Kingston,Jamaica

[CharlieD10]

Hahaha LCW! When I came home from NY I was wearing a cowboy hat! People were like, wait, where in the US were you? Hahaha!! I have even got a promise from my husband to take me to the Calgary Stampede one year!

 

[lonelycanadianwifey]

LOL...charlie.....so it goes you like what you like ...but man people just love stereotype people unnuh...lol....man i know tons of white jamaicans ...nuff chiney and cooley...and all the while people would be like ...omg tht girl is trying to act like a jamaican wat a looser...

like i said there is no way i have ever seen to act black or act white ...how do u do that ...i have never figured it out..

So you love rocking the cowboy hat eh...lol...it truly fits mi husband ...but i wont feed into that to much ...dont wanna end up in nashville anytime soon...lolllllllllllzzzzzzz

 

[SmoothiesQueen]

lonelycanadianwifey.....you think that's bad....my husband has a weakness for Marty Robbins! " Oh he might have gone on living but he made one fatal slip, when he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his stick"....ahhh LORD JESUS SAVE ME NOW!! I still remember all the lyrics to songs I never wanted to know!! I even tried accidently destroying the Marty Robbines CD when I could no longer bear it...and he just simply went to see the CD man and came home with another.

Probably the only customer for Marty Robbins!!! You want to talk about people laughing...try being a young early twentie couple..cruising around to blared Marty Robbins...me sinking lower into my seat...hubby singing loudly and proudly and most certianly far far off key!!!

As for acting black or white. I think its funny because I know white folks who've grown up in Jamaica, or in black nieghbourhoods in the US or Canada and act a certian way because thats just them, how they were raised. The only time I get slightly annoyed is when people go out of their way to act say Jamaican, instead of just being themselves. I think it looks foolish. But most people married to a Jamaican, or living in Jamaica like myself, will pick up certian words, and even tinges to the accent. How can you help it?

After nuff years of Jamaican living...I have a certian amount thats just subconcious. I can break out into patois...especially when I'm angry because it comes naturally now. Those are the ways of speaking I hear daily! I play music by ear...so I pick up accents quickly and people back home say when I'm in Jamaica and they speak to me...they can hear a tinge of it in my voice. But that being said...I just do me so if it comes naturally fine...but if I always sound Canadian as can be...thats fine!! I don't believe in trying to be anybody but me!

 

[lonelycanadianwifey]

marty robbins mi naw lie who in deh rass is that ?????? lolzzzzzzzzz

so it goes....mi neva and mi seh neva deny mi self mi joys ...but there is always a limit a wah i can tek from the next person....lol....and garth brook has him time and place...when mi naw deh a yaaaaaaaaaad...

 

[SmoothiesQueen]

lonely....trust me...if you don't know him...your better off! I wish I could ask the same!! But unfortunatly Marty and I are well aquainted!!

Hes a very old old probably dead by now country artist whose first released music was most certianly on a record player if they were even invented yet!!

 

[CharlieD10]

Ahem...that's Big Iron on His Hip, SQ. I love Marty Robbins too! Skeeter Davis is how I got started listening to country music though, I got my first country album as an LP of her top songs when I was 7! ;D My mom and grandma are country music fans too, so I come by it naturally, I tell people that when they ask, LOL.

When I first moved to Kingston and started making enough money to spend on CDs, I started going to a music store near the office, and they carried only classic country, nothing contemporary. I had to special order all my Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Gary Allan and Rascal Flatts albums. After a while they started carrying contemporary country stars, and now I am pleased to say they carry a very nice selection! When I get mad or moody, you want to hear me blasting my southern rock country songs! Nothing like hearing Brooks and Dunn sing "Hillbilly Deluxe" in Kingston!

 

[SmoothiesQueen]

See I like some country CharlieD..yes sir I do!! I grew up in the country! But there are limits to my country listening...serious limits!!

And Marty Robbins...forgive me as you said your a fan...is wayyyyyyyyyyyy beyond those limits!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmUsJvRv7U For those who are curious hahahaha...open and listen if you dare!

My mom grew up in the US and where she was, it was near the main stadium in her state. She's seen nearly every country artist from that day. From Dolly Pardon, to Marty Robbins, to Willie Nelson, everyone of them and met most of them to!

Really and truely I don't have one taste though...I'm an appreciater of good music period....doesnt matter what genre it comes from. I never liked anything just because its hip...it just has to speak to me and click with me whether thats on a deep level or a superficial fun dancing type level!

 

[CharlieD10]

Woot, thanks for sharing that! Brings back good memories. ;D

I'm not much of a dancer, and music either speaks to me on the lyrics, which country does, or by its complexity, which classical music does. Those are my two favourite genres.

 

[lonelycanadianwifey]

smmothie...uhhmmm..lol....marty robbins will be our little secret if god spares me tht i would be ever thankfull...lol.....big iron on his hip...oh god..ill take garth oh yes ill take garth...lol

 

[kuma]

my husband is goin to push me over the edge rt not. immi sent him a pkg. to redo med and police check. in the pkg it says to go to kingston for the police check. however, someone told him you can do it in mo bay is that true? i want him to go to kingston.

 

[CharlieD10]

So far as I know, the only place in Jamaica where police record checks are available are from the Criminal Records Division on 34 Duke Street in Kingston. He has to pay the fees at the Ministry of Justice's office at the Oxford Towers in New Kingston, then take the receipt to the office downtown. I have not heard of them offering that service anywhere else.

 

[chelley]

to add to what Charlie has writtten, it might be best if he arranges the medical in Kingston at the same time at the DMP there... i've heard of at least one person who was told the medical re-do MUST be in Kingston, and while that seems absolutely asinine, when it comes to this stage in the game when things are really just down to the end of the line, it's almost easier to humor kingston than argue with them i would think...

 

[Sanchester]

Kuma...

I think Kingston is the only place... My husband is closer to Mo Bay... and He went to Kingston. From what I remember, It was a whole day event for him.. they cattle you in to see one person... wait.. then the next person.. and wait... and so on.

 

[jahlove]

hey guys i heard it on the news that they plan to do everything from Duke Street, not sure if is June 1, or July 1. Either way they are removing that esection from Oxford Rd. It can only be done in kgn.

 

[CharlieD10]

Jahlove, where down at Duke St they are going to have people pay? There is NO space in that crappy building! They take 160-odd people in the line, and when they reach 20 people in the line to see the technicians, they can take another 15 in the inside waiting room and about 15 more in the outside waiting room. Everybody after that has to stand up outside in the sun!