Tantie Talk
Chirren, I has to thank allyuh fuh all de kind words an' thoughts dat allyuh
emailing me...what I hope allyuh realise is dat all what I saying is jes what
all ah we was feeling all de time. Tantie come like de lil Dutch boy an' de
dyke, is jes dat in dis case Tantie pull out she finger an' is so de people
an' dem thoughts an' feelings flowing! Allyuh did say so much dat I feel is
like yuh need to 'come up fuh air'...so I giving allyuh a nice lil piece dat
making de rounds 'pon de net. If only it wasn' so true....SIGH.
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Maturity Under Attack
-Author Unknown
THIS CONSPIRACY HAS GOT TO COME TO AN ACCEPTABLE END OR WE WILL HAVE TO
CONFINE OURSELVES TO A HOME IF IT DOESN'T END SOON.
Have you ever noticed that when you're of a certain age, everything seems
uphill from where you are? Stairs are steeper. Groceries are heavier. And,
everything is farther away. Yesterday I walked to the corner and I was
dumbfounded to discover how long our street had become!
And, you know, people are less considerate now, especially the young ones.
They speak in whispers all the time! If you ask them to speak up they just
keep repeating themselves, endlessly mouthing the same silent message until
they're red in the face! What do they think I am, a lip reader?
I also think they are much younger than I was at the same age. On the other
hand, people my own age are so much older than I am. I ran into an old
friend the other day and she has aged so much that she didn't even recognize
me.
I got to thinking about the poor dear while I was combing my hair this
morning, and in doing so, I glanced at my own refection........Well, REALLY
NOW . even mirrors are not made the way they used to be!
Another thing, everyone drives so fast today! You're risking life and limb
if you just happen to pull onto the freeway in front of them. All I can say
is, their brakes must wear out awfully fast, the way I see them screech and
swerve in my rear view mirror.
Clothing manufacturers are less civilized these days. Why else would they
suddenly start labeling a size 10 or 12 dress as 18 or 20? Do they think no
one notices that these things no longer fit around the waist, hips, thighs,
and bosom?
The people who make bathroom scales are pulling the same prank, but in
reverse. Do they think I actually "believe" the number I see on that dial?
HA! I would never let myself weigh that much! Just who do these people think
they're fooling?
I'd like to call up someone in authority to report what's going on -- but
the telephone company is in on the conspiracy too: they've printed the phone
books in such small type that no one could ever find a number in here!
All I can do is pass along this warning: Maturity is under attack! Unless
something drastic happens, pretty soon "everyone" will have to suffer these
awful indignities.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO WE CAN GET
THIS CONSPIRACY STOPPED!
PS: I am sending this to you in a larger font size, because something has
caused fonts to be smaller than they once were too!
===oO0Oo===
...an' a lil lagniappe:
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
(Herbert Henry Asquith)
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BACKCHAT: Issue 30
Thanks for sending this info. Very informative. Will use.
//Trinidad
Hi there, I am an ex Trini living in Canada for many years with family
still in POS and visit there every few years, last visit being in 2002. I keep in touch on
line with family and friends by email and with on line news Guardian and Express so I
read a lot of the news which keeps me in touch with happenings at home in Tdad. The
most disturbing in the last few months is the violence of kidnapping for ransome money
which is truly spoiling the future of visitors like myself to come back home to somewhere
you love, "paradise". I have no solution but if the bird of paradise island is to
regain its openess to visitors these crimes have got to be abated.
//Canada
Members of the EU, UK citizens and North Americans are unaware that it is
just as hard for Trinidadians to get resident status in their countries. I have been
married to a native Spanish for more than nine months now and I am as yet to receive my
official residency papers. Hence I have been living with my husband as a tourist,
without the right to work or have a joint account, and the list goes on. It would have been
impossible for me to simply land in Spain and be awarded residency status without
fulfilling a mountain of requirements, even though I am here legally. So with all due respect to
the Canadian, unless he or she is married to a Trinidadian, has gained employment with a
local or multinational company who is willing to apply for his residency papers, can
show that he has sufficient means to support himself, is a world famous celebrity or has
made some remarkable contribution to the world, he has no right to complain of our
regulations, which are no harsher than northern countries.
