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Happy Emancipation Day Everyone!!

Hello and good morrow to you! How are you all on this wonderfully wondrous day? Great I hope. Today was kind of strange. For one I still am not sure that today is Tuesday, i was thinking that it was Monday or something, the only proof that i had that it wasn't (besides my watch) was that people were saying it that it was. Anyway on to today. Today I would like to talk about emancipation. Tomorrow its going to be the Trinidad and Tobago's 50th anniversary of Emancipation. So I would to wish everyone from our island a happy happy emancipation day. The country seems to be going through the works of getting ready for tomorrow. I hope that it goes along smoothly. I have a few thoughts on what they are going with there plans on the celebration but I would rather not go into that right now. We have been through alot as a people and as a nation and as we past this landmark in our nation's history let us hope that as we have many more mild stones to cross, we do so to the best o...

Just another form of racism

Hello good day and good morrow to you. How are you on this wonderful day? Wonderful I hope. Today is very quiet so far, so thats good. I feel the need to do some work today and relax as well. Last night or I should say early this morning, I took the time to get some editing done. Eventually I stopped because I was tired and being tired and editing means even more mistakes than before. I am glad I started though... Progress is good! I was thinking about translating some German paragraphs or stories just to get some practice in. Right now I dont feel as if I am doing enough towards strengthening my language skills. Anyway today I would like to talk about something that I am not sure I want to give too much airplay but its something that got to me and I think that I should mention it after all. That is racism. *sigh isnt this an already tired topic...We should already be past this. Should be. Anyway I dont want to talk about normal forms of racism, we all know about those, but I want...

Story Ideas for the writer who's blocked part 2

Hello good day and good morrow to you. How are you on this lovely day? Fine I hope. What have you been up to? If you're like me, then you spent your day at the beach playing in the water and sitting in the sand. That's actually why I am updating so late today. Plus its one of those days when its just me by myself at home so yeah... So today I would like do another post with two ideas for writers with writer's block to work on. So just like the last post like that I am going to put two plot ideas that you can work on. Its going to have the same two characters with the little changes added to the plots to make them different. Its up to you to make a plot twist and make an ordinary story extraordinary. So lets begin... First idea: Its night, you're home alone and suddenly there is a knock on the door. When you go to answer it there is a man at the door selling candy. As you are about to close the door after you are finished talking to the strange man, the light flickers ...

Our Faults are our Friends

Hello and good morrow to you my friend. How are you on this wondrous and lovable day? Great I hope. My other brother came over yesterday and he is spending the weekend with us.Yay! I finally found out what happened on his birthday that he was so upset. His father forgot. He remembered the morning was going to buy him a cake at least and he decided not too. Things kind of went downhill from there. That is his fault though, I told him that he should of come with us and had a chief cook lunch for him but noo...Its still sad to here it didn't go as he wanted though. Anyway on to the main topic for today. Today I would like to talk about faults. Its something we all have even the people we admire or the people who we consider our idols. I myself will admit that my fault lists would be too many to note. I mean I'm lazy, stubborn easily depressed, emotionally lacking sometimes, emotionally overbearing other times, afraid, not always confident, self doubting, easily confused and a wh...

Story Ideas for the writer who's blocked

Hello good day and good morrow to you. How are you on this lovely day? Fine I hope. Anybody watching the Olympics opening ceremony? I am catching a bit of it but I was cleaning up a while ago so I missed a big part. I missed the starting too. I hope they show it over so I can take it in properly. Today I would like to talk about something something random. I want to drop a story idea for anybody who is suffering from writer's block. I know that I touched on the subject before so I thought that I could help out anyone who is suffering from it right now. So here is what I am going to do. I am going to drop two story ideas. Its going to be with the same characters but in different ways. You don't have to send your stories to me, you don't even have to mention to me that you used the idea (though I would love to see how you make it your own). Anyway here we go... First story idea: A detective investigating a series of murders when he realizes that his next door neighbour who...

Happy Birthday MOM, hope you're resting peacefully

Hello good day and good morrow to you! How are you on this lovely evening? Wondrous? Hopefully. As for me, My neck hurts because I slept badly so every time I try to look over my left shoulder I feel pain. Plus I have the cold and my voice is coming and going, so generally I'm a mess, but what kind of blogger would I be if I didn't update as promised? So here I am again with you, its a nice place to be when we're here together. Today is my mom's birthday, our second one without her. So this post is dedicated to her memory and I want to make it all about her. Today this post is about someone who has always meant the world to me and I thought that one of the best ways to honoring her is to post the Eulogy I wrote her funeral service. This is the first time since she died that I am taking the time to type it up, I wanted to before but I honestly couldn't bring myself to do it. So now, here we go: 'My mother was never a perfect woman, but she never tried to be ...

