Road Block FOR RENT

Hola, I'm temporarily back. Seems i have found a little time for myself to do something I like.

So, I'm at work as usual, driving around Kingston. I go down Spanish Town road, McKay Lane, Myrie Lane etc and there is all this debris. Pieces of old appliances like refrigerators and microwaves, tires etc. I couldn't help but smile to myself and i thought "rent a roadblock".

You ever notice all the protests with road blocks in Jamaica have the same kind of debris; it always seems like the same piece of cardboard because they all say "WE WANT JUSTISE" no matter what the issue is (and yes i meant to type justiSe), and the same mispellings. There are always tires and there has to be an old fridge, doesn't anybody else notice this. No matter where the protest is. Considering all the debris i saw driving around, i came to the conclusion that all the road block debris must come from one place, or that people collect them for just that purpose and if you run out of something like a microwave, you can go and rent it from another community... I wonder!!!

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All a Girl Needs can be found in Clarendon

As usual, i was out with my friends the other night, and i heard a guy say he's just like Clarendon, he has everything that a woman wants". I never got it, he couldnt stop laughing, nobody else got it. Eventually he caught his breath and began to explain the cause of his, we feared, never ending, laughter. Apparently Clarendon has some really suggestive names, and you'll notice them if ur mind has nothing better to do than to harp on really trivial things. Anyway let me tell you some of them...ready

Long Wood- need i say more? LOL
Content
Endeavor/ Good Endeavour
Friendship
Effort
More land
Boldness
Chateau
Cockshop
Rest
Ritches- Another important one

among others...Just thought i'd share...You'd almost think its deliberate right. Ladies you all need to move to Clarendon

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New Invention- Memory Chip

I'm particularly horrible at remembering names. I will, like most people recognize your face and I think that I know you. It might not always be safe to act on this because I've seen people in the same context many times who i might not actually know, but because you've seen them so many times your brain fools you. Now it gets very embarrasing for me because people seem to always remember my name. People shouting Yakeisha from across the road and across the room and nothing, I look around and sometimes it so bad I don't even know who yelled because nobody looks familiar. NOT GOOD. I also hate it when i return to where i used to live when i was a child and people call "Yakeisha, you remember me?" Poor me. It's embarrasing, I've resorted to saying now, Yeah man i remember you! Sometimes i do but ask me what they name and i couldn't tell you.

So I went searching on the internet (God bless Google...lol) for ways to enhance memory especially of names and faces. They all read the same way: consciously listen to the person when they introduce themselves, repeat the name a couple times, associate the name to something else etc., etc., But.... What i wanted to see was something that read something like this:

New Invention: Memory Chip has been invented by Russian Scientist Rushtad Vongostandt. The New Memory Chip with retail name "Name -O- Memory" is slated to hit the market in a few weeks. The new memory chip is a revolution in improving one's ability to remember names and faces of people. According to Vongostandt, his new invention which is inserted in the back of the hand, came out a desire to remember all the names and faces of important people he met daily. He explains how the chip works.

"The chip is inserted into the back of the hand. What happens is that it is activated just by the will of the person whenever they meet someone important whose name and face they wish to recall on future occasions. The chip works by storing face and name together and a screen, not unlike those seen through the eyes of the "Terminator" in those american action movies, is activated. The face is saved and as soon as the wearer of the chip says the name it is corresponded to the face and saved. Next time the face is seen the wearer activates the chip, the screen analyzes the face of the person and the face and name stored in memory pops up."



Ha, in my dreams right! But wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't it solve so many problems...Well yeah, but until then i'll just have to go through the tedious suggested methods for remembering names and faces.

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What is Going on IN the World !!!

I got this in my inbox today. I'm sure some of you have also received the same email.


I am Charah Tabetha Watson a 23 year old female, who is 5 feet 5 inches of a slim built. On the night of Friday September 28, 2007, on arriving home on Shortwood Road I was brutally attacked by my sister's boy friend who also is the father of my nephew.

I got home at approximately 7:30 pm I inserted my keys into the door but soon realized that the door was bolted from the inside. I knocked on the door and my eight 8 year old niece Taiye came to the window and then said "oh, it's Auntie Charah" she then unbolted the door and I entered the house. On entering the house I saw my attacker, Neto Meeks son of a prominent media personality Amina Blackwood Meeks and Professor Brian Meeks.

Neto Meeks had verbally threatened to kill me on Wednesday September 26, 2007 in the presence of my mother and my niece.

Upon entering the house Neto Meeks (son of Amina Blackwood Meeks and Professor Brian Meeks) eased up out the chair which he was sitting in. I proceeded to walk pass him to enter my room, however I didn't make it that far. As soon as I was about a foot/step infront of Neto Meeks I felt a someone pounce on me. Neto Meeks jumped me from behind engulfing the entire left side of my body (at this point my school bag was still on my shoulder). I immediately reached into the side of my bag for a knife which I was advised by my sister Italee Watson to carry because she had reason to believe that I might be in danger due to threats from Neto Meeks.

Neto Meeks then put his arm around my neck and accosted my right hand which had my only source of defense with his right hand (he was still behind me). He then proceeded to push me into a room at the back of the living room. Neto is a BLACK BELT KARATE EXPERT who trains religiously every morning and evening and practices at least 3 different forms of Karate and is either a 3 ^RD OR 4^TH DEGREE BLACK BELT HOLDER. He began pressing his knee in my back and my lower body while he was chocking me with his arm. My school back is still over my shoulder, and my right hand is still in the custody of Neto Meeks. I started biting Neto Meeks on his left arm while trying to break free from his grip around my neck all this time my two nieces were screaming and crying). I managed to get my head free from his strong manly hold. However he still had my right hand. I started pushing him against the wall trying to escape. I managed to push Neto Meeks up against the computer desk the 6 +feet muscular man then grabbed at my left ear with his mouth. He managed to grip it and proceeded to dig into the flesh of my ear. I somehow managed to free my ear from his mouth but not without sustaining anawful bite encompassing the entire bottom half of my left ear.

I still had my right hand which held my only defense against this LETHAL BLACK BELT KARATE EXPERT. Neto Meeks then started bitting me all over my body leaving behind life long scars on my right arm and my right shoulder.

I again started pushing him with all my strength, with my school bag still over my left shoulder, this was all I could do to fend off my attacker. We fell on the floor with Neto Meeks on top of me, he then made several attempts to stab me with the knife that was in my right hand which he was using all his MANLY STRENGH TO CONTROL. I then started biting him on his right arm trying to release my right hand from his grip. Neto Meeks again grabbed at my left ear with his powerful jays. Again by the grace of God I manage to escape another attempt to bite off my ear.

