The Mad Bull’s Blog, Version 3

Man, I had the weirdest dream this morning. I dreamed for what seemed like a long time, and it was SO real.
I dreamed about myself dying… and I dreamed of my father dying too… or, not really about him dying, but about his being dead, and about his funeral.

The weird thing about dreaming about my Dad’s funeral though was that his funeral was at some church in Liguanea that I have never even been to! In real life, his funeral was at Stella Maris Church. In the dream, the funeral wasn’t even at a Catholic church! Hey, my Dad was well known and loved in real life, and his funeral was packed with people… they filled the church. Well, in the dream, the church was rammed too, he got a real good send off, but why would I dream about him being sent off from the wrong church. It was also odd, the whole focus on Liguanea. After all, when Dad died, he had been living in the Manor Park area for several years already… maybe twelve to fifteen years or so.

I am not really worried about dreaming about my own death, because Natty has always told me that dreaming of death means money and Lord knows I could use some money now.

But why would I dream about my Dad’s funeral. Weird!

And then the dream ended where I was walking up through Liguanea and on, all the way up to Papine! Can you believe it? Me, walking up to Papine! WTF! In real life, I make it a practice to only drive through certain areas (the more depressed areas, where it sometimes seems like anything can happen to a man like me who people think has money), and Papine qualifies as one of those areas, IMHO… though I have been into Papine on foot, back in my UWI days. I know that bad things can happen anywhere still, but why tempt fate by walking through a poor, depressed area when everyone there thinks you have money, right? You know how it is in Jamaica, every brown man is expected to have money and to be better off than the rest of the people!

And yet, it seemed real. And when I got to the Square up there, a taxi man recognised me and approached me. I saw him approaching and mistook him for a beggar. In the dream, as I was walking along, lots of people walked up to me and were begging me for money. Well, the beggars were swarming me, bwoy! And I was turning them all back, saying that I was “sauf’ right now”. (soft right now, or broke at the moment).

Anyway, the man said to me that he was a taxi man and he could take me home to Wellington Drive (which is where the family home was when we lived in Liguanea) even though I didn’t have any money, as long as I promised him that I would pay him later. He knew me, you see, even though I had no idea who he was (Lets call him Unknown Taximan (UTM)).

So anyway, we were walking to his car when I was hailed by by ANOTHER taximan. This one knew me AND him I recognised as one that I had used before (Known Taxi Man (KTM). UTM told KTM that this time he had lost out because this time I was his fare. KTM capitulated, and we got into the UTM’s taxi.

KTM came along with us for the ride, (I know, weird, right?) and he asked me if I had told UTM that my Dad had died. UTM exclaimed in disbelief, and KTM carried on with the story, telling him about my Dad’s funeral, and how it was so beautiful, and how the church was packed, and so on, and that was when I woke up, crying. I felt so sad!

What kind of a fucked up dream is that to have on Father’s Day?!

Maybe Natty was right and I shouldn’t have eaten that mango so late in the night. It was really sweet though!

Anyway, Happy Father’s Day, Dad! I really, really miss you.

And Happy Father’s Day to all the Dad’s who are good fathers out there!

To all the men who are not doing a good job at the “fatherhood” thing, its Father’s Day, fool! Wake up and take on your responsibility and do a better job!

You know, I was wondering… When I die, will lots of people come to my funeral. If I were still living in Jamaica, maybe. Now that I am in Cayman though, I wonder. How many people know me? How many like me… or at least, like me enough to get dressed up in all those hot clothes and go to church to sit for an hour in the heat… Hmmm…. Probably not that many.

I guess I won’t care too much at that time though.

I-man gone, yah?! TTYL.

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I love how the ice cream parlour guy asked what the man wants with the sprinkles after he threw them out. I love the look on the parlour guy’s face. I didn’t even realise what the advert was about. I think the advert was so ineffective, marketing-wise! I love wine, women, song and fast cars, if I am driving. Whales and monkeys can kiss my ass! Actually, I would rather they did not, but you know what I mean. I also love the far-awayed-ness of Blue Mountain Peak and the Grand Canyon. Everyone wanna be rich and want lots of money. Its not hurricane season I was wurried about, its mango season, but now that its here, I am making sure I get mine! All I see are ripe mangoes and girls in apple bottom jeans, and I’m cool with that.
Personally, I care about clothes and fuckloads of diamonds, and I don’t care about the things I don’t care about, but do your thing, mi bredda. West Indies….. Furnishing Company! They are the greatest…. West Indies….. Despite all my rage, I’m just a rat in a cage.

