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This week's Bajanism - Duppy

Pronunciation: \ˈdʌpɪ\

Function : noun

Plural: Duppies

Etymology: Caribbean: Barbados, Jamaica, EC

Definition:

1: a spirit or ghost

2: Duppy folklore originates from West Africa. A duppy can be either the manifestation (in human or animal form) of the soul of a dead person, or a malevolent supernatural being. In Obeah, a person is believed to possess two souls - a good soul and an earthly soul. In death, the good soul goes to heaven to be judged by God, while the earthly spirit remains for three days in the coffin with the body, where it may escape if proper precautions are not taken, and appear as a duppy.

Chasing waves and Yacht spotting - Day 1

Today began pretty much as usual, woke up around 6a.m and was out searching for a spot to 'wet run' my new BZ PRO HUBB 41.5 (TAN-TARAN-TA-TA-TA-TAAAAAA) and trolled everywhere on the south coast until I got back to ol' reliable silver sands beach, it was ok, a bit messy at times, plus there was that run in with a small stingray/mantaray jumping out of the water(personal reference here), but i stuck it out for the entire morning as THE BOARD FUCKING ROCKED!, seriously, carving around tourists (or 'tourisms' as I like to call them) left right and centre.

Around 11.30 I decided to fuck off to find something to eat, and while I happened to do so I got a tip-off that the west/north coast was the place to be. Change of plans. I made a bee-line for my favorite west coast break, a place called tropicana, it's a sweet reef break that can be like riding on a sheet of glass.

On the way there, I happened to spot this thing in at the port, apparently it belongs to Paul Allen of microsoft fame and it's f-ing huge, (wikiworldorder article here.)

Here are a few pictures of it I pilfered off the net that also happen to be in good ol' bim.

and yes, that is a yacht inside of the yacht.

:-| anyhoo,

so I got to tropicana and it was mediocre at best, so I f-ed off again to head to one of our more infamous breaks at a place called "duppies".

interjection: Anyone that has ever surfed in Barbados has heard of duppies, and so I feel it's my duty to provide you with a summative description of said location; *ahem*

• 20'+ waves - check
• secluded desolate location - check
• cliff descent for water entry - check
  
• 1/4 mile paddle to the take-off point - check
• riptides - check
• crazy jackass living near the edge of the cliff that randomly dumps dead chickens off the cliff - check
  
• abundance of carnivorous sealife - check

And by carnivorous sealife I mean sharks.

end interjection

today was no exception, sans 20' breakers, but I estimated 12-14' for sure, and for the first 1/8 mile out looked like a washing machine on agitate. I'll update with the pictures I took on my phone to corroborate this. Needless to say, I suffered a severe case of the 'yellow belly' and was forced to sit that session out and made do with having to watch all 3 nutters surfers that dared to enter the water.

Endtroducing...............

Yes! so I've finally gotten a new sponge to replace my other cracked, decrepit BZ. It was a faithful old board, don't think it's ever let me down, but, I decided it was about time for a change when I was dropping in about a month ago and it had so much flex that it put me through the heavy wash cycle. Onto bigger and better things it's a BZ again, but this time it's a pro board (oooooooh, aaaaaaaah) and pretty sweet if I say so myself. have a look at it here. I'll go more into the test drive shenanigans in the next post hopefully after this tryptophania has worn ozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

AUUUUUGGGGHHH!!

I promised myself that I wouldn't post anything Tiger Woods related since his, erm, fiasco but this jewel was the straw that broke the camel's back.

'Twas the night before Christmas

Merry christmas to all and sundry from the house of T

The liver is evil.....and must be punished

Ooop, entries for december will be a bit slight, I've got some long time family friends in from the UK[aaaaaaaii] and my days tend to go along the lines of;

wake up --> beach --> boozing --> lather --> rinse --> repeat


damn you to hell drinks free events.

My God....

Only the good die young

This post is dedicated to the memory of one of the greatest people I've had the pleasure of meeting;

Mr. Matthew Maharaj, a brilliant mathematician, musician, singer. Too great to be forgotten

Only the good die young,
All the evil seem to live forever,
Only the good die young,
All the evil seem to live forever,
Only the good die young,
Only the good die young

This week's Bajanism - Bariffle

Pronunciation: \ˈbə-rif-fu̇l\

Function: noun

Synonyms: copius, alot

Etymology: Caribbean: Barbados

Definition:

1: a full or more than adequate amount or supply

2: the quality or state of being copious

WTF?!

Now, this is one of those times when I sit and think to myself, self, If I chanced to step outside at 2.00a.m. for a cigarette break and I looked up and this is what I saw, what would really be my next move?

The picture above has not been edited or photoshopped in any way. It's what norweigan soldiers chanced to come across last night when they so ventured out.

yep. There's a damn good reason why these things don't happen over the Caribbean

Paging Captain Kirk

AAhhhhh..... Richard Branson unveiled virgin galactic's production spaceliner yesterday, amidst puddles of drool from trekkies the world over.

I'm also that much closer, 小, to catching up with that lucky bastard james may. I just need to round up $200,000 for the ticket

No matter what happens today.............

.....the sun will still rise tomorrow.

I was told that once by a Lecturer, the fact that while he was telling me this his brain was cruising along at 37,000ft on Air Jamaica flight 420 with the seat fully reclined is beside the point. It's just one of those things that seems to have stuck in my mind ever since, and seeing as today's been a particularly shite day, I think it's quite fitting.

I ♥ transitive pictograph verbalisations.

I've always had a bit of a chip on my shoulder about the lack of respect that construction students (or prospectives) receive from the general population. Whenever I mention my field of choice they just look at me and say something like "What?" or "..oh...I see, I didn't even know there was a degree for that, is it new?", (feel free to add your own condescending inflection there.)

Sadly, It's not even necessarily a sentiment that's limited to the caribbean. But, what really annoys me about it is that government, the ministry of education in particular, seems to adopt the attitude that anyone not pursuing a degree in medicine, law and/or politics (like we need any more of those!) as a 3rd class candidate when it comes to funding.

Yet, when someone visits a country for the first time, what's the first thing that might allude to that country's status in the pecking order?? the buildings and infrastructure of course!!

So why in the sweet name of Jeebus would Government treat those responsible for the production of the above like bottom feeders? then they bitch and complain about construction standards and the like. Idiots.

This week's Bajanism - Pooshark

Pronunciation: \ˈpü-ˈshärk\

Function: verb

Synonyms: Skylark

Etymology: Caribbean

Definition:

1: to dilly-dally or engage in general tomfoolery.

2: that elusive nugget of poo that will not flush down the toilet, no matter how many repeat flushes occur.

Better late than never

Happy belated Thanksgiving to all illegal immigrants americans

Batting 100

Here we go again