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2011-04-20T11:13:00.001-04:00

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2010-04-06T11:09:00.001-04:00

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Why the Breathalyzer in Trinidad will Fail

2006-04-19T11:30:00.000-04:00

So recently I heard on the news that our lovely government of Trinidad and Tobago is in the process of implementing the Breathalyzer on our nation's roads in an attempt to curb the carnage. This to me is a waste of money...much like the rented $US300,000/mth blimp that did what??...absolutely nothing.

First off for the breathalyzer to work we need police on the road to stop driver and test them. Then again, if we DID have police on the road stopping drivers you're telling me they can't tell if a guy is drunk or not??

My predictions as to what will happen are as follows :

Breathalyzer introduced - public praises government for trying to do something to curb road fatalities
For the next couple months lot's of police on the road stopping every man jack and harry.
Police presence starts to disappear from the roads.
Road fatalities pick back up.
Governemnt decides to spend some US$ n million (where n tends to infinity) to implement something else to curb road fatalities
Repeat Steps 1-5 with new product/measure

Installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Linux

2006-04-18T21:05:00.000-04:00

These are the steps I took to get Ruby on Rails up and Running on Ubuntu.
Go to the Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and run the following apt-get commands.

1) Install ruby and ruby on rails

sudo apt-get install ruby rails

2) Download and Extract Ruby Gems

Ruby Gems .tgz file

3) After extracting the Ruby Gems file, navigate to it in your terminal and type :

sudo ruby setup.rb

4) Next we need to install all of Rails. To do this just type at the terminal

sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies

5) After that is finshed you have rails up and running. To create an application first navigate to the folder you want your app to be stored and type:

rails "Application Name"

where "Application Name" is the name of your application. eg (rails Demo).

6) Now just run

ruby script/server

and your're up and running. Open your trusty browser and navigate to http://0.0.0.0:3000 and you should see your application.

Ruby on Rails

2006-04-18T13:17:00.000-04:00

Last year some time when the Ruby on Rails hype was picking up I decided to download and give it a try, following the tutorials I got online. Now, I've been a fan of Ruby for a while now (ever since one of my lecturers told me about it). Ruby to me is simplistic, and comes close to what a modern day OOP language should be. Although people might say that dynamic type checking is a security concern, from my experience, I beg to differ. Python has been around for a while and its dynamic typing has never been a bother to the people I know who uses it.

Although Ruby by itself is a nice language, for Web programming purposes, it takes a little bit more effort that one would be willing to to get a website up and running.

Enter Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is a nice Web Framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern. With Rails I was able to get a prototype of a site up and running in under an hour, complete with add, delete and edit forms, to edit data in my tables. To me rails shines with the modeling of table associations (1-1, 1-many, many-many). It's just so simple to create your site, you'll find that you'll be spending less time on the nitty gritty code, and more time on modeling your data/site to the way it should be.
Another plus to mention is that Rails is 100% ruby code and your web files are in the .rhtml format. Ruby like python is nice in that you could get much more done with much much less code than other commercial languagues on the market today (Java, C#...).

Along with all of this there are many
Plugins you can download for your application. Actually it's so easy that I got a Login Generator up and running with my application (using SaltedHashLoginGenerator) in under 5 minutes. Now this is with role based authentication, e-mail verification on signup etc. basically the whole works you would want from a Login Module. Uploading and resizing Images to your site is also as easy as that with RMagick and FileColumn. For those of you who are afraid to try rails, don't be. First off, Ruby is an extremely easy language to learn, and if you're coming from Java or any other OOP language, it will be a breeze.

Ill post up some helper tutorials later on. But for now, head on over to Ruby on Rails and give it a try. If you're feeling it's not for you, download the videos and see a little bit of the power you get. And I do mean a little bit, because it is much more powerful than what you will see in those videos.

Odeo - Audio Blogging

2006-04-18T01:32:00.000-04:00

Over the past few years blogging has become somewhat of a worldwide obsession. With the second phase of the internet under way, web 2.0 websites and web 2.0 terminology has become somewhat of a buzz word on the internet today.

