2007

I Kid you not!

2007 was one of the GREATEST years for soca music. I just listened to a mix that Started with Spread the Love and Ended with Higher than High….

sigh… MAD! SICK! SOLD!

Soca season is too far away :s

A Good Day

My Friday was a good day.

It actually started from Thursday, when i decided to skip work early and go to the gym. It was painful, but i felt good at the end. After practice i decided to go to work, once i got there I was good to go. The work vibe stayed with me till five the next morning…
Of course i am on a High after that.

I get home and sleep till 9:30 when a friend (“Tek di wyne”) callls me to remind me i promised to take her to the beach  that day… so i was up again (approx 3 hours sleep) to pick her up and head to the beach. She recommended sugarmans beach, but my brain (tired as it was) was on autopilot and drove straight to frenchmans cove. No horrors there, except frenchmans is too ruff for her to get any decent swimming done, add to that the brown water and constant seaweed was not very appealing. I found myself thinking thinking (as i normally do) that the worst beach in Mobay is WAY better than this (and if i feel this way can you imagine how ppl from Negril feel <sigh>).
So of course, i being idle, decide to go see why she thinks this sugarmans beach is so much better

WOW!!!!

Better is an understatement….. Freanchmans is coastline with sand while sugarmans is a beach.

Now dont get me wrong, its no Negril beach, or doctors cave…. but having seeing not much worth hoping for on my nation’s southern coastline (disclaimer: i have not explored much beyond Kingston and St. Catherine) to see white sands and clear and calm water accessible from the mainland was a wonderful novelty.

So i spend a few hours at a real beach….. YAY!

After leaving i am dead tired, I drop my friend of and then head home to bath and change to get food and then move pans for a rehearsal that night.

Note: i get home at 2pm, moving is at 4pm. i have two hours. 

I get home, and as i am heading for the bath I sit in the bed. Who tell mi fi go do that!? Next thing i remember someone is calling me at four asking me where i am…. oops.  

In any case that nap was good.

Now, every thing from then on is constant work and driving up and down, I dont mind I like being productive, But i digress…

Practice runs later than i wanted so i do not reach mass camp till 11. To be honest, I was so tired by then that i felt like dropping. Already some ppl were calling a texting saying they werent gonna make it, kinda killing the vibe a bit. But BIG UP! to the Die hard Wyning Criminals crew… there will always be a posse at mas camp, so i was good. Still i expected to just sip some liquor and rock for the whole night……

Fortunately DJ Chrome and DJ Smoke and 2 ladies at the bar had other plans for me. ..
Suffice it to say i could not tell you if my high was from music or the liquor… I do know they amplified each other.
Friday was one of the BEST nights for the year It was HYPE!!! Loved it! 

So much so actually that now i am gonna try to source funding to go to beach jouvert… not looking good… but i am gonna try

In any case, at the end we lymed inside mass camp till well after everyone had left. While dropping home ppl I decided to put on some calypso oldies…. SWEEEEEEEEET. In fact Trini and Vincy wyne refused to leave my vehicle when they reached there destination until i stopped the CD. 

I got home at 3am on Saturday and fell asleep with a BIG smile on my face.

Friday was a good day.

Feb 6… It has begun!

Yes it has arrived and the season has begun……..

I will blog about this at a later date… suffice it to say I feel like waking up from a long sleep……. in the words of the Great Machel Montano:

“This season is my time
Its a full cup an is hard wine
if you tell mi stop i go decline…”

Related topic: Someone asked me if i was going to mass camp this friday…. let me respond to anyone who may think to ask me this question in the future; whatever answer you give when asked “is water wet?” or “Is fire hot?” applies.     selah