The Mad Bull’s Blog, Version 3

 
If you change that last panel to read “Wordpress” instead of “Livejournal”, yeah, I’ve been there. How about you?
 
So… what oonoo did do last nite? I was supposed to go to L. I. Lounge. Unfortunately the helper deserted me in the penultimate hour so there was no one to stay with MBJr. (Yeah, Natty was gonna roll wit’ the I)
Below is the advertisement I received via email to go to L. I. I show it because I found it amusing.

In one episode of ‘Cheers’, Cliff is seated at the bar describing the Buffalo Theory to his buddy, Norm. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the concept explained any better than this.
 

‘Well you see, Norm, it’s like this . . . A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the lowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
 
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
 
And that, Norm, is why you always feel smarter after a few beers.’

 
With this in mind, see you @ L.I this Friday for your 50 cent drink special starting at 8:00pm.
 
We always look out for our clients!!

Say you didn’t find that funny! And yeah… 50 cent drinks! Thats for the first half hour. The price goes up by 50 cents every half hour until the discounted price of $3.00 is reached! Can you believe it?! I missed 50 cent drinks! And thats not just beer…. I’m talking mixed drinks! Sheeeiiitttt! Anyway, I have already lined up with my helper to babysit next Friday, so…
 
So anyway, I watched some boxing last nite instead of going out… “Friday Nite at the Fights” on ESPN2. It was pretty good. I haven’t watched any boxing in centuries! You know, it seems to me like there are a lot of boxers out there who are getting up in age and yet they are continuing to box and in some cases, to even be on top of their game. 38… 40… No problem! It was an interesting change though, watching boxing.

Tonight they have a set of MMA fights being staged here, basically ultimate fighting. I am planning to go, if the tickets aren’t sold out! We’ll see… One of the commentators last night was talking about some boxer and he commented that the boxer was one of a very few boxers who also did well in MMA fighting. Apparently a number of them who try this end up getting their butt kicked. Seems like this Ultimate Fighting is the real deal!

Apart from that, I got a whole lot of stuff to do this weekend, including trying to find some really nice furniture at a low cost.Yes, here in the Cayman Islands! Do you think that this is something I can succeed at? I sort of doubt it too, but I gotta try! Wish me luck nuh!

Oh, and there are a couple of short stints at work today and tomorrow, just for two hours each, and there is a kiddie party at Margueritaville for MBJr. this afternoon and Simba is supposed to get his final Parvo shot today and my office is putting on a “Family Beach Day” on Sunday… Only Monday isn’t planned out yet. Yeah, Monday… Ohhh, didn’t I mention that we have a long weekend this weekend? Well, we do. I will need it, to fit everything in!

Next week looks like it’ll be pretty busy too! I think my department will be at half strength. Three people will be out on vacation! Two are going to party, (one to Carnival in Honduras and and the other to Carnival in Atlanta… I didn’t know they had Carnival in either place! I wish I was going with the guy who is going to Honduras though… Atlanta? Been there, done that.)
Anyway, my coffee is ready, so I gone. TTYL, seen?

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Mmm Mmmm! Look Weh Mi Come To! Last night I went to the gym and was using a machine when this guy came up to me and said, “You soon done, Dads?”. Dads! Me being called Dads by a big horse-steering, tough-back man.

Damn!

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NOTE: This conversation below is based upon an error, as the subject of the conversation, Cristiano Ronaldo, is not the man who did the deed discussed. That honour is reserved for the Brazilian Ronaldo, also a skilled footballer and also one who would do better to refrain from such things. The conversation did go exactly like that though, and as such, the post remains the same, save for this note and my final comment.
 

 
A bunch of us from my department took a short break this morning. We went over to Fort Street Market and we each bought a cup of soup. We do this all the time, so much so that we have named this exercise “The Soup Run”. We took that to our lunch room and sat watching Manchester United playing Wiggan on one of the Flat Screen TVs. After Manchester United’s star forward Cristiano Ronaldo made an irie play, the following conversation ensued:

Guy 1:
You know, Christiano Ronaldo is DEFINITELY one of the greatest footballers in the world right now!

Guy 2:
Wow, so when exactly did you make this discovery?

Girl :
You heard about him and the transvestite prostitutes, right?