Movie Review: Regular Guys or Echte Kerle

Hello and good day all you guys and girls. How are you on this lovely evening?Fine and peachy I hope. I think that I am getting a cold. Not think really,it seems that I have it already. I'm sneezing and blowing my nose. That is one the reasons why I am updating in the last hour like I am right now.Its nine minutes past ten, so yes I am cutting it pretty close here. Me and my eleven o' clock deadline. Anyway today I would like to talk about an old German movie (I think it came out in 1996) I watched called 'Regular Guys' OR 'Echte Kerle'. It is the story of a man who tries to drink his problems away and wakes up the next day naked and in the arms of another man. This is an interesting plot and why I wanted to watch the romance comedy in the first place. So there is tension between the main guy (who is a cop) and the other guy (who is a mechanic and an out gay) as they end up living together. Also the cop is trying to find out if he slept with the mechanic (he ...

Failure is not an option

Hello and good morrow. How are you on this lovely yet grateful day? I'm not sure what there is to be grateful for..well I am alive and I am warm, dry and on my own laptop, so maybe there are things to be grateful for. Last night I got a German to English dictionary and some other German text books, I was supposed to go for it today but my cousin brought it for me. Its a good thing though because I really wasn't feeling up to going in town today. I just feel like not going. I was still going to get up and go because maybe it was just me feeling lazy but then it started raining and I changed my mind. =/ Okay so enough of the unimportant stuff, today I have no idea what to talk about. I mean I have some ideas but none of them seem right. I mean I am still going to update today but it seems that I haven't found that spark topic to blog about so I think that maybe that's what I should talk about. So today I would like to talk about how hard it could be sometimes to find so...

Website Review: Omegle

Hey out there guys and girls, and how are you on this lovely day? Wondrous I hope. Yesterday was my brother's birthday I realized that I forgot to mention that. At least I don't think I did, so happy birthday Brethren!! I hope it wasn't too bad. Yesterday he was telling our other brother that it was the worst birthday he ever had. We told him too come over by us and spend the rest of it but he declined. I wonder what happened, hmm I guess I'll have to ask him the next time I see him. I mean I could call but its not the best thing to do when he is not in a good mood ya know. Any who today I would like to talk about 'Omegle'. Omegle is basically a chat site (where you don't have to sign up) Just log in and start to talk to strangers online. Lets talk about some positives, firstly Its nice that you don't have to sign up at all, you basically appear as a stranger to everyone which I have no problem with. Plus its a great thing to do if your bored as hell. ...

Grave Surprise, Book Review part 2

Hello, good day and good morrow to you all out there in the land of the unknown. How are you on this day in this hour? Great and colourful I hope. Today is a very draggy kind of day. Its not really dragging per say, it just seems later than it really is. I have some drawings to do for a competition that I plan on entering. I just need to update this first though..... Now on to the important stuff, today I would like to finish my review of 'Grave Surprise'. So just to recap, the book, which was written by Charlaine Harris, is not one that I am soon to forget. It centers around Harper Connelly, who possess a unique gift that allows her to find and detect the cause of death of deceased persons and her step-brother Tolliver, who are in the business of around helping people find their missing loved ones after they suspect that the person is dead (or have been murdered as the case may be). If you read my first partial review of the book I go a little more in dept into the plot. Thi...

Things to do on a rainy day

Hello everyone present on this rainy day on this crazy yet lovable blog. How are you on this evenings of all evenings? Wonderfully attentive I hope. Today I'd like to talk about things to do on a rainy day. With the amount of rainy and bleak weather that occurs these days it always pays to have a few tricks up your sleeve in which to pass the time. Of course on these dark days all you feel like doing is curling up in bed and sleeping the hours away BUT there are other ways to pass time. Invest some time in getting movies and maybe you can watch some old classics, or some new ones that you have never seen. I like browsing DVD stores and some times I take movies that sound interesting but I'd never heard of them. You can use days like this to discover a new favorite movies or a new collection of rubbish movies that you will never watch again. Take the time and get some games. Be it a challenging PC game or interesting board game. It always passes time when you have your mind a...

Partial Book Review: Grave Surprises

Hello good day and good morrow to you. How are you on this wonderful night? Not blue I hope. Today is a good day. It is a good day for many reasons. Today I watched a movie with my brother, I spend some time exercising and then I drew a picture using colour pencils. Its the first time I have ever sketched something with that, usually I just use pencils so I am very proud of the way it turned out. I'll get my brother to scan the picture so I can add it at the bottom of this post. Today I would like to talk about this book I'm reading called 'Grave Surprise'.It is written by Charlaine Harris who is also the writer of the 'Sookie Stackhouse' books or 'True Blood' for those of you familiar with the t.v. series. Grave Surprise introduces the world to Harper Connelly a girl who was hit by lightening one day when she was washing her hair. One of the many side effects is that one of her legs is not as strong as it used to be and she has to exercise it every no...

