gonna read them to you and you're gonna say if it's true or not The first assumption is you're actually hard-working at uni Your heart working everywhere uni home is not Of course, you are you haven't got time to Tie the arm or that kind of things. I don't want you do it, but for cooking Not Iranian food any kind of Yes for cooking for preparing a lot of things for your job for uni Everything always she's working hard if she has Extra time she's working for Those she's preparing everything for YouTube and always she think about all of you So next assumption is I bet you love Afghan music. I Actually can't like to I I don't there's any one Afghan artist. I mean that's I'm not really hard afghan music Oh my god, yes, you had but I couldn't remember any sign Yes, I'm a Zahir. I'm a Zahir. We love I'm a Zahir sign and Another day think come everybody come in. I don't know who that is mom I don't know about your music, but this is assumptions about me not you Someone said you're lazy in the house I don't I don't do much at home, but sweetie, you are busy with all your own things Of course, I mean she's not cleaning and I don't want to clean because she hasn't got time if she has a time Yes, of course, but never ever she hasn't got one extra minute Always she's busy. I'm glad that you backed me up there because I think I don't I think it's true that assumption I don't yes, I can see when you go to bed as still you continue until Someone said you eat a lot of food, but you don't gain weight Because you do exercise. I'm also like careful like as in if I eat a lot today Then I won't eat a lot tomorrow to kind of balance out and as to be honest good things about her is Not very a strict diet. That is no good and is Danger for your body But she's really careful sometimes. Yes. She has a donut.  She has a crap and She has a lot of dessert, but She can control herself in moderation in moderation. I mean sometimes Yes, but on that time you need to shoot and control I don't know if you I saw that as taro by the way, but your mom gives you food Even though your plate is still full and she's still putting more on my plate, but her own plate is empty Okay, so next question says you want to have many children. Yes, it's true. How many do I want?  I think I think four is such a good number because there's always two and two together And then what is too much? Oh That time is past What do you mean that time has passed bait? No, that is that a lot of children and it was belong to long time ago No, people did but people still now have loads of children. Yeah, I know I Think it's very is best. I think you're just saying that because you have three. Yes Next question you are happy in life with everything Yes, she's No No, I'm a human of course There'll be times when like there are things that upset me or like things. Oh, yes Yes, me out or like I'm like an in the day. Yes, you had a lot of yes Of course in the past you was worried for uni which kind of But like even day to day like I feel like everyone everyone has worries day to day I can't say like I'm always a hundred percent happy I think my happiest times in life are usually summer because like I don't have university I can travel I can relax and I know that I've got a job to go back to like as and I've got a university to go back To or school to go back to so I don't feel like without purpose either so I can have good fun That's my like happiest time in my opinion It says you're happy in life with everything and it's as an I'm really grateful always for anything that comes my way and I feel like even like If it's something difficult or if I make a mistake or I do something that like all like what I do that I regret it I still like I'm happy that it happened because I'll learn from it And even though I might be upset at the time. I'll learn from it in the future next assumption. You're spoiled Not really.  No, you're not loose Another way she says this as she's stroking Why do you think I'm not spoiled? You can't just say you're not because if for example, they haven't got I didn't cook anything and You you're not that kind of children and why you haven't got food and use order for yourself take away Or she's really really very good But I think it's spoiled as well people think if I say oh, I want this bag Why won't these shoes I could have it like this? Yes, but you're not That's boy. Why'd you say that? Because in Depends this situation you understand that kind of children if you haven't got as if they don't care and they want it But you you depends this situation You understand is not you say no, I want it and I say I can't and you say no I say I can't afford and you say no I want this it's not like that I would say me replying to this assumption of I'm spoiled. I would say The reason why I don't think I'm spoiled is because since the age of 16 I've always had a job and I've always made my own money. I bought my first car myself and Like BMW yeah, yeah boards it myself and I've like always worked hard in my gap year. I was working. How many hours I had a full-time job 10 hours a day More I had more because I had a full-time job in a department store I would shoot her in the evenings and in the mornings early morning I would go to this GP and wallet and volunteer there so I can get experience so She's really hard work So I would say that I'm not spoiled because I know the value of money all the way from working minimum wage in a department store To making like really good money as a private tutor like and money from being a youtuber and influencer I always know the value of things and I don't expect anything from anyone Tabak bonadalam as he changed so That's why I don't think I'm spoiled. So yeah, you're not yeah, but I think Like baby because I've been on stuff like all rich kids go skint Which was a TV show if none of you guys know this I was on this TV show called rich rich kids go skint Which is I was season one episode two and a lot of you guys have seen the episodes on episode on YouTube or like that's how you found me so and a lot of you message me saying that like I came across like really well And I basically never ever got any negative feedback off of it Like at the time that it came out I think like for every 1000 nice messages I received I've received like one bad message So that is like crazy to come off a show about spoiled kids So no, I don't think I'm spoiled because for that edge.  