Two neighbours on the complex ran inside the house after hearing the children's cries for help. They tried to take Neto Meeks off me but failed. They pleaded with him to release me but he refused. He said "NO TEK THE KNIFE FROM AR FIRST" I refused to give them the knife while I was still in the grip of this viscous man. One of the ladies managed to get him to release his grip from my right hand and the other pulled him away from me. I Then gave the neighbor the knife and RAN TO MY ROOM which is adjacent to the room were Neto Meeks (was trying to eat me alive and was beating the life out of me.

I locked my self in my room . I grab a cell phone from my pocket and started dialing the police. 911. the call didn't go through, I then took home the home phone and tried calling the police again.911.911.911.911 no response? 911.911.911.911.911. i tried with my cell phone again. 911 .911 911 911 911……..the house was now quite, I couldn't hear my nieces crying anymore. I thought the neighbours had removed Neto Meeks from the house. In the mid's of trying to call the police I saw Neto Meeks approaching my door WITH A LONG BLACK MACHETE in his hand (which is a French door with transparent glass and wood in between the glass). Neto Meeks) started saying, " A POLICE YOU A CALL GYAL, A MI AN YOU ONE IN YAA NOW!.......A DEAD YOU DEAD GYAL, A DEAD YOU DEAD!!!!! Neto Meeks THEN STARTED KICKING OUT THE GLASS OFF MY ROOM DOOR STILL CHANTING " A DEAD YOU DEAD GYAL….A DEAD YOU DEAD!!"

911 911 911 911 9111 911 9111911 911 911 911 911…STILL NOTHING!!! SHIT

AFTER KICKING OUT THE LAST PIECE OF GLASS WHICH STOOD BETWEEN HIM AND MY NOW TREMBLING, BATTERED, BRUISED WEAK BODY… Neto Meeks (stepped through the door still chanting) "A DEAD YOU DEAD GYAL!!!"


Neto Meeks RAISED THE MACHETE, with no other options available I JUMPED AND GRABBED THE BLADE OF THE MACHETE WITH BOTH MY HANDS WHICH NOW HAVE SLICES ALL OVER MY HAND. I pushed and I pushed trying to counteract his attempts to chop me. Neto Meeks then started stabbing at me with the machete when he realized he wasn't able to swing the machete. He managed to STABBED ME ON MY FORE HEAD ABOVE MY LEFT EYE (I receive three 3 stitches for the wound). BLOOD STARTED SPRAYING EVERY WHERE. MY FACE WAS COVERED IN MY BLOOD. I COULD NO LONGER SEE THE HITS COMING. Realiazing what was at stake and WHAT WAS ABOUT TO BE MY DEATH I summed up what little energy I had for WHAT I BELIEVED WOULD HAVE BEEN MY LAST ACT ON EARTH, I FOUGHT. I PUSHED, I PULLED I TWIST AND I TURNED.

Neto Meeks THREW ME TO THE FLOOR …THEN CAME HIS ELBOW DELIVERING BLOWS TO MY FACE AND HEAD OVER AND OVER AND OVER WHILE CHANTING " A DEAD YOU DEAD GYAL". Neto Meeks WAS KNOCKING THE LIFE OUT OF ME. I was now still being too tired from what was now about 45 min of fighting.

I THEN FELT Neto Meeks TEETH AT MY LEFT EYE….I pulled away, he came again I pulled away, but with his body on top of mine I did not have much space to pull away to…..HE DUG IN FOR MY EYE AGAIN AND THIS TIME HE WAS SUCCESSFUL AT GETTING IT.
Neto Meeks Engulfed my entire left eye in his mouth. Neto Meeks a black belt karate experts who watches kong foo movies morning, evening and night…began sinking his teeth into my eye until he had a tight grip……Neto Meeks Amina Blackwood Meeks son, then began pulling my eye…. I could feel my eye being lifted from its socket and could feel the blood now running from my eye…..
I then heard a pop in my eye….at this point I started screaming……..


Since I could no longer fight for my life, I started screaming, as loud as I could I screamed and screamed. Neto Meeks then released my eye from his mouth which was covered in my blood. I FELT THE BLOOD OOZING FROM MY EYE WHICH NO LONGER FELF LIKE IT WAS APART OF MY FACE. Neto Meeks THEN STARTED TO LAUGH………..ANDSAID "YES SCREAM BITCH SCREAM"…… A SO DI OLE A UHNUU ALWAYS START SQUELL, SQUELL BITCH SQUELL!!!. Realizing this was what he wanted I STOPPED SCREAMING.

I then said to him " ohh so a me you come back yah faaaa" he "yes SO MI CAN KILL YOU NOW AND GO BOUT MI BUSINESS"…. " SO IF MI KILL YOU NOW A NO NUTTING RIGHT" I then replied " YOU CAN TRY PUNK".


Try he did, but I decided that there was no way I was gonna let this woman beater weakling take my life. AND SO I FOUGHT, I FOUGHT AND I FOUGHT.

LUCKLY the same two neighbours who had came to my rescue before had returned. I begged then to take the man off me. They tried but he wouldn't let me go. I begged them to call the police, the security guard, another man on the complex…... anybody to take this man from off me an to remove the machete from his hand. It took sometime but they eventually got him to release the handle off the machete. After assuring that they were the ones now holding the machete I released my now cut ridden hands from the blade of the machete. This time round they removed him from house. I ran to the door and bolted it hoping that it would put up a better between me and would be killer than my bed room door did.

My neighbour returned and then rushed me to the UWI hospital where I was examined and treated. I reached a total of FOUR STITCHES INSIDE MY EYE AT WO DIFFERENT LOCSATIONS INSIDE THE EYE. THREE STIRCHES FOUR THE CHOP ON MY FOREHEAD. There wasn't much that they could do for my other body injuries. My entire face is now swollen. My head aces all over, my neck is stiff and is in immense pain.


NOW WHY AM I TELLING MY STORY? AND WHY AM I GOING OUT OF THE WAY TO REPEATEDLY SAY NETO MEEKS SON OF AMINA BLACKWOOD MEEKS AND PROFESSOR BRIAN MEEKS?..... WELL THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE DOUBLE STANDARD JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT EXIST IN JAMAICA. A JUSTICE SYSTEM WHERE YOUR CLASS AND PLACE IN SOCIETY AND YOUR ADDRESS DETERMINES THE OUT COME OF A CONFLICT AND HOW IT IS RESOLVED.

