hunger games

let's just say i heard about the movie only after i heard taylor swift's safe and sound. and initially i thought hunger games was some sort of a game that was turned into a movie. i know, right? just like harry potter the book *in my opinion* it only got famous after the movie was made,that is, how i felt in malaysia. i didn't know it was on the bestsellers list!  i haven't even heard about it, or maybe i can just blame it to the scarce visit i pay to the bookstores these days.

i finally got my hands on the trilogy, read halfway, watched the movies, and spent the next 2 days staying up late to finish the book. the story line is so good it's kind of eerie that it's sort of a blow up version of what is happening around us, the war, reality shows, everything. what i couldn't bear about the book is the amount of fights that they get into. the pain that katniss has to bear, she gets burned, bombed, almost losing peeta, and everyone that is important to her it's just such a pain to see her get hurt badly, mentally and physically numerous times.

maybe it's me but i get emotionally attached to the stories that i've read. right after i finish the last book i felt empty. yes the ending wasn't that sad, *i won't reveal it here* but the way it got to the ending was painful. i don't even want to talk about it and i guess the only reason i've blogged about it right now is to write it down so the emptiness that the book brings would be less on me :(. and i have to keep reminding myself that it's just a story. ugh me, i know, i'm just emotional.

the reason i chose to post these pictures are because to me they have absolutely no resemblance of the hunger games, with their outfits and smiles, when in the movies they are actually trying to kill each other off. 

i would highly recommend to read the book first before watching the movie because it would explain a lot on what is actually happening. i ended up explaining about the scenes to my friends while in the cinema. the movie wasn't oh-so-awesome like lord of the rings *the only movie that holds the number 1 spot in my heart* but it wasn't bad either. so go watch it.

oh and there's another reason why i'm attached to it. i actually share the same birth date as katniss everdeen.