See Owen’s post here.

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Hey all! Whatta gwaan? Bwoy, I don’t have much time for an update tonight, not if I want to watch a movie with Natty too, but I thought I would just drop by and tell you about a wicked site I came across. You know how sometimes you are at work somewhere and you just feel to waste a little time and have some fun? Well, this site I am going to give you is wonderful for doing just that!

The site tracks text messages that people send to one another when they are out at night. They have lots and lots of content and I have seen why! The younger people of today are not content to just interact with the people they are out with, no sir! While they are out, they are also texting friends who are not out with them! At the same time, they are receiving texts from these same people. There is a whole lot of it going on too, as I realised when I went on a tour of a number of bars in the George Town region with a couple of my workmates two weekends ago. Every minute they were on the phone texting somebody or reading their text messages! If I wasn’t such a confident person, I’d probably have a mega complex!

Anyway, combining alcohol and text messaging is great for numerous laughs. Here are a few I saw on the site, just to whet your appetite:

(703): fucking a dude
(703): i mean: fucking a, dude
(703): wow, that comma made all the difference there

(770): The iPhone is ruining my ability to sex message. My 5-year-old cousin just picked up my phone at my grandmas birthday party and read “I wanna stand you up and fuck you from behind” to my entire extended family bc of popped up on my screen

(901): i asked him to tell me something nice and he said “your vagina is really tight.”

(732): You just left with that feminine looking guy you kept calling “Jessica.” Just giving the heads up.

(303): he’s going on about how he’s going to treat me right and wants to let himself be in love with me and spend a lot of time together. kids these days. like its not about sex anymore. i’m confused.

(609): Applied 4 a nanny job usin a Legit Site. Xplain to me how the couple I found offered me a 3some complete with ’sexy pics’ of the wife blowin hubby. wtf?
(201): obviously you’re part succubus.

(202): i feel like a thai whore the morning after the navy left.

(412): Why are there hot girls at the dollar store?
(410): The recession has changed everything man.

(501): Brandy, I need a picture of your boobs. Not time to explain.

(513): I was just standing there and then BOOM! She was attacking my face with her mouth.
(419): I don’t get it, man. She treated me like a sexual predator but treated you like a piece of meat.

I’m sure you got a kick out of those I included above! I know I sure did! Yo, those texts I included above were taken from just four pages of this site, i.e. the site has tons of this stuff. Lots of it is funny, its a great way to waste time! For people like Owen who don’t like Twitter, this is perfect for you. Go! Visit the site NOW! It is called, “Texts from Last Night“.

Got a question for you: Whats the funniest / weirdest text message you’ve ever received / sent? Answer in the comments nuh?

Peace and love.

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Am kind of tired tonight, yo! Went to bed a bit late last night. Natty and I stayed up to watch “Madea Goes to Jail“.

What is my view of the film? A lot of it was sort of predictable, and the acting of most of the actors, Keshia Knight Pulliam included, was weak!
All was not lost, however. It was sometimes funny, and the storyline surrounding the lawyer guy who was getting married to the successful lawyer girl, but who was “screwing up” his relationship with her over a prostitute he knew from his past did garner a little interest.

My overall view was that the movie merely ok, i.e. if you don’t have much to do, then you won’t get mad that you spent the time watching the movie.

It did have one important point to make though.

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Well. Now that the rains have started, the mango crop is coming in. Yes folks, it is that wonderful time of year, mango season. It has actually been mango season for a week or two already, but I just had my first mangoes of the season over the weekend. They were great!

I got up around 7:00am on Saturday, despite the fact that I had gone on a nice little pub crawl the night before, and wheen I got up, I remembered to go to the Agricultural Grounds. You see, people who grow stuff here in Cayman go to the Agricultural Grounds to sell them on Saturdays, from 7:00am to about 1:00pm. Since mangoes are so popular, they tend to be sold off by 8:30am. I managed to get there by about 8:00 and I found there were a few still there. I bought about four mangoes that looked like big Blackies, but which tasted like Julie mangoes, and I got one of the Nam Duk mangoes which I love, but which is not yet ripe.The other four mangoes are finished, so I am eagerly awaiting the ripening of the Nam Duk mango.

Whats that? Oh no, no one else here had any of the four mangoes. I ate them all myself! Not that I am mean or anything… Natty and MBJr. just aren’t that into fruit! Crazy, I know… but when its mango season, it works for me!
I know, I really ought to try harder to foster MBJr’s love of fruits… they are so good for you after all, much better than the blasted sweets you buy in the stores.