Aspire to Accomplish

Hello and good morrow to you. How are you on this special evening? Peachy I hope. So what shall we talk about today? You know I did make that list of topics that I want to talk about, so that is progress on the being unprepared thing. yay! What the hell my shift button wasn't working properly just now. This is a new laptop, kadljjlaksd. Okay back to the thing at hand. Today I would like to talk about doing things that people expect you to fail at, an accomplishing them. I would like to start by saying don't ever let people tell you that you cant do something. With hard work ANYTHING is possible. I have the perfect example for this. When I told my family that I wanted to play the guitar I was met with lots of challenges. Most of the people I talked too had something negetive to say about it. My fingers were to small, its to hard to learn, its expensive, I dont have the skill to pick up something like that, yada, yada, yada. Few people believed that I could achieve what I want...

The Magic Of Music

Hello good day and good morrow to you. What is up on this day which is today? I feel awful. Its that time, if you know what I mean and I am getting the antisocial bug. For the next few days I'll probably have it. sigh* On a brighter note, today lets talk about music. I think it would be nice to get a good mood going. So what kind of music are you into? Do you have a particular genre that you favor? For me music holds a special place in my heart. I grew up with it. When I was younger I used to play the Cuatro. Not alot of people know that about me since I only used to when we used to play Parang in a small family band. Those were the days and was also a very long time ago. Oh Parang is the music Trinidadians and Tobagonians usually play during Christmas time. Its is a mixture of Spanish, french and English songs. If you've never heard a Parang song you should look it up. Its pretty awesome. Anyway dont play Quatro anymore but I hope to get one soon and re learn it. I do play...

My Rainy Day

Wow well its ten o clock and I almost missed my own deadline, but its only because I've had a busy day. What about you, what has your day been like? Anyway let me get to the formal introductions.... Hello and good morrow to you. How are you on this rainy as shit day? Fine and dry I hope. Unless you like getting wet ...heh heh dirty joke. Today I would like to talk about my day. I planned on getting up and out of bed at ten and get dressed and go into town. My brother and I had this great day planned, we would go get cloth to make some crafts like bags and pillows and shit, go to the library and if we had time we would go watch The Amazing Spider-Man and Ice Age 4 (though he didnt know about that last part. It was his prize for getting the marks to go to the school that he really wanted to go). So we woke up and I called my friend who was tagging along first thing to wake her up as well because she wakes up later than I do. Then we start getting ready and guess what happens. Its...

Procrastination

Hello and good morrow to you and how are you on this day? Today is a great day isn't it? Actually I don't really know what to say about today. Its been on the bleak side mostly, maybe it will rain? I don't know and that itself its not really important. I am just stalling because I don't really know what to talk about. Lets see, I keep telling myself to make a list of topics that I want to talk about so I wont end up with moments where I have no idea what to talk about but yeah...here I am again. So today I want to talk about Procrastination. Procrastination, is basically that feeling when you get when you know you have to do something and you keep telling yourself that you'd do it later, or tomorrow.... Most people if not all procrastinate even if they don't always admit it. Maybe if not for everything but for some things. I have been procrastinating alot when it comes to doing designs, writing and some other things that I should be doing. Like there are lots...

Extra Days and Long lost nights

Hello and good morrow to you all. How are you all on this very overcast but lovely evening? Chilling in the nicest form of the word I hope. Today seems a bit slow. I don't know if it because there is a slow jazz song playing in the back ground or if its just in the atmosphere. It certainly doesn't feel like a Sunday at all though. It sort of feels like an extra day has slipped itself into the month. So its like an extra day to do whatever in the world you want. What would you do if you could get a day that wasn't added to the calender. A day where you could do or be whatever you wanted and it wouldn't matter because as soon as the clock hits twelve midnight everything would go back to how it was the day before last. What would you want? I think that if I go a chance to do something like that I would go buy a top hat a fitted suit and go about breaking into song everywhere. Or maybe I'd get a pretty dress with the most comfortable heels and dance with the most rando...

