My Favourite My Favourite Football/Soccer Team
I was diving with an old British dude who demanded that I watch his Preston North team battle West Ham United for a spot in the Barclay Card Fly Emirates Carlsberg Premiership. They will be my new favourite team if they make it.
Tobago
Done five dives already in lovely Tobago. Two more tomorrow morning. Four were j
ust the "usual" reef fish with lots of colours, barracuda, puffers, and shit lik
e that. This morning's first dive was crazy. We went about 80-90 feet down (in t
heory, deeper than I am supposed to go) into this sunken wreck. We went in and a
round the wreck. Two crazy big spotted eagle rays and a cool sea turtle came by
to check us out. The second ray's tail/stinger thingy had to be at least 6 or 7
feet long. Much like the ladies around Danny Miles, the fish here will just come
by to say hello.
It is friggin' hot here today. I thought I was just being a white guy, but one o
f the locals said it is scorching today. I think I am getting a sunburn throw th
e walls of the Internet cafe. I saw a guy walking his goats today. There are goa
ts everywhere and this guy had like 20 on a leash. Some other person's goat who
was grazing came over to join the party and the guy was going crazy trying to sh
oo the poor goat away.
Bodycount
We went from 130 to 133 today on the Trinidad murder count. This does not include
the two people who had their throats slit last night and arenot yet dead.
My new biggest annoyance at work is people who use e-mail options. The first annoying
one is the guy who sets all of his messages as high importance. I find it
highly important to ignore his. The other annoyance is the people who set that stupid
"THis person has requested that you send him/her a delivery receipt" shit
everytime I look at one of their e-mails. Stop it. Please. The first person to
combine the two (assuming it is not a majorly important e-mail) is going to get a
beat down.
Trinidad Murder Scoreboard
5 people shot last night in Port of Spain, but only one of them died. I guess th
is is considered a successful night in law enforcement. The local newspaper now
has a murder scoreboard on page 3. It stands at 129 for the year.
Trinidad News For May 16th, 2005
This morning's news stories:
1) Cricket team gets swept again.
2) 5 murders in 36 hours on the weekend.
3) People riot when they are turned away from a Gospel concert. Oy vey!
Sugar Ray, Michael Bolton, Beenie Man
The newspaper said that Michael Bolton, Sugar Ray, and Beenie Man all rocked this
weekend in Port of Spain.
The review for Sugar Ray said that they played Poison's 1987 hit Every Rose Has
It's Thorn. They said that Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray wrote it. WTF? He can't be
that old and I remember seeing Bret Michaels on MTV Cribs telling the story of him
writing it. Without looking it up, who thinks that Mark McGrath actually wrote
this?
Trinidad Clubs
There are 2 or 3 upscale kind of clubs here. The rest are local corner bars with $1 Stag and Carib. I'm not sure if the later is a good idea.
MrKW meets Michael Bolton
Totally true story:
Last night, we were outside this Port of Spain nightclub called 51 degrees. My drunken co-worker was doing his best to smooth talk the VIP line bouncer without muched luck.
Mandeep (yes, that Mandeep): "Come on! Let us in. We come here all the time. blah blah blah blah."
Me: "Mandeep, this line is only for important people like Michael Bolton."
Michael Bolton: "Hey, how's it going?"
Life Lesson From Kent Stalker
I have learned in life to never get my hopes up.
Music Downloads
SHIIIIITT! I downloaded Still D.R.E. and it is the damn radio edit. Who owns this and who admits it by making it available for download?
I also downloaded the clean version of Straight out of Compton. "From a super dope group with attitude!"
Trinnie Time
FRRRIIGGGG, Trinidaddy time is slowing me down. We went to Subway today. THe line-up to get the food was 15 minutes. Then we had to wait in line 10 minutes just to pay. FRRRIGIGG. And there were 8 people working there. Subway is a bad business model here because Trinnies must discuss everything. "IS this enough lettuce?" "Is this enough sauce?"
Speaking of Movie Towne, we went back there yesterday for lunch. Again, they didn't have any fish at the fish restaurant. I think I told you this, but it makes my head shake. And there is no sign that says: No fish. How hard is that? You either have fish or you don't.
VH1
SWEET!
Remaking Vanilla Ice on VH1. He has this big comeback concert and he gets pissed because they put his Ice, Ice Baby picture on the ticket. After the show, the big record company executive says, "His drummer rocked."
Two day later the drummer quit.
BIG NEWS
BIG news today. Cher's farewell tour ended in Los Angeles last night after 300 shows in 3 years.
On the E True Hollywood Story of the Carter family, they said that Aaron Carter himself was making $50,000 per show. You would have to figure that Cher was making at least $100,000 per night. $10,000,000 a year for being a has-been is not bad. Of course, she did have to go to Winnipeg. Twice.
We make fun, but I made $1200US off this "diva". Row 1 in the gayest town in America, baby!
News
Last week's from Atlantis in the Bahamas was craptacular.
I am bored. Bored, bored, bored. We went into a restaurant for lunch and ordered fish. No fish. I then ordered to lamb and waited 30 minutes. This was at a "fast" food restaurant. We were the only ones in the restaurant.
