TiCtOc pon di rock LIVE AND DIRECT **TRIP REPORT** On a Zero budget.

[TiCtOc]

The last couple of days have been fun filled drama filledand adventurous!

We left the family home and had some personal stuff toattend to and then we headed further into the interior of the cute littleisland to visit more family.
Manda, I was thinking of you and your holy s@@@ bar everysecond of the way on our journey.The problem I had while being hundreds of feetin the air on a tiny winding road with no railings/barriers was the huge truckscoming at high speed in the opposite direction OMG where is my holy crap bar?Ihad no bar,I did not trust the car door,I could not trust the seat I could notgrip onto anything so I just closed my eyes and hoped for the best, at onepoint the back wheel had some stone crumble under it OMG we were officially onthe edge of a cliff with a huge truck almost running us off the road.Thishappened twice I was SCARED call 911 call 911 or 119 IN ADVANCE! It is not forthe faint hearted,The roads are scary.It can be so dangerous.
The views were amazing though, that I saw in the few secondsI was brave enough to peep open my eyes.All I could see was jungle like viewsall lush and green and JUNGLE looking.I wonder what is up there in the junglescene?I wonder what animals live there if any?Or what people if any?There areno houses just greenery.My daughter keeps saying she wants to explore there, Ithink maybe that could be dangerous.I bet someone offers some sort of hiking oradventure holiday for it somewhere but today is not our day for hiking throughthe Jungle we have enough drama going on without finding more!
We arrived at our nieces house who had a bottle of rum forus as a present aww TOO cute, and she also had chicken and rice and peas andveg ready for our arrival,(she knows the direct route to my happy heart and face) I have to tell you about the rice it was the BESTrice I have ever tasted , nobody in Negril put any effort into the rice where Iate it was mainly bland steamed rice and a few kidney beans thrown in.You couldtell a lot of love had gone into this dish,I do not even particularly like ricebut THIS rice I could have eaten alone it was so scrumptious.She is giving methe recipe today.
She said it had grated coconut in and garlic and thyme andother bits and bobs,I will tell you all as soon as I get the recipe.It was theBOMB the shizzle!NOBODY had cooked rice like this my entire trip and we allreally enjoyed it.
I went down to her shop and employed myself as her little assistant and I would love toreally be her partner or assistant for real but she is the best cook ever and Ithink we need a cook shop!
She would be sold out within an hour every day.
This was a new home I was visiting as her family is nowexpanding so yes of course I was alittle bit worried, new area, new people could be scary but it was fine and we all had a great time.
Her partner has 3 jobs and one is a disc jockey wooooo soyou know I was happy when I saw the speakers , ecstatic when he shown me alittle program on the internet I could use to be a cyber dj something I havealways wanted to learn.It just happened out of the blue I did not even mentionmusic to him ,I picked it up really quick , took me less than 15 minutes tolearn and I was soon pulling up the tune and adding effects and mixing musicwhich was sounding NICEEEE through the speakers.The photos just show one smallspeaker in the bedroom, he had a big pile of them outside the door.This wasvery helpful to me, one- because I love music -2 –because I now will not haveto return home to silence, he is transferring it all for me with all the musicon to my laptop can I get A WHOOP WHOOP TRIPLE WHOOP! Boop boop boop!
And 3^rd it is possible back home I could actuallymake some money from it which will help pay my massive debt from this holiday!
So I was very excited to have a play on that and we playedsome nice tunes until bedtime.

[TiCtOc]

[irieworld]

good job tic, with continuing your trip report after your return and sharing the country with us! It is like you had two totally different trips in one.
Look at you with the big Wray and Nephew! Rewarded with Rum after being good at your in laws house What do you use as mixer with it? The stuff is so intense. I like it when it is added to drinks but on its own I almost lit myself on fire a couple of times. Plus the taste is intense. I have ran out of mixer before and had it with water OMG.

[TiCtOc]

good job tic, with continuing your trip report after your return and sharing the country with us! It is like you had two totally different trips in one.
Look at you with the big Wray and Nephew! Rewarded with Rum after being good at your in laws house What do you use as mixer with it? The stuff is so intense. I like it when it is added to drinks but on its own I almost lit myself on fire a couple of times. Plus the taste is intense. I have ran out of mixer before and had it with water OMG.

Rum is MY drink my body must just agree with it , it makes me happy and energetic and fun, some people say they can only have one or two and they feel dizzy, my body can handle quite a bit of it i don't know why, never had a hangover or was ill from it either RUM is my drink, the sad thing is I cannot afford it at home LOL so that is why I go mental with it out there! it is sooo cheap out there at home it is very expensive.
I like to mix it with punch as in fruit punch in ja so rum punch as long as the punch is nice and freezing cold with ice, i also like it with pepsi or lemonade, i really like it with the little fizzy orange chubby drinks you can buy in Ja as you can not even taste the rum then,
The rum alone is awful I can drink it in large quantities but not in strong measures, smaller measures and more rum not large measures less rum!
I like my drinks ice cold and if I am served a warm drink I just cannot drink it makes me feel yak all sick.NO to warm drinks.I sometimes wonder how bars stay open that think it is okay to serve a paying customer a warm drink, that is disgusting.
I too was desperate one day (not this trip) and have tried rum with water LOL it was not the best drink in the world and it was the final drink of the evening so I cannot tell you if it still works or not but it is popular with Jamaicans rum and water and I guess it gets water into your system so you do not dehydrate.I feel sorry for my liver and I do not want to even imagine the crates full of empty bottles from this trip.I am very sober now.Drinking my water on the sober train until my return!I save all my energy for my trips!

[Clarity]

I agree with Irieworld. It is like two totally different trips in one! I'm enjoying your descriptions of the country. Thanks for continuing the trip report!
Love that group pic in the car. Your son is too cute! He's always hamming it up for the shots!

