| Monday, December 22, 2003 |
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| Even more alone |
 Well Miranda's going to Miami again tomorrow so I'll be even more alone now for the next five weeks or so. I have my last exam tomorrow and I really am not feeling like studying for it when I see everyone else just liming and all. But I know I have to. Tomorrow I do my first official duty as a tenant: I pay the security fee. I need to ask to put in a shower heater cus there's no hot water and it's cold on mornings now. It's gonna get even colder when the dry season comes. Shit, it already feels like we're in that season cus it's hardly raining at all. Just standing under the hot water for like five minutes is something I've grown accustomed to doing.
And I'm beginning to understand what "normal" people go through when they have to go pay bills and stuff. On Saturday I went to return the cable box and had to stand in a line for forty-five minutes when there were only 10 ppl infront of me. But the lone cable company's really firetrucked-up too. Most every person who left that office had something negative to say about them; many saying that service would never be this bad if there was competition. Which is quite true, especially with the telephone service and a non-essential service like cable television. Last Friday I also had to go buy this girl I didn't know a gift for "Secret Santa". I was just lucky(?) to get her I guess. Anyways, the taxi I was going to Valpark in was driven by a rather obnoxious old Indian man. He and a woman in the front seat were having a heated discussion about how he should and should not treat his passengers and he said that customers had no rights. Sometimes it really seems that way, and we just sit and take crap. Anyways, I go south to lime on Christmas Eve at my cousins and I'll be spending the night out. It's the first time I'm not gonna be home on the night of Christmas Eve. Not that Cnristmas means much to me anyway. We're having a non-traditional lunch this year since my eldest sister isn't here and all. Duck and barbecued chicken and cassava too (which I don't eat btw). Usually we have some sort of pie and rice. Oh and I'm expecting my seventh niece/nephew on Boxing Day. About the cartoon, just thought I'd share that with you all. Cheers. |
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| Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
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| Alone |
| I'm all alone now. In a big condo, but for only a week or so. I haven't made a final decision yet on an apartment although I have a couple lined up. Tuesday evening I went to the airport to say goodbye to my sis. It was real sad seeing her go; I was surprised I was feeling any emotion. But I'm kinda feeling like a weight has been lifted cus I don't have that pressure anymore -- well not so close anyway. I have just one more exam on Tuesday and then I'm off to home. Well people can contact me there now and I won't be in the wilderness cus she left me her cellphone. Yeah, that thing I swore I would never get from TSTT. Not the first time I've had to eat my words. |
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| Monday, December 15, 2003 |
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| It's been so long... |
| I really haven't felt like blogging all week; even now. But I felt I shouldn't leave people hanging. The wedding was great. Infact the entire weekend was a blast, 'cept for the fact that we didn't go back to Toco on the Sunday. I would recommend the hotel to anyone who wanted to holiday in Trinidad, both locals and tourists. I kinda haven't felt motivated to study. But I did last night cus I had to and I might still end up failing the exam. They leave tomorrow. Most everything's packed. I'm still hunting for an apartment. Went looking after exam this afternoon and on Saturday. Moving sucks, especially when I have to move again in 6 months. Glad they caught him alive rather than in a shoot out and dead. |
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| Friday, December 05, 2003 |
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| Wedding Weekend |
| So Police raided the Real World: San Diego house after date-rape allegation. Ok. The wedding is tomorrow. I'll be in Salybia for the entire weekend even though I have an exam on Monday afternoon and on Wednesday. Right now I couldn't really be bothered with the exam cus I'm actually excited about spending the weekend; less about the wedding. For God sakes, it's just a wedding people. I'm also excited more about living basically on my own. It won't all be gold, I know. But I'm sure to have fun. Or if not, to be a little less uptight since I won't be living with my sister. I guess I'll fill you in next week when I get the chance.