Enter Odeo - A simple yet very useful way to creating audio blogs/clips, which can be emailed to your friends or embedded in your website(s). Audio blogging although no new concept has taken a new form in this web 2.0 ajaxified setting. Bear in mind Odeo comes to us from one of the former co-founders of Blogger... and was also recently working at google. Who knows, maybe some day in the not to distant future Odeo, just as Blogger was, may be another Google acquisition.

Ubuntufied!!!

2006-04-17T20:59:00.000-04:00

Recently I got my hands on Ubuntu 5.10 from the office. That evening I rushed home to install it, and wow, I was impressed, this was the first Linux distro that I've tried where everything was configured for me. Even my wireless was working straight from the install.. all that was need to configure this was to set up the SSID and the WEP key (basically the same thing you would do under windows). And, being the bleeding edge software geek that I am, I realised that Ubuntu Dapper 6.05 was out for download. Although this is still an unstable released, I had to get it.

The next day in the office I put Dapper to download, 2hrs later I had it, 8 hours later at home it was installed. And my oh my do I love this debian based distro. The only other distro that can claim my love would have to be gentoo. Once you use gentoo, you seem to never want to go back to any other, the only reason I'm using ubuntu is that I find it's easier and faster to get things installed and done.

Last week when boredom struck in the office, I decided to give SuSE 10 Eval DVD a crack. So yet again, set up the download, and by the next day, SuSE 10 was installed. Now, I've always liked SuSE since I first tried SuSE 9.0, when those kind guys shipped me the Eval DVD's for free. However at that time, my only dislike with SuSE was that I found it was too much of a resource hog and a little bit...actually a good bit bloated. And, up to today when I removed SuSE from my machine, it still is very bloated. So back to Dapper I went, actually as I speak I'm doing a dist-upgrade. For those of you who would say that Ubuntu is also bloated, I would HAVE to agree with you, however, from my experiences, I don't think it is as bloated as SuSE...it just feels lighter.

I think Ubuntu would be my main distro for a while. Having said goodbye to Windows, I must say, I really don't miss it...well other that for my Visual Studio Development and the Games...ahh the games. Hopefully Cedega or Wine will solve my gaming problem, otherwise ubuntu may find windows as its new best friend on my harddrive.

For those of you setting up your ubuntu boxes I must recommend this article
http://www.elijahlofgren.com/ubuntu/
- it's a nice guide to get all your usual windows stuff up and running under ubuntu.

BTW. Hats off to the creator/s of XGL. I recenty installed and ran it, and my oh my was it impressive. I think its even more impressive due to the fact that at the moment I use only 1 monitor. Since I usually have to use more that 1 desktop, 1 for work, 1 for chat etc... it just looks nice switching between them now. I feel like I'm using a mac. And for some reason I actually find my destop move and respond's faster with XGL enabled.

Hat's off to those guys at Ubuntu and XGL.

The Birds, The Bees and the......

2005-10-07T14:11:00.000-04:00

I'm back..

It's been a busy couple of months but I'm finally back into the blogging scenes. Started work at Illuminat some time back, doing alot of Oracle stuff. It's amazing the kinda stuff you could do with SQL, even more with PL/SQL.

Work has started on some of my side projects..I'll keep you guys updated on that sooner or later.

BTW... look out for the new and improved version 2.0 of my blog to be out soon. I promise I won't disappoint. I'll be moving away from blogger and publishing from my very own ruby-based blog engine.

expect more soon....

Just checking in

2005-03-18T12:05:00.000-04:00

I know its been a while since i last blogged buy i found these 2 sites, well actually from one of my former lecturers (gardler), thats a must look.

the first...
Googlezon is a look in the future about the past, which would be todate, kinds freaky when you think about if this would happen, and from they way of things, it just may.

the 2nd, for all you IT ppl - IT Conversations are podcasts (mp3 format to DL available), about some very very very interestering IT/future related topics.

Be sure to check them out.

Anyhow, Ill be back soon..

