| Monday, January 26, 2004 |
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| Oh Fuck No!! |
 Ok, just so you'd know, this blog has nothing to do with the picture on the left. But apparently the picture was taken in Trinidad, so that adds to the "Only in Trinidad" group of blogs.
So let's get on with it: Oh Fuck No!! The PNM is not going to put up NHA apartments around Naps. Yes it is the PNM. It is not the NHA. I was just blown away by this article. I can't beleive that they would do something like this. Infact the piece of land where I think they're proposing to put up the apartments would be on the waterfront. And isn't the waterfront earmarked for other developments sometime this century? (Well it's been in the proposal stage for how many years now; it's just that successive PNM City Corp administrations haven't had the political balls to move the squatters from the waterfront.) The things some people would do to hold on to power eh. P-O-W-E-R. That's all it's ever been about. The adage is true: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And fo' sho' now I eh goin anywhere this carnival for some drunk, badjohn policeman to shoot me. |
| 6:28 pm | | |
| Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
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| WMDs' |
| I woke up at 1am and didn't fall back asleep at all until precisely 9am -- 10 minutes before The District started. It was the entire reason I didn't go to school early, even though I have no classes in the morning. So while watching BBCWorld on TV6 for a few hours, I remembered I blogged about WMDs' the day before and was trying to come up with some other things that can be categorised as WMDs':
*My former boss had this penchant for using the bathroom and though he flushed, some items which can surely be described as WMDs' usually remained *My father's breath *Spam *My garbage if I don't take it out for a week *Stef's Form 1 PE outfits Missed anything?? I'll leave now with a joke: A couple was invited to a swanky family masked fancy dress Halloween party. The wife got a terrible headache and told her husband to go to the party alone. He, being a devoted husband, protested, but she argued and said she was going to take some aspirin and go to bed, and there was no need for his good time to be spoiled by not going. So he took his costume and away he went. The wife, after sleeping soundly for about an hour, awakened without pain, and, as it was still early, decided to go to the party. In as much as her husband did not know what her costume was, she thought she would have some fun by watching her husband to see how he acted when she was not with him. So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice chick he could and copping a little feel here and a little kiss there. His wife went up to him and being a rather seductive babe herself, he left his new partner high and dry and devoted his time to her. She let him go as far as he wished, naturally, since he was her husband. After some more to drink he finally whispered a little proposition in her ear and she agreed, so off they went to one of the cars and had a quickie in the back seat. Just before unmasking at midnight, she slipped away and went home and put the costume away and got into bed,wondering what kind of explanation he would make up for his outrageous behaviour. She was sitting up reading when he came in, so she asked what kind of time he had. "Oh, the same old thing." You know I never have a good time when you're not there." Then she asked, "Did you dance much?" He replied, "I'll tell you,I never even danced one dance. When I got there, I met Pete,Bill Brown and some other guys, so we went into the spare room and played poker all evening." "You must have looked really silly wearing that costume playing poker all night!" she said with unashamed sarcasm. To which the husband replied, "Actually, I gave my costume to your Dad. Apparently he had a whale of a time." Moral of the story: DON'T TRY TO CATCH YOUR MAN OUT!!! |
| 4:20 pm | | |
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
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| WMDs'? |
 Why don't these fucking old people on campus learn to use the technology properly before they open their mouths? Breathe Sherwin, breathe...stay calm, stay calm LOL. The Naps boys will understand. A new crop of foreign students have emerged; a couple of them are actually kinda cute. There were hardly any last semester after the debacle where two of the girls were caught in a house in Chaguanas which was a supposed drug den, where they also caught Gypsy's son with WMDs'. Yeah, illegal guns. Can't they be categorised as WMDs' too? |
| 5:22 pm | | |
| Monday, January 19, 2004 |
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| My eighth semester |
| Today began my eighth semester at UWI. I had a clash of a two-hour class and a three-hour class beginning at 8 this morning, whcih I didn't go to cus I was asleep. I fell asleep kinda late last night. I finally got me a TV and I made up for it last night LOL. Yeah, that's one of the reasons I couldn't wake up. The stove in my kitchen hasn't been working properly since I got there and hopefully it'll be fixed today. I've been forced to cook eggs in the microwave. Somehow, they don't taste the same. My sister came to see the place last night and was quite observant of everything. The fact that there are candles all over the room (a habit I picked up from the sister I was living with), and that I have Neutrogena Body Wash in my bathroom, oh, and an empty fridge. Gladly, she didn't find my copy of the Kama Sutra.
I've noticed that a number of somewhat attractive girls in school smoke. That really sucks. If it's one thing I hate seeing more than panty lines in tight pants is a girl smoking. The old people were out in full force this evening. I was lucky to have gotten Change in Registration forms and a chance to use the library computers too. Nothing's changed really. The birds have disappeared thankfully. They were really becoming annoying. There as a cartoon in today's Express with the Prime Minister on his walkabouts. The spoof was he was saying to his wife that the walkabouts were really to get fit for Carnival. That's hilarious!! |
| 4:29 pm | | |
| Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
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| Finally, a TV. |
| I was so tired of being alone without a TV last week that I actually stayed home in south till today. I only left on Tuesday to go see my mom and cut my hair. (Yeah, I'm bald again.) She thinks my rent is too high and has offerred her one room little house -- which by the way, I've never seen -- in Gasparillo behind my grandparents' as my own since it's unoccupied. It's got no electricity, but hey, it's a roof and a bed. I don't think I'm that desparate. Everyone else seems to think I am though. I'm quite comfortable where I am -- it's the lack of a TV that's my concern. I'm only feeling lonely cus Miranda's not here. Guess what I spent the last 5 days doing: watching TV obviously!! at least 12 hours a day. It was great, even if it was local TV. I'll be spending the next two nights TV-less again cus I have to teach for the next two mornings, so it makes more sense for me to stay up here. Hope passing the time won't be as depressing this time around.