Last Sunday our immediate family had a final "good-bye" lunch with her. Of course, the fare was none other than curried duck and channa. Where the hell is she going to get curried duck in England? NEways, you know how Trinidadians, especially us southerners, have this tendency to all go to the airport to say our goodbyes whenever someone is stepping on an aeroplane. She told us that she'd come say her goodbyes before she leaves and that she does not want to see us in the airport. To which we replied that we're going to make paleu and hire a maxi-taxi (minibus) and make a big banner saying "goodbye" and show up at the airport. We'll help her with her "grip" (what the Guyanese refer to as luggage/suitcase) and then everyone will start crying and wailing in the airport, in effect making a big pappyshow. I still have not gotten her/them a gift. And I did not get paid today either!! So I need to source some funds to buy 2 six-packs of Smirnoff Ice retailing at TT$29.99 each. Now that's a bargain!! |
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| Thursday, December 04, 2003 |
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| Ludicrous Laws |
| These purport to be actual laws in the US. I got this off of MSN.com.
1. LAW: It is illegal to transport a skunk across state lines. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: Tennessee CITATION: 70-4-208. Unlawful importation of skunks - Penalty. ACTUAL: (a) It is unlawful for any person to import, possess, or cause to be imported into this state any type of live skunk, or to sell, barter, exchange or otherwise transfer any live skunk, except that the prohibitions of this section shall not apply to bona fide zoological parks and research institutions. 2. LAW: It is illegal to taunt someone for refusing to participate in a duel. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: West Virginia CITATION: §61-2-24. Taunting for nonparticipation in duel; penalty. ACTUAL: If any person post another, or in writing or in print use any reproachful or contemptuous language to or concerning another, for not fighting a duel, or for not sending or accepting a challenge, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be confined in jail not more than six months, or fined not exceeding one hundred dollars. 3. LAW: There is a one-dollar fine for every instance of public drunkenness and/or swearing. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: West Virginia CITATION: §61-8-15. Profane swearing and drunkenness; penalty. ACTUAL: If any person arrived at the age of discretion profanely curse or swear or get drunk in public, he shall be fined by a justice one dollar for each offense. 4. LAW: It is illegal to require someone to purchase a horror comic book. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: California CITATION: Cal Bus & Prof Code §16603 Requiring purchase of horror comic book as condition to sale or consignment of magazine or other publication. ACTUAL: Every person who, as a condition to a sale or consignment of any magazine, book, or other publication requires that the purchaser or consignee purchase or receive for sale any horror comic book, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1,000), or by both. As used in this section "horror comic book" means any book or booklet in which an account of the commission or attempted commission of the crime of arson, assault with caustic chemicals, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, kidnapping, mayhem, murder, rape, robbery, theft, or voluntary manslaughter is set forth by means of a series of five or more drawings or photographs in sequence, which are accompanied by either narrative writing or words represented as spoken by a pictured character, whether such narrative words appear in balloons, captions or on or immediately adjacent to the photograph or drawing. 5. LAW: It is required by law that you make a loud noise when passing a car on the left. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: Rhode Island CITATION: §31-15-4 Overtaking on left. ACTUAL: The following rules shall govern the overtaking and passing of vehicles proceeding in the same direction, subject to those limitations, exceptions, and special rules stated in this section: (1) The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle proceeding in the same direction shall give a timely, audible signal and shall pass to the left at a safe distance and shall not again drive to the right side of the roadway until safely clear of the overtaken vehicle. (2) Except when overtaking and passing on the right is permitted, the driver of the front vehicle on the audible signal of the overtaking vehicle shall give way to the right, and shall not increase speed until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle. 6. LAW: It is illegal for a bingo game to last longer than five hours, unless the bingo is being played at a fair. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: North Carolina CITATION: §14-309.8. Limit on sessions. ACTUAL: The number of sessions of bingo conducted or sponsored by an exempt organization shall be limited to two sessions per week and such sessions must not exceed a period of five hours each per session. No two sessions of bingo shall be held within a 48-hour period of time. No more than two sessions of bingo shall be operated or conducted in any one building, hall or structure during any one calendar week and if two sessions are held, they must be held by the same exempt organization. This section shall not apply to bingo games conducted at a fair or other exhibition conducted pursuant to Article 45 of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes. 7. LAW: A man may not seduce a woman by lying, and claiming he will marry her. