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Let me recall..

It’s been 10 years since I last entered a cinema… you are right… 10 YEARS !!! … I am laughing at myself too.. In fact, I am not alone, my hubby too…  sound crazy isn’t it..

The last time we went to watch a movie in a cinema was back in the UK about a year before we left the country…around 1998  you see., I am not really a movie person, I often fell asleep by the first 20 mins..

So last Satureday, we went as a whole family, us with 2 boys… its their first time.. so they were rather excited.. and of all the movies… we decided on the HIGH School Musical 3..

one word to describe… even after 10 years of not having entered the cinema…  "Troublesome"

1. I need to go early to get the tickets.. that would mean.. 2 trips down to the crowded Sun Plaza

2. Pay Rp 6.000 for the parking fess.. (a pirated DVD cost Rp 8.000)

3. Queue for 20 mins at 1pm to be told that the earliest round is at 6.30pm..( I was hoping for the 4.20pm as it may be too late for the boys)

4. going back and forth between home and Sun.. costing me 2 hours in travelling time as well as the Petrol

But the funniest part has got to be that…

we didnt know what time to get to the cinema.. though the ticket stated 6.30pm… my husband and me were like.. 6.30 to the show viewing? or 6.30 door open? ..

and definitely considered us worst than an orang kumpung, we arrived at the cinema at 5.50pm..

we waited.. waited and waited some more.. making 2 trips to the loo… and to hear the door opening annoucement for Studio 1at 6.30pm!!! ….  Kids were eager… I was already half frastrated… and then seated again for all the advert and when the movie show began… it was some 20 mins later… in total.. I have waited 1 hour to watch the movie!!! and costing me  Rp 120.000 more just to watch a movie in the Cinema than staying at home with a pirated DVD…

this may sound mean … but to me … it just take too much time, effort and money to watch a movie in a cinema…

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