Now or Never

2004-12-16T01:01:00.000-04:00

So I'm home now having just finsihed my 2 courses I was doing this semster. Moday was my last exam. That should be enough to finally get me out of UWI. Yesterday being the first day I was officially home left me in a state of boredom. I've come to realise that I cannot stay put or at least stay idle in my house for very long... boredom starts to kick in, and I must find something to keep my mind occupied or leave the house and go take in some scenery.

Finishing UWI is all nice and good, now comes the "what do I do next" part of my life. My Options are:
1) get employed and EARN money.
2) start capitalizing on my Ideas and MAKE money.
3) stay home and scratch (which doesn't last too long, cause idleness gets to me)

For the past few months I've hav several Ideas of business I could start-up, from e-commerce, to application servers. Now, here comes the point where I could go get a job, or take some time off to build my company. The only thing I fear, is if i do decide to get a job, and develop my stuff in my free time (lol - like you have much of that when working in north and living in south), I may get addicted to a montly salary, which could have a negative effect, especially since eventually I know it would be harder to quit and start my own company. The addiction of a company giving you money every month is a hard one to fight if one get's too accustom to it.

Regardless of what I decide I realised it's about time I started acting on my Ideas, especially those which are new to the market, I dont think waiting for competition to hit and then start is the way, MONOPLIZE from the start!!. So I guess, from now till the end of the year, it's writing up propsals, brain storming, and developing, hopefully with a prototype up and running I could show investors a product, and look for VC's.

I've realised that trying to organize a commited team in a start-up is very difficult. But nevertheless I need people who couuld finish. I'm gussing all capital-strained entrepreneurs encounter this.

So I guess as the title states it's now or never to act on my ideas and capitalize, and try to make money from them. After all, the only thing that could make me stick... is if I tell myself, I can't do it...what's the point in saying that if we don't at least try...

Trapped in Vax's House

2004-10-28T04:19:00.000-04:00

It's late and I'm still awake. As I speak, I'm watching cricket on TV, India vs Australia. Australia is 65-1 in the 2nd innings leading by 278 runs and batting like rell shit. Ravi's(a.k.a Vax) father as we speak just walked thru the front door, see a stranger in the house... takes off his jersey and went in the room. Lawd.. these people too trusting. Anyhow, so let me tell you the story of how I became to be here.

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.. i was hungry and about to order some KFC when Lawrence showed up in from my apt, abducted me and went galavanting about the place. Ended up buying $10 chinese food, getting kidnapped to help Vax out for his Stats exam tom, which btw, I starting to realised why i liked stats so much in A-levels. Actually i need to go thru the work, eventually gonna get tested on that in UWI.

If this blog dosent make much sense... look at the freaking time.

Saw a blood red moon tonight during the eclipse.

Febreeze smells very good. And it does fight odours... As stayfree girl.. it cured hers.

Oh vax lives in a house with his sister... she has a friend over, possible set up material for jeremy.

Java 5.0 (Tiger) is very cool goonna start doing some game programming in it because i need more games to play on my cell phone.

Naps playing rell shit and still making finals, so quality of football must be going down.

Waithing for sun to raise so I could walk home(right down the stree 5 mins away). didnt want to walk this hour... could be raped... or worst yet... be engaged in an intellectual conversation with the vagrant walking down the road 30mins ago saying "anybody see where jah gone?". If he did m20a he would know, it doest matter where jah went... cause the universe doesnt exist... just ask Prof. Farrell.

There is no porn on cinemax at 4:33am (none on showtime either). Cable going down the drain. I gonna so. Australia batting like shit. If i mentioned before.. iz because cricket going booooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg.

Just waked up shazara. I realise waking her up at 4am makes good conversation. Hrm.. aye speaking of that i have free calls who could i harass... oh wait i still have shanna,bailey,cindy,kristal and kavir to pay back for waking me up at 4:32am some freaking morning.

Lawrence and vax sleeping in the same room. One half-naked, the other is in a precarious position. I'm afraid to go in the room to get the mouse for this laptop.

