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Quote of the Day

Choose your friends and choose them well.
But to these friends no secret tell.
For when these friends become your foes,
Out into the world your secret goes.

Interesting Things

Oldest Women

Jeanne Louise Calment of Arles, France was the world's longest living person. Jeanne was born on February 21, 1875 and died on August 4, 1997. Her height was 4'11" (1.50m). Jeanne died at the age of 122 in a nursing home in Arles. She lived 122 years and 164 days (44,724 days total). Jeanne's name appears in the Guinness Book of World Records. At age 121, she released her two CDs, one in French and another in English titled, Maitresse du Temps (Time's Mistress). During the end stage, she became blind, she could not hear properly and was confined to a wheelchair but was in high spirits and mentally alert. Interesting fact is that Jeanne smoked cigarettes until the age of 117.


 

Seems like smoking isn't too bad for your health...

Quote of the Day

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

Concert Tonight!!!

Melonie Gillett premiered her new music video a week ago and will launch her new album "Dreamer" tomorrow night with an all-star concert at the Bliss Center.
March 10th 2011

Cost is only $5 per person
Begins at 7
Numerous performances ant the Launch of Melonie Gillet's new CD (-.-)

Its a Female Thing

A couple were checking into a hotel with six huge carry-ons. The luggage boy hurries to their assistance.
luggage boy: good evening--- whoa! this is a lot of luggage for you two.
husband: it's a woman thing, only one of the carry-on is mine.
wife: it's not my fault, you wanted to stay in Belize for two weeks.

Question to the female readers, Would you honestly bring on vacation, for two weeks, 5 huge carry-on case?
Question to the male readers, Do women really carry more luggage than they need to? (Explain your view)

Economic Issues

Lately on the morning talk show i've been hearing people calling in to complain about the rise in gas. People are vexated that the Prime Minister will not lower the gas prices. And the fact people think that the Prime Minister of a third world country, very dependent on other countries, in debt, produces no absolutely unique goods and has little to no say in world bargaining, can control the prices of a trillion dollar industry. My Belizeans, educate yourselves, no politician can of this country can ensure lower gas prices; worse, can any government control it.

No Phone Zone

These days everyone's text messaging - and it seems like they're doing it all the time! And that even means while driving. You may or may not text behind the wheel, but many people do, and it is a widely ignored traffic offence. In fact, there's no law prohibiting you from talking or texting on your phone while behind the wheel.
So the practice continues, and from the perspective of one concerned father it's getting worse. John Brackett - who has children at Holy Redeemer Primary School on North Front Street - said he couldn't take it anymore so he staged a one man protest in front of the school this afternoon. He says he wants a no-phone zone.

Why hasn't the our government make cars a no phone zone, they are always looking for ways to tax people, why not set a law on something that matters. While driving, one needs full concentration in the traffic but people still find their ay to multi task. Sure talking on the phone while driving isn't that bad, if you're wearing an ear piece, but texting while driving, that's just disrespectful to the law and other civilians. Not only do you hold up traffic but you also run the risk of knocking someone down.... To avoid this from happening just make your cars a NO PHONE ZONE people.

No Game, No Pain

Last night we told you about the woes of the villagers in Double Head: three days before the Ruta Maya Canoe stops in their village for the first time, they were warned that selling game meat is illegal without a two thousand dollars license. The Forestry Department agreed to bring that license down to one hundred dollars for the weekend - but when villagers still complained at the sudden additional costs, something had to give…and tonight, we're happy to report that it's the ministry which did.
Chief Forestry Officer Wilbur Sabido today confirmed to 7news that in view of the circumstances his department has agreed to issue a temporary waiver to all handlers, hunters and dealers in game meat in the Double Head Area. The waiver, he tells us, will last for the entire long weekend.

The unfairness done to these people.... tsk, tsk, tsk Forestry department. The thing that bugs me is that the Forestry Department is placing a steep fee on the licenses for hunting game meat but made no fuss whatsoever when land was being reclaimed and the mangroves were being cut down down south. Quite unfair to pick on the people who are trying to make a little buck off game meat... At least they were a bit considerate of this weekend.

The Sandwich Theory

It is interesting to understand the logic of the opposite human species at school. Guys try to figure out how the minds of girls operate and vice versa. In a seating with friends (one male amongst several female) I learnt of a very stimulating theory: The Sandwich Theory. It stumbled across as one of my attractive female friends was telling the rest of us that the only male in the crowd called her an old stale sandwich. 

It wasn’t that she was offended by being called a sandwich, seeing that when one is hungry it is something to devour. She was insulted that he put the term “old stale” in front of sandwich.

Before the scorning against men could have begun, he quickly intervened with the breakdown of how his classification came about. He started broad creole:

“We (he and the female friend) gaan da café right, and I gaan inna the line fi order food wen she gone talk to somebody. One ah my bali mi deh fronta me inna the line and he ask me fi hail da li red-skin thing ova deh right. And he d talk up bout dis young gyal like ‘damn she all hot and thing.’ So I da like ‘Who? The one inna the pink shirt?’ He da like ‘no bwai d one inna the white weh you walk in with you!’ So den I da like ‘SHE?! Bwai she da old news, kinda like a old stale sandwich.”

Coincidentally at the same time my female friend over heard what he was saying as she made her way over to the lunch line. She questioned what was the deal with calling her an old stale sandwich? After serious consideration whether he should analyse his theory to a room filled with eight females (all second years) and one male (himself). He began with the scenario:

“You hungry right, and you got two sandwich on the table; wa fresh one just made and a stale one weh mi mek fa two days ago, which one you wa eat?”

Unanimously we agreed the fresh one for health reasons. He then defined his terminology:

“Okay! My point exactly. The young gyal weh you mi d talk to da mi wa first year while you—a second year, deh ya a whole year, you da no fresh meat on campus so you da the old sandwich. I wa tek back the stale part caz unu look like unu wa jump me right now. So yeah this fresh meat—I mean first year new so she da the new sandwich—ripe fi d pickings. No dat I d call unu old in age just dat we done used to see unu, some ah unu got bwaifren, and unu da just fren material now, cya hit pan unu.”

It made me wonder if this was really the mentality of males and even females toward the opposite sex; that because some newer persons comes along we are no longer romantically interested in the existing persons around us. In a sense it is true, for both male and female.

Is the Sandwich Theory plausible? What do you think?