PLaNs fOr biG tiMeS

2006-03-31T05:27:00.000-08:00

And so there I was enjoying the day waiting for the evening as I had planned a date with a friend. A little conversation, a movie, some food, take the broad back home, if everything works out some poontang. With poontang bing last on the list. I acknowledge the desire but I understand the implications of it... with that in mind I wil not play. 4:30p.m. whoo hoo! end of the day... get to my cousin's to unwind a little... a car pulls up. My drinking buddies from Arima show up are hell bent on me ducking my friend and going with them to Arima for some alcohol induced mania. I decline...holding firm to my promise to the movie date. Date shows up...with a self proclaimed invited friend. Cool seen. No problem. What ensued was one of the most difficult evenings of my life. Self proclaimed friend doesn't stop talking... self procalaimed friend talks about everything personal or as if it were intangible or already understood. Fast forward to cinema... show was cancelled. What to do now? Get food... back to the shelter... sticky and music. The remainder of the evening was bogged by the now sleepy self proclaimed invited friend... unable to express myself due to extreme stress levels and sticky induced trauma... I sat and waited... with the evening getting pointless by the second I said FUCK IT ALL in my head.
I've already wasted my evening.

2006-03-28T10:50:00.000-08:00

so i promised to tell you all about the clan iron belly -- and now i have an opportunity

yesterday i thought i would start a seven days fast but decided not to. a good friend of mine's financee gave me a great big bag of food that was cooked saturday and i dont want to see it waste. its 'prayers food' and i have a thing about that. i dont ever waste that stuff. so i decided i will go seven days on this food only. the *special* thing about the food is it smelled a little sour last night.
no problem i put it in the freezer brought it to work and put it in the freezer there. when i took it out and heated it in the microwave things got really ugly. sing with me: peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old...

wow that thing smelt yucky!!! but... i dont waste prayers food... never... ever. so i sat to it. vagrants do it, dogs do it, flies do it... i could do it. spoon after spoon the stuff went down. putrid curry dish after putrid curry dish -- there was chataigne, pumpkin, channa and aloo, bhagee, rice and another dhal thing. and then there were saheena and katchorie. i got 90% of it down but the katchorie was way gone... half of it made its way in the mouth the other half i had to just watch it in the plate and pretend like it wasn't there. today i think i earned honorable mention in the clan iron belly.

so what is clan iron belly? clan iron belly was founded by an uncle of mine who took a sour soup and washed out the provisions and made a fresh soup from it. the theory is -- heat kills bacteria and what few survive wont kill you. well i didnt die from that soup and he didnt either. i went on to recruit more into the clan. to be a part of clan iron belly you have to eat something that would have been thrown away by civilized people or create a concuction that would not be eaten by civilized people. alligator stomach or iron belly refers to that ability to stomach things that most people cant -- like eating a runny egg, split peas and peanut butter sandwich or dunking your doughnuts in callalloo.

right now i dont know if it is mind over matter but my stomach is running a fever... a very high fever. its only been 20 mins since i ate but my gut is getting really hot. i have never had my stomach pumped... there arent many stories of curry (a serious taboo) in the clan iron belly... i am going to make history... at least i hope so.

but i really must salute every vagrant out there... unrecognised members of the clan... showing where there is a will there is a way and that there is nothing more powerful than the human spirit and the will to live...

peace and love
kwesi

2006-03-28T05:52:00.000-08:00

Distant faces forever torn in doubt, locked in the solar web,
Distant faces forever drawn in blood, shot in the border lands.
Cry out for mercy
Prayers never answered
Barbarians triumph in spilt blood
Lauding after their supposed victory
Unknowing that the blood they've spilt is holy
And the sky will have the last day when they are swallowed
Distant faces
Forever drawn in blood
Distant faces forever torn in doubt, locked in the solar web
Bound by chains that consume the brain
And shouts that shatter hope
Herded into cages under a banner of one
Currency and lust
And the routine stays till a spark
Borne of Him is ignited in the hearts of the fallen
Raided,hatred,bullet,tragic truly,at new day, to save the population, but I see that there's no love out here
Scream my name and forever love, but they took it all and left
Every drop
Scream my name and forever calling love, trapped in the spider lair
They think they know but so little do they
Of love
Of the heart
Of mine
Of theirs
Distant faces forever torn in doubt, locked in the solar web, distant faces forever drawn in blood, shot in the border lands.

2006-03-27T06:56:00.000-08:00

Another year has passed... I am 24 years old now. My mind races to the future...and returns to the now on a daily basis. Questions storming thru my brain ... some being answerd...not enuff though to put me at ease. I pray to God... I ask him...why?...when?...how?. He said be still and listen... I hear God...I see HIM...I feel HIM...I am learning about HIM...

2006-03-27T06:37:00.000-08:00

Such agony... such pain.

Yes folks all the yogurt is done. I sent in a re-order, but its going to take some time to go through. Even now I am having flashbacks of creamy goodness. Even now I sit in anticipation of the next order sitting in the back seat of mom's car, waiting to be ushered... welcomed into my home. :D YUM!!!

5 cases are on their way... 3 for me 2 for Nyerere...

Meanwhile I have started a seven day fast. You know -- the extreme kind where you just drink water all day. So, I will write about that and share the experience with you. My last meal was baigan (egg plant for the white folks) and sada roti (somewhat like peter bread for the white folks) lol.

peace and love
kwesi

2006-03-22T05:09:00.000-08:00

BAWH!
ive been invited to blog here and i must say -- YOGURT IS LOVELY. i am kwesi... the dude who gave that crazee muderass the yogurt ;)
big up to pax yogurt man... its made locally (trinidad) and it seems natural. the stuff been helping me to lose weight and feel healthy, not to mention it tastes great.

in the earlies i never trusted a guy who could eat yogurt... in the mind, yogurt is sour milk and sour milk is yuk. simple logic... but here in the matrix where chicken tastes like anything and we're not exactly sure if we aren't living off the liquified remains of our dead, anything goes. i will tell you about clan iron belly sometime...

so let me share some yogurt facts...

1. Yogurt is easier to digest than milk.
2. Yogurt contributes to colon health.
3. Yogurt improves the bioavailability of other nutrients.
4. Yogurt can boost immunity.
5. Yogurt aids healing after intestinal infections.
6. Yogurt can decrease yeast infections.
7. Yogurt is a rich source of calcium.
8. Yogurt is an excellent source of protein.
9. Yogurt can lower cholesterol.
10. Yogurt is a "grow food."

check out the whole article here

peace and love
kwesi

2006-03-21T08:28:00.000-08:00

About a month a ago i was introduced to a creamy lovliness that was served frozen. It tasted like pineapple and had the consistency of ice cream... but wait! This creamy lovliness was not ice cream and as I lapped up every drop of frozen splendour. My friend Kwesi (who bought about $200 bucks worth of the stuff) revealed to me that it was frozen yogurt... WHOA!!!!! I couldn't believe such technological advances had been made in yogurt production.lol. F*&cking frozen yogurt!!! Spoon after spoon... gulp after gulp.... this soon to be liquid insanity flowed through my mouth caressing every taste bud telling my brain "yuh know Nyerere yuh might want to look into this frozen yogurt thing" silently and after much deliberation and further consumption... it was over and I cannot wait till the end of the month to get some of my own frozen yougurt...