Beach on sunday, surfing competition in sans souci. For those of you who never went, iz trini surfers against brazil, australia (who batting like shit), france, UK, US, barbados. AND >>> SURFER DUDES WALK WITH HOT HOT HOT GIRLS. Must go to check out them girls. Tey does be HOTTTT.

Austraila are now 87-1.

The babty next door is weezing. Australia batting like shit.

Need something to eat for breakfast. Wonder what vax's fridge has. Oh well everybody sleeping, i sure they'd appriciate if i helped myself instead of waking them up.

Honey is a shitflick. but jessica alba orn like boil corn that yuh does buy on the way back from mayaro.

Need to do some programming, i getting the programming itch again. Havent bathe in a while, wonder where the febreeze is.

Axe effect doesnt work. Wore it on numerous occasions, waited by an elevator and never got jumped by any old lady.

Austraila batting like shit.

Several random cocks are crowing as we speak, with a mean of 5, and a standard deviation of 1. However if the probabilty of any cock corwing at any one time is an independant event, so by the therom of total proababilty we could out them as a collection of indpendant subsets with total the total set. For any random cock choosen pobabilty of it crowing could be done by using Baye's therom.

I am bored, sleepy, and apparently, at 5am on various radio channels you hear the national anthem being played.
- This was brought to you by your friendly insomniac.

BRB

2004-10-03T22:35:00.000-04:00

So it's been a really long while since I've blogged. That is partly
because of the fact the I was offline for like 3 weeks, due to the
fact that the SuSE 9.1 installation frigged up my boot loader
disallowing me to boot to both Windows and Linux. And to further my
problems the damn thing didn't want to recognize my modem. So I
couldn't even go online under Linux. Anyway all's good and well and
I'm back up and running now.

Limed alot of the past few weeks. We had a cool big TGIF "lime" (
Tamara :-) ) the other week. Saw some jackass crash his new Mazda 6
into the gate opposite Jeremy's house, apparently it was his neighbour
was trying to park the car inside. However I'm not too sure if he
know, that gates are pretty sturdy structures, and if you drive into
to them, you will damage your car. Oh well. He paid a pretty penny to
learn that lesson.

POKER!!!! --- addictive!!

OHO... CC8 this week ... want to see Garden State.

Viewtiful Joe is Beautiful !!!!

2004-08-09T00:11:00.000-04:00

Yeah so it's been a somewhat eventfull weekend. Ended up spending most of Friday and today trying to beat Viewtiful Joe for the Nintendo GameCube( by the way, this is hands down the best Console game I have ever played !!). I'm almost finished, but I must admit this game is just damn addictive. Here are some screenshots ....

Yesterday we were suppose to go Nuts, but that fell thru, so we ended up going to play squash.. I reffreed my first ever squash game. And I think I'm somewhat of an unbiased judge. Anyhow, so we ended up raiding Samsite's wedding reception in petrotrin about 10pm (after being all sweaty and stuff from sqush).... and the food... props to the cater.. then again I was rell hungry. Beer and food, who could go wrong..

So anybody up for cinema lime this week??... "The Village" perhaps?

It's been a while

2004-07-29T20:38:00.000-04:00

Yeah folks so it's been a while since I've blogged, oh well it's due time for an update. Frist things first, yadav is flying in the country as I write, so I'm gussing he'll want to lime for the next few weeks. Oh lawd, lets hope this boy doesn't get into any accidents this time around.

I've seem to get this week long virus that's been going around the country, and trust me when I say, it aint nice at all. Just took some honey and lime for the soar throat, gonna drink some onion and garlic tea just now (yay, aint it fun being sick, get to drink garlic tea and all, yay, what fun!).

Anyhow so career wise, I've decided to start studying for the Actuarial Science Exams, at least for 1 exam in novemeber. For those of you who want to find out more about Actuarial Science check out Be an Actuary

I have also decided that I want to retire by the age of 40, and to do that I realised I either have to have a high paying job, or own a few businesses that would generate a substantial amount of cashflow to keep me happy. So, I've made a pack with myself to stop taking my ideas for granted to to get up and take action. Cause I only realised that I do have alot of ideas that could probably hit it off and make it big. I've also realised that I have to take charge of my financial life, so I've decided to enhance my financial education. I don't want to become someone stuck in the Rat Race, I want to acheieve financial freedom, and make money, instead of earning money.

oh well I'll rant about this more some other time, need to go get a strepsils.

