To Your Sexual Health- The Basics

Sexual health is so important. I know mine is...So every week i will attempt to share some of my knowledge with you about ways to keep you and your body healthy and your sex life healthy.

Today, I wanna talk about something very simple and so obvious most persons probably will think of it as NTR (nothing to report) but it is oh so important and is one of the first things people will probably notice about you, at your first encounter; Your appearance and personal hygiene.

First impressions last right? So do the second, the third, the fourth....Its quite easy for us to say that you have no need to be fussy when you put on your clothes in the morning to go out (i sometimes fall prey to that kind of thinking) but it is always important to look your best, you never know if you're going to meet Mr. or Mrs. Right.

1. Always take a bath, even if you are just popping to the supermarket for a few seconds. You never know what might happen that could cause you to be out a little longer than you expected.

2. Always wear clean clothes, that includes clean underwear, and guys, yes you need to change those shorts that you've been lying around the house in. It's just like wearing panties, how nasty it would be if a woman kept on the same panties for two days, thats gross right.

3. It's not important to wear make up every time you go out of the house, if it is your preference then that's fine, just make sure that your hair is combed, deodorant is fresh, face washed, teeth brushed, and you are wearing a pleasant face.

4. Don't do the perfume/cologne over kill, even if every thing is going right, that potential someone might just be turned off because its too caustic to come close.

5. Wear clothes that are comfortable but flattering. No sense putting on the most awesome outfit if you don't feel comfortable, your lack of comfort will be obvious and will undermine the beauty of the outfit anyway.

6. Men, keep yourself grooomed, unless of course you are intentionally going for the grunge look, but you know, you still have to get that right. Some people go for the more rustic look and that's fine but while you are doing that, don't forget the image you portray and ignore the fact that some people might just not see things your way.

7. If you do choose to wear make up, please make sure you know what you are doing, i am always for less it best but thats an opinion and i would rather not impose it on anyone, but make sure your make up is well done, always check to make sure foundation is smooth, lipstick is only on the lips etc.

Well thats the basics. I'm sure everyone has gotten this part right. Next week we'll go deeper into your sexual health.

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Paying for my Vote

Parliament is trying to pass a bill to make it illegal for persons to show their ballots. Apparently, the trend is for persons to "buy a vote". Apparently, what has been happening for years is that persons buy votes. So, you give me some money, i go into the ballot booth and you watch me place my X in the desired spot.

I've worked polling stations before, and it happens. People go into the booth together, or they carry out their ballots to show the world, as far as i was concerned at the time, there was nothing wrong with it and apparently i was right. In any case, there has been some talk about it, saying that it is an unnecessary bill. Some persons make it seem as though its absurd that anybody would sell their vote. These however are the persons who have a different state of reality than the persons out there who would never find them self in such a situation. These are the persons who: have their 9-5 jobs, and drive reliable cars, can pay their bills, feel their children and send them to reputable schools. These are the persons who would not understand, it seems, the benefit of a few not so hard earned thousand dollars.

It's not such a difficult concept to wrap your head around. Imagine for a minute, someone who has a vote, but who does not plan to exercise their right to vote, being approached by someone, willing to offer a couple thousand dollars for you to put on a pair of flip flops, t-shirt and pants, walk down the street, place your X beside the bell or the head, dip your finger in some ink, skew the election results by one vote, walk back to your house and go back to things as normal. Simple right, quite so. I find it hard to cast a judgmental eye towards someone who takes up such an opportunity. Money, although available, is not easily acquired, and why not, if in an instant, you can, without breaking any laws, earn a little extra.

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Things to do when you are bored

Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent
Sort of entertaining. Include flamboyant shoulder shrugs for added impact, or go for a Marlon Brando set of grunts.

Send spooky emails
Look up someone's CV on the web, do some research on them via Google and then send them an email full of personal references claiming to be an ex-work colleague who fell in love with their shoes. Or something.

Burn things with a magnifying glass
Ants are always fun to use for this, but burning the face of someone you don't like, under some circumstances, can be just as entertaining.

Have a "Who is less competitive" competition
Trying to win at this will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.

Source: Urban 75.com

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Concept of Jamaican Time

Every country has its own time zone, it's relative to GMT right, or something of the sort. Well, that is not the time i am referring to here. Jamaican time is a rather erratic, unpredictable relative term. However, over the many years that I have had to live here, I have developed a standard, my way of understanding Jamaican Time.