12 killings in how many days now?? Why the need for a Special Anti-Crime Unit? Isn't our new Police Comissioner up to the task? We should've just brought in Rudy and paid him the $30M they're spending on the anti-crime unit. Geez. |
| 3:39 pm | | |
| Friday, January 09, 2004 |
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| Progress |
| Today I had my first teaching class for the year. Half my students stayed home and the other half that came didn't do the assigned holiday homework, even though the answers were at the back of the text. Now that's pathetic. Surprisingly enough, the A' Level accounting text is the exact same book that I used when I wrote A' Levels in 1999. That book's last edition was in 1996 I believe, and some of my students are even using the previous edition. So couldn't accounting have changed in some form or the other over the last eight years that would force a change in the texts' theory and questions? Actually, there was a change: the newest printing of the book makes it as small as my O'Level text, with the same content. So the font is just smaller. Wow, that's progress. Btw: if anyone has their O'Level text and is willing to sell it, please let me know (Frank Wood). |
| 4:45 pm | | |
| Thursday, January 08, 2004 |
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| I cooked!! |
| There's no more MSN Messenger in the school library. The IT guys spent the day yesterday doing some shiznit that resulted in no more MSN. But apparently you can download and install most other software. I downloaded Trillian but it refused to connect to my MSN. That bites. Well that was half the reason I used to come to use the library computers. The other half was the Net was fast and the third half was because I could've downloaded alot of other cool stuff here too, like the Lego thing and CursorXP. A couple times I tried downloading Mozilla but it also refused to work. And I can't get into chatrooms either, so that rules out all human real-time contact. I definitely have to get broadband when I get a computer. This 56k shiznit from TSTT just wouldn't cut it. I'm gonna download Pixia now and try to make myself a banner for my blog.
I cooked my first actual meal yesterday evening. Curried potato and dhalpuri. Obviously I didn't cook the dhalpuri, and the curry didn't come out too bad. I'm also eating stuff straight out of a can. This is bad. I can cook. I ate corn straight out of the can while I was waiting for the food to finish cook yesterday. I've never done that before. I can't afford to buy Chinese or pizza or even KFC when I'm hungry. I have to cook. But at least I love doing it. It's the washing up afterwards I can't handle. Washing dishes is the thing I hate most in housework. |
| 2:09 pm | | |
| Tuesday, January 06, 2004 |
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| I Hate Cricket |
 That's over with. I spent all evening yesterday just reading newspapers, listening to the radio and milling around. I had absolutely nothing to do at all. The library closed early so I had to go home since there was nothing else to do. I need a firetrucking TV!!! I actually found myself listening to the entire 1hr tv news broadcast on the radio just to kill the time. I do have schoolwork for my class that I need to prepare but that's only going to take me a few hours. What the hell am I going to do with the rest of my evening? I think being alone isn't as great as I thought it would be, even though I profess to love being alone. I think I would love being alone if I have things to keep me occupied with. Like reading the Kama Sutra, a version of which I got as a gift this Christmas. |
| 11:53 am | | |
| Monday, January 05, 2004 |
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| New year, new digs, new toothbrush... |
| Happy New Year and all that. I tried sleeping through it but the fireworks and illegal scratchbombs kept me awake. Till five. Where did my holiday go? School restarts a week from today; it feels like I haven't had any holiday at all. Sucks. I got a new nephew for Christmas. Joy. Another firetrucking yapper. I played babysitter on Christmas Day cus the adults were either seeing about lunch or lounging in the patio. It didn't seem normal this year since we were missing three of the usuals. New Years Day I spent watching TV cus I was home alone mostly, which was great. At least I'm well rested.
I'm fully moved into my new place now. It's almost as big as the condo I was living in before. Ok, well not really, but it's bigger than some of those other rooms I see people living in. Moving house was tough. I'm never moving again. I'm staying right where I am. I don't know how my sister did it like three times in the space of less than two years. My kitchen and bathroom space is a little small but the living space is more than enough. It's much closer to campus too. I can walk home for lunch and walk back. And I'm mostly alone in the whole building too. But I don't know which is worse: walking on a road with the prospect of being harrassed/robbed/raped/all everyday or hearing chutney music in the distance most everyday? Yeah, it's an Indian area I moved into. But there's one really wonderful thing about the place: there are no mosquitoes. Funny cus there's a river running on the opposite side of the road. Yeah, I might need to buy a new toothbrush. I might be cooking more often now since I'm on a fixed budget and all, but I enjoy doing that. It's the cleaning-up afterwards I hate. And I have no TV right now. That really sucks ass. Ok so Lego is one of the coolest toys ever. This is firetrucking cool. And what the firetruck was Britney thinking going behind my back like this? |
| 1:26 pm | | |