True…….. this is the first time that I will have to deal with Jamaica's justice system first hand. However I have lived here all my life and I have seen and heard of cases were real and true justice wasn't served only because one party had a LAST NAME THAT MEANT SOME THING IN SOCIETY AND THER WAS LIKE MYSELF A POOR MAN PICKNEY…….the scum and burden of society.

WHY DO I BELIEVE THAT MY CASE JUST MIGHT END UP BEING ONE OF THOSE RICH MAN POOR MAN CASES?
WELL I HAVE ALREADY SEEN IT HAS BEGAN TO TAKE THAT PARTWAY.

On Saturday morning I went to grants pen police station where I was greeted by Amina Blackwood Meeks, an Aunt of my attacker who is a Corporal or superintendent of the police force and a close friend of Neto Meeks who is known to be of questionable back ground.


I got to the station at about 9:15 am. The police officers were very professional, despite the cursing in the waiting area by AMINA BLACK WOULD MEEKS. I was taken to an interview room where my statement was taken. Some time afterwards, about 20 minutes later, an officer called me to a room. in the room I saw the man who tried to kill me a few hours ago , two attorneys there on the behave of Amina Blackwood Meeks and Professor Brian Meeks. My sister Italee Watson, and a family friend who also was a counselor and two police officers were in the room.

One of the attorneys there for Brian and Amina starting asking me why I was there and why was I pressing charges, and what I expected to get from all this court thing. I asked him what he meant cause I really did not understand what this man was saying.

The man then proceeded to shout at me letting me know how stupid and naive I am for wanting to take the matter to court, saying I had no clue about the legal system and blah..blah blah blah…… i stopped him and told him that his behaviour was un called for and totally unnecessary. I then asked why was I called into a room with the man who tried to kill me with not only one but two attorneys that was there on his behalf. The two lawyers then begun to plea their case, trying to deter me from filling charges against Neto Meeks.

I was quick to pick up what was happening. Being aware of two other cases with Neto Meeks ex-girlfriends who he beat and hospitalized, just like me, one of which he beat when she was four months pregnant with their second child…..the beating lead to a miscarriage. That beating was done in the presence of his first child Niali.

They too went to the police but never filled any charges because Amina Blackwood Meeks and her lawyers threaten the girls.

SO I KNEW WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO WITH ME. I again stopped the lawyers after being with them in the room for over an hour, telling them that they are trying to reason with a person who is beyond reasoning with…. They are trying to reason with someone who whose life was almost taken by the man they were there representing…..

They initially tried bulling me into not filling charges, then they tried to scare me into not filing charges by telling me that my attacker will be filling counter charges too. T hey said they are only looking out for my best interest and that that it will soot no one if I take the matter to the courts and I should seriously consider mediation….whatever that is…..I laughed……. This was the first time I laughed….. I actually saw what I heard of happening before my "EYE".

They assured me that charges will also be filed against me and I too will go to jail for what Neto did to me.


They eventually realized that I would not be moved and left the room.

They called out my friend that was there with me and was talking to her for almost half hour asking her to talk to who ever she needs to talk to, to convince to not take the matter to court. Hinting at asking for compensation for damages incurred….of course the Meeks got money right……but how much do you think my eye is worth? the scars on my body and of course the mental damage that will come and have started coming? How much will that cost??


There is a lot more that happen between Friday night and Saturday night my eyes are now hurting and my one good eye is very tired and everything is a blur to me now…so I will end it here……

I proceeded and filled my changes against Neto Meeks

They have charged Neto Meeks with unlawful wounding malicious destruction of property
and for the illegal possession of Ganja he had on him when they picked him up on Friday.


I TOO WAS CHARGED….:)

WITH
UNLAWFUL WOUNDING…..for the bite which NETO MEEKS sustained when I tried to free my neck from NETO MEEKS ' EXPERT CHOCK HOLD.

I WILL APPEAR IN THE HALF-WAY TREE COURT ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 9^TH AT 10:00 am

Please come out and lend your support because I will need it if i will any chance of a fair and just trial.

I AM ALSO IN NEED OF A GOOD LAWYER WHO IS NOT AFRAID TO TAKE ON ONE OF JAMAICA'S MOST PROMINENT FAMILY.

I WILL NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET TO FIGHT THE MIGHTY MEEKS CLAN AND AMINA BLACKWOOD MEEKS the very popular and influential WOMAN in Jamaica

Please view the attached photographs of some of the injuries I incurred during the BATTLE FOR MY LIFE WITH NETO MEEKS SON OF AMINA BLACKWOOD MEEKS AND PROFESSOR BRIAN MEEKS, BLACK BELT KARATE EXPERT.


YOURS THANKFULLY
CHARAH……..



PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO AS MANY PL AS POSSIBLE
ALL MEDIA ATTENTION ARE WELCOMED……

THANKS AGAIN
CHARAH…..








Me before

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Ironically

You know, i started blogging as a way to soak up the extra hours i had during, after and before work and on weekends. I get all into it and now and now!

I dont have time at work anymore

I dont have time before work anymore

I dont have time after work anymore

I moved and stupid stupid flow isn't setting up service where i am even though they have already run the cable...SO no internet at home which SUCKS....

See now i have to run out of the office...thats all i had time to write...

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Looking Back

So for the weekend i'm leaving a filler really. So here goes...

Previous Posts

Murphy's Laws
Life of A Jamaican Taxi Part 1
Life of a Jamaican Taxi Part 2
Life of a Jamaican Taxi Part 3

Concept of Jamaican Time

Application for a "Goodaz"

Flavoured Animal Food

Side Effects of a Painkiller

Enjoy the weekend!

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When Murphy Decides to Take Over Your Life

You know Murphy's Laws right? The most basic one and the one on which all others are founded pretty much says "If anything can go wrong, it will"

Well lucky for me i got to experience Murphy's Laws the other day, first hand yippee (can you hear the sarcasm in my voice...sigh)

So anyway, my job happens to carry me on the road everyday into the worst possible parts of Kingston, like, Waterhouse, Rae Town, Tavern, Tivoli etc etc...you get the idea. Now this is bad enough without any extra drama. Thank goodness, so far i haven't experienced anything unsavory directly resulting from being in these areas, like shoot outs etc, especially considering that i found out the other day that the only thing my job doesn't insure against is gun shot wounds. Nehoo back to Murphy....So ironically i go to some places of North Street, turn up on a police Blockade, turns out some dead man down the lane, fine. So, we turn around and try another route, only to find out that that route block because people angry about said bredrin that get shot up the road. Ok. we try going to some other places. (I'm looking for specific persons here) I go to another part of town, turns out the guy we looking for was last seen in lane previously blocked by angry residents and police cars. Sigh, ok then, whats the likelihood of that. So after turning up dead ends after dead ends we decide to head back to the office. I'm happy cause i'm starved. Excited bc we are on the way to buy food. So we find a place buy the food and decide to eat when we get back to the office. But Murphy realizes just how happy i am and decides to spoil the fun... my boss calls and we have to pick her up. This requires driving half and hour back in the direction we coming from!!! So we do that. Then she decides that she is hungry and we have to go somewhere else to get her food. We do that. Thats another half an hour. So here i am holding my food in my hand waiting to eat. BUT...

