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New York City

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

I have decided that I dislike New York City. It is a great place to visit but once you live here for a while it kind of stinks. Perhaps I would enjoy things more if I didn’t waste 3 hours or more of my every day commuting to Manhattan for school but what can I say that’s my situation.

Perhaps I have been spoiled by the transportation systems in Japan and Taiwan, but it really shouldn’t take and hour and a half to traverse the 15 miles from Canarsie to Manhattan, but it does. At least the trains are not jam packed like they were in Japan, but in Japan the trains come every 6 minutes all day long. And in Taiwan the trains come every 3 minutes during rush hour and every 6 minutes in off hours. In New York I have no idea when the trains will be coming because they are always late. But I will say one thing for the New York transportation system, it is VERY COOL that is open 24 hours, even though at 1am you might wait 20 minutes for a train it is better than nothing. Also I never have to spend 30 minutes with some random fat man’s ass in my crotch like that dangerously overcrowded train that my girlfriend and I took from Tokyo Disney to Yokohama, oh jeez that was a nightmare.

Anyways, yesterday was a particularly annoying day. So I decided to make myself feel better by stuffing my face. One of my classmates revealed the location where God came down from the heavens and gave Chinese food to New York, possibly the USA, it was that good. This place called Congee is at 98 Bowery, near the intersection of Grand and Bowery in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Oh my, this place is amazingly good and cheap. if you are ever visiting New York make sure you try this place it is very tasty indeed.

But other than one burst of enjoyment stuffing my face at Congee New York has been quite a depressing place. As I walk down the streets of Manhattan I hate how I randomly smell urine. It’s funny because you smell it even in the really nice places. Due to the lack of grass dogs just piss on the sidewalk. And of course their owners just stand by and let them because what can you do? So when you are walking around minding your business you will be forced to inhale their pee smell. it’s a wonderful thing, and then don’t get me started about the dog crap just laying around eh I hate pets. People should just get fish.

But at least it is not exactly freezing yet. I am fearing the extremely cold New York Winter. I think 50 degrees Fahrenheit is cold. I don’t know what I am going to do when it is below freezing and I am in Manhattan slipping on that dog piss. Oh that’s gonna be fun. In fact I have to go and pay 200 dollars for some kind of three quarter length wool coat. spending the 200 dollars would be fine if I wasn’t like 3000 dollars in the hole due to not receiving my correct financial aid disbursements yet. Isn’t Fordham’s financial aid department wonderful?

New York is a great place with lots of sights to see but I don’t understand why anyone would want to live here long term. It’s like everyone is in a rush, and there’s no room to rush anywhere because there are so many people. And the traffic is actually WORSE than Los Angeles. Who knew? Eh I guess I just have a Los Angeles type of personality and that is totally not good for New York. I am too laid back and what not for the mean streets of NYC.

I think this weekend I will go to the Museum of Natural History with my camera and take pictures of the dinosaurs or something. That ought to be fun. Actually no, I’ll just be studying. Oh! in unrelated news I finally got this stupid accounting question right! yay for me!

Peace out ya’ll.

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I’m Pissed at Alaskan Airlines

Monday, August 24th, 2009

So I am headed to New York today (august 24th 2009) and as I am checking in do you know what I found out? Of course you don’t you’re not the Shadow (watch the Alec Baldwin Shadow film if you don’t get the reference). Anyways I found out that I had to pay 40 dollars to check my bags!

From this day forth the ranting Jamaican will boycott Alaskan Airlines. Maybe I will fly with them again if they stop charging for checking bags. I could understand if my bags were overweight but they weren’t WTF dudes. No more Alaskan and the same goes for all other airlines that charge extra for baggage.

I think the real reason that I am pissed is that adding a baggage checking fee really makes it a lot harder to choose which flight is the cheapest. If the website had a little pop-up that said “this airline charges a fee to check baggage” when I was comparing prices it would be extremely helpful. But as things are now you have to either just know or spend extra time looking these things up.

I wonder if when they added these baggage checking fees 2 years ago, or whatever, they lowered the prices. I hope they did. Because then it would sort of make sense because if you don’t check bags then you get less service therefore you should pay less. In that sense perhaps every airline should charge to check baggage as long as they take the price of checking baggage out of the cost of the plane ticket. Then there would be no confusion and everyone would just know that there is going to be a baggage checking fee regardless. But oh well that will NEVER happen.

Peace out ya’ll

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Back to the US for RJ

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

So as you all know, from my last entry, I am now back in the US. And boy oh boy am I glad to be here. Sheez, I couldn’t even get good orange juice in Taipei. Jeez. But I never really knew how much I depend on the little things such as red vines, red bull, and orange juice haha.

I am very happy to be back but I was not happy to travel back. Jeez a 12 hour flight! for those of you who have not done this before it is the worst experience ever. All you can do for 12 hours is watch a bunch of crappy movies here is what I watched:

Echelon Conspiracy (crap)
Dragon Ball Evolution (crap)
The first 15 minutes of that Hannah Montana Movie (new level of crappiness)
Eureka Episode where the house goes crazy (pretty good)

And then after that I still hade 7 hours to kill! since I was tired of crap movies. God I really want to take a supersonic jet. I bet one of those concord Jets could have gotten me home much quicker and more comfortably. The only problem is I would have to give all of the money that I earned in the last year to get on one. I really don’t understand why they have to make flying economy class so amazingly uncomfortable but that is the way it is. and 12 hours of it is just too much. I hate flying.

But yes, so what have I been doing since landing in the United States of America. Hmm Hmm Hmm. Well I have been completing www.hendeavor.org. Yes I did that. Well there is a graphics designer doing the…graphics and someone else created the content. But I am the one that put it all together. That’s right! I am the glue.

Other than that I have been playing with my new Palm Pre! I really really love it. There are two problems that I have with it though. First, it has very low processing power. It takes forever (forever=2 second load time) to load up apps. And Second I think it is slightly too small but for some people that would not be a problem. Other than these two minor issues the phone is amazing. It is like an iPhone except I don’t have a hateful relationship with it. I don’t feel like it is furthering some agenda to get itunes on every PC in the world so that somehow Apple can take over the world and spy on everyone (like in Echelon Conspiracy).

I love the Pre though. You want to put music on it? plug it into your computer and drag the music over using WINDOWS EXPLORER or whatever the mac thing is called. No random application between my computer and the phone. If I want to do more than one thing at a time I can do it! If I want to take out the battery I just pop off the back and take off the battery.

The last thing I love about the Palm Pre shows that I am somewhat of a tech elitist. I like how it is not all that intuitive. If you don’t know the gestures to move around within an application your pretty screwed with the phone. I like that haha. I want people to have to know something in order to use the phone. Apple makes things too easy! but whatever.

But yeah I’m back! in my home country it’s wonderful.

If you are new to my blog, which you probably aren’t, you are probably wondering why the US is my home country but my blog is called the Ranting Jamaican. Well both of my parents are Jamaican and therefore I am. But I have actually never even set foot on that little Island called Jamaica. But that is an issue I hope to rectify in the near future.

Anyways! Peace out ya’ll and the best part of traveling is coming home!

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