Guy 1:
Christiano Ronaldo went with some transvestite prostitutes?

Guy 3:
Yeah, they must’ve tricked him. Then they told him they would take $1,000 and not talk about it. Two of them took the money and then the third said he wanted $30,000, and when he didn’t get it, he went to the media with the story.

Guy 1:
Rass! What Christiano should’ve done was to beat them. Damned tricksters!

Girl :
Its Ronaldo who needs a beating? He shouldn’t be going with prostitutes, whether male or female.

Guy 1:
Yeah, ok, so thats true, but they are still frigging wicked! How can they just deceive a man like that…. thats just… thats dishonest!

Girl :
Chupse! You’re going on like it would have been ok for him to go with a female prostitute!

Guy 1 :
No, I’m not saying that, but… what they did was just WRONG! Still, you’re right! He is the greatest footballer in the world right now and considering how he looks, he should never have to go with a prostitute!

Guy 4 :
Yeah, I agree with you on that one! Now if you was talking about Ronaldino buying prostitutes, then I could understand! That is one ugly mofo, yo!

All : LOL

I googled to find this story, but I didn’t. I did find many links to stories of him taking on women prostitutes though. Seems he is quite the low-biter, isn’t he? Hmm.

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Hail up, my crew. How you do? First of all, let me wish a Happy Mother’s Day to all of my lady readers who fall into this category! Big up to you, nuff respect! I hope your man and your kids treat you good today, and have a great day!

I came across something interesting this morning regarding Mothers day, actually. Did you know that Mother’s Day is 100 years old? Yes sir, this day we now celebrate has only been celebrated annually in the last 100 years. In 1908, a woman named Anna Jarvis organised the first official Mothers Day Service at a church where her mother had taught school for 20 years. Today, the former Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church is the official shrine to mothers around the world.

What is your take on Mother’s Day? Is it a good thing, do you think we should continue celebrating it?

Here is something else interesting about Mother’s Day… Anna Jarvis did not like the over-commercialism that overtook Mother’s Day at all. She is said to have written scathing letters to people she knew who had gone out and bought a Mother’s Day card, saying they were too lazy to write personal letters “to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world.”. She went to her grave feeling that she was sorry she had come up with the whole thing, can you believe it? Read all about that story if you like by following this link, zeen?

You know what else I came across in my reading today? Well, I came across this excerpt from Beverley Manley’s book, “The Manley Memoirs”. It was interesting reading. Now, everybody knew that Michael Manley was the ram goat to top all ram goats, and yet I never knew just how tuff the man was, rasta.

Imagine, Beverley knew that Michael was having affaires left, right and center, and she had had heated discussions with him on these issues. Ok… normal. She says that she eventually agreed to stay with him on the condition that he stop having affaires with women who were in their immediate circle! Not that he stop with the affaires! No! She knew that this would never happen, and she was willing to deal with that! Just don’t have them with women in their circle, in other words, don’t embarrass the rass out of her.

Michael must have really had an extraordinary way with the ladies, sah! Imagine! Beverley Manley was not some streggeh gyal, who never see, come see! She was a strong Jamaican woman! She had an education and a career, and she certainly didn’t disappear into the woodwork after she left him. And yet, she was prepared to stay with him, knowing that he was having affaires, just so long as he never threw them in her face. Some man ah bad man, bwoy! Real bad man!

But I wonder if she realised that Michael never really loved her. At least, that is the conclusion I drew. After all, you are married to a woman, and a man who is supposed to be your friend, a man you work with (D.K. Duncan), unda you nose him sneak in and start eat out you food…. and you tell your wife that she can continue with the affaire until she gets over it? No, he never loved her… I don’t think he did, anyway. He must’ve just been interested in appearances, you know, for political reasons. Go read up on the excerpt and then tell me what you think nuh?

So, how is your weekend going so far? Mine is ok… not all exciting like last weekend when Natty and I danced the place down at the Machel Montano fete, but still nice. This weekend was all about the gym, though. Yes man, Saturday’s gym visit marks the first week I have made it to the gym all of five times for the week! I have been trying to do this for some time, but something always intervenes, most recently, ABC’s “Lost” and walking Simba (my puppy) and general tiredness.

