The Mad Bull’s Blog, Version 3

Saturday night at the Lions Centre a new queen was crowned. The theme for this year’s Miss Cayman Islands was glamorous Hollywood. There was an explosive opening act with each of the 8 contestants representing an influential actress or singer from a bygone era.

The casual wear segment had its highlights and disappointments. Many of the girls opted for itsy bitsy shorts with a top making it a forgettable ensemble. It being a pageant “casual wear” should really be chic and fun with loud colours. Special mention to Hortencia Jackson, who really got the gist and wore a hugging tropical inspired dress. Also to Rachel King whose flirty feminine orange outfit graced her immaculate figure elegantly.

Swim wear is always a favourite! All of the contestants clearly put in the time and effort to be physically ready for this section; there wasn’t a dimple in sight! Special Mentions would have to go to Rachel King and Nicosia Lawson who were well toned with that extra bit of definition, but not too much so that they still belonged to the pageant and not a body building competition.

The Evening Wear Segment was a delight to watch as the ladies glittered on stage and showcased their intelligence. Special Mention Gowns would be Hortencia Jackson and Nicosia Lawson and for their answer Nicosia Lawson, Danielle Ebanks and Olivia Polack. It is also note worthy that Miss Polack managed to pick the most difficult question in the bunch. I strongly disagree with allowing political questions to be asked at a pageant. Her question was regarding the notorious “Roll over policy” and its efficacy. She was very diplomatic and didn’t stumble with a single word.

Hortencia Jackson was the winner of the C&W star quality Miss Photogenic Text competition. I was concerned that this would have been more of “people’s choice” and popularity and not so much “photogenic” being the deciding factor but it played out well and in my opinion the most photogenic did win.

Ceretta Harvey a pageant veteran having entered in 2006, was voted Miss Personality.

Rachel King was awarded second runner up and also garnered best legs.

From the beginning of the night the crowd favourite was, Danielle Ebanks. The judges certainly felt the heat from the crowd and awarded her best smile and best in gown. She wore her gold mermaid style gown well but to me it seemed too tight and restrictive therefore hindering her from gliding elegantly on stage. At one point the audience was certain that this was the new Miss Cayman, even the then current title holder Rebecca Parchment, expressed her confidence about the final decision back stage. But the scores had a different plan in mind; Danielle Ebanks was first runner up. Second runner up was Rachel King.

Who is the new Miss Cayman? Nicosia Lawson.

She possesses two bachelor degrees and was heavily involved in a lot of community work years before the pageant was a flicker in her imagination. Well deserved but as per usual there is the gripe of her being a “status holder” rather than a born Caymanian. She outshined the 5 ft 5 Danielle Ebanks fair and square but because she is born in St. Lucia so she’s apparently not “Caymanian” enough to be Miss Cayman (I would love for someone to define what makes you Caymanian enough to do these things). She has represented Cayman overseas in sports and youth affairs, why didn’t anyone complain then? If they don’t want the possibility of a “Paper Caymanian” winning then they shouldn’t allow them to enter. I hope and PRAY this has nothing to do with the colour of her skin, but still wonder what would the reaction have been if she were light?

Congrats to ALL the contestants, takes a hell of a lot of guts and for the new Miss Cayman, a job WELL DONE and a crown WELL DESERVED. If Cayman is to have any chance at an international pageant I place my bet on her being the one to do it because of her exotic features, incredible figure, impressive resume and phenomenal intelligence.

- Vita ante acta

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I’ve been listening to Kid Rock’s “Rock and Roll Jesus” album. Its quite good… Below is a bit of lyrics from one of the songs I really like.

And I swear that time’s a trick,
It disappears and oh so quick!
and I was just 16,
and now I’m staring at 36,
But I’m still having a good time (Good time!)
Roll on, roll on, rollercoaster,
We’re one day older and one step closer,
Roll on, theres mountains to climb,
Roll on, we’re on borrowed time.
Roll on, rollercoaster,
Roll on tonight…

- Kid Rock

I fell like that sometimes (excepting that I-an-I pass 36 a while aback! ) , and I agree with his sentiment that you have to keep on having a good time. Of course, Kid Rock’s version of having a good time is a bit more risque than mine, but its all good…

I’ll give you the video below, just click on the “more” link.

