#100 - It's time.

Ladies. Gentlemen. Children and trolls of all ages, I bid you welcome. Welcome to my 100th post. For the first time ever, honestly, I think I can say *takes breath* it IS blog 'o' clock.

I have a few words to say, thanking you all for staying with me, blah, blah, blah...

-Insert generic big headed actor speech here-

Big headed actor.

Ok, I've made it. I have survived 100 posts. I never thought I'd get this far. I never thought that the blogger in me would stay alive this long. So honestly, thank you for the encouragement you have given me.

Right, other matters...
Happy St Patricks Day!

Andrew + Beer + Bavaria = OH HELP ME PLEASE!

Thats all the Irishness out of the way then...

What else did I need to say today...
Oh, that's right. I started blogging on the 17th of March, 2010...
So that makes it "notsuchafail.blogspot.com"'s 1st birthday!

Remember this cake? Points to who can guess the post. 

Yup, it's almost as if I planned it... *looks shiftily*

Right, now onto the rambling that's made me semi-popular. I am not asking for much for my blog's birthday. I want you to like it. (Or dislike) Ok. There is a box at the top of the post saying like (or dislike) and I'd like you to click one of them. Thank you. If you want to share this on facebook/twitter/your blog that is your choice and I won't force you to. Likes (or dislikes) are all I want.


Anyways, there isn't really much else to say at the moment. I am still living off the high that only the birthday of a loved one can bring you. (Yes, I love my blog, deal with it.)
My blog has, and always will be, a place of refuge for all my silly little thoughts and big serious thoughts. It's a place where you can come to find my point of view. If you want to ask me to blog about something, ask. I'll do my best. As I always do when it comes to this thing. In a way, it's my success story. And I don't want it to end.
Hopefully, I will keep doing this for a long time and people will care about what I think for a lot longer than that.


So, say it with me y'all.

Peace out bubs.

Andrew out.

#99 - Other (Please Specify)

The votes are in. The people have spoken. I have been told to post about Pokemon.

Pokemon - Andrews View

For many people, Pokemon was a first love. When it was released on the Game Boy, the Game Boy's popularity rocketed. Needless to say, Nintendo have been releasing Pokemon games like there is no tomorrow. If something sells... SELL IT!

As for my early experiences with Pokemon. I didn't have a Game Boy. Still don't. I have a "borrowed" one from Zoe but "shhhhh" with Pokemon Red, also from Zoe. So, my early experiences with Pokemon were the TV show and Pokemon cards.

The TV show is possibly one of the most memorable TV shows I watched when I was younger. It made little or no sense to me at the time, it was Japanese and most of the main characters could only say their names. Needless to say, I was hooked. In my opinion, it's probably the most sensible cartoon to come from Japan (which isn't saying much I suppose...)

The trading cards... Oh the days of primary school. You'd go into school in the morning with Pokemon cards weighing down your pockets. At breaks, lunch & sneakily during class you would battle, trade or admire other peoples collections. Nowadays, that sounds like a euphemism to me. I miss the days where the most important matter of the day was finding some chump who wanted to get a "Mankey" so bad, he'd trade a "Shiny Charizard"

Nowadays, Pokemon seems to have calmed down. It was just a fad. Followed by Yu-Gi-Oh and whatever replaced that (Ben 10 I think.) but Pokemon lives on. In the hearts of the crazy addicted fan boy/girl. Or the nostalgic Andrew.

Peace out bubs.
Andrew out.

#98 - Who's winning now?

Almost there...

Right, I was planning on making this blog about who are the winners in the world. Who has the most stuff, is loved the most, etc.

BUT...

Recent events in Japan have made me decide that it would be inappropriate and callous to talk about things like that under the circumstances.

Right now in the world, I feel that there are no "winners." There are people that are losing slightly less than others, but loss is everywhere. Whether it is the loss of money that you had temporarily won. The loss of a loved one to distance, hatred, natural disaster or death. The loss of everything you owned as a wall of water 10 feet high sweeps everything normal about your life away. The loss of your livelihood in Australia after flooding. The loss of life in Libya and the Arab nations. The loss of everything normal in New Zealand after the earthquake there. The loss of entire towns in Japan.

This puts my life here in Britain into perspective. We moan about the weather when it rains for a week, or the snow is more than 6 inches thick, or there is no rain for two months. What about other countries around the world? Do you not think they have it a little worse than us?

A few moments after I realised how bad the Japanese crisis was, the jokes began.
One particular stood out to me.
"Run for your lives Japs, Godzilla's coming for you."
Needless to say, I am no longer following that person on Twitter.
What annoys me most about this is that the person lived in the US. Land of the free. The home of all peoples. Well, go f*** yourself. I'm fed up of people who have absolutely no idea about matters thinking they have the right to give advice or joke about it.

Natural disasters aren't funny. People dying is NOT Funny.

I know that this blog will make no difference at all. I know that no one is going to change how they act towards things because of some rant from a 18 year old student but damn it, someone has to try.

If you can donate something to the relief effort, please do. Every penny helps.


In conclusion, f*** you Charlie Sheen. Give one episodes worth of your money to the Japanese relief. You aren't winning. You're just losing slightly less than 98% of the world.

Peace out bubs.
Andrew out.

#97 - Lent again. (Already!)

Well, lookie here. 3 posts to go! (I really am hyping this a bit too much...)

It's the time of year again that I hated last year. Lent. The time of vegetarianism. That was a difficult challenge but I am glad I did it. I now know the pain and suffering that vegetarians must feel at not eati...
No, vegetarians do not eat meat for their own reasons and I am fairly sure they don't miss meat. However, I did.
I was watching one of the many YouTuber's I was subscribed to (Dan Brown/Pogobat if you must know) and he declared "Vegy week." A week in which he would not eat meat. He struggled through and succeeded. Great Dan. Now do it for 40 days... It gets tougher.

Anyway, enough about last year. This year. This year, I have not given anything up. Nor have I decided I will do anything special. Life is difficult enough as it is at the moment and I do not need more stress to add to my already apocalyptical levels.

"But Andrew. You're living the dream! At uni! Getting drunk!"
- See last post...


In other news, I have finally caved to pressure and started posting my music thing on faceboogle. Who knows maybe someone will like something I do.

Anyway this post was mainly to let you all know I am still alive. And I am still "winning." (Thats a clue about my next post...)

Peace out bubs.
Andrew out.