tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79552002024-03-23T14:35:45.895-04:00Doan Mind MeI duz talk nuff foolishnessJdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.comBlogger908125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-55765676108697290192018-09-18T16:47:00.001-04:002018-09-18T16:48:15.428-04:00Perception and Deception? (Third times a charm)
Its interesting what you see on the bus sometimes.
It was near midday and the bus was half empty.
About halfway to my destination, the two ladies who had rushed on at the last minute with strollers and who sat near the middle of the bus, rang the bell.
As the bus was lowered and they started to go down the bus aisle to exit at the front, I absentmindedly noticed that inJdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-57338580527350821402018-07-14T22:08:00.000-04:002018-07-14T22:09:00.552-04:00OverpassI was driving over the Progress bridge/overpass when I saw it.
Car pulled over halfway to the side, half in the curb lane with the hazard lights on. That's sort of weird I thought. And then a tall slim black man , elegantly dressed in a suit stumbled out with a cell-phone to his ears and went to the pavement.
Weird, I thought as I got closer.
And then he stumbled to the edge of the overpass Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-64475769323487575322017-07-26T17:02:00.004-04:002017-07-26T17:05:23.224-04:00Banks
Found this paragraph written but never posted from two years back and I think it relates to this story
(I had promised to keep this to myself cause complaining seems pointless
(but this really isnt a complaint), plus as a Bajan at home pointed out
to me we 'foreigners' doan know how things duz work in Barbados and duz
come wid we foreign thoughts and new-fangled ideas and wanta get vex
bout Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-16609317440580952252016-11-15T11:48:00.003-05:002016-11-15T11:48:29.022-05:00Post-Election "They say signs that the end is near, I wonder can I walk a righteous path holding a beer" - Resurrection by Common
(written on Saturday) It's been a difficult week.
I can't help but to look back to 8 years ago this week when president Obama was first elected. All the hopefulness, all the anticipation of change, all the wishful thinking. And while somehow in the back of my mind that Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-76174592112057077952016-06-05T21:21:00.002-04:002016-06-05T21:21:10.741-04:00Seriously not the place dudeSo I'm not exactly anti new technology but I do think that some people take it too far.
And I'm pretty sure I've spoken about this before and tried, somewhat unsuccessfully, not to come off as an old fogey but I really think some folks go a tad far with their need to use their phones for recording and other purposes at the most inopportune time. Its like we've reached this stage where if you Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-16040252907483755832016-04-21T21:07:00.001-04:002016-04-21T21:07:18.944-04:00She lives! Time sure does fly.
The same year that I started this blog, a long time ago in what feels like a galaxy far far away I also moved from a downtown apartment to the suburbs of Toronto. And man I must say it took me a lot of years and three kids to really kind of outgrow the pining for downtown living but that's another story.
As I may have mentioned before, I've been taking the same bus to work Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-9529260130090498622016-04-10T22:54:00.000-04:002016-04-10T22:55:22.010-04:00My cou-cou story"Endorse the cou-cou give me a bigger share" - Dacosta Allamby
I grew up on cou-cou.
Its of course the national dish of Barbados and as a small child I fully embraced it. At one point cou-cou was the only thing my mother could get me to eat without me putting up a fuss. I just loved me some cornmeal cou-cou!
So much so that I would probably have cou-cou no less than 3-4 times per week. This Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-58533089878287446862015-12-24T09:36:00.000-05:002015-12-24T09:36:03.034-05:00Somehow this post always makes me happier at Christmas. This will be my 3rd or 4th time re-posting it since 2004 lol
de de do do doo doo doo
I took the role of lead singer
Parang soca in Arima
Fans heard of my parang band so thousands flocked the grandstand
Ne-ville Cook was the mc
When he intro-duced me
People jumping like carnival
To my rendition of serenal??
Alpacata alpacata
Who no rampu Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-63396430020342699892015-03-09T13:59:00.000-04:002015-03-09T13:59:02.919-04:00February dunAnd not a moment too soon.
Every year at some point I'm pretty sure that I complain about winter but this past month lawd avest mercy. I'd have to say that February 2015 has been the coldest month I've ever experienced.
No thankfully unlike Boston and other parts of the eastern USA , we up here in Toronto were not drowned in snow but what we did get were some extreme cold days. In fact I think Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-65032822674673298222015-01-02T21:22:00.000-05:002015-01-02T21:22:09.477-05:00CondimentsMan dese pickney nowadays, mine included like alot a ketchup.
I mean if I did feeling a ways I wud think that my cooking aint up to scratch and the chile need ketchup to mask the taste a my cooking but I realize it aint just my food he duz put ketchup on. And is not just he one but nuff a dese other lil children I see that duz be putting ketchup on everything their parents give them to eat.
Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-35594228154094957962014-12-13T20:36:00.001-05:002014-12-13T20:36:22.551-05:00TravelWe was chatting today bout travelling.
Apparently all the airlines now want you to travel wid ya two long hands cause they charging left right and centre for big check in bag and they becoming more strict about the weight and size of the carry-on.
Is one time man used to travel wid two big valises looking like they could hold a dead body, not no boney dead body eidda a good size duppy and then Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-17551081302067999082014-11-25T16:32:00.003-05:002014-11-25T16:32:34.561-05:00Ferguson MIssouriIt was about 6 years ago that I wrote this rather euphoric post. I had the audacity to hope for black folks.
Now today after the Grand Jury decision to not indict Darren Wilson for shooting Mike Brown I think I've done a 180 turn and just feel despair.
Congressional
Black Caucus Chair Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) slammed the grand jury
decision not to indict Ferguson, Mo., Officer DarrenJdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-34512766268661253222014-11-07T19:12:00.002-05:002014-11-07T19:12:32.809-05:00Chicken-got-cha! To add injury to insult, a few days after my mum's funeral I came down with chikungunya. Yep talk about joint pain. wow! Was pretty brutal.