How smart are you??

2004-07-11T15:08:00.000-04:00

So i was kinda bored this morning and decided to take some IQ tests... Apparently there isn't any Mensa Tests for Trinidad and I had to submit some form for the Mensa International and they'd maill me the test, but I wasn't willing to wait on that so I foound some cool sites that tests your IQ...

IQ Test Labs is really good test, according to them I scored 140... try it... It's cool because you only have 15 minutes to answer 30 questions, and, you cannot re-take the test. (then again whats the point, you'll just be fooling yourself).

High IQ Society - I loved this site, mainly beacause of its design, but be sure and check out the puzzle section, there aren't many puzzles, but they sure are mind boggling.

Freaking 3:52AM!!!!!

2004-07-03T13:21:00.000-04:00

So Tamara keeps complaining that she has nothing to read.. that's a cue to update this blog. It intersting to note how d hell bailey could write soo much about a single squash game, but nevertheless, it was still the best squash game I've ever played in my short squash career.

Tommorow is Euro 2004 final, and I'm betting on Portugal to take it home. Really wanted to see a Portugal vs Czech final, that woulda be more exciting that a Greece final.. Greece play so booring.. So i gues that worked out for the best, now I could skip watching the game live and go to the beach.. weather permitting that is..

It's about that time of the month again... yess you guessed it... it's time for a Haircut... so somehow I have to find myself to the mall this evening and manage to survive the stench of the overcrowded Teeni-popper mall and pay $25 to cut of meh hair.. hmm.. I could just grow it out.. oh well...

On another note, Kristal aka Chinee is back in the country for about a week I think.. She went Platatinum foam party last nite with Bailey, Cindy and Kavir... and d freaking ppl call and wake me up at 3:52....yess 3:52 AM... (that's in the freaking morning.. like in the weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee hours of the freaking morning) to go and lime... I cyah even remember what I say.. was talking in meh sleep... and they refused to hang up so i had to cut them off eventually... this is war... KAVIR...BAILEY..CINDY ...KRISTAL... BEWARE.. i will get you guys back!!!!

Commenting enabled on Alien Abductors Website

2004-06-28T13:50:00.000-04:00

Ok guys, you can now leave your comments on the Alien Abductors website... go comment!!

Alien Abductors Part 1: The Chicken Files

2004-06-26T11:05:00.000-04:00

So the other day me, bailey and tamara was chating online and we came up with this movie... Alien Abductors Part 1 : The Ckicken Files... I'm not going into too much detail about the story line, since it's under development... but stay tuned and you'll be updated...

Ohh by the way this is our cast :
The Alien : Tamara
The Chicken : Ray
The Little Girl : Bailey
The Cow : Lawrence

So far we not too sure about other characters but stay tuned to this site for casting auditions... feel free to comment on wheter you'd like to be called for auditions when character spaces open up..

Bailey, Tamara, Lawrence and whoever else go to this site Alien Abductors Part 1 : The Chicken Files, I created this site so we could all collaborate on the script, feel free to add/edit anything.. nehow... laterz

I Can add pics now....

2004-06-17T21:36:00.000-04:00

Ok so since i found a way to add pics to my blog.. check out some cool images i came across today

Remain Calm Even when It seems hopless :

Believe in yourself:

Teamwork is important! :

Life will get better:

Spain gonna win Euro 2004

2004-06-15T09:42:00.000-04:00

So anybody willing to bet against me??... be sure and if you betting to tell me who you betting for...
France is shit. Italy.. oh lawd let meh not start talking bout them.. England, seems kinda stale this year, and when Beckham has his penalty saved, you done know that England bad lucky for this tournament. But nevertheless check me in a few weeks when Spain win.

