I may not be the biggest fan of Mr. Combs’ music but i am a fan of this Youtube video he so lovingly made. I myself was annoyed by John McCain’s choice of Sarah Pillin for Vice President.  But i think Diddy put it best, in layman terms anyway; give it a watch

I know Mccain’s old, really old, what if he trips and breaks his hip? he needs to be careful. he’s a fragile old man. Sarah would be a heart beat away from presidency . I also reccomend this post a friend of mine posted on his blog re: Mccain’s choice of Pallin for Vp, give it a read

P.S I Got a good laugh out of Diddy’s video; the guy’s a comedian.

It never dawned on me that i would be writing something like this.  Everything was going so well up until now; this was an unexpected disappointment, i still can’t fathom our loss *sighs*.  But we can still hold our heads high, I’m still proud of our girls and I’m still Proud to be Jamaican no matter the outcome.

I’m at a lost for words..not much i can say.  Better luck next time.

Update: The Males in the 4 x 100 made us Proud again, congrats:) And here i thought it was turning out to be a dissapointing day:)

I’m still in awe right now. These last few days have literally been the best moments of my life. I feel such a heightened level of patriotism - it’s overwhelming. Our athletes have done and are doing a fine job at making us feel PROUD as Jamaicans.

Now Mr. Bolt has once again proven he has the right to pat his chest and do whatever else he wishes (Whether anyone feels it’s disrespectful or not), he earned it and i have no aplogies for saying that.  Kudos to Melanie Walker ( I didn’t know about her up until this morning, so i conveniently reffered to her as the “other person” to score a Gold apart from Mr. “Lighting” Bolt himself.

It’s our time and we deserve it; Go Jamaica Go!!!.

I’ve become somewhat of a temporary sport fanatic, just to be specific a Track And Field Fanatic. But we all know why so i need not venture into such inane details. Apparently bolt hitting his chest close to his smashing Olympic finish is a problem for a few people, but i see no problem there, what he did was fine.

I think impulse got the best of him and and after reading a bit about him i would expect nothing less from a man like himself in such a situation; read this article in today’s paper and you’ll get my point, he’s that type of person, a bit egocentric, and conceited, but it is what it is; he’s an awesome athlete and anyone in such a position would probably react the same (especially with a personality such as his)

image courtesy of NY Times

I want to agree with a comment made on facebook re: Bolt slowing down close to his finish:

The Logic is Simple…Usain needs to set the record at a breakable time to increase his earning potential. That is, you earn money each time you break a world record. Therefore in a few months he can easily break the 9.69 and make some FAST money.

I don’t know how true that it is; but it seems logical enough to me; Bolt wants to set a time so he can beat it again; even if there’s no money incentive he’ll surely get media spotlight and that by itself is good enough.

image courtesy of NY Times

All in all as far as i see; most athletes are conceited, they just try and shy it down a bit.  I remember Asafa saying once that he can “Run anytime he wants to run” and that he decides how “fast” he goes, just by taking to these people you’ll hear such narcissistic statements coming out,and any athlete that after accomplishing such greatness, is still humble after…well there just being hypocrites, but i guess that helps sometime doesn’t it?

Bolt can be as conceited as he wants, as long as he keeps breaking those records he’ll get attention… as much as some people hate it.  It is what it is.

P.S Congrats on your stellar performance girls; i think it’s safe to say that that was one of the best moments of my life..so far. I felt/feel REALLY good to be Jamaican.

Continue making us proud in Beijing Everyone.

I’m here thinking how cruel humans beings are to each other.  Men concoct these exams with the sole purpose of laughing at our continued mental instability  and apprehensiveness (I can hear them laughing now).
Teens spend there summer days pretending to be calm, cool and collected; but inside there waiting for the prolonged agonizing wait to be over. It’s a nerve racking experience and I can surely attest to that – as much as I’d like to deny it.
Prior to me doing my CXC’s I always heard those “5th Formers”  raving and ranting about how long the wait is and that they cannot wait for such an experience to be over, I laughed and said to my self “What’s the big deal?  – it can’t be that big an issue and merely shrugged it off’. Oh! How wrong, oh how very wrong I was.

I felt this way up to the last minute, but now the prolonged wait is winding down and deep down I wish there was a rewind button…a rewind button to bring back those early euphoric summer days where all we as teens worried about was what we were going to wear to that party down the road, how we’re going to muster the funds for “RTI” and “ATI” and the inane discussions of who’s dating who – just to stray our minds away from the  catastrophic inevitable CSEC results , if only for a short while, but now we’re only a matter of days away from those results.

A lot of teens are keeping there “cool” and are optimistic  about there exemplarily results while others have undesirable thoughts playing itself out in there heads , on which side of the table do you fall? I surely know where I do, but in the end only time will tell…time tells it all – after all, the end justifies the means.

Now i have a penchant for always being late for everything,well not veery late, but just a bit. And as you all know or may not know, I’m not much of a sports fanatic, but this cannot be ignored, especially when i was just bashed by reader Ruthibelle (Who You Calling Boy, eh?) for not materializing my thoughts.

But that my dear lady  was the problem, all i could muster up to express my euphoric sense of pride was two Jamaican expletives, and obviously i couldn’t write bumb**…ra** OK I’ll stop - well let’s just say i couldn’t write that on my blog, so i refrained, but i see my fellow countrymen and woman blogging about it, so how could i not have a piece of the cake, after all it’s so sweet.

You made us proud Usain, Very Proud, and Asafa…well your just  plain Old. I won’t repeat what we already know is so. So what I’ll do is link you to all the Noise around the Jamaican blogsphere praising Usain for his greatness at the Olympics.

Ruthibelle:http://ruthibelle.blogspot.com/2008/08/usain-lightning-bolt.html

Jamaipanese: http://www.jamaipanese.com/index.php?itemid=714

Stunner: http://stunner101.blogspot.com/2008/08/bolt-of-lightning-strikes-beijing.html

Am i missing any other Jamaican bloggers? Tell me and i’ll add you here