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12/08/2011


Can you imagine yourself being on the top 24, but the thing is only 1 will survive. Will you strive, fight and survive just to live? The Hunger Game is an epitome of hope and survival. In this movie Jennifer Lawrence shows us her enigmatic and chameleon side of being an actress. Also starring Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hensworth, the movie will be released March 2012!

Will love survives? Or will the dream of surviving outwit?

"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. 

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love."  Good Reads.com

3/07/2011

A stunning process of life. It's fascinating avenues, every impressive corner of it gives us more reason to crave more. Gives us more reason to stay positive- beyond the fact that we only live once. And once this life past- it'll never go back again. But some gossips we're hovering around this world of life.

It  is said that : After our death we will have another life which possibly different from what we have right now. It's either for example I am a human being today, if I will die then it's either I will become a frog, or can be a king or a prince on my next life. Well it's not bad to rely on this thing though. But we never know what's next after this. What we believed is just that we will die and faced God for the next life. I think it this way. Kids does.

I just wanna share this story of a young and old men. Their friendship. The bonding. The Love and their valuable lessons that we human being should learned from. It is written by Mitch Albom . At first I wasn't really interested on reading it- or so. But when i started to grapple it, everything turned into "a fascinating experience."  As for me " Mitch just blown me away, he gives me more reason to value life. His book is a treasure to be kept."
I stopped reading it at once just to grasp on words written by readers to expressed their truthfully engaging amazement to Mitch.



"A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul." - Los Angeles Times.

"An elegantly simple story about a writer getting a second chance to discover life through the death of a friend."-Tampa Tribune.

Those we're just some of millions of praises Mitch gained from writing this book. And truly- it is real. It is life.
So here is the sample of how fascinating the work of Mitch is :

It is my junior year 1978, when disco Rockey movies are cultural rage. We are in unusual sociology  class at Brandeis, something Morrie calls "Group Process". Each week we study the ways  in which the students in the group interact with one another,how they respond to anger,jealousy,attention. We are human lab rats. More often than not,someone ends up crying. I refer  to it as the "touchy feely" course. Morrie says I should be open minded.

On this day, Morrie says he has an exercise for us to try. We are to stand, facing away from our classmates,and fall backward, relying  on another student to catch us. Most of us are uncomfortable with this, and we cannot let go for  more than a few inches before stopping ourselves. We laugh in embarrassment.

Finally,one student, a thin, quiet,dark haired girl whom i noticed always wears bulky white fisherman sweaters.,crosses her arm over her chest closes her eyes, leans back, and does not flinch, like on of those Lipton tea commercials where the model splashes  into the pool.  For a moment, I am sure she is to thump on the floor. At the last instant, her assigned partner grabs her head and shoulders yanks her up harshly. "Whoa!" Several students yell.  Some clap.

Morrie finally smiles.

"You see," he says to the girl "you close your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see,you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them,too- even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling. "


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