Newsflash!!!

Stunner got the apartment! YEEAAAHHHH!!!! And if all goes well I will be moving in by this weekend!

I have started to post the Jamaica Carnival 2007 pics but you will have to go to my photoblog My World My Lens to view them! I will be posting one photo a day for the remainder of the week! I will however be uploading the few video clips I shot to Youtube and post them here on Stunner's Afflictions this week! So you can look out for that!

Still unda the exam pressure and now moving pressure so not much blogging from me and I may not be able to visit your blogs regularly until the second or third week in May! But nuh fret Hold tight mi peeps!

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Talk di Tings Dem!

School
Well my fellow Bloggonians, exams are just around the corner and Stunner still not in the study mood! I have my FINAL final exams week after next, so I need to pull up my socks! So I will remain infrequent until mid the second week of May when my major project is completed. This week is the last week of classes...officially. I say officially as there are still some last minutes classes few lecturers have to squeeze in. So I have one class next week. I got back one of my assignment grades and my mid-semester exam grade and I must say I'm shocked! Let's say I'm a man of the 90's! Hopefully all the rest of the grades look like that, including the finals! Now I have only one more assignment to complete and hand in by next week and then it's bookwork time and MAJOR Major Project stress! Help!

Carnival
Tomorrow is Carnival Sunday here in Jamaica and that means road march! Yes my friends, scantily clad, round bottom women wining and gyrating in the streets! Although your boy Stunner won't me marching and gyrating behind those women, I hope to be moving along with the parade with my trusty camera! I have cleared my memory card and purchased a charger and rechargeable batteries set! So I hope to get some great shots tomorrow!

House Hunt
I'm still on the hunt for a new place, I went to look at one today and this one certainly hit the spot! This is te first place since i have started to rent that I actually had no reservations about! Ample space inside the apartment, secure complex, centrally located, parking right in front my apartment and the price is reasonable. Unfortunately, the couple renting the place are taking applications and will deliberate before coming to a decision by Monday! So I have started praying that they decide to rent me the place! Please God!

Photography
My photoblog, My World My Lens, is still going strong and I have quiet a large collection which is growing everyday! I enjoy photography, even if i don't make money out of this.....and I hope I will.... I won't mind because I enjoy this hobby! Scratchie is doing quiet well on his photoblog too, seems he has been a natural unda the quiet! So you can check them out!

Anyway nah tarry, likkle more!

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No Glasses!

I'm afraid I'm suffering from a little blogger's block! So here is a little video for your enjoyment! Enjoy the holiday weekend!

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Recap Time

Forgive me fellow bloggers, it has been a week since my last post...heh, heh, heh, sounds almost like a Catholic confession. I know I have been scarce for some time now, yes the pressures of school and work are getting the better of me. I hardly have time to scratch my head and when I do get time I am not really in the mood to blog, I feel so tired and brain dead.

The Hell...I mean...School Scene
I had my mid-semester exam last Thursday, I' m surprised that I actually felt like I pass the exam with a decent grade. I hope my feelings become a reality! Why am I so surprised? Well this is the subject I feel the 'dunces', if there is such a word. Up to two days before this exam I had not a clue of what I was doing or how to approach a problem. It is surprising what one can learn in two days when ones ass is under fire! Now I just need to finish up some assignments and start beating it for finals. Final exams, are just three weeks away, so I have to get some serious work done! Just a couple assignments, exams and major project stands between me and freedom!

300
I finally took some time out to go see the movie 300. I must say I feel satisfied spending the money for the movie tickets and refreshments! The movie was great! Despite the slow start, it certainly picked up and gave a raw, action-filled, blood-letting, limb-severing performance! I couldn't afford to watch a movie like this on a bootleg CD (not saying I watch bootleg CDs) on my small screen! A movie like this is best seen on a large cinema screen with surround sound and a nice female cringing on your arm! On another note those Spartans motivate me to head to the gym, I want to look like them! If yuh nuh watch it yet yuh missing something! [Stunner's Rating: 4.5 out of 5]


Oh Snap!
I have been snapping away with my camera and I have consistent in posting photos to my photoblog, and have posted almost 30 photographs so far. I hope to get a tripod too so I can take better photos in low light. You all can check it out and see what my camera and I have been up to. I have also noticed that another photographer by the name of Scratchie has created his photoblog and has been posting some great pictures too.

Anyway, this is just a quick line, can't tarry too long I have some blogs to read!

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Live Red?

I have noticed how Red Stripe the great Jamaican Beer Company has become responsible, and are now encouraging people to "be responsible, drink responsible". I do applaud them for encouraging responsible drinking in their ads, but I'm a but confused. Why? Well Red Stripe has embarked on a new marketing campaign with the slogan "Live Red". Well you may think of it as a great idea, since the colours of the Red Stripe include red it is fitting to have that tag line. Well I can see a different side of this slogan.

In Jamaica a popular slang for someone who is under the influence or drunk, is nothing other than "red"! "Yuh did red a di session last night mi yute." and "Yow yuh look red mi yute." are two example of the word red being used to describe someone who has had a little much...or too much to drink. So could Red Stripe be subliminally telling people to enjoy themselves by drinking large quantities of their product? Are they trying to encourage the lifestyle of drinking beer till you are drunk (red) when you go out?

If this is so, how can they be encouraging people to drink responsibly but at the same time encouraging people to live "red"? Isn't this being hypocritical? Is it just a front, or to sedate their conscience for telling people to get drunk drinking beer, by telling us to drink responsibly?

Well, they may just be using this slogan to promote their beer out of innocence as the colour red is used on their product. Maybe, but isn't the spin I took on this promotion though provoking? Maybe?

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Ramblings

Not much to blog about, the same ol' unexciting tings happening in my life at this point. this is primarily due to the confinement I put myself into when I foolishly decided to go back to school. I'm so pressed for time, I still feel dunce, and nothing at school seems to be going well at all! I can't wait to finish this hell and pass everything with good grades so I can close that horrid, boring, stressful chapter in my life.

Speaking of school, I hope Leon doesn't mind this, but I saw Leon at school today and I must say I don't understand how that young man learns anything at school. The yute have some breed a hot gal inna him class deh! Lawd a mercy! The girls in his class look hot nuh ra..! As a result I am currently in earnest dialogue with the lecturer to allow me to join the class on a part-time basis (or even permanently!).

The first match in the historic, well for the Caribbean, ICC World Cup bowled off to a fine start and the West Indies team did not disappoint their fans (wah a guh done!) by beating Pakistan at the Sabina Park. I must say the Sabina Park doesn't look too bad on TV, well that's as close as I'll get to seeing the refurbished sporting facility. But the Local Organizing Committee, dubbed the LOC, didn't do a bad job of getting thing ready for the event. So much so that they actually got a thumbs up with only a few criticism from the Major of Kingston and St. Andrew, Major Desmond McKenzie, suh yuh know dem do a good job!

I have been keeping up my new photoblog and have posted consistently everyday since I posted my first picture. I have had a lot of motivation to continue by the wonderful comments that are left on my blog and also by Owen who threatened to call me "MadStunner" if I failed like the Mad Bull at my attempt to post a photo everyday. I doubt I'll run out of pictures as I take so many photos on a daily basis. The only problem is to choose which one to post! I have posted what i think is my best photograph so far, you can view it by clicking here.

Enjoy your weekend and I'll try to find out what's being going on in your neck of the woods buy visiting your blogs.

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