No, definitely. No, I don't party every weekend. I think like deep in sometimes for four months She's very busy. She is study working hard nothing at all And of course when summer holiday she go to can yeah, of course or or if she go to me Of course, she's in holiday and she has to enjoy. Yeah, I don't think the situation. I don't party every weekend Definitely not. I think sometimes few months Not then and then sometimes every day like for like a week like holidays or something like that So like Christmas But Christmas I didn't go out every day. No, yeah, no, I'm not like a family time I'm not a party animal like in London. I'm not like a party animal I might go out like once on a weekend and like during the month that I'm not busy with like uni work, but I'm Not like all the time, but I do love to go out and party I think life is so important and to have a work life balance I want to be able to be a good medical student I want to be able to be a good youtuber if I didn't have time to relax as well So yeah, I think I think life is all about balance. You must have a balance. Yeah Someone said this is ish by the way ish 2001. He always writes me the nicest messages said I used to think that you're so prestige, but actually you're the most amazing person. Love you. Thank you Someone said you love Tadeek I love Tadeek. Yeah, yeah, I love potato Tadeek and I love touching. Yes I was worried they'd hit it. It'd be probably I confused it again Someone said you're a thoughtful caring and amazing person. Bless you Thank you very much. Oh, here you go. Nice comment Here's one.  She hadn't won single our Extra. Yeah, I've never ever never had a time. She was working hard herself Yeah I work really well under pressure like that's just me in life Like if I know I've got like I can't work a little bit I mean I can work a little bit every day, but I can't work like Three hours a day and then like come exam season still be working three hours a day because if I'm working three hours a Day in an exam season that will stress me out, but I have friends who are like that. I like to work like in the last Two months or now I've got ten weeks of my exam. So that's two and a half months I believe or like just about two months and I've started working and Very much my final year So everything that I'm going and everything that I'm studying pretty much is just going over again And I've already started so I work well under pressure and I like I like exams I don't like it. I don't like this the stress of course No one likes the stress But I like exams because I think exams are there to show you Not anyone else not your mom not your dad not your teacher not your friends not not society No one exams are there to show you just how hard you've worked and how much you understood from what you've read so Never ever care about your grade of course It's easier said than done like if you need grades to do a certain degree or something of course We're gonna work hard for it But always remember that the reason why you're seeing this exam is to show yourself how hard you've been working So that's why I like exams that being said I get really bad like in exam time. I get like asthma I can't breathe Yeah, like and I don't realize and I'll just think like oh my god. Oh my god. I drink so much She's drinking so much red bull and it's affected on her. Yeah, and really really bad. Yeah, it's no good Yeah, I mean I don't recommend red bull, but the only thing I'm worried if I said I didn't use I have like two or three counts a day during exam season, which I really really really don't recommend. Yeah, I know good There's no good The only thing is make me worried when exam time is red bull I don't want she's having because it's affected on her body and it's no good So first off want to say thank you again to Hamidah John for making this food. It was so good. Love that second of all, sorry for something in my teeth Because I was eating but thank you guys so much for watching and thank you so much. Thank you for joining Thank you, Hamidah John. Thank you very much. Don't forget to check out my socials They're always linked down below, but my Instagram is Persian Bunny my mom's Instagram is marriage. Yes.  Thank you. And my snapchat is sepi samai. I'll see you guys in the next video See you. Bye


It is Tuesday. I didn't update yesterday just because yesterday was an exam, an exam day, and I just wasn't feeling it. And then I was studying yesterday for today's exam, which I did this morning. I'm so happy I fixed this camera because the memory card was like memory card error. And I was like, no, I don't need this now. So I'm finally got it working. Great. Super happy about it. Okay. So my exam today went okay. Thank you to those who commented on my reading vlog. And yeah, super sweet of you guys to wish me luck. Thank you. I appreciate it. And so I haven't started reading anything yet. So I'm tomorrow, tomorrow is the 31st. So the last day of the month.  So I'm not gonna be finishing anything tomorrow. I might start vengeance or not vengeance, retribution rails. I don't know. But right now, Kat, I bulk filmed. That's why my makeup is all fancy. My lashes are coming off because I've been wearing this for a while now. I like my makeup. Okay. So very happy with it. It's like the naked heat palette. I think it looks good. Anyways, so I have books and ignore the cat. Bruni. So I have books everywhere. I have clothes on my bed because I was changing. So your girls gotta clean it up. So that's what we're gonna do today. So let's roll the montage. So it is Wednesday now. And I just want to give you guys like a reading update and a general update. Not too much has happened. It is what like the 31st. So I'm trying not to read. So I don't like I don't want to finish anything. Which I'm not gonna finish anything today anyways. But I don't want to finish anything before because my wrap up is already filmed and uploaded and ready to go. But a reading update anyways. I'm currently listening to the audiobook of the Drawing of Three by Stephen King, which I know a lot of you guys are gonna be excited about. But I am three hours