Books: The Hunger Games - First installment

After feverishly reading The Hunger Games books over the week, I knew I have to blog about them. Too good, too good!

I knew these books have been out for a while now and my friend Jim has been pushing me to read it every single time the mention of books are brought up. But I was always "ya ya I know, it's awesome." or "Laterlah..." or "Really that nice kan?" haha Till the point where he had to send me the links to download the pdf format of the three books so that I have no excuse not to read them. I mean, I know I will read them eventually because I trust what he say is a good book but gawd I don't like reading e-books!

So I finally gave in and went to Best Eastern at The Mall to reserve them once I found out they are shipping them here to Brunei like finally. Thank God I did! Now it's my turn to annoy my sisters and telling them it's really good and they're all "ya ya I know, it's awesome." Circle of life wtf

The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins

If you haven't read The Hunger Games, well it centers around this girl called Katniss living in a post world war 3 country I guess. After the destruction of America, they started everything all over. They called the society a Dystopian society because of the amount of control the government holds over the people and how poverty is very common everywhere. They called the government the Capitol and there are 12 districts in which each of this district is in charge of producing certain products. Katniss is from District 12 and they produce coal, for instance.

Anyways, every year the Capitol arranges 2 people from each district, a boy and a girl to compete in The Hunger Games. Rule is simple: The last one standing wins. They choose the participants from each district using 'lucky draw' style. Not so lucky for the people unfortunately. Somehow in the end, Katniss is to compete in The Hunger Games.

This books basically lets you in to her mind and you get to know what she was thinking in her head. It's an amazing experience where you feel like you're right beside her in the games and you see what she sees. Really gotta applaud Collins for her creativity! She created a world out of words and when I'm reading them I really feel like I'm watching a movie wtf

If you haven't read The Hunger Games, go buy a copy now!! It'll be one of the most amazing journey you go on! In your mind only of course, but it's good for you. ;)

Okay, please STOP reading if you don't wanna read any spoilers from here on out! Coz I wanna share my thoughts to those who have read them :)

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Honestly, I am quite surprised at first of how Katniss seems to be oblivious to the fact that the guys have feelings for her when it's so darn obvious to the rest of us! But seeing the life that she's living and what she's been through I guess it's not really her main concern.

The saddest part of the book for me is when Rue died. Gahh it's so sad I literally have tears rolling down my cheeks in the middle of the night at like 3am in the morning! haha Collins is good with developing her characters and it's really sad because we get to know the characters and sometimes we grow fond of them so I felt very wtf (and betrayed) when Collins killed her off. But then again, we all knew Rue will die sooner or later. Sigh The lyrics of the song Katniss sang to Rue when she died is priceless. I hope they made a real song out of it!

Also, Katniss pulling out the berries so she and Peeta can die together when they changed the rules is such a small gesture but it offsets something so big. Why should Snow blame her when she and Peeta are supposed to be madly in love anyway. It shouldn't be a big deal because that's what people who are madly in love do.

After the end of the first book I was really anticipating to read the next one because I was so curious as to how Collins will play out the second book of the installment, Catching Fire. I'll do the review on another blog post that's for sure. :)

The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins

The hardcover design is so much more impressive than the paperback ones! :(

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Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto Mascara

Hey guys!

So I just typed a whole post on this mascara and turns out it wasn't saved and stuff so everything's gone and I have to re-do this. =/ But that's okay because I like blogging and sometimes I feel like I'm talking to you, whoever you are. lol

Anyways I recently threw out some of my old mascaras and went out to purchase a new one. Decided to try the Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto mascara this time around. I've actually wanted to try this out for a long time now and as usual, Guardian is finally carrying it! This retails for BND$16.90. Initially I wanted to get the Maybelline Falsies mascara as well but those are selling for freakin BND$27.90! Come on! Why is everything so overpriced here in Brunei? Ugh.

Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto mascara

I really like how they designed this mascara to look like the heel of a stiletto! It looks really sleek with the shiny black packaging and all. Also, the angular shape of the tube makes it easier to twist open the product than the regular round tube.

This is a waterproof mascara which is good because with non-waterproof mascara I always tend to get flecks of black on my cheeks by the end of the day and sometimes it gets smudged below my eyes. Not a pretty sight! The smell of this product kinda puts me off though. There's no other way to describe it; this mascara smells weird. lol Doesn't really matter to me because once it dries down it won't smell like anything.


