Thoughts of a minibus traveller

No real wuk.. A minibus conductor asked me one day if I don't work..  and another driver asks me if I am on leave or if I am sick - they ask me because they see me during the day rather than in the morning and the evening. A neighbour also asks when he sees me daytime.. like you on some long leave.. last week another man asked me 'What are you working on now' and today another man asked ' What work do you really do... ?" I could say mind your business.. I have been tempted to say if I tell you I would have to kill you ; but I mumble things like.. I do this that and the other.. computer work, work from home.. whatever I get, spy on people.. I wish I could perfect the art of being sophisticated and vague which will leave people wandering and have plenty speculation ..  No shoes and socks.. I work from home.. like some dressmakers, tailors, caterers, tutors, mechanics, farmers - been doing that since November 2008. The Internet is the main tool of the trade...

A woman called me up this week to ask whether the Rights of the Child Commission would take on the issue of the crazy curriculum for common entrance and the fact that the demands prevent children from playing or recreation. She then remembered I had resigned a year ago. My resignation was due to the lack of resolution of the allegations of child molestation against Mr Kwame McKoy, the representative of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security; and to my fear of the lobbying influences which would be brought to bear on decisions (I had received a friendly phone call from a nice man who I know asking whether I would support his candidate for Chairperson; I assured him that the Commissioners are all competent and that they could decide between them who should be Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson and thought nothing more of it at the time) It will soon be two years since the Commission was signed in - the life of the Commission is three years. I remember when learning that ...

It has been a difficult few weeks fighting the urge to want to lie down and sleep and be in the dark.. not wake up.. and not to eat all the sugar in the bottle. Physical health is affected by mental health though it is not sure which one comes first but both are related. Things become harder to plan and achieve major outcomes - focus is  on getting through each minute, each second..each task.. get up, write this email, do this thing, that thing..  and working through the various obstacles - cough, fever, restlessness, family tensions, heat, political crap The Swami reminded the people on the video that Happiness comes from Within.. I know that that the chocolate taste lingers only for so long..no matter how much you eat..  the sensation of the crunching of the plantain chips and tastee snacks and crackers and peanuts only lasts for a few seconds.. and that the taste of the grape thrill and grape icee might linger for a half hour so (and I cant find any grape drink ...

Comrades.. For the first time in the history of this country we will be breaking racial history and it is my pleasure to give you Dougla Donald as our next President... Comrades, forget about voting for candidate and all that nonsense, we in the PPP/R have broken true grounds by actually putting up a candidate who has all the races of Guyana in him - well the important races anyway - and who is a man of the people. Comrades, this man never tek any Minister wuk or advisor wuk and yall know the pressure that I am under for people who want to be Minister. Comrades.. once again we have those anti-poor people hounds who do not want to see the poor people in our Party get rich and build nice houses like them complaining about us giving away Guyana. Comrades... we have an Indian man who want to cut down some tree and has paid us lots of money for it. And they complaining. Now when I give Guyana to God - nobody complained, those damn hypocrites. But What do you think I meant when I say i wa...

Some of my Christian facebook friends were overjoyed after the Gospel Concert on Saturday night when President Jagdeo and Raphael Trotman held hands. Rapheal Trotman apparently asked the President to forgive him and the President said he would do so. The President might or might not have said something about 'me too' but in a country marred by ugly rhetoric, the crowd went 'wild' no doubt at thinking that it is possible to have some connection. Cynics like me were horrified at the abuse of a religious event - and view the whole forgiveness thing through a lens of suspicion.. will AFC join up with Love and Faith and the PPP to contest the upcoming General Elections against the blood on the hands PNC? But wasn't Mr Corbin the man who in 2003 sided with the Evangelical Churches who were praying and fasting against the sexual orientation as a fundamental right thing? Or have those people now switched their sides to the God fearing PPP now? So.. all of a sudden it ...