If I had a $1000 bill for every time I heard this phrase this week I could buy a Blackberry Torch (I just said that to make it sound like a lot ... LOL ... it's really about 4 or 5 times). Anyway, what do you think these other "H" words could be? I am sure you know which ONE a person is referring to when they use this phrase or is it just me, because that was the first and ONLY word that comes to my head. Somehow I feel like I should be embarrassed about this and work on my vocabulary :(. (Well, happy also comes to mind) I have decided that I am going to be a person of action this year so I went looking for "H" words. Do you even know what ' Haematopodidae ' means? It's the scientific name for oystercatchers: a group of birds which do as their name suggests.

I didn't intend to blog about this, but some of my followers (on twitter) urged me to and I'm tired of hearing about / reading all that people have to say and sitting on my opinion... So, here goes Vybz Kartel (Adidja Palmer) came to the University of the West Indies on the 10th of March after an invitation from Carolyn Cooper, lecturer of the Reggae Poetry course offered by the cultural studies department. From it was published in the paper that Kartel would be coming to UWI 'hate mail' in all forms began surfacing. Persons were tweeting how could UWI invite such a person to speak and what has the university become. Then came the BBM statuses and broadcast messages bashing even Carolyn Cooper for inviting him. But, whatever! People will say whatever and do whatever, especially when they have not read and understood the context. Carolyn Cooper, as I stated, is the lecturer of the reggae poetry course and she invited Kartel to speak to her class ( that is the REGGAE