All about Lost things

Hello and good morrow. Any body else very fucking tired today? Because I am wiped out. My fifteen year old brother lost his birth paper and is blaming me. I dont know what to say because I have been looking for it all over and still zilch. The last person who had it was him but he says that he gave it back to me. Funny I wasnt home when he brought it here- then he said that he left it on the stove (careless). Now his father is here and we are looking for it still nada... Sigh* It seems that he doesnt really remember where he put it or if he brought it back. It's worse that now that he lives with his dad. So there are two houses to check. *even bigger sigh. Have you ever been there? Where you are looking for something and you cant seem to remember where you put it. Worse yet you look around for it like trying to spark some memory of where you had it last and you're just shooting blanks???Well that is exactly what today's post is about. Trying to find something that you los...

Siblings-Drive us crazy, send us mad, yet we love them.

Ciao and good morrow to you? How are you today? Fine I'm hoping. Today I would like to talk about siblings. This is coming from experience of an eldest child. So if you were born before any of your brothers or sisters then you know what you mean. This post is the highlight some of the positive and negative things about not being an only child. I have two brothers, and no sisters. I have some female friends that are like sisters to me though so its not like I don't know what it would be like to have sisters. I have an idea. My brothers though, are annoying, they piss me off more that I can stand sometimes and yet don't know what I would do without them. It's like the little rascals are apart of me. We don't always get along honestly, especially since mom died and I'm in charge. My fifteen year old brother feels as if he knows everything. Especially now that he has now gone to live with his step mother and father. Plus he always finds a way to justify that what...

Soaps - to lather or to watch?

Hello and good day to you gals and guys. How are you on this wonderful day? Great I hope. Today I would like to talk about soaps. You know not the thing that you use to get clean with, but those shows on t.v. that housewives and house husbands famously watch and keep up with. Yes those shows with plots so unbelievable (and sometimes repetitive) that you don't know why you tune in every time its showing. Mm hmm you probably know exactly what I am talking about, but however House people arent the only ones who tune in to watch the craziness happen. Lots of teens and young adults also tune in to watch soaps too. The age of the soap opera seems to transcend time and age. Soaps are some of the longest running T.V. programs in existence. Even I have fallen into the soap spell, but I must admit. I hardly ever watch the entirety of any of the soaps that I am into. I only watch the parts with the favorite characters. Thank good for the great people on YouTube who make it easier for you t...

Best Sherlock Adaption

Hello, and good morrow to you. How are you all on this wonderful rainy day today? Fine I hope. Today I would like to talk about Sherlock Holmes or at least the varying types of shows and movies about it. Sherlock Holmes has always been one of my favorite books of all time. It has a wonderful mix of suspense and mystery. With a wonderfully dreadfully sarcastic no nonsense detective and his long time companion. The original book written by Sir Author Conan Doyle is an instant classic. The dynamic between his imperfect detective and lovable companion is one for the history books. Many people have tried to capture the essence of the stories and of that partnership in movies and shows. I have only seen a few come close. Let me start with BBC's miniseries Sherlock. A modern day version of the story, originally set in the 1880's and onward. In this version the story of Sherlock is catapulted to the 21 century, with modern day gadgets,twists and so forth. This version took a big cha...

Review-Common Law

Hello and good day to you guys and girls. How are you today?Fine and peachy I hope. Today I would like to do review U.S.A'S t.v. show called "Common Law". Ever since I saw the preview I thought I would give it a try. It seemed like an interesting concept. Two detectives who need to go to therapy because the don't get along with each other sounds like a good premise for a show. I have to admit though that its seemed very close to U.S.A'S other series 'Psych' of course that is without the psychic spin on it. It slipped my mind for a while though and I didn't venture into actually watching the series until a few weeks ago. I am glad I did though. It is a really nice family series with lots of laughs and excitement. It does remind me of both 'Psych' and 'Monk'both U.S.A shows. I do have some negative things to say about the series though. Firstly to start off with, I was not sure about the chemistry between the two main characters Travis ...

Exercising

Hello gals and guys, how are you today? Totally awesome I hope....Today I want to talk about exercising. You may groan at the mention of any physical work that requires you to sweat as much as that can, but its all worth it. We are talking about something that can increase your stamina, muscles, energy level and I havent even mentioned what it does for your figure. I have had my ups and down with exercising and I must say its changed my life. As lazy as I can be sometimes. I do have my moments and I love exercising. I love what it does to your body and I love how it makes you feel when you work up a good sweat. Today I took a some time and exercised a bit. I did Zumba and it was really good. I had fun doing it. Its also awesome to take a good long cold shower afterwards. It puts me in a good mood for the rest of the day and I feel pumped as well. What do you think about exercising? What is your favorite type of exercise to do? I really like dancing, yoga and martial arts among othe...