and 40 minutes into it. So I have nine hours left and I listen to my audiobooks at two times the speed. So I'll be done in four and a half hours. So this is doable. It's really different from the first book. Like I don't know if like not like in a good or a bad way is just different. So I'm like trying to see how I feel about it. But like it's entertaining. And then last night I started Retribution Rails by Erin Bowman. So I am currently I only read a little bit last night before bed. So I ended up reading 25 pages last night. So I'm hoping to read a chunk more of this tonight or at least get to page like 50 or 100 tonight. So yeah. And I was supposed to go to like a family member's house today. That's really far. But the weather is so not driving safe. That's not a sentence. It's just so not good for driving. So we couldn't go. So I'm a little sad about it. But it's okay. I was literally up at five and I'm like where I'm ready. And then it was like snowing so bad but whatever. So I'll show you guys the weather. Okay so it stops snowing but it's still really snowing. Hey guys so it is around 3 p.m. on the same day. But I thought I'd give you guys an update. So I'm so tired. I just filmed a video that you guys are gonna be excited about. But it wasn't fun at all. But I'm glad I finally did it. I'm not gonna edit it today because I already edited, edited, and scheduled I think three videos today. That's what I was doing most of the day. So I'm glad I got another one filmed. Yes I'm tired. Look at my socks. These are the cute things. I showed them in my little hot topic haul. But like they're so cute. And Rudy kept interrupting in all my videos. Like he, not all of them, just like this one. Because I only filmed one today. But he literally came up and like just went right in the camera's frame. I'm like sir. But anyways I'm gonna go make myself a coffee. So let's go. It is February 1st and it is Thursday. And it is about 9 30. I finished doing my makeup. I kind of like it. I'm kind of digging it. It's a little intense. But I like it. So today I'm going to be going to my friend's house and we're just going to be having like an editing party. And we're gonna be hanging out probably going to the bookstore all those sort of stuff. But it is February 1st. Thank God January took way too long. And I just filmed some things this morning for another YouTube channel. That's not mine. But it's like a collab video. So yeah. And I filmed some intros and stuff. But yes. So we got to change my calendar that my brother got me. So... I have to put it down because I can't do it the other way. Look at it. So last night I did read a bit. So today I'm actually going to be starting my buddy, Reba Peter. So I don't know exactly what I'm gonna read that today. Probably tonight. I'll get a chunk of it done or I might finish it. I don't know. But I am again listening to the drawing of three. No more practice on that. But for Vengeance Road. Not Vengeance Road Retribution Rail. The second book. I am about 54 pages in. I'm really liking it. I dig this is Western so much. Like this is so much fun to me. So yeah. I'll have to get you guys in a bit. I want to show the book I got. Hey guys. So it is... What is it today? Saturday. I keep thinking it's Sunday. I'm like it's not Sunday. So just for an update on my reading. Well, yesterday I had a day with my family which I absolutely loved and I didn't really vlog. I don't think I've vlogged anything. So apologies for that. But I had a good day. So it's always good. And today was just more of a chill day. Currently I'm just like bullet journaling and planning videos and the whole shebang. But for my books I read this poetry collection. I'll put up on the screen. It was super short and super fast. But I ended up giving this three stars. I thought it was solid. Nothing special. Nothing horrible about it. It was just okay for me. And then I also have been reading a lot tonight. And I finished Rumble. Come on buddy. I don't want to like move this but I have to. Hey. Rumble. I gave it four stars. I really liked it. So powerful. So raw. There's a lot of sugar warnings though. So I'll talk about that at the end of the month. It was really good though. I really liked it. And then I've made a little bit of progress on Retribution Rails I think since I last updated. The audiobook I haven't made like a new progress on. But I'm on page 54 of Retribution Rails. I think I updated you guys on that. But I'm hoping to read a chunk of that tonight. So yeah. Oh it is Sunday. I am gonna end the vlog here. So basically no more reading updates. It is only three o'clock but I do want to get this vlog up for tomorrow morning. So I'm gonna start editing it now. And I did just get this new like tripod little thing for my vlog camera. So that's why I have like my hands free at the moment. I don't know I'm gonna play with it. I'm just using it on my bed right now.  And I should probably put this thing up. But like I have to play with it. So fun. Oh yeah these are Penguin socks. I don't think you care. But yes. Update. No nothing new with reading. Um what I'm watching booktube because what else do you do when you don't reheat? So I'm watching Cam. He's great. Channel link down below. I remember I was over at my friend's and I was watching him. She's like why does he look like a hot bio teacher? That's a big compliment Cam. Okay but for the emoji of the vlog. Well if you made it up to this point I can. Emoji of the vlog. I'm not really enthusiastic. That's because I have to go back to school tomorrow. I've had this week off because of exams. So tomorrow's back to a new semester with new people. With new teachers. Which can either be really great or really bad. So we'll see how it goes. And I'll keep you posted. But emoji thing. Comment a fox. Because I like those. So yeah. Probably the worst vlog yet. But that's the dishwasher. Anyways I'll see you guys super soon. Oh kitty come here. I just snapped at it. Kitty.  Look up. Look. It's right here right there. Look. There you go. Don't smell him. Don't smell my camera. Ready. Do you like him? Look. Look say hi. Oh. So yeah. Comment a fox if you made it up to this point. Or if you don't have the fox emoji just comment a fox. So yeah. I'll see you guys super soon. Bye.