I like a lot of the songs on the album. I didn’t know Kid Rock was so talented. I just saw him on MTV and so on a coupla times, and heard he was with Pam Anderson and I sized him up as a little punk (not because of Pam, but anyway), but he is quite good.

Anywayz, me gone go surf Facebook until 12:30 pass (I’m on call until then) and then I think I’ma go to the beach! Peace out, pplz! Go check out the video…

(more…)

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Today I realised that I NEED to start storing passwords somewhere. Shit, I have so many passwords I need to remember, then the auditors force you to change all your passwords every ninety days, then the ninety day period is not the same across all systems and all you have is just a recipe for disaster! Its just freakin’ insane to try to remember all those passwords!

Hmph! The auditors can say anything, you hear! It is not them who end up facing the issue of having to rebuild servers from scratch because you’re locked out of the system! Cho…

So anyway, now that I have decided that I need to store the passwords, I have the dilemma… where is the best place to store them? I am leaning towards a password encrypted Excel spreadsheet with a password that I will know no matter what hour of the day or night you wake me up and ask me, and also, a password which NEVER expires, of course! Anybody have any better suggestions?

In other news, I noticed on Yardflex dot com that the Miss Jamaica World Beauty Pageant has run its course and a winner has been selected. She is none other that Miss Logo Stitch, Brittany Lyons, and she is indeed a beautiful young lady. See her in the picture above. Of course she is the one sitting in the middle, just in case you didn’t pick that up. She looks a lot like her mother, actually, who is Marie Claire Lyons nee Delapanha, a runner up in the Miss Jamaica Pageant of 1976. Notice I put her maiden name! There is a reason… guess what it is nuh? Yes, man, Brittany ah Lindy Delapenha grand daughter! Big up, Lindy!

Make no mistake, the 1st and 2nd runners up, Jade Grant and Marsha-Gay Reynolds, are also beautiful ladies. It looks like the pageant must’ve been a close run thing! By the way, Marsha-Gay has a look of Sheryl- Lee Ralph, don’t you think? At least, in the picture above she does. Of course, she is the lady sitting on the right.

Bwoy, Brittany so nice, she deserves to be shown twice! Here is a picture of her standing and posing…

Anyway, congratulations to all three ladies. If you want to read a bit more about the pageant finals, check out this link at Yardflex… Thanks for the heads up, Yardflex crew!

By the way again, the Miss Cayman Islands Pageant is coming to a close just now as well. I think the finals are coming up this Saturday night. Y’all can go to the Miss Cayman Islands website and check the girls out if you like. Unfortunately there are only six ladies in the pageant.

Anyway, I will tell you which of these Caymanian ladies are in my top three. We can see how well my selections go after the finals, cool? I have Danielle Ebanks, Nicosia Lawson and Rachel King in my top three. Since you are pressing me to select who will win, I am going out on a limb and selecting Danielle Ebanks to take the top prize. Since she is my number one pick, I’ll post her picture here (to the left), but y’all need to go to the Miss Cayman Islands site to see the other ladies I selected.

Of course, I am just going off a limited set of pictures, so if my selections suck, well, you understand why, right? Only one conclusion can be drawn: The only person who is any decent judge of beauty in the Cayman Islands is me!

Peace out.

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Well, I took much longer after the fact to post about the Women’s 100 Metre Final than the Mens. No disrespect though… I barely woke up in time for the race as Natty and I stayed up late watching a movie.

When I did eventually roll out of bed, I grabbed a grilled cheese sandwich lovingly prepared by Natty and I stumbled back into the bedroom and turned the TV to the channel showing the Olympic coverage. As soon as I got there, they announced that there were only six minutes left to the final. “Rass, I missed all the heats!”, I thought. “At least I caught the final!”.

In two twos, the runners came out and started their stretching, all the while surveying the track and putting their minds in focus and their game faces on. Next thing, they were under starter’s orders and BANG, they were off! It was an irie race! Sherone Simpson seemed to have been the favourite for the event, but it looked like she got off to a bad start.

