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Hello, hello! I hope everyone is having a good day! Today, I thought we could go back into the review world, so lets get started! Anime is one of these weird and crazy kind of thing that divides people. You either love it or hate it. For me, I love it. A lot of my childhood tv shows were anime, without me even knowing they were. Who could forget those mornings or afternoon viewings of Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh and Beyblade. I think from there, a lot of western kids sort of stopped watching it once we got a bit older, but we always remembered them. For me but, my love for anime came back when Dragon Ball Super came out. It had been 19 years since Dragon Ball Z ended, so for it to start up again stirred my love for anime and I have been actively watching it again ever since. Since 2015, I have watched numerous anime series, some only 12 episodes long and others that were 80 episodes long. I have recently started to watch One Piece  which is over 900 episodes long, so I have a little wa...

Hello, hello! Welcome to hump day and September! I can’t believe that we’ve already reached September but at the same time, the back half the year could not come quick enough! Today, I thought we would talk about something that I think a lot of people have been watching these last 7 months; that ever growing profession of streamers/content creators/Esports. Now, I am not either of these professions, but I have spent the last 10 years of my life watching them, so I like to think that I know a little bit about it, at least from an outsider’s view. So, I am going to give my take on them and hopefully give a bit of an explanation for the people who don’t fully understand what they are. Youtube.com has been around for a long time now. While funny cat videos are still aplenty, it’s made a new category as it’s forefront, revolving around videogames and content creators. People playing videogames and posting them online has quickly taken over the internet in the last few years and continues ...

Hello, hello! TGIF, am I right? Hopefully you get a couple days off now or at least, some time off soon! For now, but the grind continues here and today I thought I would do a quick review on a book series that had a big impact on my style of writing. So, without further ado, let's get to it! Since I was young, fantasy novels have always found their way into my bookshelf. I think everyone my age, had either the Deltora Quest or Ranger's Apprentice books when they were kids. Of course, there was also the classic Eragon series as we got older, which helped us branch into the timeless masterpiece of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series. An all-time favourite of mine (and will be forever) are the Skulduggery Pleasant series, spanning across 13 books with two more to come. But all of these books, despite how amazing they are, aren't the ones I am going to talk about today. Today, I am going to talk about the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Currently, ther...

Hello, hello! I hope everyone is doing well today and have been during these trying times! This week marks my first month of writing full time, so today I thought I'd talk about how I have found this first month! This first month of writing has been a bit of a roller coaster for me. Starting up high and come plummeting down only to go back up again in some kind of twisted loop (why do people like those death traps?). I knew going into this lifestyle that it wouldn’t be all peaches and roses and that it would take extreme dedication in order to get where I want to be. But in these early days, I have found issues that I didn’t think would either exist or affect me as much as they did. The main problem that I find myself having is the lack of ideas on what to write about, especially when it comes to these blog posts. After having wanted to do something like this for a long time, I thought I would have endless ideas on things to talk about, but that isn’t always the case. I originall...

Hello, hello! Today I thought thought I could share with all of you my experiences with the ANZAC's. For readers outside of Australia and New Zealand, ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps which operated in the First World War or the Great War. In 2012, I was extremely fortunate enough to be selected as part of the Lest We Forget  project and Footsteps of Honour  tour, which was a two week overseas trip in order to commemorate Australian soldiers who had died in battle during the War. The group, which consisted of 30 other peers, was a project created and maintained by Michael Goodwin, a History teacher of Mackay North State High School. Goodwin created the project in 1999 and took select students to Turkey, Belgium, France and Singapore to commemorate those soldiers. At the time of writing, he has continued to do so for many years, the latest tour which is now being set for a 2021 departure. Goodwin has naturally been awarded the very deserving Order of Austr...

Ah video games. They've been a staple in most peoples lives, one way or another and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon, with the upcoming releases of the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X. But for today, we're going to talk about a new game that came out last month that I have been absolutely loving, Ghost of Tsushima.  Made by gaming development company Sucker Punch Productions, it is an open world game based around main character Jin Sakai, a samurai on Tsushima Island during the first Mongol invasion of Japan. As you progress through the story, Jin has to decided whether or not to hang on to his proud Samurai traditions or resort to something more extreme in order to save his island. Lets break the game down! Storyline The storyline that Sucker Punch have come up with is nothing short than amazing. Being a Samurai in the time where there was't many left, gives a sense of duty to the player as they run around the island helping out different ci...

Ah, sequels. The love and hate relationship of all movie goers. There is nothing worse than having your favourite movie getting a sequel, you being hyped up for it, waiting months and months, only to finally get to see it and for it to be utter, utter garbage. But, on those rare occasions, you get blessed with another good movie. A great movie. An OMG this second movie is better than the first one! And that's what we're talking about today. Movies that are better in a sequel. Now, for most of these movies I am going to talk about, it will be their immediate second, but I will also include one or two movies that were down the line from the original. Let's get to it! American Pie 2 - The American Pie Franchise This movie is my favourite movie in the American Pie  franchise, and even gets close to the top with my favourite movies of all time. What makes the second movie so much better than the first is the way it flows. In American Pie, they tried to make the classic ameri...

Hello, hello! Here we are, back again at the start of another week. I hope that everyone is doing well and that you all enjoyed the weekends, or whatever time you had off! Today I thought we would talk about something that I have been around for the better part of the last 15 years of my life. Basketball! I'm going to touch on how I think the NBA restart has been handled and my opinions on who I think is going to win awards and the hardware that goes with champions. Let's get into it! The Bubble In a country where COVID-19 is running rampart, I was very hesitant at first at the idea of trying to restart sport. But, as more and more details came out about how the NBA were going to handle it, I have to say that I am extremely impressed. Having a closed area within Walt Disney World in Orlando, is something that I wouldn't have thought possible. But it seems that it is working extremely well. Most players and team staff, reporters and commentators, are taking everythi...

Hello, hello! I hope everyone is doing well! I know I am, especially today! Today is the day that I move to writing full time! As you can probably tell by the amount of exclamation points that I have already used, I am extremely excited to take this leap. So, today's post is going to be about how I came to the decision of quitting my secure paycheck job and risking it all on something that may not pan out well. From a young age I've always had a passion for stories and story-telling. I can remember always starting stories and writing pages and pages only to never finish them. As I grew older, I started to read more and I stopped writing as much, choosing to focus on other things as well; history, sport, video games, girls. But that need to write always stuck with me. It wasn't the blazing fire it once was, but the embers remained, just waiting to be rekindled. Moving forward I went to University to study History to become an Archaeologist but changed quickly into English ...

In the day and age of internet streaming, it was only a matter of time that Broadway would eventually make it onto one streaming website or another. For this in particular, Disney's Disney+  has managed to be the first to the podium with it airing Lin-Manuel Miranda's award winning play, Hamilton (2020) . Miranda  had spent over six years of his life dedicated to writing, composing and making the lyrics of the play, which is dedicated to one of America's Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, played by Lin-Manuel Miranda  himself. Debuting in 2015, it has finally made its way into peoples homes and it is amazing. Having spent the better part of the last two years wanting to be able to see it and begging the show to make an Australian tour, I was finally able to see with my own eyes the brilliance behind Miranda's  music, lyrics and book. And I am mesmerized. I have watched it three times in the first week that it debut on the streaming service, as well as constantly s...