I’m here thinking how cruel humans beings are to each other.  Men concoct these exams with the sole purpose of laughing at our continued mental instability  and apprehensiveness (I can hear them laughing now).
Teens spend there summer days pretending to be calm, cool and collected; but inside there waiting for the prolonged agonizing wait to be over. It’s a nerve racking experience and I can surely attest to that – as much as I’d like to deny it.
Prior to me doing my CXC’s I always heard those “5th Formers”  raving and ranting about how long the wait is and that they cannot wait for such an experience to be over, I laughed and said to my self “What’s the big deal?  – it can’t be that big an issue and merely shrugged it off’. Oh! How wrong, oh how very wrong I was.

I felt this way up to the last minute, but now the prolonged wait is winding down and deep down I wish there was a rewind button…a rewind button to bring back those early euphoric summer days where all we as teens worried about was what we were going to wear to that party down the road, how we’re going to muster the funds for “RTI” and “ATI” and the inane discussions of who’s dating who – just to stray our minds away from the  catastrophic inevitable CSEC results , if only for a short while, but now we’re only a matter of days away from those results.

A lot of teens are keeping there “cool” and are optimistic  about there exemplarily results while others have undesirable thoughts playing itself out in there heads , on which side of the table do you fall? I surely know where I do, but in the end only time will tell…time tells it all – after all, the end justifies the means.

Now i have a penchant for always being late for everything,well not veery late, but just a bit. And as you all know or may not know, I’m not much of a sports fanatic, but this cannot be ignored, especially when i was just bashed by reader Ruthibelle (Who You Calling Boy, eh?) for not materializing my thoughts.

But that my dear lady  was the problem, all i could muster up to express my euphoric sense of pride was two Jamaican expletives, and obviously i couldn’t write bumb**…ra** OK I’ll stop – well let’s just say i couldn’t write that on my blog, so i refrained, but i see my fellow countrymen and woman blogging about it, so how could i not have a piece of the cake, after all it’s so sweet.

You made us proud Usain, Very Proud, and Asafa…well your just  plain Old. I won’t repeat what we already know is so. So what I’ll do is link you to all the Noise around the Jamaican blogsphere praising Usain for his greatness at the Olympics.

Ruthibelle:http://ruthibelle.blogspot.com/2008/08/usain-lightning-bolt.html

Jamaipanese: http://www.jamaipanese.com/index.php?itemid=714

Stunner: http://stunner101.blogspot.com/2008/08/bolt-of-lightning-strikes-beijing.html

Am i missing any other Jamaican bloggers? Tell me and i’ll add you here

Yes, the Olympics is exciting, but let’s just forget about it for a few seconds because there’s a looming World War on the horizon. The war right now is between Georgia And Russia; both sides are blaming each other :re the initiation of the fight, and so the battle continues.

If it doesn’t deescalate soon; this will inevitably become a World War III, which will have consequences for the whole world. Even one CNN reporter mentioned it, but still everyone is too concerned with John Edwards‘ extra-martial affairs and The Olympics…fair enough right?

I need not repeat what is already being said so I’ll just find what is being said around the Internet re: the war:

More re this video can be found here

A timeline showing the escalation of the war from beginning up until now can be found here

Am i late for the party?  No Wait, Still 5 hours left of it.  The definition of Independence is “The capacity to manage one’s own affairs, make one’s own judgments, and provide for oneself.” Well, we certainly are doing a horrible job at that.

To be frank, things are a mess in Jamaica, but let’s not dwell on the negatives of our country, I’ve had enough of it already, let’s pretend as if; as Bob Marley would say “Every little thing is gonna be alright”, but Bob, did you forget about the big things?  Shouldn’t’ we worry about the big things also? We seemed to have been overlooking all the Big things lately, but alas! Every little thing is going to be alright.

Ending, here are a few posts around the Jamaican Blogsphere Re Independence:

Jamaipanese wrote: Jamaica is 46 years old today

Stunner wrote: Jamaica at 46!

Only 2? Sad

i surely forced myself to write this, because it certainly does not feel like independence

P.S I agree with you Stunner.

Another one’s going to bite the dust. I mean, why bother? No search engine is going to beat “The Google“as President Bush lovingly calls it anytime soon. Sure competition is good; but this is just unrealistic and foolish competition. For God’s sake Google is a verb how can “cuil” expect to dominate it in search when it has such a horrible name (Yes, it is a horrible name). “Cuil” is a new search engine which claims that it can “index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google“. Cuil may be powered by past Googlers, but that still does not justify it doing well; not all start ups are as privileged as Friend feed.

Imagine, in another 5 years instead of “Googling” people will ultimately be “Cuiling (Cooling)” stuff? Well, that will never become a reality if it cannot handle search combinations like “Java Pdf“. My result to that search gave me this “No results were found for: java pdf”. Excuse me cynicism. On the contrary, cuil might do well, I’m sure they wouldn’t consider going into the search game if they were not optimistic about success. But being noted for crashes after launch doesn’t help the integrity of the company at all. After all, they are not as “cool” as Twitter.

You can read up on Cuil’s philosophy here

P.S They didn’t bother taking the unavailabe page down;maybe because they are expecting some future downtimes, who knows?

Over the last few days or so I’ve done what some may call a “self-evaluation” of my writing style.  It tends to be a bit cynical, pessimistic and a bit raunchy sometimes.  I must confess, initially i wrote like that with the sole purpose of drawing attention to my posts, but i don’t think it’s necessary anymore; my blog has far outgrown that – something which i never expected to happen.

I always thought it would have been read by a couple people here and there; but not by thousands of Jamaicans and other people around the world; oh my I’m elated If not a pessimistic writer, then what? Certainly not unrealistic optimism.
After my two-ish years or so of writing i gradually garnered the penchant for writing like this so basically I’ve become quite accustomed and comfortable with it. I honestly don’t think I’d feel comfortable writing in any other way and if I’m not comfortable writing then why continue?

My question to everyone is; would it OK for me to continue writing like this? Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

P.S As some of you may or may not know i Got featured in The Gleaner’s Paper dated June 21st ; on that day alone i received more than 60+ emails from well wishers and people asking me for help.  I honestly am OVERWHELMED and i sincerly thank everyone for commending me, i really appreciate it; i tried my best to reply to everyone but that was…well impossible, time simply does not permit.  Nationwide News Network has offered me an interview on there radio program Wednesday at 8, i hope that everyone decides to listen. You may go here and listen online just click ” Listen Now” and it will automatically launch the radio in your system’s local media player.