We have to pick up someone else, Murphy again...so we do that. We get out of the van to help pack some equipment in...low and behold, the kill switch on the van's alarm system activates and we can't deactivate it. I'm still starving. We spend an hour trying to kill it, had to take off the battery and all sorts of nonsense. We had to push the van away from where we were because we were at a children's home and the van was near to one of the classrooms. So can u imagine poor little me a help push one Hiace bus...Sigh...finally we get the van started and all i can think about is eating my lunch. Get back to the office. Take out my lunch....AND...The blasted box that my food in break!!! half me lunch dash weh....I wanted to cry...i just had this bewildered look on my face and everybody was laughing their faces off....So thanks to Murphy...i had a rather messed up day. If anything can go wrong, you bet ur ass it will....

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I Don't Have a Clue What Title To Give This Post

I read a post by Shonari about Scary Movie Cliches the other day. I nodded my head in agreement, even commented on it. It had me thinking that scary movies are so cliche. I used to watch scary movies and think, why the heck would i be walking down a dark road at night or across campus at odd hours of the night, or down dark scary alley ways by myself at night. I always think that. That's just stupid NOBODY does that, seriously, people are more sensible than that. Right? Ha...yeah right.

So here I am, the other night, wanting to go over to campus at about 7pm, when its dark out. I have to walk over to campus from where i live or charter a taxi, me nuh rich, so i opted to walk, no big deal it was only 7pm. It never hit me how much of a typical scary movie scene i was venturing into until i had to walk down this deserted pathway only narrow enough for two persons to walk through, no light, bush on both sides and gates at both ends. It looked something like this

EXCEPT- you're gonna need some imagination for this- remove the walls and replace it with a grass fence and its a tab bit longer and darker. I started laughing to myself and looked down the walk way thinking, am i really gonna do this. I did! and then i started to think about all the other stupid stuff i did; like walk across campus at 2am to go by the Student's Union or to go across to the library, i could easily call for a security escort. But the truth is, it really isn't so far fetched to do all these crazy things in the middle of the night. I never, once before the other night, thought about it as dangerous. It was after all familiar surroundings. I totally ignored all the stories of people getting robbed and raped. So maybe not so cliche at all. Maybe, or maybe i'm what scary movies are made of.

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Are Men Just Stupid or are Women Better Liars?

Well thats the question, are men just stupid or are they just bad liars?

Unfortunately most of us, I've realized are unfaithful at least once in our lives in our relationships. Men Cheat, women cheat, but apparently women cheat better. This is a truth, it has to be because most breakups that end due to one partner finding about about the infidelity of the other, ends because the woman finds out about the man. Here is why i think men are either just stupid or women are really good at this unfaithful thing.


1. Have you ever heard a guy talking to his girlfriend on the phone when he is in the c0mpany of another woman. It's quite hilarious. He automatically has the guilty sound in his voice, because all the usual qualities of his voice changes, pitch etc. The conversation doesn't follow the guy's usual pattern, he hardly talks and he just sounds so guilty. tsk tsk tsk...poor guy

2. You always know when a guy is talking to another woman on the phone, whether or not its a woman that he is involved with or not. It's not really their fault. I mean, he can't talk to a girl the same way he would talk to a guy. But guys know this and if a girl calls when he is with his girlfriend then he starts acting weird/suspicious. He'll keep glancing at his girlfriend and can't help but look quite uncomfortable and the conversation usually has alot of "huhs and hmm hmms and oks"...

3. If a guy's other woman calls when he is with his girlfriend, the other girl always knows. men are hopeless at this one. It's impossible for him to pretend he is just talking to a friend. In jumps the suspicious behaviour and voice again. I mean even if the other girl called to ask about something non relationship related like giving him a message from another friend or something to that effect.

4. The general tendency though, for men, is to not answer the phone any at all if he is with his other woman and the girlfriend calls. I mean i can understand that too, considering we know that they can't have a normal conversation in that kind of environment. But ignoring the g/f call all evening and not even coming up with a good story is really just a bad idea guys. Just answer.

Women don't behave like this, hence the better liar explanation. If a girl is with another man she is going to answer the phone and act as normal as possible, quite normal, you cant tell if anything is wrong. If the other man calls when she is with her boyfriend, she answers, no reason to act all weird, after all, her phone always rings, friends always call, not answering would be quite suspicious, we know that, guys need to realize that too. And if you ask who is that, then we will quickly off up the honest answer, its "Jim".

I'm not promoting this unfaithful behaviour, you know, but geesh if you gonna do it, do it properly, save yourself and the women involved the agony of finding out about each other, its better for all parties. Clearly being faithful is the easiest way of avoiding agony, but i know its not gonna go down that way so guys, buck up and get better with your acts, we're worth the effort.

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Man How Times Have Changed

I'm sitting here doing some blog management and with no particular inspiration decided not to do a post today. I log out and decide to go and check my Facebook...and it hit me..."man how times have changed" I have about 60 pics of me and my friends on my facebook account, i have numerous pictures of myself all over the internet; at parties, functions, even my work place has managed to post a picture of me somewhere on their website- without my knowledge or permission. I had to laugh because not so long ago i wouldn't even send a pic to a friend via the internet because it could be intercepted by crazy people and be manipulated...blah blah blah blah blah...you get the idea. When i talked on messenger, i used to ignore people i didn't know already, and i wouldn't give out any personal information to strangers like my address and telephone number! Well i still dont' do that...BUT

I'm thinking, that can't have been that long ago. Now, all my personal information can be gathered from somewhere or another. My work website had an email address for me posted that I DIDN'T even know i had. Seriously thats the first time i knew i had it! Facebook, Hi5, Blogger, etc. information about me, my age, sex, who i might or might not be in a relationship with, what i like, dislike, and loads and loads of pics to boot. It's crazy isn't it ! We have all been brainwashed! LOL...Social Networking is now the norm and not having all your business splashed all over the internet somewhere makes you the "weird one", "socially inept" and outdated. I'm still in awe, its crazy. Sigh, Oh how times have changed!

