Trinidad, Reverb Revelations.

So, I've been in Trinidad for almost 3 weeks now and I've met some of the most influential and down to earth people out here, IT'S CRAZY. Like, I continue to ask myself "IS THIS REAL LIFE??" because it's just the best experience EVER! If you want to follow what I'm doing I've made a separate blog called "Reverb Revelations" which talks about my time here and the important things we've been doing.

http://yellowgirlabroad.blogspot.com/

(The group and a Shaman on one of our first days here!)

(WOMAN POWER!! yay)

(Me eating a mango picked straight off the tree)

(At the prettiest waterfall deep in the forest of trinidad)

Away.

I've been slackin a little bit on my blogging but I'm back but in a whole different country! I will try to blog each day of my time here in Trinidad but I will be doing it on a totally separate blog. I haven't thought of the name yet but its coming soon and i need ideas! Smootches!

Yellow girl is tasting the heat right now!

"Why did I get married too?" Review.

So here we are again. My man Tyler Perry does it again.... Or doesn't he? "Why did i get married too" is the sequel to the hit movie "Why did i get Married?". Now, the first movie was great, I personally loved it and will recommend it to anyone. Not only did it have a lot of unexpected twists, but the audience learned new things about marriage, and got to know each character as if they were their own friends. As for the sequel, I can't say I feel the same, it was, well how do I put this nicely.... IT WAS A FLOP! Like seriously Tyler Perry, seriously tho you're gonna just make me super excited to see this movie and not even live it up to its expectations? Now, I've gotten a lot of mixed views on the movie which is why i decided to see it for myself, and I kinda wish I didn't. I loved that he was coming out with a sequel to one of my favorite movies, but when coming out with a sequel you have to make it better than the first one! The sequel must ALWAYS be better or atleast equivalent to the first. The movie relied soooo much on the plot from the first one that it didn't seem like its own movie. The couples had many of the same issues they had in the first one, I guess in this one they were just getting worse. For example in the movie the four couples went on their annual retreat to the Bahamas, there they met this old married couple who told them about how long they've been married and how in love they still are blah blah blah. Then.... WE DON'T SEE THE COUPLE AGAIN! Like what's the point of throwing them in there? what is the point? Are you just trying to squeeze in as many black people into one movie as possible? Is that it Mr. Perry? Okay I'm being too hard, the movie really wasn't that bad, it really wasn't, the ending just really upset me. Janet's husband dies in a car accident, that she baisically caused and she tells her friends to fix their marriages and with a hug and a kiss its all better? ummmm, yeaaaaa NOPE! Not how it really goes down! Not at all! When you have big problems a hug and a kiss does not solve it! Andddddddd to put the friggin cherry on top, Janet finds a new man at the end! O wait, yep there's more, the new man is......... The Rock. Yea, I'm serious.. THE ROCK, you know the wrestler turned actor (is he gay?). If I had popcorn I would have thrown the whole thing at the screen! Why would it end that way? I must admit there were some good parts like when Terry found out Diane was "cheating" and of course when Angela and Marcus fought. lol I don't think anyone can get enough of that Angela *side note* Did anyone notice how she always plays the ghetto black female in every movie? *side note*. And a lot of the lines used in this movie were also used in the other. I want to write a letter to Tyler Perry, the only "good"/ "somewhat good" movie his name is tacked onto in 2009-2010 is precious, now we all know how i feel about "I can do bad all by myself" what a disgraceful movie, and my girl Taraji P. Henson was the star too tisk tisk. But the ending of this movie really threw me for a loop, some people are saying they changed the ending for Janet because of the grief she was going though with Michaels death. Idk man, I just don't know. Why would the Rock be in it? why? Is there something about him that I don't know? Is he like the illest dude out right now? All in all this movie did not live up to my expectations, I would have enjoyed watching it in the comfort of my own home! I'm sorry Tyler Perry but this was NOT good!

Yellow girl is highly dissapointed in Tyler Perry, I had faith in you this time man.... and ya just blew it!

Man.

Your eyes pale gray
Mine, chocolate brown
Your height over 6
Mine 5 down
Words like butter
Swag like Wayne
Rhymes that can make the craziest person sane
The clicks of the camera
the screaming of the fans
the power you get, when that mic is in your hands
The beauty of your meaning
the intensity of your thought
The control of your flow
The significance of your walk
Creating the rubric in which I judge men
Some ask why?
I say because that's my perfect 10
Man without a face
Man with a soul
Man that's not a celebrity
Somewhat of the average Joe
Man that's a man
Man that's a lover
Man that's a person
Man that's a flower
Man I've never met.