Now, I would imagine, in most other countries (imagine because I have not spent enough time in any other county but Jamaica in other to discern what their concept of time is) 10 minutes means ten minutes, soon means, shortly probably 10 minutes, half an hour means 30 minutes, 10am means 10am and so forth, but in Jamaica, NO WAY, don't be fooled. Let me attempt to break it down for you

Time in Jamaican terms

5-minutes: well surprisingly enough, i don't know if its because we didn't learn time in basic schools, but five minutes can run you anywhere from 10 minutes to 30 minutes...or even more (there is always an option for "even more").

10-Minutes: same thing, anything over ten minutes usually about half an hour or more (so keep adding about 10 minutes to the time given, to get the actual time that you will be waiting)

(Here is my favourite) Soon: now, get this, "soon" is actually the longest time frame possible in Jamaican time- soon usually means anything, but its never sooner than later. Take this example: a friend of mine called me one evening to say he's coming to pick me up, "he'll soon be there", i got ready, hurried no less, and then..........about 3 hours later i got a call, "I'm five minutes away i soon reach". Now i was a bit concerned because, from our previous arrangement soon turned out to be 3 hours and if he was 5 minutes away and soon come it meant that 5 minutes for him is actually 3 hours...lets check the calculation

soon come = 3 hours (we know that for a fact)
therefore if 5minutes= soon come
then 5 minutes = 3 hours. you followed right?....good

Next thing to understand when in Jamaica and dealing with time:

1. someone says they will pick you up at 4:30pm it means they will be leaving their house between 4:30 and 4:45, not that you will actually be picked up at 4:30.

2. If something is set to start at 10:00am, getting there at 10:00 am will make you half an hour early, starts at 10:00am really means starts at 10:30 am but we saying 10:00 so that everybody will get there by 10:30, and then it will really start at 11:00am because of all the running around that has to be done when everybody actually gets there at 10:30.

3. If a party is Free BEFORE 11 it is a guarantee, that every Jamaican, him mother and him dog, is going to be there at 10...however, the gates to the venue will not be open until 11, so...i don't know how they work that out.

In any case, the point is, you need to be very aware of Jamaican Time, or else you will have a miserable time. This is factual data trust me on that one :)

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The life of a Jamaican Taxi- Part 1

If you live in Jamaica and, like me are unfortunate enough to have to take public transportation, then you know its always an adventure to take a taxi. I will attempt to look at life through the eyes of the car itself. I wonder what goes through their minds (well if they had one, or maybe they do...i don't know).

Part 1

Hi my name is Jerry, I'm a white Toyota Corolla. I was born in Japan in 2000. I've had a hard life, i never imagined, when i left my home country, I would have such experiences. Some adventures were good, some were quite scary, others were down right horrible. My poor body has endured so much since i arrived in Jamaica, my driver; though i use that word with much reservation, sometimes the road, my passengers all affect me in different ways.Today i found out that we ply the Half Way Tree to Papine route. I'm a bit excited. I'm new to this, some of the other cars seem to be excited to be taxis. I don't know what to expect, it's my first time in Jamaica.

Here i am parked at the taxi stand, there are so many cars here. I'm trying to look my best, help my owner get as many passengers as possible. Right now I'm quite shiny so I'm not concerned. Oh here comes a girl; "Papine, UC, Campus" "my girl, Papine UC Campus" "yuh a come?", i see him hold on to her hand, but she doesn't look too pleased, but she's coming anyway. Ouch, take time with my door, why did she have to slam the door, i felt that all the way up my spark plug! I wonder if she knows that if she keeps doing that my poor door might soon fall off. Ok let me calm down its just one person, "Slam, Slam Slam" "Ouch Ouch Ouch", what on earth is going on!

We're off, oh my, he has a heavy foot doesn't he, he'll slow down, hey, that was a red light, what the, you can't cut him off like that, you can't treat the other road users like that. Why is he going into the filter lane, i thought Papine was straight. Ok, maybe i was wrong. What! did he just cut in front of him? but the white line is all the way back there. Why is everyone just sitting there and not saying anything? What's that beeping, oh, right my seat belt light, maybe they just forgot. Hey you, put on your seat belt, don't you see this is a mad man, HEY PUT ON YOUR SEAT BELT! It's hopeless, that noise is going to drive me crazy.

We're coming near to Campus, last stop. Sigh that was an interesting first drive on route. That beeping is still in my head, and my spark plug is still vibrating from all the door slamming. I'm so ashamed, so many others saw me racing up the road,way outside the speed limit, they saw me bad drive other cars, they saw me run the stop light. How am i going to ever live this down. No one in Japan quite prepared me for this.

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