To be or be not

Hello guys and gals. how are you today? Great hopefully on your side of the world. Where ever that may be. Today's topic is on choices that we all go through. The choice of what we want to be. When I was younger I wanted to be a scientist and you know be in a lab creating all kind of crazy things. Then I saw all those horror movies where the scientist causes all these problems and ends up dying by the hands of their own creations and that changed my mind for good. Then when I got a little older, my mind settled on being a detective like all the ones I would read about in mystery books. Gosh I love a good mystery but as I hit teenage years. I wanted to be a writer more than anything, I guess it was from all the reading. Probably because I'd been using writing as a way to get everything out whenever I needed to clear my head. Its always been a passion of mine too, along with drawing and painting. I realized that my heart belong to the creative things in life. I could never stan...

Surprises

Hello everyone to challenge post number 4,I think. I have to apologize for yesterday's post. I was really out of it when I posted and I didnt even bother to read it over, which is quite unlike me. I would like to delete it and pretend yesterday didnt happen, but its proof that I am trying to keep up with the challenge and post everyday so its going to stay. Today I would like to talk about a letter that I received two days ago. It was almost nine pm when my cousin came over and dropped over two letters that came for me that day. I was in a good mood because I was singing the Blue's Clues letter songs (I sang two of them, not sure how much there were)and dancing with the letters in my hand. I was probably just happy that I had gotten two letters that were not any kind of bill. So one of the letters I recognised as being from my friend from Beligum. I was waiting for it for a while now, so I was really glad that it had finally reached me. The other I didnt recognise at all... ...

Who's blocking the Block

Ciao everyone, and how has your day been going today? I hope fine, chilling, cool...awesome maybe. I'm drawing blanks here. I'm not sure what to talk about. So maybe I should just talk about my day. Today I went in town, to get some stuff and it was really irrelevant so yeah, maybe not the best thing to talk about. So maybe I should talk about writer' block. Nothing stresses me out more about writing that that moment you sit to start writing and no matter how hard you try nothing comes out. Not that I don't have anything to talk about. I have a topic I wanted to talk about BUT yeah nothing is coming out. I'll blame it on the fact that I had a long day or that I really dont feel like blogging about anything today, but I'm getting a strong sense of writer's block today. Have you every experienced that? That feeling that no matter how you try its hard for you to do anything. That's exactly how I feel right now. Do you have any advice to give me on that. ...

Who's blocking the Block

Ciao everyone, and how has your day been going today? I hope fine, chilling, cool...awesome maybe. I'm drawing blanks here. I'm not sure what to talk about. So maybe I should just talk about my day. Today I went in town, to get some stuff and it was really irrelevant so yeah, maybe not the best thing to talk about. So maybe I should talk about writer' block. Nothing stresses me out more about writing that that moment you sit to start writing and no matter how hard you try nothing comes out. Not that I don't have anything to talk about. I have a topic I wanted to talk about BUT yeah nothing is coming out. I'll blame it on the fact that I had a long day or that I really dont feel like blogging about anything today, but I'm getting a strong sense of writer's block today. Have you every experienced that? That feeling that no matter how you try its hard for you to do anything. That's exactly how I feel right now. Do you have any advice to give me on that. ...

Collecting Postcards from around the world.

Good morrow to you and I how do you do on this lovely evening? Today's post is going to be about travelling around the world. I want to start off by coming clean and letting you know that I have yet to leave the confines of my country to explore what exist out there in never never land or at the ends of the world. So my knowledge of the world is vastly limited by foreigners, friends and family who has explored other countries, things I've read, etc. Honestly as much as I love Trinidad, it would bring me such joy to be able to experience, see and feel with my own eyes what is out there. I love history and tea (irrelevant) would love to see the ruins in Rome, the wonders of Venice, the beauty of Tobago (our sister isle but I've yet to even go there) and the secrets of the many wondrous places of the world. However since my mom died, its very hard for me to think about anything else besides doing what is best for my brothers. Me, leaving here right now, when the youngest ...

A post a day - Challenge

Good morrow, guys and gals. It really has been a while. Coming from posting every now and then to not posting at all is a big thing. Well for this month I want to change that. Recently I have been challenging myself to do things to improve myself, my talents and my writing. This has worked out in wonderful ways because I have grown so much in certain parts of my life. So in order not to leave this blog in the dust and improve my writing even more, my new challenge is the post in this blog at least once a day. That may not seem like alot for the avid doers out there, but the people who lean on the more so laid back that your practically lazy side, understand how much of a task this is for me. I am still trying to work out the best way to go about doing this. I mean do I plan out every day in advance, or do I just wing it and hope for the best.... I think that I may have to add some rules to this challenge to make it work. 1)Challenges must include a picture. 2)Must be more than 10...