Maybe I will start trying with him again. I will try with the next fruits that come into season though, not with the mangoes. No sir! The mangoes are mine!

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I was just visiting over by Mr. Stunner’s blog, “Stunner’s Afflictions“, and I saw that he had been hearing bad reviews of “Terminator Salvation”. I said to myself, “Wow, is it not doing well then?”. I did a little research. Apparently the movie only got 33% on the Tomato Meter at RottenTomatoes.com.

Well, I went to the movie and I loved it! More than that, several of my friends went to the movie, and they loved it! I think I am going to give you a little review…. First, let me say this! This is definitely a FAN movie. Someone going to ‘Salvation’ as their first Terminator movie will probably be lost as they don’t waste any time on rehashing the storyline built by the previous three movies. They assume that you’ve watched them all already.

If you have watched all three movies, then you’re good to go! They get right into the meat of things, with full on battles going on immediately. You’re made to know that the machines are planning to launch an all-out offensive on the humans, wiping out their entire cadre of leadership. Going with the motto that the best defence is a good offence, the humans plan to hit them first and cripple them. This basically is what the show is about. And that is all that it is about. One big battle, and the events surrounding it. It is very, “episodic”, i.e. it sort of reminds me of a television episode… one in a series of such shows. Sure enough, I hear that the next movie is already planned.

In this “episode”, you see a different take on the story though. In all the previous movies, I had a really grim picture in my mind of the state of the people who remained after “Judgement Day“. All scenes showing the future were dark and grimy, showing depressing scenes of humans scuttling around like rats and of machines marching along implacably shooting the humans down. The streets are littered with human remains, and as the machines march, they are crushing everything underfoot. And yet, we are told in the previous three movies that the machines sent terminators back to kill Sarah Connor because the humans are winning the war. Hmmm….

This movie shows you some of that other side! Sure, the machines are mighty and fearsome, but the humans are definitely “taking it to them” too. The humans have good weaponry too, airplanes, submarines, and guns that can and do take out the “Terminators”, way more easily than do the weapons we are using nowadays, and which were available at the times of the original movies. In short, this movie gives you hope for the survivors of “Judgement Day”.

There are great CG effects, and we are introduced to a number of different Terminator models, as well as to other machines used to rain death and destruction upon the puny, undeserving humans. All are very interesting indeed! As I said, I loved the movie, and I am going to see the next one, as long as they make it.

And speaking of making the next one, apparently every year, E-Online hosts a poll which seeks to identify one TV show out of all the shows that are about to be axed which should be saved. Apparently the winner of the poll this year was “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles“, with 53% of the vote going their way! They kicked their competitors’ butts! Here are the shows they were up against in the final round of the voting:

SAVE ONE SHOW: FINAL ROUND

• Chuck: 25 percent
• Dollhouse: 10 percent
• Life: 8 percent
• Privileged: 4 percent
• Terminator: 53 percent

Follow the link to read all about it. I really hope Fox takes notice and does save the series for another year!

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Hey, check out the pictures of this car I saw parked up at the prison… It looks cute still. I bet its a fibreglass body stuck on to one of those VW Beetle frames.

I took the pictures with my cell phone.

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Hey all! What a gwaan? Guess what? A co-worker got a new laptop (one of those tiny Acer Aspire One laptops) and I was considering getting one (hey, its good for watching movies on, and I can do a little surfing and emailing amd maybe even a little bit of Office-ing to boot and its only somewhere in the region of USD300 - 400, depending on accessories you get with it), so I asked him to let me fool around with it. He had Windows 7 loaded on it and I was therefore fooling around with that interface. It didn’t feel too bad still, and so when he mentioned that he had the CD, I took a borrows of it. I am actually considering installing it! Why? Just because… Oops! Is my geek quotient rising again? What do you think?

I have a PC I can overwrite with this new O/S right now, but the issue is, does it have in enough memory? Hmmm…. I don’t want to buy memory just to install Windoze… but then, even if I decide to wipe Windoze 7 off the PC, whatever I load on afterwards will be loving the extra memory! We shall see….

Guess what? I have up a new background on my PC at home. I often surf looking for pictures of dogs to use as my background.? Why dogs? Because dogs go over better than pictures of nekkid women at work! I much prefer pictures of nekkid women, but some of my co-workers complain. When I find out why, I will let you know. I think women are amongst God’s prettiest creations, and especially so when they are NEKKID!

