Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Ranma 1/2

Akane and her two older sisters live in a martial arts Dojo with their father. One day he announces that one of them will marry his friend's son Ranma Satome.
Akane is not pleased at the thought of being forced to marry a guy she doesn’t know. She and her two sisters wait the arrival of Ranma, but are instead greeted by a giant panda and a cute teenage girl who claims that she is Ranma. Relived that they won't be forced into the marriage, the sisters befriend Ranma and send her into have a bath only to discover that she is actually a man.

During a training trip to China, Ranma and his father unfortunately fell into a set of cursed springs. When splashed with cold water Ranma's father transforms into a panda, and Ranma becomes a cute teenage girl. Hot water reverses the effect. Akane's sisters quickly volunteer her to become his fiancé and what follows is a series of martial arts, romance and comedy.


Saturday, 28 March 2015

The Wolf of Wall Street


Jordan Belfort has it all. He has a successful company, giant house, hot wife, big boat, and everything seems great on paper except that he obtained most of it illegally through stock manipulation. Jordan is also addicted to drugs, and his drug of choice is Quaaludes which he takes several times throughout the day. Although things are initially great for Jordan, his illegal tacts result in him having to leave his company and his drug use slowly become out of control until Jordan hits an all time low when he becomes addicted to cocaine.

The Wolf of Wall Street is a semi autobiographical book by Jordan Belfort of his time as a successful Wall Street broker and the life events which followed after leaving Wall Street. According to the first few pages some of the names and events have been changed, but it is mostly based off real life events and was turned into a movie starring Leonardo de Caprio in 2013.