Shivan Jaikaran’s Blog

Yuh know how dem indian only like to sing about rum rum rum (and sometimes roti), this song is very different…I always thought Neyo was one of the greatest song writers (doesn’t degrade women in his songs too), so here is to Kenneth Salick - Radica (who I think should win Chutney Soca finals)

I will attempt to get the lyrics right…ofcourse its sang in Trini slang so expect broken english. There are one or two lines I marked with questions marks (??) that I couldn’t get quite right, so leave a comment with the correction. Thanks in advance.

Since you leave me, I am alone
I am like a dog, without a bone,
Gyul I don’t want to be alone,
So Radica why yuh leave and gooo
oohhh, Radica why yuh leave and gooo (x2)

Life is journey we all have to travel,
If you not with me, I am unable
(repeat 2 above lines)
Life is a game we all have to play (x2)
And if yuh not in I just can’t win

So radica why yuh leave and gooo
oohhh, so Radica why yuh leave and go (x2)

Some run for diamond,
Others run for gold
Some without dreams and stories are told (??)
(Repeat above 3 lines)
Some without faith, others desire (x2)
But all I waiting for is you Radica

So Radica why yuh leave and goo
ohhh Radica why yuh leave and gooo
(Repeat above 2 lines twice)

Don’t forget the bridges yuh burning behind
A love that is as true as mines, yuh will never find.
(repeat above 2 lines twice)
Some will promise you the heaven above, (x2)
But all I have is my true love

So Radica why yuh leave and goo
ohhh Radica why yuh leave and gooo
(Repeat above 2 lines twice)

I know I should hate you for all you put me through
But how can I hate you when I’m still in love with you.
(repeat above 2 lines twice)
My love for you may be unseen, (x2)
but even in my heart you is my queen

So Radica why yuh leave and goo
ohhh Radica why yuh leave and gooo
(Repeat above 2 lines twice)

I’ve been meaning to write this blog entry for over a month now.

Not only do I love the following sounds, but WHERE I hear them makes a big difference too. You’ll see…

10. Driving to work and hearing one of my favourite tunes randomly playing on radio (like a Nelly).

9. Rain falling on galvanize or grass.

8. A waterfall (or water falling on water)

7. Wind chymes

6. Countryside breeze

5. The Macgyver jingle.

4. Waves pon d beach

3. Thunder!!

2. Silence (is this a sound??)

and ofcourse I saved the best for last!

1. “Would the passengers of flight BW 0600 please proceed to check-in at gate #12″ - Must only be heard at Piarco International Airport!!!

omg, this shit was too funny to not post it up!!! Thanks Lisa for the link.

The Systems Administrator Song

You know sometimes you have one of those moments where you browse the Internet and come across an interesting blog article (like this one) and it changes your entire life, especially your way of thinking? Well this is not one of those moments.

I was driving up the highway on a cold rainy morning on my way to somewhere listening to the Parliament on 96.7 FM. All the windows were up and I was going at a speed of about 100 km/h. There was this mosquito simple wandering around inside the car. Then I had one of the Eureka! Einstein moments.

What if I came up to you and told you I can prove that I saw a mosquito traveling at 100 km/h? Technically, I’m not wrong. Relative to the outside surroundings, the mosquito (who I shall call Frank) was really moving at 100 km/h. As Frank zipped forward, it probably hit a speed of 101 km/h. Unknowing to Frank, he was really inside a car that was actually traveling at 100 km/h. So Frankie was gunning it up the highway X to board. Its amazing the things that can cross your mind when you drive on the highway. Do I win some prize or something for this proof?

What is to is must is!

I just could not get over this one…lol

It depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is!

This one reminds me of my cousin

So I have finally upgrade my blogging software, Wordpress. Everything took about 2 hours. I have been procrastinating to do this for over a year, but after getting literally thousands of spam comments every single day, now seemed like a good time to do it. Some spammers even managed to inserted hidden html code into my posts and even in my footer! Although this was sneaky, it was very effective because I certainly did not detect it (since it was hidden) and who knows how long it was there…

So I’m posting this message using Wordpress version 2.5.1. It’s pretty slick (posts are auto saved while you type and Akismet is installed by default).