This week though, five times! Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday (I went at 5:00 AM on Friday, first I have ever done that) and Saturday.

Picture taken at a
recent Lingerie & Pajamas party here, courtesy
of PartySurfers.ky.

Actually, it was the 5:00 AM gym visit on Friday that relegated this weekend to being merely a normal weekend, because I was planning to go to the L.I. Lounge on Friday and I am sure that would’ve been off the hook, because they sure do know how to party in the Cayman Islands, (check out that picture above! Don’t think it was at L. I., but that don’t mean it couldn’t happen there, you zimi? I will have to bend the ear of the owners…) but I was too rass tired to go! Cho
Bwoy, its been a long time since I have been to a good Lingeree / Pajama party! Drunken Debauchery!!! You just gotta love it!! I don’t know how I let these things pass me by! I need to write a little tune “Seh me nah get up from 4:00AM and go ah Gym again! Oh No!” and sing it to the riddim of the song “Nah go a Jail again”. I wonder if I could make a likkle money from that? Click on the picture above to see the party pictures…

Anyway, the weekend hasn’t been bad so far, and hopefully today will be irie and mello, so I not really complaining. I gone go make some “Mothers Day” Coffee, you hear, before Natty get up and start get grumpy because I haven’t even thought to make her a little coffee to start her morning right. TTYL, my peeps.

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Today is my brother-in-law Midas’ birthday. I promised to post up a picture of a hot, buxom, voluptuous latina chick, preferably with some irie “bumper” highlights as a gift to the bredrin. Join me in wishing him Happy Birthday, nuh?
 

Happy Birthday
Midas!!!
 

 
Midas, I know that these pictures aren’t EXACTLY what you ordered, but I haven’t had time to do a proper search online. MBJr. has been hogging the PC and on top of that, I have been a bit busy. Still, I don’t think you’ll complain too much with the selection I have here for you…. These were taken during Cayman Carnival Batabano 2008 (in other words, last weekend) by Luis Vallecillo. I don’t know him, but he takes great photios, and I was moved to pinch two. If y’all want to, y’all can go see more examples of his work hereso, seen?
 

 

 
Wah Wow! I didn’t actually go to watch the street parade myself, I thought the sun would be too hot, but from the pictures, Cayman Carnival looked yummy!!!

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Ok, so as I stated last night, I wrote a post only to have it swallowed up by the internet shark demon thingie that is always going around swallowing up things people are trying to put on the internet. Gooders Girl commented that she couldn’t believe that a “Computer God” (CG) like me can lose posts. Well… all I can say is, “Gooders, it is you who say I am a CG, not I, and yes, it happened.”.

First, you will remember that I mentioned that Machel Montano and Xstatik were going to be here! Let me tell you quickly that Machel Montano and Xstatik were great, Natty and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at the show and I danced till I wet! Big up to Machel and Xtatik, Patrice Roberts and Farmer Nappy (of “Chippin down de Road Wit’ Me Own Woman” fame). Big up also to Byron Lee and the Dragonnaires who opened for Machel. They were pretty decent still.

For more about Machel and what he is up to nowadays, click here.

Anyway, my post last night was about two things which have been getting lots of press, discussion and so forth here in the Cayman Islands right now. The first, and more important had to do with the wanton murder of six Blue Iguanas. Now the Blue Iguana is indigenous to the Cayman Islands, and also, they are nearly extinct. Yes, people, they are high on the endangered list. There is an active program which seeks to take the Blues off the endangered list, and they have set up an area in the Queens Botanical Gardens where they are raising some Blues in captivity. They are actually trying to breed up some good numbers and then release them.

Can you imagine that some wicked person(s) broke into that facility and killed six of these iguanas?! That number may seem small, but when you consider that this is one third of all the iguanas they have in this facility, you will understand that this is a big deal!

I hear that the authorities intend to prosecute the perpetrators to the full extent of the law if they catch them, and they are likely to have to pay fines of up to CI$10,000 and also serve three years per iguana! I think thats a good thing, and I hope they catch the bastards! Read up on what people here think about this senseless act at the MarlRoad.com forum.