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: Mississippi CITATION: 97-29-55 Seduction of female over age of eighteen by promised or pretended marriage. ACTUAL: If any person shall obtain carnal knowledge of any woman, or female child, over the age of eighteen years, of previous chaste character, by virtue of any feigned or pretended marriage or any false or feigned promise of marriage, he shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years; but the testimony of the female seduced, alone, shall not be sufficient to warrant a conviction. 8. LAW: One must not collect seaweed. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: New Hampshire CITATION: TITLE XVIII FISH AND GAME CHAPTER 207 GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO FISH AND GAME Collecting Seaweed Section 207:48 ACTUAL: In Night: If any person shall carry away or collect for the purpose of carrying away any seaweed or rockweed from the seashore below high-water mark, between daylight in the evening and daylight in the morning, he shall be guilty of a violation. 9. LAW: It is illegal to wear a bulletproof vest while committing a murder. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: New Jersey CITATION: 2C:39-13 Unlawful use of body vests. ACTUAL: A person is guilty of a crime if he uses or wears a body vest while engaged in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, or flight after committing or attempting to commit murder, manslaughter, robbery, sexual assault, burglary, kidnapping, criminal escape or assault under N.J.S.2C:12-1b. Use or wearing a body vest while engaged in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, or flight after committing or attempting to commit a crime of the first degree is a crime of the second degree. Otherwise it is a crime of the third degree. 10. LAW: Unless a customer orders it specifically, it's against the law to serve margarine instead of butter at a restaurant. COUNTRY: USA / STATE: Wisconsin CITATION: 97.18(4) ACTUAL: (4) The serving of colored oleomargarine or margarine at a public eating place as a substitute for table butter is prohibited unless it is ordered by the customer. |
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| Tuesday, December 02, 2003 |
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| Nah Leaving? |
Where else in de world you know I've been rethinking this position lately. It seems like there's a murder/kidnap/robbery/rape everyday. A violent crime everyday. On Saturday when that young boy got killed in the robbery, I was on High Street when it happenned-- a hundred metres from the store. Just the day before the same store was robbed. It was reported that the boys who committed the robbery/murders were what? 15, 17 and 20? You're fucking kidding me!! That boy had dreams -- ambitions -- of being a mechanical engineer. What the fuck goes on the mind of a 15 and 16 year old boy to pick up a gun, steal a car and go rob a store and kill a person who was their age?!! Tonight I was watching the news and saw a report of another businessman murdered. On Sunday night some people were liming in their front yard and a man jumped the fence and killed a 57-year-old woman in a robbery attempt. Everytime I have to travel or even walk the road I'm in perpetual fear. Tonight around 7.30 Miranda and I were walking back to school to come study. I was shaking in my boots. *sigh* How long does a person have to live like this? I'm not going to get started on the ineptitude or unwillingness of the Government to deal with the situation. We should all fare better if we form neighbourhood watchgroups. You see ah just watch ah football match And like everytime I travel on the highway is a risk to life and limb I take. And it now costs me TT$36.50 to go home and come back up north on a weekend. But I guess taxi-drivers have to eat too... |
| 9:01 pm | | |
| Heights |
| Height of Bravery: A naked man bending over to pick up a dollar on an island of gays...
Height of Sophistication: Sucking nipples with a straw... Height of Technology: Condom with zip... Height of Penetration: A baby girl born pregnant... Height of Fashion: 1. A female applying LipStick to her vaginal Lips...2. Baggy condoms Height of Patience: A female lying naked under a banana tree and hoping for banana to fall in her pussy... Height of Coincidence: And the banana falling in... Height of Unemployment: A cobweb in a prostitute's cunt... Height of Noise : Two skeletons fucking in a tin room... Height of Comparison : Pissing in front of Niagara Falls... Height of Heights: Shitting on top of Mt everest and raising it by two inches... Height of Innocence: 1) A girl applying cream on her nipples assuming them to be pimples...2) A pregnant woman buying one and half tickets... Height of Irritation: A one handed guy hanging from a cliff, and his balls itching... Height of Frustration : A guy running around a tree to fuck himself... |
| 8:50 pm | | |