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I'M WEST INDIAN BECAUSE.......I don't walk on the sidewalk ... I walk on pavement. I know that bake is not baked!! I know what it is like to be "sent for de belt"!! I believe that children need discipline. I walk wit my own pepper sauce!! "A beer is a carib"....so is : Stag, Banks, Red Stripe, Guiness, Hairoun, Royal Extra but these are also refreshments: ... Ting, Chubby, Mauby, Irish Moss, Sea Moss. Sorrel is a christmas drink, not eggnog. I soak my cake in rum!! My favorite topics of debate are: 1. Rice and peas vs Peas and rice. 2. Pelau vs cookup rice. 3. Curry chicken vs chicken curry. When I reach home I change into my home/house clothes!! Licks is not a restaurant. Everyone is my auntie, tantie, uncle or cousin!! (courtesy family)!! Moth balls are everywhere in my house. I have a freezer in my basement or back room. Shadow is not a ghost...But a jumbie or duppy might be!! No matter how old I am, I call my parents mummy and daddy. I know the meaning of "dahl", "channa", "anchar", "kurma" and "buss-up-shot". I love soca (goes without saying) and dub. I can call my fellow country man by an ethnic name fondly and it would be okay. eg: darkie, reds, dougs, chinee-man, yellow, creole, red-man, white-boy. "You betta study yuh book" is what I hear when I got 98 out of 100 on a test.. My parents ask me "what de ass .. happen to the other 2 marks??" I have someone in my family that is a mechanic,a nurse, and a contractor. I don't go to the grocery store I go to the market to make groceries. I know that bake goes with: bigon, bulljol, smoke herring, salt fish. I've washed and re-used plastic and styrofoam cups..to go with the plastic take-out spoons and forks cutlery set in the draw. It is not vegetables it is veg-ey-tables. Tripe is a delicacy, fish is brain food. Castor and cod liver oil is good for you. I have a wall unit in my dining room filled with the "good dishes"!! I know the difference between wine, whine and wine!!! Someone in my family has a cd or mini boxing gloves with my flag on it hanging from the rear-view mirror in your car. I don't photocopy.... I xerox!!10/31/2006 4:10 PM
THE NUMBER ONE MAN IN MY LIFE BISHOP HE'S MY HERO SECOND TO GOD