Winnifred's, Jerk, Fun Weekend

Winnifred's Beach

Hail crowd of people! This weekend was a good one, why? Well I headed to the beautiful, lush and green parish of Portland. A few coworkers and I planned a small trip to Portland, in particular to Winnifred's Beach. Saturday was a beautiful day, the sun was shining brilliantly, the sky was blue, it wasn't too hot, the wind was blowing gently and the sea was enticing. I had so much fun in the clear, turquoise, crystal water that covered the beautiful white sand. I swam, I played, I splashed, I frolicked and I got a tan.

After all that activity, we all certainly opened up our appetite and the little snacks we brought couldn't fill that void. So it was off the Boston to get some of that famous Boston Jerk. We ordered up some jerk pork, jerk chicken, festivals and some cool, fresh coconut water to wash it down. Let me tell you, that jerk pork was great! It was like the jerk pork I was used to when I was a youth. The pork was tender and juicy, full of flavour and that kind of pepper that makes your eye water and give you that fiery feeling in your esophagus with each swallow. Trust me, this kind of pork wasn't for the faint of heart, it had my mouth and throat on fire, but it was still great.

Boston Jerk Pork

Boston Jerk Chicken

Festivals

After fulling our tummies we settled on the bay, mostly stricken by "nigaritis" and beaten out by the beach most of those on the trip all dosed off in the cool sea breeze. After chilling out and resting up a bit, it was time to leave the natural beauty of the country and head back to the concrete jungle. It seemed short, but as they say, time flies when you are having fun.

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Congrats Titchfield!

I must say congratulations to my alma mater, Titchfiled High School, which made it to the fourth round, which I think is the quarter finals semi finals of the 40th TVJ School Challenge Quiz. I cannot recall since my years of knowing Titchfiled that it has reached this far... maybe it has. Nevertheless, it has always made it to at least the second round, but this as far as I know is the farthest they have gone in this competition. Tichfiled had defeated its opponents by large margins to make their way to the fourth round much to my delight! One of their victories was scoring 56 points and defeating their rival Spauldings High School (not a big school but dem nuh too bad) who got 23 points.

It is especially a great moment for me as I work in the city with coworkers who mostly attended the so-called "town schools" or the schools in Kingston and brag about their Kingston Collage (KC), Jamaica Collage (JC) and Calabar (Rabalac) conquests. It may not be the championship, but at least my "country school" made it very far this year. Even though they were defeated by Ardene, I hear as I didn't get to watch the match, I still am proud of my high school. What I am also happy to see, is that the team is a young team as most of the members I saw were below sixth form (12 grade). So if they keep working hard they may have a good change of going even further next year with the same team, provided they don't get the very experienced teams as the ones I mentioned above in the early rounds.

Once again, mi school, mi proud a yuh! Congratulations Titchfield High!

On another note, yes I know this is very unrelated, but I saw this picture of the Star Poster Girl and I must say that Ms. Kerry-Ann Thompson is looking fine! Haven't done this in a while so here is an eye-candy for the weekend. Wait!... hmm, I wonder if I could start a Stunner's Afflictions Poster Girl?


Enjoy the weekend peeps!

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Stunner Goes Wild at the Zoo!

A Flamingo at the Hope Zoo

Who knew that the Hope Zoo is still open to the public? Well, I didn't! The Hope Zoo has been under the radar for some time now, as it hasn't really been in the media and I couldn't recall hearing anyone talking about it for some time now. However, the GF wanted top visit the hope zoo as she hadn't been there since she was a child. I hadn't been there since I followed my collage roommate to his work-study programme when I was doing the diploma some ten years ago. I was all for it, even though I doubted that it was still open.

As I approached the Zoo I was somewhat reassured by the sight of vendors and a few vehicles parked at the entrance. I went up to the admissions desk and paid the nominal JM$80 entrance fee and we were on our way. However before I could enter I saw someone who I know from the gym, and it turns out he is a part of a team working to restore the Hope Zoo. It seems the government has allotted some money to restore not only the Hope Gardens, but also the Hope Zoo and they have already began the process. That restoration is greatly need for the zoo as it only has a few animals and minimal facilities to house more animals. A city like Kingston needs things like parks and zoos, not just for children and teens to explore, but even for us adults to just relax and appreciate nature.

