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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