This weekend was pretty good, got to see zar, saw shrek 2 again, that movie is highly entertaining. Had to sit amongst 1,000,000 and 1 little children, since apparently half of the seats were reserved, i'm gussing it was some child birthday. Ohh... allyuh hada make sure and put jalapeno peppers on your subway, it does taste rell damn good, spicy enoungh and just bitter enough not to have you crying.

Squash with Bailey, Lawrence and Syne this weekend, made me find my new favourite sport, well behind football and cricket. After spending over an hour and 15mins on the court I realised that 10mins of this sport is a very very very good workout. So tonight again we go, anybody who want to drop in the sweat meet us by the club.

TGI Weekend

2004-06-06T12:03:00.000-04:00

Ahh, the weekend, glorious weekends. Ended up going by Shanna or should i say Sha-naa for her birthday lime yesterday. Twas cool, saw a set of friends I've haven't seen in a long long while. Apparently the theme for the lime yesterday was 'marriage', since apparently everyone was talking about how they know someone who getting married just now. Wham to allyuh people, talking about marriage at this young age??? Check meh back in a 10 years.

Limed in Edge for a bit after Sha-naa's lime since I wasn't feeling to pay $125 for Outback tickets, mind you it was free preimum drinks, if i was gonna dive. Cause then I wouldn't be able to make back my money in drinks. It was my first time in the Edge, and for some reason the guard was doing PR stuff for them, since he had me wait by the gate for ..get this.. a WHOLE 5 MINUTES... while he informed me about the new membership thingy for the edge starting from the 15th of June. Nevertheless, I think the'll buss with that $100 and $150 membership stuff since accrding to johan TGIF opening by Gulf City in a couple months.
Ohh.. and btw ppl I don't find the Edge is all that.... except for the hot girls...

Ohh... finally got my pc at work, so no longer jumping from free pc to free pc.

world of work again

2004-06-01T21:54:00.000-04:00

Yup, you guessed it, I'm back at work as of today. Twas a pretty cool day, didn't get my computer yet (suppose to be ready tom), so I spent most of the day wandering from PC to PC whenever I saw a free one not in use. Driving up the highway was tiring, coming back home was much better though, not as much traffic for the usual 4-6 after work rush *knocks on wood*, leme not goat-mouth this now. Oh btw playing kindom of loathing on broadband is much better.

Yesterday ended up movietowne with Lawrence and Jeremy to watch Shrek 2, twas a cool movie, had rell rell spoofs...

Oh wait... ah hearing Miss Universe on TV... ok blog on hold... ill finsih the rest of my story later... hada go and gape

I see mad people

2004-05-26T12:14:00.000-04:00

Time to start blogging again. Been AFK( away from keyboard ) for a few days. So Yesterday I went up UWI to check to see if any passs/fail lists came out, ended up signing up for a Physics courses in the event I may need the credits to graduate. Was rell bored after going for a 8-10 class so me and Curtis decided to have a sweat by him. Thanks to Jeremy and Ravi for having nothing to do yesterday, we had a 4 man sweat. Played some Warcraft, Quake and Rise of Nations (this game kickass). In Warcraft, we played a 2v2 and me and Ravi wopped Jeremy and Curtis left right and center. Hrm, now I feeling like playing some warcraft again.

Ended up picking up Shanna from by Sherwin and heading back home. Had a cool talk, still have to figure out what to get her for her b'day. Shanna wants to find a girl for Bailey this holidays....and also a girl who goes by the name FAR-RAH BOTT-LEY for kavir ( oh lawd i have crazy friends).

Cinema tommorow!!!

Partying ain't the same anymore

2004-05-23T02:37:00.000-04:00

Just came back from the house party by Curtis and them up in El Dorado,and I've realised house parties ain't the same anymore. Remeber the good old days when you would go to a party and there was like 100+ people, half of them you didn't know and you spent most of the night meeting some hot girls and dancing the night away. Well I've realised as we grow
older our parties usually turn into casual get-togethers with music, and not as much dancing as we were accustomed with ( but the food remains as good as ever :-) ). Oh well... Overall the party was cool, limed with a some UWI ppl, tried to be photogenic while Shanna and Cindy took pictures of my stomach, and ate a whole set of the best home-made Buffalo wings I ever tasted.
It wasn't the best of places to have a party due to the spranger-looking people around the place, but nevertheless I enjoyed myself. Anyways I too tired to blog anymore.... so till the morning when I have more energy... laterz...

