The Mad Bull’s Blog, Version 3

Hi, people! How’re you doing? Me? I’m good, I’m good. By the way, Happy Valentine’s Day to you all!

Hey, you know what I’ve been reading? “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “The Girl who Played With Fire“. They are by Stieg Larsson. The “Dragon Tattoo” one has been made into a movie in America and it was out in the theatres recently. I didn’t watch it, because I vowed to myself that I was going to read the book first.

Now that I have finished the second one and have not yet watched the movie, I am vowing that I will watch the movie before I read the third novel in the series, “The Girl Who Kicked Over the Hornet’s Nest”.

Anyway, the books were great! They have caused me to burst forth in laughter, and to exclaim aloud when Lisbeth Salander does something “unexpected”, as she is frequently wont to do. I recommend the books to you all. They are GREAT!

So, since I last wrote, so much has happened! The New York Giants won the Superbowl! Congrats to them! I wanted them to win it (once I knew who was in the final) and they did, and in spectacular fashion, to boot! Bullet, bullet!!! Unfortunately because of the point spread of the game, I lost a little money but a nuh nutten! I LOVED the game! Way to go, Giants!

I loved Madonna’s Superbowl Halftime Show. I really loved it. Madonna…. still awesome! She’s sexy and she knows it! I heard that some people didn’t like the Half Time Show! I can’t for the life of me fathom why. Watch it again by clicking here if you like.

Mutty Perkins died.

Bwoy, I will admit it, sometimes Mutty annoyed me, you know, because he was like a terrorist on the radio! He wouldn’t allow people to answer him sometimes, cutting them off and all manner of shit like that… at least, that is my opinion. Still, Jamaica has lost one of her brightest sons and I will miss hearing him on the radio. RIP, Mutty. Walk good, seen!

Whitney Houston died as well!

Bwoy, the world’s music scene has lost one of its premier artistes, Jah know! Its like I was always hoping that Whitney would conquer her demons and come storming back on the scene. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be. RIP, Whitney.

Sad… It sad, it sad, it sad so till! Thats all I can say.

Hey. What a gwaan, my crew… I just finished watering the front lawn. Its the first time I have watered it for the year. Looks like the rain has stopped falling for the present and the grass was getting a bit brown. Tomorrow I will water the lawn on the right side of the house and the right hand side back yard, then the following day, the lawn and back yard on the left hand side. Then I will break for a couple of days, then start the cycle again. Hopefully I will strike the happy medium where the grass stays a bit green and the Water Authority does not put me in the poorhouse.

I bought two plants today. I have seen them growing in other people’s gardens for over a year now and have been meaning to go out and get them, and today, I finally did! I am not even sure if I will wait for the weekend to dig the holes and plant them. I want to get them in the ground pronto! They are pretty plants. They have leaves that are green on the top side and purple underneath, and the flowers / blossoms that they put out are pink with white on the tips. Apparently they are called “Starbursts” or “Shooting Stars“. Here are a couple of pics:

'Starburst' or 'Shooting Star' plant

Here is what the blossoms look like:

Starburst blossoms close up

With my love for the candy “Starbursts“, I considered the name to be quite fortuitous and I bought them immediately, even thought I was only planning to do a scouting mission today. Wish me and my green thumb luck, peoples! My garden is bare enough already. I need to add a few more plants!

I am also planning to get an Ackee Tree and a Carrie or a Julie Mango tree in the near future. I foresee a lot of arduous digging in my future.

Ok, if you have endured reading about the minutaie of my life this long, you deserve a reward. Here is a little joke for you…

If you’ve ever worked for a boss who reacts before getting the facts and thinking things through, you will love this!

Arcelor-Mittal Steel, feeling it was time for a shakeup, hired a new CEO. The new boss was determined to rid the company of all slackers.

On a tour of the facilities, the CEO noticed a guy leaning against a wall. The room was full of workers and he wanted to let them know that he meant business. He asked the guy, “How much money do you make a week?”

A little surprised, the young man looked at him and said, “I make $400 a week. Why?”

The CEO said, “Wait right here.” He walked back to his office, came back in two minutes, and handed the guy $1,600 in cash and said, “Here’s four weeks’ pay. Now GET OUT and don’t come back.”

Feeling pretty good about himself the CEO looked around the room and asked, “Does anyone want to tell me what that goof-ball did here?”

From across the room a voice said, “Pizza delivery guy from Domino’s.”.

Just finished watching “Death at a Funeral” again on Netflix… (thank God for the fact that the internet is back up!!!). Great show, very funny! Talk about a funeral that came off like hell! LOL!

By the way, the movie was rated 5.4/10 on IMDB… Seriously? Those people are mad! I give the movie about a 7.5/10! Seriously!

But you know, Natty noticed something during the show, and she pointed it out to me and it does seem like its true… Have you noticed how everytime they have some kind of comedy that includes drugs, they always play reggae music during the scenes where the people in the show are acting all wasted and stupid as fuck?!

Whats up with that?! What are they trying to say, know what I mean? Fuck them, yo! After all, more weed is smoked in the U.S. of A. in a day than they smoke all year in Jamaica! That’s musical racial profiling… I think….

Plus, the guy in the movie was on some kind of acid! Yardies don’t do acid! Just a little weed!

