Oath of a Minister in the Parliament

Currently the ministers of the next Cabinet are being sworn in with he following oath:

I (Ryan) do swear by the (holy book) that I will bear true faith and allegiance to Trinidad and Tobago and I will uphold the constitution and the law, that I will conscientiously, impartially, and to the best of my ability discharge my duty as Minister of (Music), and do right to all manner of people without fear or favor, affection or ill will.

The full list of representatives can be seen here

May 26th, 2010

What a day eh? The day the first female Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago is sworn in. The first heavy rain showers of the season and widespread flooding and damage and loss of property. My one week mark for doing the P90X program.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar I think sounded the way a Prime Minister is supposed to sound when she speaks, and says she is going to follow through on her promises. When she was outside after the ceremony she made her body guards loosen the area around her to get more intimate with the barrage of reporters. I think this speaks mountains about her and what we can expect to see with transparency and openness with her government. The first thing the new Prime Minister said is going to deal with is the flooding disaster, see what was immediately needed and put it into action, sounds simple enough. Maybe now the local government will get proper manpower assigned to them. We have more rain on the way so promises need to be kept.

My muscles and ligaments all over are sore from exercising everyday for the last week. The P90X program is about 1 hour workout a day with different routines each day. Yesterday it was my calves in pain, today it is my shoulders. I love the idea of working out without using big machines, only using dumbbells and my own body weight. I still have to get the eating part right as I am still eating a large meal for dinner and junk during the day.

I also watched Slumdog Millionaire last night, good movie. It showed the dirty parts of India without being too dirty. Many people really do have it badly in India and we have it quite well here in Trinidad. Appreciate what we have and do not take it for granted.

Trinidad Election Results 2010

The People's Partnership has won the May 24th 2010 general elections. In fact it was a landslide victory of 29 seats against the PNM's 12 seats. This gives them the coveted two thirds majority to change the constitution.

This national victory is 4 months after the internal elections and the defeat of UNC founder Basdeo Panday with Kamla Persad-Bissessar winning on a 10:1 advantage. This means she has without a doubt the faith of the UNC supporters and now the whole nation in her.

She will be sworn in today as the first female Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.

Read more about it here http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/nart?id=161677244&weba=NWSNews
and http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161679412

Voter meggie

Juice in a Sony Vaio laptop

This is what happens when you let juice go into your laptop and don't immediately power it off completely and dry it before checking to see if it works. The first picturs is of shorted out resistors. The second is a chip with many pins shorted and burnt next to more shorted resistors. This particular laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-NS10L (PCG-7144M)

You would think that with all the brains in sony they would put a cover to access the hard drive just as they did with the memory and as most other laptops are made. In order to get this hard drive out I had to remove 25 screws. It is a standard sata hard drive so I cannot imagine why it is not accessible easily like the ram. Bad Sony. The motherboard is mounted upside down so when I tried to boot the machine with the cover open I had to be careful not to shift parts when I opened the laptop to press the power button.

Review: The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans

Waste of time watching this. The iguanas were absolutely unnecessary, then add the bad camera work to it, poor. The Bad Lieutenant Port  of Call New Orleans gets 1 star.

More about FOOD mmmmm

More trini food recipes, for free
http://www.trinigourmet.com/

 

The Naparima Girls Cook Book is around $200 TTD at bookstores in Trinidad but $70 USD for the soft cover right now on amazon.com WOW!