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Sometimes I'm Not A "Girl" Because

1. I like Guinness, and i like it hot and i don't drink "beer"

2. I don't see why guys need to put "the seat" back down...we need it down, they need it up, i mean whats the deal

3. I don't like pink --------> despite the fact that its taking over my wardrobe

4. I think men invented heels bc i hate them and its one other way for them to make women miserable! Which is why i tend to no wear them

5. I don't think casual sex should lead to a relationship...i defintely don't think sex means we are in a relationship or heading down that road

6. I go out with the guys and drink...and i drink as much as they do :P

7. I don't see why my hair must always be perfect...

8. I've taken 60 mintues to get ready to go out and that included: washing my hair, drying it, curling it, finding clothes, taking a shower, finding shoes, makeup and accessories, helping my friend decide on her clothes, and her makeup...and i was damn hot!!!! LOL

9. I no longer get my drink poured for me when i hang out with the guys...and the bump me when a new girl comes...(smile)

10. I don't giggle...LOL

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Sugar Daddy Me

This morning, right before i got into work, I work at UWI, i saw this car stop a couple feet in front of me, and out pops a young girl. She looked as though she was in first year (ah the freshers have this young, fresh, expectant look still, not the i want to leave this flipping place look) step out of a car and off to her classes...we hope...i instinctively looked at who was driving (cause me fass a so me stay...lol) i thought, oh cool her dad dropped her off. In the next instant, almost reflexively i thought..."or at least i hope its her dad"...Sigh...

I couldn't help but automatically think that this guy could be her man, her sugar daddy. According to Wiki, yes wiki actually has a definition for sugar daddy, can you believe it! A "Sugar Daddy" is a older man who gets involved with a younger girl and spend whole heap of money on her, basically. The fact that my mind went instantly to the sugar daddy thing probably meant that this sugar daddy thing is quite common. And, shockingly (can u hear the sarcasm in my voice :)), it is. I actually know a few people who have sugar daddies. Just have the little old men giving them all they want and need, school fee, clothes, money, apartments, everything! But then i cant help but wonder....how is the sex though! I mean i have never looked on anyone over 35 yrs and gone hmmm sexy, i'd like to sleep with him. It's so odd, i can't imagine what it would be like. But many people opt for it so it cant be that bad right?!
Well that it...I've decided that i want someone to Sugar Daddy me....NOT

Oh...did you know that Sugar daddy literally meant a Sugar Plantation Owner? Well thats where it came from...according to Wiki.

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Contact Me

Well I thought I'd give you guys a way to contact me if you so desire About anything, maybe you have a comment thats not related to any particular post, about the blog in general etc. Feel free to say hi.

Name:

Email:

Message:

Oh and later on if you come back...i hope you do...then you can always leave a comment in my Contact Me bar on the right ->...about anything...

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Application for a "Goodaz"

"Goodaz fi dem gyal you a goodaz fi dem
goodaz fi dem gyal you a goodaz fi dem
so walk out walk out wid you fren (lawd)
just look pon dem an sing
mi back mi back mi back mi back mi back back back (rah)"

Tony Matterhorn- "Goodaz"

I thought it interesting. The term "goodaz" has been floating around so much, ah what music can do. Some people don't even know what a Goodaz is. This is kinda my idea of what a "Goodaz" is...so check out the application form, hey you can even fill it out and send it in if you like...lol...see if you qualify to be a goodaz.

See my application for a "goodaz" here or click this link Application for Goodaz

You'll be required to open a word document...don't worry you wont have to save it...

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Things You Are Better Off Not Knowing

There are so many scary facts floating around out there, that we really probably would be better off not knowing about. But...since I know and i feel a tinge of "bad mind", and knowledge is in fact power and i want everyone to have the opportunity to experience the joys of power (the wonderful person i am), I thought I'd share.

So here is a list of some of the things we really would have been better off not knowing. Yes, these are all true, according to some study somewhere. I don't want to shock you too much so I'll just give you about five today.

1. On average, your office desk has 400 times more bacteria than your toilet. Yes, your office desk, the one you are sitting at now, while you are reading this, and probably eating your lunch, or breakfast at, has more bacteria than your toilet!

2.Once a human reaches the age of 35 s/he will start loosing about 7 million brain cells a day and those will never, ever be replaced! Yeah, i can see you there trying to pretend you don't remember your age.

3. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth! Yow that is some scary stuff. Mosquitoes have more teeth than we do. Those blood suckers, well the women anyway :)

4. Four sunken nuclear submarines are presently sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One of them, somewhere off the coast of Bermuda has 16 live nuclear warheads. According to scientists corrosion could lead to a nuclear chain reaction!!!

5. Rats multiply so quickly that in two months two rats could have over 1 million descendants

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I Think my Boss is....

I don't want to say crazy. I mean, its not nice to say people are crazy but she drives me crazy and she knows it. I've manged to, over the years, get a hold of my tongue, to some extent. I no longer just say what i want, how i feel, whenever i want. I hear that's what makes us civil and tolerable and stuff like that, that's, well, people say, important. What i haven't, however, managed to do is...(sigh) mask my feelings on my face. What I'm thinking shows, especially if I'm thinking any of the above things, "what the f^&K are you talking about", "you are so annoying me right now", "go away", "i just spent 3 months working on that and it was fine the last 300 times i carried it to you for approval, what the f*@!k you mean you want...changed?!" Yah, so you can imagine the relationship with me and my boss.

My boss is a wonderful young lady. She's hired me twice now, on two separate projects. I like her, i really do, she's funny and fun, she's understanding, and she has taught me a lot. BUT...lord, she drive me up the fricking wall half the time. My boss is....
My boss has a tendency to warp time. Here's why i say that. I am a research assistant. That means i have infinite amount of tasks to do on any given day. My boss tells me exactly what she wants and i do it. She'll sometimes give me a list of about 3-4 things that need to be done and the time frame in which she wants it. Of course, she asks me how long each will take. I ask her what is most important and i give her a time frame taking into consideration the fact that i might work on more than one task simultaneously. Now of course whatever time i work out with my well proven equation will be tripled because my dear boss:

1. Will always come with a new task in the middle of the ones i am already doing that needs to be done urgently. So drop everything else and do it now. Which is fine. What drives me crazy, is that she still expects all the other things to be done in the same time frame that i originally gave. Hello! were u not there when you have me something else to do that took DAYS! What else irks me is that she will ask me one hundred million times how "its coming along" what the hell does that mean! It's a thing to be done, its either finished or not. If u say you want it by Thursday, don't ask me on Tuesday how its going. If i had a problem i would have come to you! Next thing...(sigh) My boss sees me at 4:30 pm (that's when work lets out) and she asks have you done The Report yet? I say no, i haven't. Great. We go home, i get in at 8:20 next morning (work starts at 8:30) and she is in my office by 8:25 with "so how's the report coming along". Hello!!!!!!!! "you do realize that i don't work here over night right?" And of course....there is the face i can't hide. And she knows it because this is where i look up at her with "THE LOOK" she says "OK" and leaves my office. Sigh....
But let me reiterate. My boss, i like, but my boss is....

