February 2012
8 posts
Calypsonians threaten to boycott finals of... →
Dimanche Gras in jeopardy while Marie Antoinette and her jesters wine…
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Unified Calypso Organisation (TUCO) Friday said it was backing the stance taken by calypsonians to boycott the Calypso Monarch finals on Sunday if there is not an increase in the prize monies.
“The position that they took here this morning really and truly is an...
Swappi's Bucket (Scratch Master Remix)
One of the few ways I can find to describe this young man is as a disruption in the force. And this is one of just a handful of truly powerful songs I’ve heard for the entire season. I can only imagine the havoc that this pore-raising mix would cause on the road.
Enjoy this remix to Swappi’s break away tune, “Bucket”.
“Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone that I love, used to love and those who...”
– Debra Paul-Burgess, 2012.
I share the sentiment with all my own as well. Have a great day all, to those who celebrate Valentine’s and to all those for whom today remains just Tuesday.
Wake Up Sheeple →
Bokklechuk: A Carnival Sport
RULES
Each bokklechuk team comprises fourteen players: three chuckers, four duckers, one chain up specialist, one ragman (or woman, as the case may be), and five old alcoholics, because somebody has to empty the bottles to be used for game play.
The playing surface is to be a minimum 100 metres by 20 metres, selected by the two or more teams involved in the bokklechuk contest at game time.
The...
January 2012
12 posts
Health: How Sitting All Day Is Damaging Your Body... →
Do you sit in an office chair or on your couch for more than six hours a day? Then here are some disturbing facts: Your risk of heart disease has increased by up to 64 percent.
Me: This is a really good article, especially for those of us who spend a lot of time in a chair at the office.
Sorry Kerwin...
It looks like Benjai is walking away with the Groovy Soca Monarch title this year with his just released “The People’s Champion”.
“Until you know that life is interesting, and find it so, you haven’t found...”
– Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, GCVO, PC (b. 5 May 1887, d. 15 September 1972), Archbishop of Canterbury 1945 to 1961.
From Anthony Maillard’s Quotes of the Day.
Dark Girls. →
This 10 minute video was very, very deep, and cuts to the heart of a problem that affects more than one diasporic community. Take the time to watch it, and think on it and on the little things that we do and say and believe that contribute to the continuation of this deep seated issue of identity and image.
TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA /... →
This is a far simpler and far more entertaining explanation of SOPA. Give it a quick viewing. Stop SOPA and save the kittens.
What does SOPA mean for us foreigners? →
Really good article from tech news source Ars Technica on the US Stop Online Piracy Act, being debated in their House of Representatives. Its sister legislation, the Protection of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), seems to have already collapsed in the Senate in response to clearly indicated non-support by several big players on the ‘net.
“You believe a child used the word outatiming in an exam?!”
– A primary school teacher’s Facebook status
“There is regret. Always, there is regret.
But it is better that our lives...”
– Philip Larkin, from “Love, We Must Part Now” (via proustitute)
Ten little things to secure your online presence |... →
This is a really interesting article with alot of important information and recommendations for those of you that spend a lot of your time, or any time at all for that matter, online.
December 2011
2 posts
Merry Christmas
One of my favourite Christmas carols - Carol of the Bells - is here made awesome by students of Algonquin College in a flash mob performance conducted by Darth Vader.
Enjoy!
[LINK]
As an added bonus, please also enjoy the following 2010 flash mob performance of the Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus in a food court.
[LINK]
November 2011
15 posts
“You know it’s bad when I start feeling sorry for Robocop. I actually want...”
– Mih pardnah Kerry
Crazy's "He Mad" for 2012
With all the madness going on nowadays, we need a lil’ ease.
Our loveble lunatic Crazy has gone back to his rude roots. This offering for the 2012 Carnival season is a keeper that will be mashing up the fetes for the season, the road on Monday and Tuesday, and the dancehalls all year through.