Anyways I think I had a milder but more chronic version. Let me explain: my joint pains and fevers only lasted about a day and by the time I was ready to head home it was like having mild arthritis in my knees. However when I got back to Toronto I started Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-51971711530387058882014-10-04T17:40:00.000-04:002014-10-04T17:40:38.099-04:00WellI'm off to Barbados in a while as my mum has passed.
It wasn't unexpected but still I'm a little depressed well actually a lot depressed about it. I think her illness has been one of the reasons I wasn't writing or blogging or doing much of anything over the past 6 months. I just was living in fear of that phone call. Honestly, every time I heard a long distance ring on the phone my heart Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-60192258403530788352014-09-14T18:03:00.001-04:002014-09-14T18:03:29.378-04:00BeggingTimes tough....still. I know everyone says the recession is over but I dont know. Maybe this is the new norm, with less people working and more businesses closed. I dont know.
Yesterday, as I crossed the street to go to the flea market, a young lady accosted me for a dollar. Her clothes didnt look that bad but the knapsack she had on her back had seen far way better days. The zip still worked Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-6048554644552155292014-09-13T19:15:00.000-04:002014-09-13T19:18:29.958-04:00LeavingOne of my better neighbours is selling his house. I wrote about him a few years ago. All around good guy and I will be sorry to see him go.
Still I cant help laughing at ths situation. Why? well you know how people usually put up a FOR SALE sign when they are selling? Well my boy doing it different. He has up a "Coming Soon FOR SALE" sign. The property hasnt actually been put on the market yet Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-76785227529080230652014-09-05T23:03:00.002-04:002014-09-05T23:03:49.727-04:00GlutenEvery few years it seem that another word is added to our list of bad words, undesirable words.
No, I not talking about cuss words ah talking about words related to food and eating an ting so. Remember years ago it was carbs and everybody was on a wuhloss I aint want no carbs, carbs not good for you, ah cutting back on carbs, hummuch carbs dat got in kick?
Cause carbs was getting ya fat and Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-25208858032335479822014-05-02T10:46:00.002-04:002014-05-02T10:46:29.908-04:00Donald SterlingI wanted to write this days ago but never got the chance but I'll try to make it brief....maybe
So here are a few thoughts
- Regarding Donald Sterling's fall from grace so much has been said. He does seem like a despicable human being if the reports are to be believed and the penalty handed down by the NBA seems to be the way to go.
I wont lie though I was surprised by the severity of the Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-27238754893957970072014-04-24T10:41:00.000-04:002014-04-24T10:45:27.767-04:00Cutass!!So there is a video knocking around of a Trinidadian mother beating the crap out of her 12 year old daughter because the daughter was apparently being tummuch woman an posting provocative sexual type photos on Facebook. a rude she well rude!
If a can find de link ah will link it but trust me I could only watch about two minutes of the 6 minute video cause the mother beat she like a bobolee. (Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-82535381452432857132014-02-20T15:51:00.001-05:002014-02-20T15:51:15.675-05:00Missionary MauveAh had a lil flashback the other day. (not sure where this note going but we will see)
Growing up my mom was always deeply involved in church: choir, Sunday school, missionary work, church board etc which of course meant that until I was a teen I had to go with her to church whenever she went so I guess I can rightly say I grew up in church. Ah not sure if that is a good thing that I admit that Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-33225704304928792452014-02-04T17:39:00.000-05:002014-02-04T17:39:34.219-05:00Business senseSo two weeks ago I got a random call from a credit union, which I'm not part of, offering me some savings on a product I already have with another company.
I was somewhat intrigued by the call so I set up an appointment, at home to meet their representative with regards to the product they were hawking but in the meantime said I'd look into it myself. Anyway time flies when you have twins Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-53497262400792547902014-01-08T09:48:00.001-05:002014-01-08T09:48:37.455-05:00Deep FreezeHappy new year everyone.
Well we here in North America getting lik up with these cold temperatures. Is not only up here in Canada but even way down in the US they getting polar vortex effect that got places like Kentucky and Georgia bawling fa blue murder from the cold.
Up here in Toronto since the new year we have had ice, snow, and then cold temperatures alternating. If it ain't one trying toJdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-80449766829898577652013-12-30T08:54:00.004-05:002013-12-30T08:54:55.972-05:00Pain is relativeStory 1
A potentially live power line lying mere inches from his
car prevented him from getting to the office outside Toronto this past
week.
Sniderman said if nothing happens soon, he’ll likely have to pay for a
rental car to get to his job in Markham, which would take over an hour
and a half by public transit.
Story 2
Holding spent a week in darkness. The days blurred into Jdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-29904248482518395232013-12-27T13:17:00.000-05:002013-12-27T13:17:08.051-05:00Iced out!Belated Merry Christmas to everyone!!.
Christmas came and went with little fanfare for us this year. Not alot of cerebrating, in fact up to now we haven't exchanged gifts. Mainly because we got caught up in the aftermath of the ice storm which hit Toronto last Saturday and left 90,000 households without power. We braved it out in our home til Monday morning but then ran out of firewood so had toJdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7955200.post-70375986294129047822013-12-06T06:44:00.000-05:002013-12-06T06:44:04.353-05:00Mandela
Sad that such an incredible individual is gone. A true hero, a fighter, a man of the people and one who endured persecution for his beliefs. In terms of the ideal for freedom I dont think anyone who has walked the earth in my lifetime can come close to what he meant, what he did.
But as with us all, regardless of our standing or our achievements his day came and he was taken from us.
Rest inJdidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08493622796742761799noreply@blogger.com3