Shellyann Fraser started out neck and neck with Kerron Stewart instead, then she took the lead and she powered away, making certain she never relinquished it. Sherone Simpson did try to make up for her bad start and so she did, moving from what looked like a joint last position to end up nodding Kerron out of second place! A fine run, and a fine race overall. Jamaicans will feel triply sweet about this race as Jamaica came away with the first, second and third place in the race. Apparently its the first time that the three top positions have all been taken by one country!

Yes, mi bredrins I felt really sweet about this accomplishment by Shelly Ann, Sherone and Kerron but I couldn’t stop to blog about it immediately, as right after the race, I had to dress and go to drop Jay G to the airport!

You see, Jay G. brought MBJr. back from Tampa on Thursday and he chillaxed with us for a couple of days, but he has work in the AM, and so he had to return home today. Its too bad he wasn’t able to stay for longer, we will miss him!

Thanks go out to Macy, Jay G. and Daddy G. for taking such good care of the young Bull and ensuring that he had quite possibly the best summer vacation ever!

Also, a great Big Up goes out to our three fastest women in the world, Shelly Ann Fraser, Sherone Simpson, and Kerron Stewart! Oonoo did do us proud! Go Shelly Ann! Go Jamaica! Go, Caribbean!

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What a rass of a race Usain Bolt puddung! Blood fyah! It sweet me so till! 9.69! Bwoy, me proud!

The only thing is, can you imagine what time he might have got if he ran his utmost best for the whole race?! Wow! He shut down and started celebrating the win from about the 75 metre mark! I am sorry he didn’t go pedal -to-da-metal all the way through, just so we could see what the man is actually capable of!

Big ups go out to the Trini yute Richard Thompson too, he put down a really nice run as well, and also to the American yute, Dix.

The real sorrow of the whole thing was the run that Asafa put down. The man is capable of so much better. I am now of the opinion that he needs the help of a psychologist to build his mental strength for the big races, man! Anyway, he should still be around in four years time and I wish him far better success that time around.

Go, Bolt! Go, Jamaica! Go, Caribbean!

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Poor Becks! I know how him feel, yah man.

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Its been awhile since the last time I gave you any jokes… here, hold three nice ones… I hope I haven’t posted these before. Enjoy yourselves.

JAMAICAN BREAK UP LETTER

A Jamaican US Marine stationed in Iraq recently recieved a letter from his Jamaican girlfriend back in
Brooklyn. It reads as follows:

Dear Leroy,
Mi caan continue di relationship wid yu enuh, because dis ya long distance ting mi cyan deal wid, yu juss
too baxide far and me need some loving. Mi afi admit dat mi gi yu bun two time since yu gone and it
nuh fair to di both a we still, so mi really sorry, so since we nuh deh nuh more , mi a beg yu please to
send back mi picha whey mi did send to yu.
Gwendolyn

The Marine, with hurt feelings asked his fellow Jamaican Marines for any snap shot they could spare of their girlfriends, sisters, ex-girlfriends, cousins etc.
In addition to the picture of Gwendolyn, Leroy included all the other pictures of the girls he had collected from his buddies. There were 57 photos in that envelope…along with this note:

Dear Gwendolyn,
mi really sorry but mi caan rememba who yu be , so
baby please to pick out fi yu picha from di pile and
send back di ress to mi, tanks…

take care
Leroy.

MEXICAN MAID

A Mexican maid asked for a pay increase. The wife was surprised about this as there had not been any discernible improvement in her performance as far as she was concerned and so she called the maid to her and asked: ‘Now Maria, why do you want a pay increase?’

Maria: Well Senora, there are three reasons why I want an increase. The first is that I iron better than you.
Wife: ‘Who said you iron better than me?’

Maria: Your husband said so.’

Wife: ‘Oh.’
Maria: ‘The second reason is that I am a better cook than you.

Wife: ‘Nonsense, who said you were a better cook than me?’

Maria: Your husband did.’

Wife: ‘Oh.’

Maria: ‘My third reason is that I am a better lover than you.’

Wife (really furious now): ‘Did my husband say that as well?’

Maria: ‘No Senora, the gardener did.’
YOU BET YOUR ASS SHE GOT THE RAISE!

Its The Little Things, Rasta!

After an exciting hot, nice and rejuvenating 69 with his girlfriend, Brian remembers that he has an appointment with his dentist that evening.

