no backtrack fuh me...
Kuch Kuch hota hai was playing and the boy and girl dancing on the screen. They had two couples in front of me lovey dovey cuddling up. Nuff HIV AIDs posters on the wall all around.
7:30am I turn up there. I see the famous Duke Lodge and I friken to walk on the catwalk where I hear plenty of the Duke Lodge revellers does urinate right here. Over de road, the Sharples house beautiful, brukka down lil bit, and de door half open an' I glad is not night time or else i would ah friken. Nobody in sight dere.
The guard lady checking people paper and so on. The guard gotta mek some decision about who is who.. she ask a lady to wait because the lady married a man and did not change she name and all the papers mix up. That happen plenty in Guyana. It dont happen to man, at least not yet. Ah mean, when man start fuh marry man, den somebody name gun gotta change right?
The rain sprinkling and I say, lord thank you fuh breaking El Nino but dont wet up meh visa form because I aint able do dis all ovah again.
I discover dat ah could ah bring meh cell phone because de guard would ah keep it in a lil box dey have for dat. I trying to figure out where Guyana done and where US start.
We had to sit down in de nice garden. A man herding his daughter and grand children. The man had told the security that his daughter is deaf-mute. Two ladies behind me talking and say dat you can't find good man like dat who looking after dey family. One say how she still mek nice children even tho she deaf. A man say how the British embassy bettah to apply fuh visa, they more fast there. I like to mind people business so I am listening to what people talking while they bored waiting. The man next to me tell me that he just going for holiday, he deh good here. I say, me too, I dont want to go nowhere where dey dont want me widout knowing all meh business.
The guard put we in the aircondition place. I see a girl got she hand pon a muscle man on the TV and I wonder if some porn or HIV advertisement showing and then I realise is NCN Guyana today. So unlike the Bank dem which does show CNN whole day, the US embassy does show NCN. I get de point.. the bank does show CNN fuh encourage Guyanese fuh lef Guyana, while US embassy must be does show NCN so dat Guyanese could see good Guyana is and dont want to go away no more.
The guard give we a complex instruction.. he want we sit down, but he dont want the line in front of the window to done and he dont want too many in the line. Poor guard, I sit down wondering if dis a test fuh see who worthy of getting a visa. I remember in Maths we had dis ting called 'optimisation' and I panic.
We manage to get to de window.
I look around to see who there. They have a Muslim man wid a boy and I say, oh oh.. I hope he dont get in no trouble now. I hear a Hindu sounding name on the tannoy and they get up.
So.. the NCN quality programming continued and next ting I know, we getting hit by Bollywood. So.. I looking and tinking, eh eh.. maybe is India dey want we to go.. all dem nice fair skinned people singing and dancing and playing cricket, India look like a nice place to go, and even if I not fair skin enough I see dey have a Indian place advertise in the newspaper advertising cream to mek me fair and nice to go to India.
So is everybody watching the bollywood hits. A lady behind me mutter she aint want to see dat. A man in a US accent in front say he remember when dey had de 'Indian movie house' on Vlissengen Road... I get struck by nostalgia, I miss Liberty Cinema. In fact, when i look around, and I see de two lovey dovey couples I miss it more. I had a strong urge fuh some of de plaintain chips dey used to sell.. yall dont know dat a coolie pickcha is not de same widout plaintain chips? When I hear de song Kuch Kuch Hota Hai..
I look around me. I see de two lovey dovey couples.. I say someting not right.. I see a big pink bag.. I want to know how dey bring in bag and I peep widout peeping.. yall know how to do dat right, and I realise dat wait wait.. is all de wedding ting in de bag - album an so on.. . I want to say to de couple.. yall could stop pretending now, stop cuddling up like dat to fool de people. In fact, the older couple behind dem (from outside wid de different name), now, you could tell dey married. Dey sit down, straight up, hands folded pun dey chest and dey looking at de Kuch Kuch Hota Hai wid no smiles pun dey face. One of de lovey lovey girls gat sindoor pun she head too.. so dis is what dey mean about visa weddin'.. you come straight after de wedding before de sindoor wash off fuh get de visa?
Anyways, we hearing some people business near de window, some people tink dey have to shout.
I settle down , tinking dat I got about three hours here. Oh yes, NCN start playing Dont Worry Everything will be all right and they have a thing that Cheddi Jagan say in 1993. Oh yes, so I feel patriotic and I say i not going nowhere now. I will get up and walk out proudly out of de embassy. NCN den put on Nick Cartoon.
I hear a name call, but it dont sound like mine.. and den I realise dat is my name in American accent. I go up and de nice lady ask me some questions. She give me de lil coupon to come back anodda day fuh everyting.