Anyway, since the shiznits at work fight down the nude female form, I sometimes post a nice dog picture. I like Rottys, Shepherds, Dobes and nowadays, Pit Bulls too, and so most of my backgrounds are of these types of dogs. Usually, it is one of the first three breeds, because I have found that the quality of pictures of pit bulls available on the web is fracking dismal! I don’t rate them anyway!

But recently I came across a site which has up some lovely pictures of pit bulls, and so my latest background is taken from that site.

What do you think of that fine specimen?

People, I went to the gym on Saturday last and I have not been back yet! Why not? Well, Sunday, I went to work to assist in fixing a problem. We all thought it would take about two hours, and we decided to knock it out early and have the rest of the day to do whatever we wished… the only thing was, it took about seven hours!The whole day was wasted, and I was unable to go to the gym, as it closed before I left work!

Monday night, I went to see “Terminator Salvation instead of going to the gym. Hey, sometimes you have to live a little! “Terminator Salvation” was great! Awesome movie! The graphics were awesome!

Tuesday night, I walked the dog and couldn’t muster up the energy to go to the gym. By last night, I discovered that my knee is hurt. I think it is as a result of walking the dog. When he tugs on the leash, he tugs so hard that sometimes you find your upper body twisting to keep up with him! When that happens and your knee is planted, you can hurt your knee pretty badly! Because of this knee pain, I just chilled instead of going to the gym. The same thing occurred last night and tonight. I need to suck on some pain pills and see whether they help.

Anyway, I man gone to walk my dog again, soon come.

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I have been pretty busy since last week when I wrote the last post. As a matter of fact, I spent a lot of time at work, so much so that I was there ALL DAY on Sunday. Ugh.

Anyway, I was so busy that I forgot that I was to go pick my travel documents up on Monday! Wow! How did I remember? Well, I was just eating breakfast in front of the computer and thinking, “I should do a post, you know.”, when I started erading my last post. It spoke about getting my travel documents in order. I started trying to remember where I had put my passport when I had brought it home and …. “SHIT! I haven’t gone for it yet!”.

You see how blogs can be good?
Oh well, there goes lunchtime! Another pool playing opportunity lost. Drat!

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So, I am planning on making a little trip overseas, but unfortunately, my visa has expired. To get my travel documents in order, I needed to get a police record, so I went to the Police Station in George Town to get one. People, the line was long! Not long by Jamaican standards, mind you, but it was still long! Well, I needed the police record, so I took the necessary form from the container by the door and joined the line.

I noticed something immediately! In that line, there were only three other Jamaicans. Almost everyone else was Latino! Seriously! All conversation in the line was in Spanish… in the English speaking Cayman Islands! I’ve said it before, but the point was made to me once again: It would be a good idea for me to learn some Spanish! It really is a pity that M’Buthelezi (my sister who teaches spanish) has moved to the other side of the island, bwoy! Of course, Natty is against the whole idea. She thinks I want to learn Spanish to converse with the Spanish lady bartenders who are in most of the bars I frequent. Of course I want to be able to chat with them… but also, with all the other Spanish speaking people, men and women, who are here too… in fact, Natty should learn Spanish too! So should MBJr!

Anyway, I was tied up in that line for about two hours! It passed pretty swiftly for me though! I simply took out my phone and started to play BrickBreaker! Yeah, man! The time flew off, just like that! I love my phone, bwoy… It is a Blackberry Curve that I picked up for a song. I won’t say where, but no, it didn’t fall off a truck!
I want to update it for a Javelin now though.

The Blackberry Javelin

Isn’t that baby pretty! Huh? Oh, yeah, I did buy a Blackberry Bold, but when my workplace also gave me a Bold, I gave that to Natty.

Today, we had only one cruise ship in the harbour! Weird! The place looked deserted, bwoy! That is, it looked deserted until we came to Fort Street, in the vicinity of my workplace. Elections were just held here last week Wednesday. The United Democratic Party ousted the People’s Progressive Movement, much to the chagrin of at least one fellow blogger. Today, they had the swearing in of the new Members of the Legislative Assembly. The had blocked off a major intersection and had erected tents and laid out lots of chairs outside the building where much of the ceremony took place. There were plenty, plenty people in attendance. This ceremony was televised, so that the people sitting outside could watch what went on inside the building. They provided lots of finger food and drink as well.

I understand from MBJr. too that he and his class watched the ceremony in the school hall at his school. Apparently they used the opportunity to teach them something about the system of government here in the Cayman Islands.

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