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MTV

MTV hasn't played a new non-boyband video in 10 years. It is so craptacular that I cannot describe it.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 8:57 p.m. 1 comments

Beautiful People

It's nice to see when two gorgeous people can find each other.

http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1055127,00.html

posted by Kent Stalker @ 7:30 p.m. 3 comments

Garbage, Newspapers

They don't haul away garbage here.

The local paper on MOnday had the best cover. The headline was about a guy who escaped from kidnappers after being kept in a hole for 4 days. The picture was a kid holding a 10 foot albino burmese python (a special event at the zoo - totally unrelated). I thought that the guy had been held by kidnappers and they had tried to kill him with a giant snake.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 7:30 p.m. 3 comments

Trinidad Time, Cuban Time

Trinidad rocks. We went to this North American style sandwich place today. Not very big. There were about 10 Trinis working there with a white woman manager going crazy due to the chaos. Trinidadian time is only slightly slower than Cuban time.

Lionel Ritchie is playing here this weekend just down the road. Michael Bolton next weekend. I can't decide which one to go to.

(Hello? Is it me your looking for?)

posted by Kent Stalker @ 11:26 a.m. 1 comments

New Consultancy

Sorry for the slow responses. I guess I am working on Trinny time. There were five people working at Subway today and still a huge lineup at 8:00pm. They asked me my order 4 times. Each time, they repeated it back correctly. Then asked again. Everything takes sooooo long here. My co-worker Pete and I are starting a business consulting firm. We will go into the business and keep yelling, "Hurry the fuck up!"

posted by Kent Stalker @ 11:24 a.m. 2 comments

Full House Question

Danny Miles, if Danny Tanner and Jesse's wife hosted a local morning show, why where they always there at breakfast talking to the kids?

posted by Kent Stalker @ 4:44 p.m. 0 comments

Canadian Content in Trinidad

Did you know that you can be driving through the jungle in Trinidad and still hear Nickelback? Twice. And Simple Plan. And they aren't required to play this shit by law.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 11:32 a.m. 1 comments

ESPN2

I wonder how many people in Trinidad are watching the women's World Curling Championships on ESPN2? Talk about smart programming.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 11:33 a.m. 2 comments

Just down the street from my work...

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=73771831

I busted out my gat and my tek9. Seriously, this shit is just down the street.

"REAL people have to dead up in the Terrace by Thursday."

Members of a John John gang ensured their leaders' word bore fruit when they shot and killed Plaisance Terrace resident Oba Jones on the bustling Independence Square minutes after midday struck yesterday.

The incident occurred around 12.05 p.m., on the Brian Lara Promenade, directly opposite Republic Bank and just across the road from the Police Mobile Unit.

Shoppers and many workers out on their lunch break were forced to scamper for cover when the four shots rang out.

Dudes, read the paragraph where the woman who was shot in the leg says that she is upset that she didn't get to eat her lunch. Sweet!

One of the bullets struck 21-year-old Licensing Office clerk Lystra Wright in the lower left leg. Wright had just come out of the bank and was on her way to purchase lunch when she was hit.

Speaking with the Daily Express from her hospital bed, Wright said she did not recall hearing the gunshots. She said she was on her way to get lunch at the Voyager Mall, and realised she was shot when she felt a burning sensation in her leg and looked down and saw a small hole. She was in good spirits, saying the one thing that angered her was that she was unable to get her lunch.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 11:39 a.m. 2 comments

Second Day In Trinidad

Another guy took my drink today.

We went into this store for breakfast and it had this sign posted. I can't summarize it all:
1) Our employees will not talk on the phone while a customer is waiting.
2) Our employees will not gossip while a customer is waiting.
...
...

I am still searching for an actual cup of coffee. Rumour has it that they serve it in the morning. The place down the street called "The Excellent Mall" closes at 5:00.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 6:44 p.m. 1 comments

First Day In Trinidad

I am at Hosein's Roti Hut near all the banks around Frederick street. Five people entered the restaurant, walked up to me, and asked me if they could eat my food.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 6:34 p.m. 1 comments

jdfksjf

I have now spent as much time in Barbados on a layover as I have in Winnipeg. Barbados looks slightly nicer.

Port of Spain is rather odd. Rumour has it that they speak English here, but I am not convinced. I am doing the "answer the question you think the person is asking routine."

Woman at roti place doing a sweeping motion with hand: "jkfjwkfjwkjfwkfjwk"
Me: "Yes" (I would like everything on it).
WOman at roti place looks at drink fridge: "jdfksjf jsdfksjf jsdfkjsfkj".
Me: "Orange"..
WOman ar roti place shakes head: "skjaskj sdfkjskfj"
Me: "Grape".

Grabell, tell this one to Alvin. I am at Hosein's Roti Hut near all the banks around Frederick street. Five people entered the restaurant, walked up to me, and asked me if they could eat my food.

I will not be staying a year.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 11:19 a.m. 0 comments

On Saturday the Adventure Begins...

I will arrive in Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday.
Then I will be kidnapped, tied up with barbed
wire, thrown in a trunk, left to bake in the sun for
three days with no water, filling my pants with
my own faeces and urine. Periodically my
kidnappers will burn me with cigarettes.
When they finally learn that I am not rich
they will set the car on fire after shooting
me non-fatally 4 times in the gut.
Part in Trinidad in 4 days.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 11:02 a.m. 0 comments

Spring Ahead

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/...id=tor

I think this might be the one Blue Jay game to hit this year.

posted by Kent Stalker @ 11:39 p.m. 1 comments