So thanks to this upgrade, spam comments are more effectively detected, automatically dealt with and legitimate comments can now be approved faster.

When I get the time, I’ll try upgrading my personal site and maybe getting a nice-looking theme in there as well. I think the current theme sucks…

Shivan was last seen perplexed trying to figure out how to make sada roti with Happi flour…hehehe

I am really impressed with the Facebook architecture (believe it or not). I’ve seen companies spend thousands/millions of dollars on getting their product out there. I’ve read business plans and came up with a few in my career. They are all good but few are innovative, creative and match the growing trend of the latest cutting edge technology. Your marketing plan is only as successful as the intellectual capability of the people/team behind it. And if these people are a bunch of technological duncies, well then you have just wasted a bunch of money. What about finding that right match….a marketing team or person who knows the ins and arounds of technology to pad his marketing plan to perfection, be innovative and most importantly, be successful….by taking into account technology and the Web 2.0.

By definition,

Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses.

What I have seen companies spend millions of dollars on can be done on Facebook for free, in seconds, by one person. I kid you not. I am not saying that Facebook is a replacement for the typical marketing plan but it can be a significant complement.

Facebook Groups
By starting a Facebook Group, you can give your brand *instant* awareness. You send out invites, friends invite friends, friend’s news feed show the recent group activity and friend’s of friends of friends of friends (you get the picture) join in. And trust me, this can all happen in ONE day at the cost of $0.00. Compare this to ads in the newspapers, radio and the rest of the media. IMO, this is by far the perfect demonstration of viral marketing.

This same analogy can be applied to Facebook Pages, Facebook Events, Facebook Notes and Facebook Marketplace.

Facebook, the online market place where food prices never go up.

You know something wrong when you want to find out how to do something, so you google it, the first result is your own damn web page, you read it and then figure out what you wanted to do.

How weird.

After reading Shivonne Du Barry’s article, I realise that it was not only me who feel that way. So what have you been up to Shivan? (Ha, I also just realise there is another Shiv that cant answer that question!) Well, from what angle do you want an answer? From the outside: nothing much, bumming around, going here and there, finding excuses to wear a tie now and again. No biggie.

Now from the inside: So what have I really been up too? Well the other day I “un-hacked” one of my websites. Yes, a website of mine was actually hacked. I thought that was pretty cool, btw. This is what you get when you use outdated and cheap software to run websites (no not Drupal). Oh oh, yesterday I spent 4 hours buried into Nelly (my laptop) debugging my code only to realise I was missing an equal sign in one of my “if” statements. This culprit equal sign literally foo-barred my entire site! So what else? ummm…..there must me more, wait a min let me think.

I bought some domain names because I felt like it….lame lame lame.

Oh yeah, last week I attended an interview at a company. Hey, i wore a tie! Oh last month I attended another interview (wore a tie again) and I was commented on for wearing my earring. How sexist! In this day and age, people still do that?? So I guess it’s ok for females to accessorize (hair color, necklace, earrings, nose rings and rings that go anywhere the human anatomy can take a hole) but males..we get shot down for *one* earring. So that interview didn’t go to well. Let me put it this way, earring or not, it does not affect my ability to perform. So leave it alone. For my next interview, I will be walking in with a mohawk…that should give somebody something to comment on. haha.

So what have I REALLY been up too? Well I wish I could tell but it’ a grand secret for a grand secret project that I’ve been working on. (hence the missing equal sign). Right now, I have pages of notes and scribbles staring at me., two monitors facing my direction, magnetic rocks majestically dangling on my desk and trance music blasting in the background. But hey, this is how I function ok.

I’d rather share a sea-saw with Bula than change what I do. Work in what you like and you wont have to go to work another day. Well in most cases…

So as Shivonne wondered, “Does a cat count?”, I’ll wonder “does a very warm computer chair/floor/bed/couch count?”

Shivan was last seen launching websites from his bedroom.
rebel of my youth, war of yesterday, this is the anthem for the domain that got away…booyah