Ohh.. and Tobago lime at the end of June!!!

Blogging via E-mail Test

2004-05-22T17:14:00.000-04:00

Whats up world?...just checking to see if blogging from my e-mail works.

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We getting old!!!

2004-05-22T01:23:00.000-04:00

Just came back from Cindy's house. We decided to have a movie-lime get-together tonite, and I've realise we're all getting old. Sitting around the dining table and talking about jobs and all sort of old ppl stuff. Oh well...

Ended up playing a game of monopoly which didn't last too long as it was 6 of us and everyone was holding lik 3 pieces of different property's. It was taking too long so we decided to scrap that and play all-fours, while the girls and bailey (hmmm i think that's an oxymoron) watched Shanna fast foward thru "Grease" so she can sing along with the songs (their poor ears...). Overall it was a cool CHEAP lime. Saw Kavir for the 1st time since he flew in for the summer.

The rest of the day early on was rellll good. Started up the day singing up for summer courses in the dreded even I don't pass the courses I need to graduate. The rest of the day we spent by my apartment playing all-fours...me, meh babes, bailey and nadine. Palyed a game of 'Cheat' (long time since I've played that)... Played 'Asshole' and some'Go to Pack'. I enjoyed myself today, and the best part of it all..... it was a CHEAP day!!!.

Tommorow, hrm... or should I say later today, I think I'll head up by Curtis and dem house party.. ah hear it gonna have rell chics :-).

Ohh... Note of advice...don't drink 'Red Square', tastes like cough medicine with vodka...

Troy : The perfect gay date movie

2004-05-20T22:09:00.000-04:00

So today I ended going to caribbean cinemas to watch Troy. Twas an okish movie, in my mid it definately did not live up to it's hype. I give it a 6/10. And I'm being generous. But as Bailey said, Troy is a great gay date movie. I'm guessing that's why he took Jeremy :-)
Anyhow, as far as casting, Orlando Bloom acted this role so naturally ( btw. for those of you who didn't see the movie yet, he plays a wimp in this movie, and he aced his role).
At some points the movie was somewhat hilarious, and the fight sequences were cool, not the best though, but enough blood and gore to have my babes latching on to me :-)

Ohhhh I need to go to Greece. Did you see that water in the beginning when Brad Pitt 'Achilles' was talking to his mother by the caves, man I would die to be there, that water win!!!

Bailey tried somewhat blatantly to set up Jeremy and Nadine. He sucks at being a match maker. Jeremy couldn't care less and Nads, was laughing the whole time cause she knew what he was up to. Ohh and I beat Bailey in my first game of 'Magic'. It's some sort of gay card game like Pokeman, but nevertheless I won!!!!! (ofcourse I did not cheat nor did i re-organize the cards when he went downstairs to get game rules....oh course not).

Ohh and I got cheesecake today, nevermind that it was low-fat, it still tasted good.

So anybody up for 'Day after Tommorow' next week???

2004-05-19T21:46:00.000-04:00

I know too many damn people

Ok so I've just spent the last few hours trying to get all of my hotmail contacts into another Address Book (for Mozilla Thunderbird). After 3+ hours of manually entering the contacts I decided to give up there ( and for the record, i left out a hell of a lot of people, and I'm still way over 200 contacts). Now why must Microsoft make it so hard to export your Hotmail contacts??.. iz it the price we pay for free e-mail accounts??
It's just as hard to get the contacts to be exported to Outlook Express. Oh well, the though part is somewhat over.

I'm never gonna use Hotmail to manage my contacts ever again.