//Trinidadian in Barcelona
all this trouble on the earth today you need to start building awareness to
help all those people over there what's going on with the earth's changes today. We
are up for real challenge
//USA
In volume 4 issue #30 from a trini in canada somehow i dont think a prayer
is going to help very much because the almighty oversees us all and i hate to be the
one to inform ya but if he be wanting to change the way trinidad is meh tinks it would
have been done a long time ago i think the key that will unlock the door to bring your
country back to the way you want it is education of the people basic bottom line the people
in that country are living a life because of self inflected wounds and what makes
it worse is they can't repair the damage (they dont know how). Just maybe when you get
some time u can find your way back home and become the joan-of-arc-of trinidad and make
the education of these people #1 priorty in your life and if ya cant get your
crap together call tantie she has been carrying the cross for a long time and i dont tink
she be given up soon she be the closest thing to getting the country of trinidad back
and i dont think she be turning down any help
//Canada
Self Imposed Curfew
BS with the lights, we have gone beyond that, I suggest that Everyone call
in Sick for at least 3 days which I presume is the legal time allowed without producing a
certificate from a Doctor, No schools, no shopping, no Beaches, no nothing Just stay at home
and spend quality time with your family talk about Things that you have been meaning to talk
about for a long time but kept putting off because you were always too busy. Shut down the
Country Its time for the Government to stop sitting on the Asses and talking about crime. Its
time for some action because everyday that goes by without something being done means Someone
else is dying out there.
Get Up Citizens and for once in your life fight for your right and
everybody else’s right to live freely. Take back your country from the hands of the Criminals.
//Trinidad
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Jazz Artist Workshop
Concert 2003
S.T. Jazz Inc. presents Jazz Artist Workshop Concert 2003 featuring workshop
students & The Sean Thomas Trio: Russell Durity-Bass; Ronald Aqui-Keyboard
Sean Thomas-Drums on Saturday 16th August 2003
from 8:30pm. at
U.W.I. School
of Continuing Studies. Gordon Street, St. Augustine.
Tickets: $40.00.
Sean Thomas: 756-6078; Patrice Doyle-Thomas:774-4799; S.T. Jazz Inc:632-3061 |
Michael
Baker's (CMB) apartments, Tobago. Self contained, kitchenette,
hot & cold, cable TV. TT$75 per person. Two hour show, World
class entertainment (calypso, reggae, ballads, oldies) One man
band.
Michael Baker's CD 2002 "one Aspiration" available.
Call 868-639-8243(home) ... 868-681-9717(mobile)
EMAIL: mbaker@visittobago.gov.tt
Daneil Trace Carnbee,
Tobago W.I. |
Bonsai Society Members’ Workshop:
Saturday 15th - There will be a Members’ Workshop at the
(HSTT)
Horticultural Society’s
Headquarters, Lady Chancellor Road, Port of Spain
(after the Maraval
roundabout, turn left
into Lady Chancellor Road just before the Zoo) on
Saturday 16th August, 2003
from 2-5 p.m.
Members are invited to bring their plants for consultation and to work on
their plants under
the supervision of more experienced members. Members are also reminded
that 2003 subscriptions
of $50 per person are due.
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"Aria Fusion" at Central Bank:
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th - " Aria Fusion - An Unbuttoned Approach to
Classics and Jazz" presented by the Krabasie Group. Featuring Jeanine
DeBique, Coloratura Soprano
and the National Commission for UNESCO's Youth Ambassador for Peace, Jazz
students of
the Manhattan School of Music, New York, Chantal Esdelle - keyboardist from
Moyenne,
Anthony Woodruffe - trumpeter and Alan Cooper - pianist at the
Central Bank Auditorium
from 8:00pm. Tickets: $100. Call The Marli Street Women's Clinic @
628-8293, Erica Ashton @ 662-1344 and Jeanine DeBique @662-8589.
Email: ariafusion@hotmail.com |
Sacketteers Hike to
Guanapo Gorges:
Sunday 17th - Assembling from 7:00am at Cor. E.M.Rd &
Maturita Rd., Arima.
Portion of hike on land and portion in river. Contact: Garth 675-1742;
Ricardo 674-8969; 682-8577; Lennox 625-9814/674-1350; Amde 624-5328 |
New Opening Hours at CCA7
From 15th August 2003, CCA7, Centre for the Contemporary Arts, will have
new opening hours for the Galleries and Library. Our new hours will be Wednesday and Friday
12 to 6pm, Thursday 12 to 8pm and Saturdays 10am to 6pm. You are welcome to use the
library or view
any of the Galleries on Monday and Tuesday or during earlier hours, please
feel free to call
and make an appointment. |
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