Youtube link at http://youtu.be/Ec0mFcsZmqY
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“If something is not happening for you it doesn’t mean that it’s...”
– Unknown
“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared;...”
– Alfred Adler (1870-1937), Jewish psychotherapist and psychiatrist
via @knycky on Twitter
Definition: Police State.
The term police state describes a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.
The inhabitants of a police...
The critical and crucial flaw in the new DNA Bill.
Says columnist Judy Raymond in her Sunday Express article today:
The DNA Bill had about as much respect for civil rights. It needed a special majority, because, Mr Volney said breezily, “It may be arguable that the mandatory taking of a sample infringes bodily integrity and privacy.”
Like the State of Emergency, another of the Government’s anti-crime measures, this [Bill] will...
Interesting Point.
Video Quote.
Keep your feet on solid ground / ‘Cause what goes up must come down.
-Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian, Don’t Let It Go To Your Head, from the 1998 album Foundation.
Enjoy.
“It really is all small stuff.”
– The Small Voice™
“We could real drink now!”
– A patron at a bar in downtown Port of Spain last night, on the news that the curfew imposed for the last two and a half months had been lifted.
However, civil liberties remain restricted in Trinidad and Tobago until time and date on which the Government are as silent as the cause for imposition of...
“It always seems impossible until it is done.”
– Nelson Mandela
Denzel is in this.
And according to my buddy Colin, that’s all you really need to know. But watch the trailer for 2012’s Safe House anyway.
October 2011
18 posts
WomenSpeak: OUTRAGED! Rape of a Child is NOT... →
womenspeak:
On 25th October, 2011, the local television program “Crime Watch” which airs on TV6 at 6pm in Trinidad and Tobago, aired video footage of a 13 year old girl being beaten and raped. The host of Crime Watch, also had the child’s mother on set and asked her questions about how she felt on hearing…
Congrats to Anya Ayoung-Chee on the Project Runway...
Trini characteristics displayed in the process: We are ALWAYS eating
We are masters of last minute work
Teach us something yesterday and we bussing people tail with it tomorrow
We are saltfish
Send us home to do work and the first place we head is the beach Congrats to we-girl on the overall win and on polling most votes in the Fan Favourite competition. And congrats to the West Indian...
“…you so goumangala-prone that you cannot even identify a spoof when you...”
– My pardnah Okie, in response to a comment made about Campus Chronicle article, “Road-paving Warner believes legendary fountain of youth under Pitch Lake”.
Winners all around. The bouff and the article.
Doing it again...
"Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry" - Julie...
The wise would take warning.
Double-Speak.
The press here…?
Don’t tell anybody about the money because it’s nobody’s business but ours…
Don’t look at the money as an inducement because Bin Hamman wanted to bring gifts. The gifts were too heavy to bring on his private plane, so I told him to bring money…
The money didn’t come from Bin Hamman. He gave it to the CFU. It’s the CFU...
Quote.
“When the PNM had a 47 billion dollar budget, it was squandermania and big buildings. The PP spent 47 billion and, well… nothing… not even a boat to cross the fountain in the Red House.”
- A pardnah
Music Video: "Maracas Beach"
What I want to know is how come TDC hasn’t approached this man yet to headline at Sauté Trinbago and the Taste T&T festival…
Thanks to Trini Mummy for sharing this link.
Please Patronise This Charity Event
The El Socorro Centre for Wildlife Conservation is pleased to announce the CHARITY screening of “Born to Be Wild 3D”, a family film, at the Digicel IMAX Theatre, One Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain on Monday 10th October, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.
Contribution is TT$125.00 and all proceeds go toward the Centre’s wildlife rehabilitation programme.
Tickets are available at:
Simply...
Quote.
The voice of the people is most often the voice of prejudice, populism, tribalism, narrow-mindedness, provincialism, racism, special interest, ignorance; and never the voice of God, as is claimed.
- Dr. Morgan Job