The bristles are made from natural fibers and the wand isn't really as flexible as the Falsies mascara but again, I don't really care for these things. The most important thing is whether it lengthens and/or volumizes, right? Right?? As for volumizing, not really honestly. =/ For me, I am always on the lookout for mascara that volumizes my lashes because they aren't exactly thick and luscious lol But it does lengthens my lashes so that's good. I always make do with 2 coats of the mascara. :))

Maybelline Long Extreme Stiletto mascara

Overall I think this is an Okay mascara. Not bad, but not awesome haha I don't think I will repurchase this mascara. I'd still go for Mabelline's Volum' Express Cat Eyes mascara instead. ;)

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Room decorative pieces and The Hunger Games!

My sister Shala has been sprucing up her bedroom lately and I think I've been infected by her decorative mode. I've always enjoyed watching room tours on youtube especially those who really put an effort towards decorating. I know for one Elle from Allthatglitters21 is very much into room decoration but there are also others which are very good!

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Don't we all wish we have the room space to put whatever furniture we wanted in our bedroom and also having various types of furniture to choose from? Most of the time we have to work with whatever space we have and we don't have the luxury of choosing delicate pieces or whatnot because it's not practical to have them in the room. Plus it'll look out of place too. Sometimes. Unless your room looks like the ones above which means you are a lucky b*tch and I hate you wtf

Anyways I went to WW Mart at Citis Square yesterday and saw that they were selling these decorative pillows for only BND$3.90! Before this I was thinking of buying them for my bed and saw that Hua Ho is selling for more than BND$10 for one! I mean sure, of course the ones in Hua Ho are of better quality and stuff but really, I wanted to buy them just for decoration so of course I'd go for the cheaper alternative. Maybe when I'm older I'd go for more expensive ones but for now I'm surviving on a student's budget! lol

Plus the ones sold in WW Mart have different designs, colors and textures depending on your taste and they also sell the cases for the decorative pillows which comes in different colors and designs as well. In case you don't like the original.

Grey decorative pillows from WW Mart

I think decorative pillows are a great way to give your room a more 'put together' look. I used to like really loud colors for my bedding like bright pink or bright anything. Now I just want it to look like the ones you see in the magazine T__T


Also recently I got this in Sengkurong for half its price and had it put up in my room! Love that the painting is in 3D. The only downside is that this piece is extremely heavy I don't wanna put it on the wall over my bed because I'm afraid it'll fall down in the middle of the night when I'm sleeping and ruin my face. Not a pretty sight.


Bought this one yesterday! I really like this painting. I've actually seen images of this on the internet so I'm guessing that they just print it off the internet and made it into a painting? No idea. I'm so glad I found it!


These are a few of the ones that Shala got for her room. I think they're not bad, but I still like mine better! har har har :p


On a random note, I finally got the first book to The Hunger Games Trilogy! So relieved that I booked this beforehand because I went to Time Square's Best Eastern and initially wanna pick up the book there but they were sold out! Then went to The Mall's branch where they told me the book was reserved there. The saleslady told me I was lucky I reserved it because it was sold out there too! I've just started reading this last night and am liking it so far!

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L'oreal Color Riche in Beige Creme

Hey guys!

Been having kind of a writer's block this past week. I can't put myself in front of my computer desk to blog! The assignments are also starting to pile up on my desk now. ugh

Anyhoos, this time around I wanna share with you one of my favourite lipsticks of all time! It's L'oreal Color Riche lipstick in Beige Creme.

L'oreal Color Riche lipstick in Beige Creme

The color looks like a really deep burgundy brown-ish color in the tube but when you put it on it looks more like a plum color. Though it may look dark, I actually feel pretty comfortable wearing this out. Maybe because it's not as sharp as a true red? I get really conscious if I wear super bright red lipstick out. Gah I need more practice wtf

L'oreal Color Riche lipstick in Beige Creme

This is actually one of the first lipsticks that I own when I first started getting interested in beauty products. It's really creamy and moisturizing and goes on really smoothly like a lip balm! Seriously. I don't even remember how much this costs because I've had it since forever!

Me wearing L'oreal Color Riche in Beige Creme

Paired the lipstick with a touch of nude eyeshadow and black liquid liner

L'oreal Color Riche lipstick in Beige Creme lip swatched

This is definitely one of those colors which you can wear out in the day or at night. But then again you can wear any colored lipstick you want at any time of the day right? If you're looking to try out darker lipsticks but don't know where to start, I really recommend this one!

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