He was afraid that his dentist would notice the smell of pums in his mouth, so he brushed his teeth 7 times, used dental floss 8 times and on top of that he used 2 liters of listerine.

As he arrived at his dentist office, he sucked 5 mint candies. His turn then came up so he was welcomed in by his dentist, who told Brian to have a seat on the chair.
Feeling confident & well relaxed he opened his mouth wide.

The dentist got close enough to his mouth and said:

-’Man, why yuh do 69 before yuh come to mi office?’

-What’s up Doc? Does my mouth smell like pums?

-No, yuh mouth smell good, but yuh forehead smell like batty.

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Natty and I were in the car yesterday, driving through Spotts on the way to George Town when we heard the sad news on the radio… We used to watch the Bernie Mac Show sometimes, we quite enjoyed it. Goodbye, Bernie. We will miss you.

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Happy Independence day, Jamaica! Somebody wished me that today… no, it wasn’t a Yardie. Hey, nobody has ever wished me that before, can you believe it? I found that interesting.

You know what else I found interesting today? In a roundabout way, the talk at work somehow came upon the subject of Michael Jackson. In that discussion, a guy asked me to name the first song that came to my head when he said the name “Michael Jackson”. I immediately replied, “Ben”. The guy said, “What about Ben?”. We have a guy in my department named Ben, see? I replied, “No, the song “Ben”. The guy said, “Michael Jackson sang a song named “Ben”?
Rass, that is perhaps my favourite MJ song of all time and the man had never heard of it! Of course, MJ sang that back in 1972 or 1973 and the guy I was talking to wasn’t born until 1981, but still….that song was so freakin’ popular! It was his first number one hit as a solo artist as well… I really couldn’t believe he had never heard it! So the guy asked everyone else in the room. There were about nine of us there, and only one other person knew the song, or admitted to knowing the song anyway. We tried to play the song on Youtube for them, but they have blocked Youtube again, damned dirty rotten bastards! The lady who knew it and I ended up singing the song for them.

In other news, I also saw the movie “Hellboy II : The Golden Army” recently. It can watch still, but if cash is short, wait on the DVD.
Also, my car won’t start. I think the battery is dead. Its one of those stupid antiquated ones that you need to refill the cells with distilled water periodically and because I am not used to doing that anymore, I didn’t do it and now, about fourteen months later, the battery is dead!
Its actually been dead since Sunday night, but I finally took the time to take it out of the car to bring along with me in the morning so I can get it tested or use it to identify a new battery to get. Wish me luck that this is the only problem. Don’t wanna do any unnecessary spending right now still…

Also, Simba busted his chain today… this is the first time that he has done so. Unfortunately for him, the only thing he earned by performing this feat of strength is a heavier dog chain. He is getting so strong though! He was rough housing with another seven month old puppy today, same size as him… Everytime they lunged together (as dogs do when playing or fighting), Simba hit him off balance and he fell over, many times quite hard! When this happened Simba would pounce on his throat! Looks like he has it in him to be quite the little ruffian!

Anyway, me gone. Talk to oonoo tomorrow, life spare and post forthcoming…

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I saw it last night. I thought it was quite good, but Natty hated it! She felt it was dragged out too much. She said that it should have ended about half way through but then they just kept on and on and on, and she felt that it becamet boring and she began to feel trapped in the theatre. I have to agree, the movie is a bit too long. They could have imparted much the same thing in a half hour less…

She isn’t alone in not liking the film… her parents took MBJr. and his cousins to it in Tampa and they also didn’t like it… her Dad said, “The show is just full of explosions , with people blowing up people and after awhile, you don’t even know who is blowing up who!”. Yeah, the plot is a bit twisty, but if you pay attention, the story is quite good, IMHO.

My nephew also didn’t like it. He used his status message on Facebook to proclaim that “Batman is a battyman and the Joker was acted by a battyman! Bun a fyah fi the two of them!”. I don’t agree with his statements, mind you… but I had to laugh when I read it.

And what is with the “PG” rating? That is certainly not a kiddie movie!

Anyway, I think far more people like it than do not like it. Heath Ledger was amazing as the Joker and the guy who acted as Harvey Dent was quite good. Excellent show, a credit to the Batman series… I recommend it.

By the way, it inspired me to put up a new poll… Check it out over there in my sidebar.

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