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Jamaican Hottie Hotties

The other day while going home from work I encountered an interesting young lady. I had just walked out to catch a taxi. While I was walking towards the bus stop, i noticed her. She was a slim, short, brown girl. I imagine most men would think her attractive, not wow, but, she was dressed neatly and nicely and she looked pleasant. I noticed her particularly because i took interest in the handbag she had strewn over her shoulder. That's how i am, i love accessories, anyway, since i liked her handbag i decided to take in some more of her outfit.

The handbag that started the next series of events was a beautiful brown guess handbag. This was part of an outfit that included, mini Guess Jeans skirt, brand named, blouse, shoes, and belt to boot. Her hair was well maintained and she had her nails both feet and hands done and of course she wore the latest fashion. I thought to myself cool, she doing well for herself. Anyway, we both caught the same taxi, i got in first and got as comfortable and she came in behind me. She sat down and smiled, then proceeded to touch the taxi man. What happened next was what sparked this post, the words that came out of her mouth after words literally shocked me. This expertly dressed young lady touched the taxi man and say "driver a 60 dollar me have enuh, me nuh have no more".

What on earth!!! I couldn't help it, i had that shocked aghast look on my face i could literally feel my mouth wide open looking on her. After i got over the shock i nearly died laughing. I had to call a friend on my cell phone to distract myself because i really never want her to realize i was laughing at her, cause I'm not a fighter. Its ridiculous, the clothes she had on was worth a lot more than the $70 taxi fare. I was like, 'you're kidding me right' i couldn't believe it. But then its so typical. Have you ever been to Passa Passa or any of those street dances? Those girls that live in the 'ghetto' and bawl that "government nah do nutten fi dem" are dressed from head to two in the latest fashions and in the most expensive outfits and they are the same ones who claim they can't afford the school fees and pay the light and water bills. Their priority instead, is to make sure that they are perceived as the "hot girl" who can "hold her man" and can "walk out inna the video light". It's such a tragic state of affairs. This desire to be the Hottie Hottie Jamaican girl wins out over logic and sense. I blame some of that on the music, I'm listening to the radio right now and I've heard, in the past 10 minutes numerous songs about who is hot and hotter than who and have more than who and better than who...and more of the same. It's really sad though. I'm glad i never grew up in that kind of situation with that kind of mentality. Thank you mom.

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Things We Say That We Don't Really Mean

People tend to just say things off the top of their heads without thinking about it. I've been victim to this truth so many times myself, its just things that we are so accustomed to saying, its what we've been taught to say, its what comes naturally, its part of society's norms, but if you think about half these things, do we really mean what we say?

Take for example the following scenarios:

1. Someone accidentally opens the door the the toilet that you are in the middle of using, (most likely if you fall prey to a weak bladder and are forced to use public conveniences) and says to you "oh, i'm sorry"
Most people's natural reaction is to say " Oh, thats OK" But come on, do you really mean that? Ok, if its fine let me do it again! We know you don't really mean its ok but we say it anyway.

2. You lend someone a good deal of money, probably a few thousand dollars and they start to verbally show their gratitude.
What is the most likely thing to come out of our mouth? "Oh, its nothing, forget about it"
Ha! yeah right, forget about the fact that i lent you a couple thousand dollars that i worked so hard for, i want my money back! But hey, thats not what comes out, its always the ephemistic version of what you really want to say, one day someone is gonna take that crap seriously.

3. Why do we constnatly go through the ritual of " Hey, how are you?"
Truth is, you dont really want to know, you have no intentions of stopping to discuss how the person really is, what you do instead expect to hear is the requsit "i'm doing ok, and you? and then of course you repeat the "i'm fine" part and mosey on your way.

Its so ingrained in us, we don't even realize. We hardly ever say what we mean, what kind of society functions that way. Most of what we do on a daily basis is for appearances, to follow the status quo and not mess with the balance. Things run more smoothly that way. Try doing it a little different one day and see what happens. Especially the last one. Its tragically funny, because if somone in passing says "hey, how are you?" and you go off on a long explanation of how depressed over the death of your pet pup "twizzle" they'll be spun for a loop and would probably have no idea how to deal with the scenario. Trust me, i've tried it.

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What being bored at work does

An Ode to Sleep
by Me.








Oh sleep
how doth triest to conquer me
But alas!
Above thee i shalt rise
Thou hath maketh me week
But alas!
I doth not concede

In my weakest state
shalt mine eyyes lift to blogger
In my weakest state
Shalt my fingers type
In mmy weakest state
doth does maketh me shun mine true work
But over all mine body
Thou shalt not prevail

I shalt dispel thine annointing
I shalt maketh a post
I shalt overcome thee!
Alas, thine only reprieve and victory
shalt beeth
I shalt maketh a post that doth maketh no sense.
Fin!

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Miss Teen USA, Miss South Carolina- Related to President Bush?

I wish people would not tell me about these things...I really honestly wish they wouldnt, but they do and, sigh, its just sad. Here is Miss South Carolina in the Miss Teen USA attemptin to answer the judges question. First...Watch


Here is President Bush trying to answer a question from the media at a press conference


Seems like they are in fact blood relatives right, as close as father and daughter.

Neway my first reaction to the Teen Miss Carolina was "WHAT THE ..." Seriosuly, my question is, how did she manage to win the Miss Teen Carolina Pagent...they clearly did not have a question and answer segment. Nehoo after being completely stumped i figured i try and decipher/translate what she was trying to say:

First reference to Osama- she realized she didnt have a clue but she had swatted an aswer relating to Iraq, since they didnt ask her a question relating to Iraq she thought she'd just slip in the Osama bit to make sure people knew she knew about the war in Iraq...

"people out there dont have maps and i believe our education such as in South Africa and Iraq and every where such as"- translation: people don't have maps so they wouldnt know where to find the USA on it and they dont have Maps because its the the South Africans and the Iraqis who steal the maps.