4/10/2010.. Drake

"Drake, drake, drake, drake" the crowd chanted as my favorite artist appeared on the stage. Everyone screamed because this huge rapper came out on stage, I screamed because not only is he a tremendous rapper but his presence and tone is so static. His words always move me, and in all of his songs, he proves his intellect (unlike many other rappers). He performed perfectly and so much more mature from his concert I attended a year prior. He performed all of the hits from his mixtape "So far gone" he performed a new song off his upcoming album "Thank me Later" the song is called "SPOTLIGHT". He closed with "OVER" the single from "Thank me Later". Now, I must say that this performance was PHENOMINAL, Drake has a way of making his audience feel asthough they're not in a huge stadium, but a small room with just him, you and a few other fans. Yes, we were pretty close to him, but it has nothing to do with proximity it has to do with the great amount of attention he shows his audience. Now some people may say I'm crazy for saying this, and some might agree but through his interviews, songs,tv shows and performances I feel like I know who he is. He seems smart, funny, somewhat hard but still can be sensitive and humble. Not only is he all of these things but his swag is just super duper crazy. All in all Drake is an amazing performer and a well rounded man/ human being. Although I was not the female he called on stage, I did have the opportunity to meet him at his last concert, so its all good.

Yellow Girl insists that everyone go out and see Drake perform, if you dont YOURE MISSIN OUT!

RACIST? or SELF-HATRED?

I am apart of facebook as many young people are. I have recently had one of the most insane debates/ conversations with one of my fellow highschool alumi I have a few snippets of what she said here:

"also as being a Republican i would also like to say that i think people who cannot afford to have kids shouldn't have them and thus i would have never been conceived i should have been aborted and saved everyone tons of money. I was lucky enough to be adopted into a privileged family who taught me that i could have it way worse off. Id ... See Morerather be dead than poor, that's what I'm saying. I don't identify as black or African-American or Latino only when i can use it as a crutch to somehow help me, i would rather be white if i had the choice. but i don't I'm stuck with THIS. I think people are shocked that someone can think this way, don't be shocked accept that's how i think and move onnnnnnnnn"

This is a small peice of what this AFRICAN AMERICAN female wrote to me. its sad and apauling. Yellow girl is sad and helpless

Diggy is a rapper? and a good one??

Remember little Diggy Simmons the son of the infamous Reverend Run and the hit reality show (well atleast one of my favorite) Runs House? Well looks like this little protegee is a rapper! And not to mention he's quite good too. He's got a Lupe Fiasco flow goin! In listening to his mixtape it was surprising to see that he uses the "N" word when his father as a rapper in RUN DMC did not swear at all! Well, he does talk about growing up famous in his mixtape, and how he doesn't want that to be apart of who he is as a rapper. Anyways I think the mixtape is hot sooo take a listen: http://www.datpiff.com/pop-mixtape-player.php?id=ma0d4fe2

What do you think?

Yellow girl was def rockin to this mixtape, might have to put it on the ipod.

21 Years*

(A little snippet of my realizations)

After turning the ripe young age of 21 I feel like so much has come into perspective for me. Although I am still on this journey trying to figure out who I am I feel like after 21 years of life I have gotten a lot closer. I've learned to say what I mean and mean what I say because I might not be here the next day to say it. Also, don't let people and their ideals bring you down and determine your self worth. Be you for you, not for anyone else. The past two years have been really eye opening when it comes to friendships, I've found that people I used to call close friends now hold the title of an acquaintance which is hurtful but fulfilling in the long run. And the people that are still in my life are deserving of being called a friend. Life is full of tests and its up to you how you choose to pass those test. I've made some mistakes (as all of us have) but I've come to understand how not to make the same mistake twice, I've had temptations but they havent gotten the best of me. After the relationships, the flings, broken friendships, education, and work hardships I still have yet to figure out what kind of person I really am. I wonder when we do reach that breaking point, when everything comes together and makes sense. All I can say is after 21 years of age I haven't figured it out and who's to say I ever will.

DRAKE NEW SINGLE "OVER"

So, I have been patiently waiting the arrival of a new drake single and it has dropped on March 4th. Here's a link I found, take a listen

http://usershare.net/YouHeardThatNew/hvab2tnzkcm6#

Love Circle **

Me and you were like the same
Even though you don't know it
I felt your heart calling my name
We seem so different
But were really not
I felt like I was fishin'
But it was you I caught
I said I hated you when we got into a fight
I said bye forever
But we talked that night
It's never over between me and you
It's like a circle not a heart
Because a circles always true
It keeps on going, there is no end
Its because I can never just be your friend
So like I said our love will never fade
I bet that on as many beats as my heart has ever made.

