low carbon Guy Expo

Hot coconut wax, frozen tangerine yoghurt, intense political conversation, police, tamarind achar, condoms, alcohol, Malaysian puff, pedicure propositions , pre paid meters, barbecue, soul searching, hotel rooms without toilet and bath, soft sofas, sexy kitchen sets and top c .. I went to Guy Expo 2009

At the gate i was shocked to  pay $500 for what I thought  taxpayers probably already pay, but also thought that poverty be damned, the Guyanese there in droves must have nuff nuff money, and also if as the taxi driver said to me,, nobody walking home after .. so all praises to low carbon economy.

I like a fool think that the International Pavilion mean that it have international stalls there, but no, when I went in, it was a whole set ah cell phones.. all over the place. So maybe "international" mean that they are selling international things and then I see a big crowd of people near the booth selling biscuit and chocolate and sweetie.. my kind of people. And none of this local.. the International Pavilion even had GPL with their prepaid meters. I see an aloe plant and a man and woman selling aloe products with an accent, and I ask them if they making the things in Guyana and the lady look at me as if I stupid and say no, the products come from the US of A, so I dash all hopes of selling bitter allas to these people. The skytrakk people have thing to track people, and i have vision of Esmeralda buying GPS thing to put in meh shoes.. she jealous me bad

I then see another booth and a lady and a man burning a candle and then the man call me over.. try this he say, is good for the skin, and I say.. well, you know candle burning is not a thing i like go near, but then is the international pavilion and obeah is not legal, so I put my hand in the hot wax and rub lil of the wax on meh skin, and i leave the international pavilion smelling like coconut and pomegranate

and bumped into a police lady I know, who me and she gaff about child abuse and the problems she was having with some of the cases, and people probably want to know if the police stopping me for something or if is the smell she asking me about..

They had  a big booth of Indian products including a tan removal.. i like that, i think they renaming it tan remover rather than skin lightener. They had henna and some cream  for foot and so on and they were offering samples of the foot stuff for pedicure.. and they ask me if i want, look how times change.. even man getting ask these questions with no qualms, if they want henna and pedicure

i then find the Sterling Booth and more smells, this time from the new detergent and the ice cream doing brisk trade, i could not resist, i buy tangerine yoghurt and every time i raise my hand to eat a spoon, i smell coconut

i find it was good to eat yoghurt and walk around , people not going to push flyers in your hands. The small pavilion had local products inside, for a
change. Craft, clothes, oil, cheesy cassava chips,  incense, them kind of thing..

I try a thing and ask the cassava chips with cheese people if they dont have sample, they look knowingly at me and say No, they do not have any..

and then a booth where some people promoting a nice glossy cement floor finish - top c - for when me and Esmeralda doing over we floor .. and I like how they are doing the marketing , they had samples, display, pictures, that was probably the best booth for me in terms of how they interacting with people who are viewing

they had a company there selling tamarind achar, and different things, i like the strategy, two bottles for $500 , the tamarind achar looking liquidy. I feeling posh, so I ask if they have samples, and the man say yeah yeah next door.. and this is what I like.. the next door people is Namilco and I think the man put some achar there for the people to taste the married man pok roti wid.. very very innovative

Namilco had samples..  porridge, wheat germ, roti (mek wid pesto flour which is really flour wid married man pok or basil) , bread.. and i end up buying multigrain flour and wheat germ and I done eat a whole set, wheat germ is nice with sugar, milk and banana .. but i dont know what I will do with the multigrain flour I buy,  both packs less for $500 and i then buy a lime achar from the tamarind achar people



I went to the big pavilion, nuff nuff noise again, it was irritating, so you cannot talk to people. I hear plenty low carbon talk, it remind of those brainwashing movies where the people used to play the things over and over again while people sleeping, only thing is that this was competing with the british accent from the Tourism booth talking about looking for worms or something and then other sounds.

and i see bed and so on, and a nice luxury room which the Princess Buddy's say is there's.. the bed look nice, the tv look nice.. i ask where the toilet and bath.. that those are important to me when i choose a hotel.. they say they could not bring the toilet and bath to GuyExpo and that the casino opening soon

a nice lady I know say yes, I could sit down on the sofa which had please do not sit here.. but it was a nice sofa, I shame to ask the price

 the furniture this year, was nice fancy stuff, me and Esmeralda dont have space for that, i see a kitchen, with wine cooler, purple heart, and i fall in love with it wine rack and dem ting, and the girl say it big big.. so i say, right, i gun turn meh whole house into this fitted purple heart kitchen wid de wine cooler.. i gun use the space to keep the lil mauby and ginger beer, but is a nice kitchen and was good to see that local wood using like that

this big pavillion had at one end, this nice dim red space, on the stage.., kind of like how you imagine these sleazy places to be, red light.. you know.. so i went up.. heart beating and then as i went in.. a lady shoved some things in my hand , brochures.. and condoms. and I say whaaaaaaaat.. i aint want no condom .. i give she back.. i realise is Ministry of Health sharing condom out.. i mean, if i am to use all dem condom, ministry might as well share out viagra fuh me too..

as i walk around the red lit booth i see they testing for diabetes,, like HIV, diabetes is another good thing to know your status and they also checking body mass index

i like they big alcohol posters.. is good to see that they want to take on alcohol - but then they say they only print that for GuyExpo, so is not like they carrying them near rum shops or so.. i wanted to take one right near the DDL and Banks DIH booths, but the girl say they not sharing them out.. so is like a big waste of time DDL and Banks DIH promoting they liquor out in the bright outside, while Ministry of Health in their red shady corner talking about condoms and how alcohol bad for you.. bring it out in the open in the light so people could see



i come out and then I hear vidya vidya.. and near the barbecue stand i see a political activist who get kick out she party, and i say whaa.. and then so just within stone throw from Congress Place I buy a barbecue and me and she talk about PNC, congress and the future of politics in Guyana.. was good gaff, and the feelings of despair at the loss of what Guyana could have been were only mitigated by the nice barbecue we both eating

i went and see what else there was to eat, and come across a Malaysian food guy who had a lil bit of food for $1700, i want to believe he dont know english too good and that $1700 is a lot of money fuh lil food, no matter how far it come from, so i buy the puff which was nice with local pepper sauce ,

was a good place to ketch up wid people who I aint see for a long time..

as i was leaving, more people were coming in, nuff nuff people, nuff nuff $500 .. Guyana good

(picture from Stabroek News website, I should get my own)