Also in the news are a couple of gay activists who were on the island recently. Apparently they got into one big kissing frenzy in a public place, that is, at a restaurant and bar. A number of the patrons at the bar were offended by this and they spoke to the men, telling them taht they were desist from this activity. Being activists, this seemed to have spurred the gays up to higher heights in their kissing, (or deeper depths, depending on your viewpoint ) and eventually a patron pointed them out to a policeman. The policeman went over and told them that their actions were illegal in the Cayman Islands and they were to desist, but this only brought on another round of kissing.

Eventually one of the men was arrested. Since then, he has written letters of complaint to a number of parties, and the Department of Tourism has written to him apologising for his treatment here in Cayman. He seems to have got the word out to some of his activist brethren and a wave of people from overseas have been visiting the Cayman Compass website to read the story online, so many visitors that they actually crashed the website!

This has been a big topic of discussion here in Cayman as well. You can read up on people’s views on this issue at the MarlRoad.com forum.

Anyway, tell me what you think about these things, me bredrins, and we can discuss them in the comments. For now, I gone. Have to help MBJr. with his homework and go to the gym. TTYL.

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You know say I was writing one long post and then I lost it! Cho man!
I not even going to try to rewrite it tonight. I’m going to my bed! Hold on to this stuff below as a post substitute.

THIS IS BRILLIANT!!! HAVE FUN!
If you cannot decipher anything, then try pulling the corner of your eyes as if you were Chinese.
It works!

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Well, today is D-Day! Or perhaps M-Day would be a better name, you know, “Move Day”. Today, we move out of the house here in Northward where we have been living for the past four years. Tonight, I will be sleeping in George Town for the first time! I guess I am now a “Townah”, eh? (correctly spelled, “Towner”, a nickname for people who hail from the district of George Town. They have nicknames for people of the different districts over here in the Cayman Islands. If you’re from West Bay, you are a Bayer, if you’re from East End, you’re an East Ender, if you’re from Cayman Brac, you’re a Bracah (Brac’er), and so forth.)

Anyway, my “Townah” status is supposed to be short lived. Soon I will return to the Bodden Town District. At least, I hope so. I hope the contractor isn’t chatting a lot of fart!
I am going to be up in Bodden Town regularly as well, as I plan to check Simba very regularly! Yeah, unfortunately I have to leave Simba with a friend here until I return triumphantly to Northward!

We simply don’t have room for a puppy where we’re going, its just a 2br / 2ba apartment. It does have a pool though, and I plan to use that regularly! Gonna live it up while I can, you done know!
See, there are both good and bad things associated with this move.

Hey people, Ubuntu 8.04 is here. As I sit and wait for the movers to arrive, I am downloading the CD files. Depending on how the move goes, I will amuse myself either tonight or tomorrow night by installing it. You guys should try it too, we can have fun comparing notes.

This weekend, there is going to be a big show, with Byron Lee & the Dragonnaires, Machel Montano and Xstatik, and others. Of course, I already have tickets for Natty and myself. Now if I can just convince M’Buthelezi to babysit MBJr., everything will be lined up for a PARTAY! I will tell you all how that goes. Anyway, I am going to run. I am sitting here typing this in my boxers and the helper soon come (yeah, we get a helper now to rahtid!) and she might take a dim view of me greeting her in this attire, so me gone to get ready for the arduous workday ahead of me.

Peace out, mah peeps!

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Congratulations go out to Mavado, who has been written up in Rolling Stone Magazine in an article on “The 125-Plus People, Places and Things Ruling the Rock & Roll Universe”.

Mavado is mentioned under the caption “Best New Reggae”.

I agree with the guy who wrote the article that Mavado is one of the hottest artistes in Dancehall right now, but I just wish he would back away from all the gun lyrics and glamorising of violence. If he put that voice to some “up-ful” lyrics, it could be a great thing. Mavado, you can be so much more than a gangsta. Dash away the badman business and the badman friends, star!

Big up to Outaroad dot com for the link still.

In other news, I-man still packing, so I gone. Peace.

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Wicked song, iyah! By the way, I promised you a picture showing the view from my new office, on the new building the bank I work for has just put up… Well, here is just a piece of the view, seen?! The shot is of some boats on “parade” at the start of the Cayman Islands Int’l Fishing Tournament which was recently held.

Nice, huh?

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