Isn't that the cutest thing?? I was looking through my old notebooks and I had so much poetry in there I just had to post something! I must have been like 15 when I wrote this and it's crazy how I had words like that. And I know exactly who I was talking about! Isn't it funny to look back at old memories? Phrases like "oh my god what was I thinking" is usually the first thing to come out of your mouth. Ugh the good old days! What ever happened to the good old days? when you would just write a poem and all your problems would go away. At 15 I was worried about whether or not my boyfriend of the week would call me the next night, or what color top my friends and I would wear the next day. Now we gotta worry about bills, baby mommas, and car payments! Where did the time go??

**

800-1000 word paper

My professor gave us an assignment to write an 800-1000 word paper on theory. Now, what bugs me is that professors always find the need to give a number of words paper. Why cant you just be like "write a five page paper" because that is its equivalence. Why make us have to figure it out? Really, what is the point? If I didn't have Microsoft word do you think I would sit there and count out exactly how many words I used? no way. Really, what is the point? I'm just sayin. Also, on Theory? like seriously? I have been staring at the screen for about 20 minutes just trying to figure out how I can start off this paper. It's a sunday night, the grammys are on, and you expect me to write about theory? I would much rather be sitting in my bed and listening to 200 celebrities thank god. But no. I'm sitting here. Writing about theory. And one more thing, whats the point of writing the whole paper when the introduction already states the main facts of each section? Why elaborate? Why can't school be easier? Why do I need to know what theory is? Why am I so unmotivated? And going back to my first question why is it called an 800 word paper? Why not just 5 pages? WHY? My theory on this 800-1000 word paper is that it can kiss my A**. 225 words out of 800 people, I'm almost there.

Yellow girl is in desperate need of the motivation fairy..... where are you!!

Haiti, the beautiful*

If you haven't been living under a rock for that past month you must know the tragedy that happened in Haiti a few weeks ago. 200,000 people were killed and 250,000 people injured, because of an earthquake at its greatest magnitude of 7.0. I remember Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami, but this is the worst natural disaster that has occurred, wiping out almost a 3rd of Haiti's population. This hits home more than ever because I am of Haitian decent and it directly affects my life because my family members and friends family members live there. It's crazy because during this time people were reaching out to me, people that I haven't spoken to in months. When I first heard about the earthquake I didn't really pay it any attention because I didn't think it was a big deal then I watched the news and heard from others that it was way worse than I had thought. Because I'm Haitian everyone I know looks at me with sorrow in their eyes as if they know that im feeling distraught. But the truth is I don't really know how to feel. Am I supposed to be happy because my family members survived? Or should I feel sad because this country that was home to many is not anymore.
My family used to go on family trips to Haiti, and my older brother and I would hate it mostly because of the lack of consistent electricity. We joked about how we wanted to bomb Haiti and remake it into some place really nice, but obviously we were never serious, it was our home and a home to many others. If you are reading this open up ur wallets, open your hearts and souls and do all you can for the people of haiti.

Monique

I'm sorry, but I am sitting in front of the TV with it on mute doing my homework when the damn Monique show comes on. I mean come onnnn I really despise that show! Who told Monique she could have a talk show? Stick to comedy. If I had a say I would have voted NO! Does she think she can be the next Oprah?? cuz I'm thinking NO on that! I mean she has some good people on that show but she doesn't ask the right questions! All she does is ask weird shit that only she really cares about! Like really monique, really? do you think we care about your relationship with all of cash money? NO! We wanna know why lil wayne got arrested or is he really messin wit Nicki Minaj. Ask what we want to know! And all she does is yell!!!!! Like seriously! you have a mic so you're already louder than everyone else, why do you need to yell boo boo?? whyyy! And for those of you who actually watch BET you know that the BET channel is already mad low so you gotta turn it up a little to be at normal volume. But I actually have to turn this show down more than I would turn down a regular channel. It shouldn't be that way, it just shouldn't. Listen, my television is on mute and I can still tell that she's yelling. Oh and every guest, I'm talkin every guest, she introduces them like they're about to get in the ring and are fighting for the championship belt. Ugh I just really had to blog about this because it has been bothering me for the longest... Just changed the channel.

yellow girl is aggrevatedddd

Celeb gossip in a bundle.

KEYSHIA COLE ENGAGED AND PREGGERs

On another note.. remember jboog? homie from b2k? welll he was just capped on a domestic violence charge.... against his baby mama... drammaaaa. I wonder if that kid still has money from his b2k days. sighh

Rihanna gotta man! & Chris got multiple boos!

Well you go girl! Apparently Rihanna got a new man and his name is Matt Kemp and he plays for the dodgers hes def a hottie and I am very much happy for her.

And Chris Brown has been seen around town with multiple girlies. someones living the single life, lets just hope he got his anger issues intact.