Bob smoking a bighead spliff

Ok, maybe its not such a little bit of weed… Still, stereotying us like that is just wrong! What do you think? Anyway, excuse me while I light my spliff! Oh God I gotta take a lift, ’cause from reality I just can’t drift… LOL! You know, I’ma watch the movie again.

(* a couple hours later *) By the way, if you think the movie is funny when you’re sober, you should try watching it when you are cherry! THAT is THA BOMB!!! 10/10! Awoah!

Just kidding…. though it probably would be funnier!

So what’s been going on on your endz? Me, I went to Jamaica for my sister’s funeral recently… from Jan. 17th to the 22nd. The funeral went very well, given that it was all arranged by my sister who lives in Florida and the funeral was in Jamaica. Seven is truly awesome, she knows how to get shit done, yo! She is the world boss, Vybz Kartel only stole the title! Big up youself, Seven! Go up inna di video light! Woooooeeeeeeeee! Brap Brap!

Today would have been my sister Elizabeth’s birthday, if she didn’t die earlier this year. Happy Birthday in heaven, Elizabeth! I know you are having fun!

While I was in Jam, I saw some old friends and cousins… that was nice. I saw my Mom and M’Buthelezi too. It was a good trip.

I brought back a car part from Jamaica, an evaporator core (a part for the A/C). Listen to me, the A/C is FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS now, man! Now I realise how long the A/C had been dying! The A/C is so cold now that I cant even run it at the second-to-highest setting, much less the highest! Summer, I am ready for you now! Bring it on, bitch!

Since I have been back in Cayman, I have been keeping a fairly low profile. Haven’t gone out much. Only been to Mango Tree on Friday for a couple of drinks, and to the beach yesterday, which was irie you frig! Have played only a little bit of pool… just been chilling, you done know…

Oh, how could I forget! Last night, for some unfathomable reason, the internet went down, AND one of my computers got hosed! And I don’t know why! It is so annoying! This morning, I got the internet modem reconfigured with the assistance of a rather miserable call centre support rep from LIME, but I still have to get the PC fixed. Maybe I should stop this blog post here and go tackle that… I will try putting in the Windows CD and repairing Windows. I hope I don’t have to reload it entirely! Cho man… I gone. You guys enjoy the rest of the Sunday, seen. Take care…

Three words: Esther Baxter. Wow! LOL! By the way, she now graces the top of my blog. Enjoy….

 

 

 

Hail! Guess what I had for lunch today? I came across this Spicy Thai Chili Tuna in the supermarket and it absolutely RAWX!!! I used it to make a sandwich. First, I added a bit of mayonaisse (not too much, you don’t want to kill the spict Thai chili flavour) and mixed that in well, then I added a touch of sugar (to taste, you dun know) and a little of some variant of scotch bonnet pepper that I have been seeing lately at the gas station at Newlands.

I had that with some “Captain’s Bakery” hard dough bread with some butter and TRUST MI!!!IT DID WICKED!! IT DID IRIE!!

To tell you how nice it was, after Natty had her sandwich, she came to me and said, “Thanks for introducing me to that Spicy Thai Chili tuna!”. Thanks go out to my bredrin “Scabbo” from Jamaica, because is him tell me about it! Awoah!

#nowPlaying I got Star 92.7 streaming thru my system, yo! Big up, Selecta Renegade! Awoah! (* raps *)When I step into the building, everybody hand go up!. . . . And they stay there!(* /raps *)

Last night was pretty cool, actually, despite my car boiling over twice as I was taking it back to the mechanic after work. It had me sitting on the roadside for ages waiting for it to cool down. Thank God fi mi bredrin Gotti, to rass! Trust me, good friend better than pocket coil, you nuh seet! Gotti helped me to get the car to the mechanic! Respect, Sir Gotti!

So what did I do? Well, first I had a couple of well disguised soft drinks at Mango Tree, (the sweetie of a bar tender pretended to everyone that it was Grey Goose and Cranberry that she was serving to me when it was really just Cranberry juice and Club Soda. My gout was acting up, thats why I was on soft drinks. I need to stop drinking, you know! Its just that life will be so flippin boring afterwards! ) then got some chinese food and watched a movie on Netflix with the family. We watched a couple episodes of “Family Guy“, then we watched a Tyler Perry movie, “I Can Do Bad All By Myself“. It was ok. I give it a 5.7/10. It can watch. (The leading actress, Taraji Henson is pretty hot still, IMHO! When you see her in her slinky dresses, it will give you all kind of naughty ideas, trust me!) Yea, so the movie wasn’t awesome, but it was fun chillin’ with all the family on a Friday Nite. Nowadays, either Natty or I have gone out on Friday nights or we are all here, but we’re all doing our own shit, not really chillin’ together, if you know what I mean. It was nice for a change….

Actually, now that I think about it, the whole day yesterday was irie… Work was pretty easy going and nice, excepting for hearing the news about my bredrin’s car, then I went over my job appraisal with my boss! 4.5 out of 5, YO! At lunchtime, Gotti and I went to a friend’s house and nyammed some KFC (Chipotle Wings, fries, a corn and a cole slaw for me… Yum!), while they played a PS3 game, FIFA Street. It actually looks like a lot of fun! Check it out:

I may just buy it and practice it up on my lonesome, then go back and kick they ass, yo!

Then I wound the day down by going to bed at a decent time and getting some good ZZZZ’s in for a change! Pretty decent overall, actually…