"I believe our education over here in the US should help the US, should help South Africa and should help directly the Asian Countries..."- translation- its a good thing we attacked Iraq so we can get back our maps and start using the education system to teach the US citizens how to read the maps. It wasn't South Africa's fault so maybe we can use our education system to also better their country.

Again i say "WHAT THE..." Oh by the way, does anybody realize how much she looks like Jessica Simpson? Chicken of the Sea... Maybe they are related too....hmmm!

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what you see is Not what you get

Usually, we are pretty much able to trust our eyes, but , technology is making it increasingly impossible to trust anything...anything! What you see is definitely not what you get.
Woman, for example to lengths in an effort to "catch a man", they put on so much, that at the end of the day, if they do catch a man, when they remove everything the poor guy would not even recognize the person standing in front of him. Technology has made it possible for us women to temporarily alter our appearances.
Man, we have amassed such a large inventory of things (sorry to divulge the secrets ladies but..):

padded bras/ push up bras
padded underwear
make up
eye lashes
weaves, braids and extensions
silicone
liposuction...I could go on forever...

Some things we have we definitely take off at the end of the day and whoa, whole different woman....other things we can just do, reduce this, fix this, add this....its amazing....

and then there is the retouching of pictures. LOL...the Internet is one amazing place to get fooled.



Check out this beautiful pic to ur left for example. Follow the green arrows, amazing right!





And its not just professionals who can do this stuff, believe me, any photo editing software can manipulate a picture in a couple of minutes to produce anything the user wants.. check this out




Well All i know is, I'm rather weary of pictures and people, who knows what might fall out/ or out of a pretty looking young man/ woman who you are ogling down the road.

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More Things to do When Bored

1. Practice all your foreign accents. This should last a little time. German and British are two of my favourite, try italian and Russian too, and add your own words to make it even more fun.

2. Try and prove that 1+1 is equal to 4, or any other random number you can think of.

3. Plan the life of an imaginary child. Start with sex, and name. Go through each year straight up to and after college.

4. Make Origami. Its acutally quite fun. It took me a very long time to get that blaster bird right. So this one should keep you occupied for a while.

5. Sit and write persoanlized email to all the people in your address book who you actually know. Send a message to all the people you can't figure out who they are and ask them where you know them from.

6. Try to write a poem or a song that makes actual sense. If its a song, then try to find some music to go with ur lyrics.

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Things I've leanrt Because of Hurricane Dean

1. You only NEED five 160z cups of water to bathe.

2. It is invariably better to live in Kingston, especially Kgn 6.

3. Your cellphone although never used, will lose battery power at an alarmingly fast rate.

4. There will always be some idiot outside with an umbrealla trying to fix something during the passage of the hurricane.

5. Its a good time to practice holding your bladder for as long as you can.

6. Don't fry an egg.

7. Using your secret mind power from Things to do when bored Is a whole lot of fun when there is a hurricane.

8. Its a lot easier to go through ur neighbour's garbage pan when all the contents are flying all over the place.

9. After a hurricane surprisingly is the only time the Garbage Truck comes on the right day and at the right time.

10. There are too many electricity grids in kingston and it sucks when the person next door to you is on one with electricity and you're not.

11. Flying Zinc although quite a tragedy is quite interesting to watch.

12. Tourists are even more fascinating to watch when they are trying to scramble out of a country which will soon be devasted by hurricane, than flying zinc.

13. TGI Fridays is open until 10pm the night before an expected hurricane.

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Hurricane Dean Campaigning for PNP or JLP

Disclaimer
This post is not in any way meant to try and convince anybody to vote for either party in the upcoming general elections. The author of this post is neither affiliated with the JLP or the PNP. this post is meant purely for humour and should be taken as such.

If Hurricane Dean does NOT CHANGE COURSE it will definitely be making land over Jamaica by Sunday. If Dean does not change course, then it will be imminent disaster for Jamaica, i would imagine. I couldn't help but notice that the PNP's tag line for this year's general elections is "NOT CHANGING COURSE". How ironic. Is Dean a forewarning for us? If we dont change course then, well, disaster. I don't believe signs, but i find it hilarious and quite ironic that Dean comes a week before the country goes to the polls. Sister P, i cant imagine this is a very good omen, well, if the general public catches on, then i'm sure Bruce will be having a field day with this one.

Well people i for one will be hoping Dean changes course, not at all an indication of where i will put my X on August 27th. Keep safe everybody.



WEll on a more serious note:
More on hurricane Dean
Go-local Jamaica Blog- Hurricane Dean
Public advisory on weatherundergroud

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itsey bitsey, teeny weeny, HUGELY ANNOYING things

I am easily annoyed, i've been constanly told by the people closest to me, and they should know. But i cannot fathom how people arent annoyed by the things that annoy me. Is it too hard to ask people to be...well a lot of things, so maybe its too much to ask. In any case here are some of those little things that annoy me.

1. I hate it when i open a door to let myself in our out, and the people on the other side just push past me when i open the door. HELLO i didn't open the door for u, you got ur own blastd hands, open the door ur darn self!
You see him? that's the doorman, thats what i'd look like if i was opening the door for you, don't get it twisted.

2. It annoys me when the stupid taxi comes along and keeps blowin ghis horn, over and over and over again. seriousl, do you think i'm that deaf or that i need that much time to decide whether or not I need a taxi, and the fact that ur've stopped and i am making no attempts to walk towards your car should suggest that I'M NOT INTERESTED GO AWAY.


3. Am I the only one who thinks when i walk into a place of business, especially somewhere i plan to spend my hard earned money, that someone in there should pay you some mind. Today i walked into a restaurant and the cashier is standing there with her friend talking about some crap, hairdresser or something of the sort, while i stood there waiting. Neither of them even looked around, they took their own little time before the cashier decided to come to the register and asked what i wanted. Customer services is not a department, its a thing, its a skill, WHY IS IT THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY WHO UNDERSTANDS THE CONCEPT OF CUSTOMER SERVICE, why do i keep having to tell people off! Is it too much to ask???

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The Life of a Jamaican Taxi- Part 3

Part One

Part two

Hey everybody. Man, it’s been raining cats and dogs lately. Trust me, definitely not my favourite time at all. Things get very different around here when it rains. It’s sad all round and a bit scary too. I’m constantly in fear that I will get damaged. First of all, everybody comes and plops their wet derrières on my seats. It's quite nasty actually, everybody with varying degrees of wetness and smells. Thats the nice way of putting it, wetness and smells, yes thats it...i wish so much that i could dunk my head in my engine oils, thats a much better smell than what i was experiencing the other day. Thank God my owner, Redis, had the good sense of mind to air me out after all the rains and buy me a "nice smelling air freshener" that lasted all of three days, i must admit, it was much better than what i was enduring. I can imagine if Redis had a date, he would probably have left me at home and opted to take a car with a better environment.