Nonetheless, the time spent at the zoo was great, I got to see a few birds ranging from doves to peacocks, who were more than willing to strike a pose with their tail feathers spread. I also saw crocodiles, iguanas and snakes and even the graceful flamingos, but that was just some of the animals they have at the zoo. And as you would guess by now, I took the opportunity to exercise my photographic skills so much so that one of the iguanas made it quite clear that I was getting too close and taking to many photos. Overall, despite the obvious need for improvements, I enjoyed my visit to the Hope Zoo. I think I will revisit after the renovations and expansions are completed. Here are a few of the photos I took.

A peacock strutting his stuff.

Crocodiles chilling in their pool.

An iguana hanging out on a tree.

A Jamaican Yellow Snake.

Hope you all liked the sample of the photographs I took at the Hope Zoo. If you want to see more you can visit my photoblog as I will be posting some more photos there too. So if you haven't been to the Hope Zoo, or haven't been there in a while, you can make a trek up there and check out the animals for a few minutes.

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We Have A Winner!

Yes folks, we have a winner to the first Stunnerific Giveaway (Revised)! Mr. Gordon Swaby of gordonswaby.com walked away with the Manhattan keyring by being the first to reply with the correct answer to the contest question.

Question: What major item did Stunner purchase during his trip to New York?

Answer: A Nikon D60 DSLR

Congratulations to Gordon Swaby and thanks to all who participated in the first Stunnerific Giveaway.

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Stunnerific Giveaway!... REVISED

Ok, due to many complaints about the giveaway, I have made some changes to make it more friendly for you. You only need to answer one question:

What major item did Stunner purchase during his trip to New York?

The first person to answer the question correctly will claim the prize. Email your answers to stunnerj@gmail.com with subject "Stunnerific Giveaway 1". Please remember to include your blog name in your email. You will be contacted by email if you are the winner and your blog name announced in the following post.

The previous list of contest rules were just for post enhancement purposes, so don;t worry about the long list.

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Stunnerific Giveaway!

As you all know, I went to New York for a few weeks recently and I still had to think about all of you my friends in Blogland! So, despite the hard times and bruck pocket due to my purchase of the Nikon D60, I couldn't go to foreign and nuh bring back nuttin fi yuh. Also,I have been wanting to do what I call my Stunnerific Giveaway for some time now, so I have decided to make this the first of such. Just my little way of showing my appreciation for your support of my blog. I am not sure of how often and when I will be having these Stunnerific Giveaways, or what the prizes will be, so you just have to stay tuned!

So here is the first giveaway, a genuine Manhattan Key Ring that I bought from a little souvenir store I stumbled on while on my second trip to Manhattan.

Stunnerific Giveaway 1 A Manhattan Key Ring

As I have several visitors to my blog, it would take a small fortune to buy everyone a keyring, and I could only afford to buy one. So, I will have to ask just a few questions relating to my recent trip to New York and the first person to email me the correct answers will get the above giveaway. Check out the contest rules below and all the best!

Questions:

1. Which restaurant did Stunner eat at for the first time, during his trip to New York?
2. What major item did Stunner purchase during his trip to New York?
3. Which attraction (place of interest) did Stunner visit on his second visit to Manhattan?

The first person to answer all three questions correctly will claim the prize. Email your answers to stunnerj@gmail.com with subject "Stunnerific Giveaway 1". Please remember to include your blog name and/or real name in your email. You will be contacted by email if you are the winner and your name announced in the following post. You will be required to provide a shipping address and a name for prize delivery once you have been advised by email (from Stunner's Afflictions) that you are the winner. Please ensure that your shipping address is correct as I may not put a return address on the parcel and your prize will be claimed by the respective post office.

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