[rastagal]

Enjoying the report! More more!

[Sheba]

More pon more.
Plenty more.

Hope your family are doing well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2O4SG8eAyM

One Love
B x

[TiCtOc]

Thanks for all the responses,
Sheba thank you for reminding me of the olympics, now the olympics is something I have never bothered about before, not at all, think it stems back to me being about 7 or 8 years old and our primary school had the chance to design the logo for the olympics, MINE was wayyyyy the best I did not win the logo design award , my logo was not implemented I was 7 or 8 I was not impressed, I never wanted to see or hear about the olmpics again Yes I can hold grudges , NORMALLY absolutely pathetic ones LOL I can hear you all now thinking :
tictoc does not attend the olympic games because when she was 7 years old they did not use her design LMAO
well ones feelings can get hurt you know!
Anyway that all changed when I saw a Jamaican athlete appear on my TV with what?
what is that?
A JAMAICAN FLAG
now now what do we have here I was thinking as I was channel surfing and about to blitz the stupid olympics off my tv screen which I had paid my tv license for!
So now I see a Jamaican guy and a Jamaican flag and I think
HALT STOP WHAT IS THIS??
I watched every second of him being on screen and him winning the race and the replays and every screening they had him on
USAIN BOLT
Fastest runner in the world hailing from Jamaicaa woooooooo
I tell everyone you can NOT test Jamaicans with their music their lyrics , their sound, their dances, their home grown home cooked food or their sport.
Why does no-one listen.
No country can compete and then the news stations were going crazy saying it is all of the home grown yam he has been raised on all his life fresh outta the ground in Jamaica.
It was a pleasure to watch and I knew from the start he was going to be the WINNER!
Not too sure about footy/football /soccer as I always hear bad things about the soccer teams in Ja even though there are many teams in Ja and they always seem to play a good game when I watch them but apparently they can't get on the footy map so what do I know I am just a gal who don't even care what the offside rule is or means but all I know is Jamaicans are good athletes and fantastic musicians,singers,players,dancers, bass speaker makers!
So that was the first time I held any interest in the Olmpic games.
The second time I had an inkling of interest was on this trip to Jamaica I met someone who is Jamaican living in Jamaica and they are actively involved in comingto the olympics and organising the department about Jamaica.I must get in touch with him to follow up more about it.So as soon as Sheba posted the link I thought oh yeahhhh this is what the guy was talking about, making the connection.You know I will be attending and I will hopefully get a little spot to perch on in the Jamaica department it will be so fun.
I am going to e-mail the guy who was telling me about it , see if I can get any further information so thanks sheba

Gerry ganja is illegal where I live but I do not smell it at reggae events because there are none where I live It is available but I guess if mostly what it does is make you be silent and stare at a boring old wall all day then the opportunities for that here for free are endless LOL.
This definately was a trip of two halves seeing it through 2 different perspectives but that is how I have always known it we always do the resort and countryside thing.
I stayed in Negril for so long on the hopes and promises of the negril escape concerts.Prices were getting higher and places were getting booked, if I had known it was all going to be a flop and nothing happen until after my departure I would have liked to have spent at least 4 days in ochi 2 in mobay and a little time in south coast or port antonio.I booked my hotels before I left on the promises of the shows but they never happened so..Still cannot complain as I love Negril but I would have liked to get out a little bit, don't think I did so bad though!
There is always next time for my next holiday of a lifetime LOL I say this every year I need my holiday its a holiday of a lifetime and everyone laughs and says you say that every year, a holiday of a lifetime is supposed to happen once in a lifetime!
Well I am practising for when I can make my holiday LAST an actual lifetime and never come back home!

[Maryann]

I, too, am enjoying your country report as well as your Negril report. You all look so happy and relaxed. Don't think I've seen a photo yet where your son wasn't grinning from ear to ear.

[TiCtOc]

From the book called Tictocs rules and secret information
guess it depends which way the wind blows if they work that day or not lol

rule number one to never be forgotten is if it involves money just say NO!

some chat up lines or buy me a beer scenarios to start you off with

Can you get me a beer?
response - oh sorry I don't work here the barmaid is over there!
(smile sweetly)

what you drinking?
(usually comes before could you get me one of those or i'll have what you are having at my expense old line gone stale lol)
response - oh thankyou how kind mine's a rum punch when you are buying (don't see them again for a while)


can I have your number/digits?
response - sorry I do not have a phone if you buy me a nice up to date modern phone with all the video and photo options I might let you call it once in a while not if you gonna be bugging though.soooo when you buyin me that phone you promised me LOL


will you get me a beer?
response - excuse me ?rather excuse YOU lol?
Can u get me a beer?
response? do i know you have I met you somewhere before (looking bewildered)
No my name is xyz
response - you kidding me right? (Hysterical laughter) are you serious? have you seriously come out to a bar with no money in the hope that all the random strange females here who you have never seen before in your life will buy you drinks OMG?lol
(he looks bewildered now or grins)
response - well i'm kinda broke but you are a bit crazy and cool so good luck on your little venture and if you manage to get a lot of drinks..mine's a rum punch


You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life
response - are you sure
how you mean am I sure?
of course I am sure
Are you really sure?
Why you asking why you acting like this
Response - oh nothing I just thought I heard you say something like that to a few other women along the beach the last few days I must have misheard.
he looks like he's caught in the headlights
and says no never not meee
response - oh I saw you speaking to my friend just now(they usually say same line every ten minutes or so until it works to random females still usually in view if you are observant)
I am going to ask her if you thought she was the most beautiful woman on earth
he laughs hes been caught still wants a beer refer to buy me a beer rules LOL