The encounters I've had over the past couple of weeks have been quite interesting. I'll tell you about one. Quite traumatic, I must say, I was almost sure I would have been taken away and carried to the impound. I've heard many stories about that place. I can't imagine surviving in such a place. No one to take care of me, no chance to drive around, doing what i was designed to do; Having those police officers rummage through my interior, quite degrading. I still shudder from thinking about it. We did our usual journey from Half Way Tree to Campus. Today I think Redis was in a particularly defiant mood. We entered the campus and continued toward the ring road, when we got to the ring road, some young ladies flagged us down. Redis shouted out the usual "half way tree" and some signal was made, Redis stopped. Now, I saw the sign, no disembarking, or stopping. I know my English is very good, i double checked just to make sure the sign was referring to the zone I was in. Now, some of the other taxis told me that UWI is trying to get rid of us taxis because we don’t follow protocols. I have been on the alert, trying everything in my power to help Redis obey the rules and today I tried without any avail to help out. He tried to stop, but I refused, I chuckled a bit, and fought against the breaks, used all my will power and managed to launch myself into a forward movement. Redis was most surprised, he readjusted the gear and attempted again, I couldn't do it anymore.

We stopped. As soon as we did I heard the voice I was afraid of, calling out to us. Redis chose to ignore this summons, I noticed, he continued to call to the young ladies and they too seemed quite oblivious to the security guard trying to get our attention. I got scared, he looked quite upset, I knew what he wanted to do, was to tell us to that we should not be disembarking where we were. Redis, continued to ignore the security guard, and drove off. I’m sure my fear must have shown because I could swear I stalled a bit. We were on our way. Out of no where I saw, in my mirror that the security guard was chasing us. Oh My God, I nearly spat gas out of my tank, he was after us, it was gonna be a chase, I’ve only been here so long and here I am already, running from the law. I got pretty nervous and wondered why Redis seemed so compose. I took some deep breaths, now was not the time to fail him I thought to myself. But there was the security guard closing in, closer, closer, closer. He’s right beside us, he’s flagging us down. Is Redis gonna stop! I don’t know if I want him to. But, wait he is slowing down. I know I must be overheating, am I not? Redis eventually came to a stop. I could feel myself getting even more afraid. I held my breath and waited…(Sigh) what a relief, no impound. Luckily it turns out, though furious, the security guard only warned Redis and explained to him that this was why some taxis were not going to be allowed on the campus. I was one relieved soul. I don’t think I could have dealt with any further shame, especially one such as this, being taken for disobeying the law. My family is known for being quite compliant. I[‘m coming to realize that this is just the beginning of a looooong journey and adventurous life for me.

Jerry.

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Me According to Tickle

Your lips say you've got Flirty Ways


What Do Your Lips Say About You?

Brought to you by Tickle

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Check Out the Story...

I’d start by massaging my breasts then I’d trail a line straight down to between my thighs...

Follow This Link to read the Rest

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Me and Jamaincan Politics

I am going to write a post relating to politics...
I just came home and i spent a good portion of the night listening to and involving my self in arguments about politics; against my better judgment.

Nehoo the conclusion i came to is this:

This country is not going to change until the politics of the country changes. The party politics thing is what i cannot deal with in this country. I think it hardly matters which party is in power because the same corruption and processes will prevail. Majority of the voting public are persons who are not concerned with the issues but instead chose to vote for 'their party" regardless of what that party stands for, no logic or thought goes into it. The ideology is that "i was born into PNP/JLP and that's where i will stay" its ridiculous. Unfortunately the thinking people either decide not to vote because they realize that the majority do not make informed decisions or even if they vote they are, simply, the minority.

What's the point? That's the sentiment...neither parties offer a different ideology, neither party offers persons with different thinking. Same ole shit just a different set of people.

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A Tragic Comedy

This was an article i read in the Daily Gleaner, yesterday, August 13, 2007. I just had to share.

A murder most 'fowl' - Hundreds of chickens die in heartbreaker
published: Monday | August 13, 2007

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters):

Three hundred chickens died in panic early yesterday when a drunken German teenager on a joyride crashed a van into their shed, police said.

"Apparently, some of the chickens were so desperate to get away that they ran into the wall and died," the spokesman said. "Others suffered heart attacks."

The 17-year-old from the western city of Kassel crashed the van through the wall of a shed containing around 1,000 birds and then returned to a nearby fairground where he was staying, according to a spokesman for the local police. The youth was arrested.

Now seriously, can u imagine.

So what occurred to me is this..."did they do and autopsy" on the chickens to determine cause of death? lol

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When Technology Fights Back

The other day I was in an office and a young lady was trying, beyond all hope to print something. She sent the document to the printer a few times but, to her dismay, the thing just would not print. Eventually, she figured it must be something with the setting on the printer. She proceeded to get up and alter the settings. Hmmm, good idea i thought but the printer it seemed had other plans.

I don't even know why all of this happened to catch my attention, but I'm quite glad it did, because for the next couple of minutes i was thoroughly amused. The poor young lady kept changing different things on the printer, to no avail. First she changed the tray, but for some strange reason, it kept skipping back to the default. She was getting quite furious, then finally, the printer yielded, or so she would have hoped. The right tray selected and then, after we thought she was finally out of the woods, the printer started grabbing more than one sheet of paper. I guess by now i came to realize just how resilient this piece of equipment was. This is when i couldn't stave off the uncontrollable urge to laugh. The laugh creped into my poor stomach and would not go away. I guess my brain had looked at the situation and decided that it was in fact going to be a quite funny morning.

Nehoo, where were we, right, the paper, it kept coming up in bunches, and of course got stuck, now it was a quite hilarious site. The young lady, realizing that the printer was indeed a formidable opponent, got some support. Another young lady from the office offered her help and this is when things got really funny, well for me anyway. The printer just would not give in...now imagine, two ladies, one young, one not so quite young, trying to pull out the paper, yes both of them, using all their energy and set in some very uncomfortable positions, one using the table as support, holding on to it, and the other holding on to a nearby photocopier and bracing feet and all, trying to pull out a bunch of papers out of a printer...Quite funny indeed, i wish i had a camera at the time to show you all of this. In any case, in the battle of technology vs humans, technology 1, humans 0. One UP for technology. LOL

It looked something like this:

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