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Tessanne Chin is the 21st century Bob Marley

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Yes you read right. I said ... Tessanne Chin Photo taken from The Voice website is the 21st century Bob Marley Photo taken from AllMusic.com Despite their fledgling resemblance these two singers may have more in common than you think.  Disclaimer :  Relatives, friends and fans of Bob Marley need not be offended. I know how easily offended the distant third cousin of an uncle of a brother of the grand-mother of a friend of a god-sister of Bob Marley can get. It's not that serious

Pssssst... Babes

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Ladies. Let me speak to you for a minute... Image received from Huffington Post If you've ever walked the streets of Jamaica you may have heard the phrase which is the subject of this blog post. Depending on where you're from you may hear different variations of it:

Table for two?

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I love romantic dinners, who doesn't ? But some restaurants try so hard to spoil a special time! This weekend was my birthday weekend and for the first time ever I had no idea what I wanted to do, oh that old age... So I pretty much did the only thing I would have ended up doing anyway on a Friday and allowed my boyfriend to plan whatever he wanted for the Saturday... [Yeah I really wasn't into the celebratory planning this year]. So of course he said we'd go to dinner. I was okay with that, with both our schedules we haven't had dinner together, much less dinner together ALONE for quite some time.

The Social Media Professional

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Doesn't that title seem like an oxymoron? When I joined Facebook, after the Hi5 wave, it was solely for social purposes and at that time that meant talking to friends, uploading pictures of yourself or your friends when you hung out at the movies or other random places. In our limited use of this social media website, we didn't think of how much Facebook and other websites of similar nature would change the occupational landscape.

Strength of a woman: The family we choose

"Doan put your sweety there... dem will tief it" she said, and I remember it like it was yesterday. It's been almost two decades that she said these words to me and perhaps 7 years since she passed away peacefully at the Kingston Public Hospital. She embodied strength...grace...and at times she personified happiness. Always greeted you with a smile, despite her numerous challenges, her failing health and her hair falling out in clumps. Struggling to make it up the hill to work after enduring painful hours of chemotherapy the night before.

Growing Up

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Don't you just love kids? This is exactly what my younger cousins would have asked me or my mother... Having a conversation with a child is unbelievably eye-opening. I dare you to try it. Now, moving on to what this post should be about... After growing up in what my parents and experts would have called the "Technology Era" (in my opinion any era would have seen technological improvements, so all this hulabaloo about the 'advancements in technology' within that period, just seems unnecessary to me..anywhooo I digress), I and perhaps others within that generation felt like they were the bees knees  ... superior to all... young forever... just awesome overall.

If you have nothing good to say... nuh seh nutn

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**N.B.: For the purposes of this post the term "good" does not necessarily mean pleasing but also describes informative, relevant information. Is it so hard to keep our mouths shut? If you have nothing of substance to contribute, then just don't say anything.