Mozilla Thunderbird is way cool. It's one of the better FREE e-mail clients out there. Plus it's so preeetttyyy. Anyhow if you're like me you're gonna need Hotmail Popper and Yahoo Pops to be able to use programs like Outlook and Thunderbird to connect to your e-mail account via the POP3 standard. I know it sucks, but both Hotmail and Yahoo do not provide POP or SMTP access for free. Well Hotmail does, but you'll have to use Outlook. So if you decide not to go the Paid way, thry these 2 nifty programs.

Now to sync my Cell-Phone Book with my Contacts.

2004-05-19T16:26:00.000-04:00

Today was somewhat of an eventful day. Got up, went to the dentist(never going back there again), went to the mall got a hair cut, came home and used up my 40 moves for each of myc characters on "Kingdom of Loathing"(which is my book is a very very cool game).

So as I was saying, I'm kinda hesistant to go back to that dentist. The dentist, wasn't all that bad, the intern - whoa...my god, almost killed me. This girl was sucking up all my face and stuff with the suction thingy. She was always getting bawled up by the dentist lady, and looked like a scared form 1 on her first day at school. Oh well, after an hour and much blood loss later, i have clean teeth!!!. Actally according to the dentist lady, i have good hygiene! YaY!

Tomorrow I'm planning to go see Troy, hopefully this movie will live up to its expecations. After all the hype it better than live up god dammit. Rotten Tomatoes(one of the better movie critic sites out there) gave it a 59/100 (59%), lets just hope it gets me entertained.

And can someone please tell me why the hell 'Kill Bill Vol 2' didn't reach Trinidad as yet??? Don't these people knoe how long I've been waiting to see that?? Hello?? Anyone out there?? Oh well....

2004-05-18T04:41:00.000-04:00

Ok guys, so after months and months of being idle I've decided to start back blogging. Hopefully this time i'll actually stick to it and somehow keep this thing updated frequently.

On the brighter side of things.. I'm on vacation.. YAY!! Exams finished last wednesday, hopefully I'll pass everything and graduate. We went Platinum wenesday nite, twas cool, had rell UWI ppl, but then again it WAS UWI nite in Plats. Thursday was utter boredom. Woke up sometime around 2pm, was so bored i decided to go on campus to see what was going on but there was noone I knew...suprise suprise. Anyhow eventually bounced up Bailey and we decided to go cinema after Tamara and Melissa tried to chain me and Bailey to go Nuts. I would have gone, had I not been so tired. Bailey had no excuse, especially after a certain person told him she'd buss a 'dutty wine' if he went. Oh well. We ended up going cinema with some of the fellas from my apartment. Saw 'Man on Fire' ... twas a dred movie, but some things the director did with the cinetography almost gave me a headache. Go watch the damn movie and find out. Friday was my month-a-versy with my babes (a whole 3 months). And for those of you know me, you know that's kinda long in my books. I enjoyed the time with her, I miss that girl so damn much.

Friday night was dred. Ended up sweating by Lawrence, about 14 ppl showed up.

for those of you who don't know
'sweating' - a bunch of guys(and the occasional girl) getting together with their computers and plaing computer games (aka LAN party).

Saturday I ended up in Nuts, bouced up Shanna, Cindy, Roshan, Patti, Kashi, Shane, Nicholas, Sherwin and Michael. Twas a cool lime, I rel enjoyed myself. All of them met my g/f for the 1st time and I even bounced up my bro (what he doing there?... he too old to lime in Nuts!!!). Told Bailey to come, that boy rell miss out. Rather stay by Lawrence and sweat.

Sunday and Monday - went by lawrence to help pack up stuff and ended up sweating. Seems to be a norm thses days. Yesterday me and Ravi beat the living daylight out of Lawrence and Bailey in a Warcraft 3-Corridors map.
And just so they can't say anything we played the frist game with Light forces and won, and the other with Dark Forces and won. Although I must admit, Light forces have somewhat of an advantage IMO.
Anyhow sleep creeps, need to get up early today. Laters peeps.

Oho...and by the way, I'm Back!!!!

2004-05-18T04:37:00.000-04:00

I'm Back!!!