7:30am I turn up there. I see the famous Duke Lodge and I friken to walk on the catwalk where I hear plenty of the Duke Lodge revellers does urinate right here. Over de road, the Sharples house beautiful, brukka down lil bit, and de door half open an' I glad is not night time or else i would ah friken. Nobody in sight dere.
The guard lady checking people paper and so on. The guard gotta mek some decision about who is who.. she ask a lady to wait because the lady married a man and did not change she name and all the papers mix up. That happen plenty in Guyana. It dont happen to man, at least not yet. Ah mean, when man start fuh marry man, den somebody name gun gotta change right?
The rain sprinkling and I say, lord thank you fuh breaking El Nino but dont wet up meh visa form because I aint able do dis all ovah again.
I discover dat ah could ah bring meh cell phone because de guard would ah keep it in a lil box dey have for dat. I trying to figure out where Guyana done and where US start.
We had to sit down in de nice garden. A man herding his daughter and grand children. The man had told the security that his daughter is deaf-mute. Two ladies behind me talking and say dat you can't find good man like dat who looking after dey family. One say how she still mek nice children even tho she deaf. A man say how the British embassy bettah to apply fuh visa, they more fast there. I like to mind people business so I am listening to what people talking while they bored waiting. The man next to me tell me that he just going for holiday, he deh good here. I say, me too, I dont want to go nowhere where dey dont want me widout knowing all meh business.
The guard put we in the aircondition place. I see a girl got she hand pon a muscle man on the TV and I wonder if some porn or HIV advertisement showing and then I realise is NCN Guyana today. So unlike the Bank dem which does show CNN whole day, the US embassy does show NCN. I get de point.. the bank does show CNN fuh encourage Guyanese fuh lef Guyana, while US embassy must be does show NCN so dat Guyanese could see good Guyana is and dont want to go away no more.
The guard give we a complex instruction.. he want we sit down, but he dont want the line in front of the window to done and he dont want too many in the line. Poor guard, I sit down wondering if dis a test fuh see who worthy of getting a visa. I remember in Maths we had dis ting called 'optimisation' and I panic.
We manage to get to de window.
I look around to see who there. They have a Muslim man wid a boy and I say, oh oh.. I hope he dont get in no trouble now. I hear a Hindu sounding name on the tannoy and they get up.
So.. the NCN quality programming continued and next ting I know, we getting hit by Bollywood. So.. I looking and tinking, eh eh.. maybe is India dey want we to go.. all dem nice fair skinned people singing and dancing and playing cricket, India look like a nice place to go, and even if I not fair skin enough I see dey have a Indian place advertise in the newspaper advertising cream to mek me fair and nice to go to India.
So is everybody watching the bollywood hits. A lady behind me mutter she aint want to see dat. A man in a US accent in front say he remember when dey had de 'Indian movie house' on Vlissengen Road... I get struck by nostalgia, I miss Liberty Cinema. In fact, when i look around, and I see de two lovey dovey couples I miss it more. I had a strong urge fuh some of de plaintain chips dey used to sell.. yall dont know dat a coolie pickcha is not de same widout plaintain chips? When I hear de song Kuch Kuch Hota Hai..
I look around me. I see de two lovey dovey couples.. I say someting not right.. I see a big pink bag.. I want to know how dey bring in bag and I peep widout peeping.. yall know how to do dat right, and I realise dat wait wait.. is all de wedding ting in de bag - album an so on.. . I want to say to de couple.. yall could stop pretending now, stop cuddling up like dat to fool de people. In fact, the older couple behind dem (from outside wid de different name), now, you could tell dey married. Dey sit down, straight up, hands folded pun dey chest and dey looking at de Kuch Kuch Hota Hai wid no smiles pun dey face. One of de lovey lovey girls gat sindoor pun she head too.. so dis is what dey mean about visa weddin'.. you come straight after de wedding before de sindoor wash off fuh get de visa?
Anyways, we hearing some people business near de window, some people tink dey have to shout.
I settle down , tinking dat I got about three hours here. Oh yes, NCN start playing Dont Worry Everything will be all right and they have a thing that Cheddi Jagan say in 1993. Oh yes, so I feel patriotic and I say i not going nowhere now. I will get up and walk out proudly out of de embassy. NCN den put on Nick Cartoon.
I hear a name call, but it dont sound like mine.. and den I realise dat is my name in American accent. I go up and de nice lady ask me some questions. She give me de lil coupon to come back anodda day fuh everyting.
looked for this after you mentioned it today, :) interesting.
ReplyDeletelooked for this after you mentioned it today, :) interesting.
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