YingYang temporarily unveiled!

Yesterday during our customary mid-afternoon Twitterbbean session (stop rolling your eyes JDID AND OWEN!), I changed my avatar for a couple of hours to a picture of the real me.

Since then I have been thinking that it is a little unfair for the Tweeps to have been able to bask in the radiant beauty that is Moi (stop laughing JDID AND OWEN!!!) and the faithful BBB readers still think I’m a disembodied yin-yang symbol.  So in order to rectify this I hereby post a couple of pictures so you guys can see who is me. The pictures are only going to be viewable for a short time so macco them now!

I’m such a terrible blogger

You can nod your heads in agreement, it’s OK. Poor BlahBlohBlog is being severely neglected. I promise, as I do almost every 9 months or so, to resume blogging on a more regular basis.  Until then, check out these other Caribbean blogs that I recently added to my RSS feed list:

Active Voice – Annie Paul, Jamaica. Twitter: @anniepaul

This Life Called Beach – aka_lol, Trinidad. Twitter: @akalol

Just Talking Loud – Mark Lyndersay, Trinidad. Twitter: @macmark

Talk soon darlings..

Taiwan to Grenada – “We want we money NOW!”

Back in 2007 I blogged about Taiwan taking Grenada to court regarding non-payment of loan monies in the sum of US$21 mill. Well 2 years, US$4mill in interest and a new Grenadian government later, Taiwan is threatening to repossess all ah we bumsee if we doh pay dem dey money!

The Minister of Finance Nazim Burke, in his usual lawyerly manner, has indicated that Grenada is considering all of its options with regard to the way forward, as obviously we ent have no money to give Taiwan! Among these options is retaining new legal counsel (as the old one appears to have sucked) and unabashed begging and grovelling. Maybe if we went back to doodling “Greenz ♥♥♥ Tai-Tai 4evah” on our exercise books Taiwan might stop sulking that we give dem up for China.

Regular Grenadians are convinced that Taiwan is literally going to show up on Grand Anse Beach with an eviction notice and two bailiffs and toss us all on a bamboo raft set adrift in the Caribbean sea. [If so, Abeni and Will in Vincy better brace for YY and she string-band ah refugee!]

Meanwhile, cynical Grenadians like myself are wondering if we can’t offer up former Prime Minister Keith “Is me damn money” Mitchell as a form of restitution, a kind of good-faith payment. He should be good for, oh say, US$150,000 or thereabouts!

Chuckle for the day – Prez-Obama and Brian Lara

Wonkette runs a Caption This contest on this picture taken during the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Sadly the Wonketters were not up to their usual witty form, probably as most of them have no idea who Brian Lara is.  A sampling of a couple of the lamer comments:

“Just imagine the ball is Boehner’s kneecaps, mon.”

POTUS demonstrating his signature cool headed demeanor, spanks the shit out of another African leader because he can. [YY: Lara is not African, nor is he a leader of a country. Grrr....]

COMUNIS BAZEBAL?
UR DOIN IT WRONG.

It is so rare to see a photo of Obama with some other guy and be all OH MY GOD THAT OTHER MAN IS IMPOSSIBLY HANDSOME SO HANDSOME HANDSOME [YY: Handsome?? I've always failed to see the cute factor of Brian Lara.]

Needless to say, let’s not leave out the Basics of Cricket summary:

“Basically, it’s like baseball with two bases, a few dozen outfielders, no gloves, and the games last for a full Goddamn week in hellish third-world humidity. The scores of games come out looking like introductory calculus equations, the bat is an S&M tool, the ball is thrown at some sticks stuck in the mud and everyone dresses like yacht sailors. I can’t believe you’ve never heard of it in America, Mr. President.”

In any case, it is a really adorable photo, and I love to see *our* famous people hob-nobbing with the Prez – very cool. Hate to say but the Prez has really bad batting form there though. He look like he vooping!

More Summit of the Americas photos courtesy WhiteHouse.gov here.

The Beast arrives at Piarco Airport ~ Fifth Summit of the Americas

Allyuh know y’all gyul go find a way to get some exclusive pictures from T&T re: the Fifth Summit of the Americas! Well, see below the President’s Cadillac limousine, nicknamed “The Beast” arriving at Piarco Airport yesterday.

De Transport gets transported

De Beast emerges!

Checkin out de ride

Watch pose nuh!!

Lawd, I have to love mi Trini brudders and dem – yuh ent see dem posing wid de man vehicle!! (For what it’s worth, I understand these pictures were taken by T&T police officers, not civilians. I know we Caribbean people good, but we ent so good dat de Secret Service go let we jus’ be liming around de most secure car in de world).

EDIT/UPDATE!: Bandi pointed out to me that apparently this is NOT de Beast (steupse), as per the comments discussion on Wuzdescene.

Also turns out the pictures are as exclusive as I thought either. Seems that EVERYONE in T&T emailing these around de place!  But say what, dey still fun to watch. There are even more pictures at Wuzdescene’s link.