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“I am a diamond in the rut. A diamond to an untrained eye looks like a rock stone. So men will kick it around on the ground. It takes a man with an expert eye for fine Jewelry to notice its worth. Do not feel bad when men treat you like the little boys in Africa who gave away stones in exchange for candy. The hungry boys thought they were getting something better but had exchange wealth for a sugar high. Some men will do that. Exchange a valuable woman for the transient high of another. The boys didn't know better and so do some of these men. They don't know your worth.”
― Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
― Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
“Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check.”
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“A lot of elders complain that they do not know what is wrong with today's black generation. I beg to ask them what was wrong with theirs? Children don't become what you want, they become who you are. Our elders should reflect upon what went wrong during the era when today's young adults were children. Maybe just maybe they might find the answers to the problems of this "generation". They are equally responsible for this "money over everything mindset that breeds the young people they condemn.They raised a world of children who know the price of everything but the value of nothing. A money grabbing, instant gratification over profundity seeking and "step pon them" culture of people.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
“There are people in this world whose central focus is to permeate cruelty with little regard for their own karmic penalties. Love is such a powerful emotion and overriding sentiment that it is unfathomable that life's most potent muse has escaped the psyche of so many of our men.
I can't understand why somebody would think it is okay to rip two hundred and thirty girls from their families. I wonder who condones this type of behavior. I often look at children and wonder what they will become, I stare at school boys, babies and even the bareback boys on the street and wonder if in a few years one of these children might take my life.
With that thought I am forced to wonder what might have gone wrong in their lives, what values did their parents impress upon them that made them morph into the brutish adults they have become. I wonder if their parents know about their atrocious acts and if they understand that they might be responsible for creating these monsters who in my opinion should have never seen the light of life.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
I can't understand why somebody would think it is okay to rip two hundred and thirty girls from their families. I wonder who condones this type of behavior. I often look at children and wonder what they will become, I stare at school boys, babies and even the bareback boys on the street and wonder if in a few years one of these children might take my life.
With that thought I am forced to wonder what might have gone wrong in their lives, what values did their parents impress upon them that made them morph into the brutish adults they have become. I wonder if their parents know about their atrocious acts and if they understand that they might be responsible for creating these monsters who in my opinion should have never seen the light of life.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
“The person who judges you without getting to know you has revealed nothing about you but exposes everything about himself to the world. The prudent one knows that true knowledge is not born out of ignorance but a desire to know before casting judgement.”
― Mama Brown's Family
― Mama Brown's Family
“My Favorite rapper Tupac Shakur.. Philosophical... The emotional depth of his lyricism. Rest in peace. So sad when I listen your music. I understand the struggle, I know exactly how you feel... Been there a million times. Wanting to change the world and Everytime you speak up, only your echo answers you back”
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“Don't turn a good dude who is loyal to his chick into a bad nigga by throwing yourself at him when he is already committed. Know when to stay the hell away.Good men are rare. If he aint single, don't make him unfaithful. Oh Yes, he might cheat with some other chick. It does not have to be you.”
― Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
― Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
“I made a man out of you, you made a joke out of me.”
― The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
― The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
“I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us dismantle the notion that a woman cannot be free with her sexuality or that she needs a man to make her complete. This one is for the little girls with hearts on their sleeves.”
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“The truth is ladies...Good men are an endangered specie. So if you have a good man dont shuffle your KING for a JOKER.”
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“Weirdest things in life are how people always create lofty ideals for you yet set average standards for themselves. People have always judged me above standard because of my brilliance not understanding that I came from unborn opportunities like them and was never in my estimation given any special tools for them to expect more from me than they expect from themselves. In hindsight people only place you on a pedestal so they can in the end tear you down.
We spend our entire lives judging ourselves against others. If we measure people and they fall short we believe we are license to
Insult them and tear them down. If they buoy on a float of accomplishments, we begin to feel small within ourselves and murmur about our own inadequacies.”
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We spend our entire lives judging ourselves against others. If we measure people and they fall short we believe we are license to
Insult them and tear them down. If they buoy on a float of accomplishments, we begin to feel small within ourselves and murmur about our own inadequacies.”
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“I think in life there is only one absolute truth.
Death... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see and you know it is the final destination, the absolute truth. We are only living to die.”
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Death... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see and you know it is the final destination, the absolute truth. We are only living to die.”
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“you see a nigga won't give a good girl shit yet he will spend his last dime trying to make a bad girl his bitch. He will go broke trying to trap some whore into a monogamous relationship”
― Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
― Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
“When you are a success, your old friends will boast of your accomplishments and your new friends will celebrate your achievements. Your old friends will say " i knew you when you were.." Don't worry about them, their story ends there.”
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“I never set out to bash men, it is not about revenge, I always say at the end of a relationship that i hope that i have created a better man for the next woman by what i allowed and reinforced
Crystal Evans
The Bunna Man”
― The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
Crystal Evans
The Bunna Man”
― The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
“I keep saying that i wish our black women would not stop raising their sons to be like the niggas who left them. I see mothers covering for their deadbeat sons, putting some other child's mother through the same shit, her babyfather put her through.
We have spent the last few decades blaming absentee fathers for the lack of "graces" among our young men forgetting that they are raised by women. Women have always been other women's worst enemies. Maybe we need to start asking our mothers, what have they been doing wrong. Trying to smother the only man who won't leave them cause he can't, hes biologically linked to her. Trying to make up for the men who dumped her.
Raising monstrous, spoiled brats and then unleashing them on the female population. What we have today is a culture of men raised like daughters who do not know how to be a partner, a man and a father.”
― The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
We have spent the last few decades blaming absentee fathers for the lack of "graces" among our young men forgetting that they are raised by women. Women have always been other women's worst enemies. Maybe we need to start asking our mothers, what have they been doing wrong. Trying to smother the only man who won't leave them cause he can't, hes biologically linked to her. Trying to make up for the men who dumped her.
Raising monstrous, spoiled brats and then unleashing them on the female population. What we have today is a culture of men raised like daughters who do not know how to be a partner, a man and a father.”
― The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
“Never be done by one experience.
Lovers who broke your heart
Friends who betrayed you
Family that let you down
Opportunities \ jobs that never worked out.
Whole heap a people you still have not met yet
Whole heap a places you haven't been.
The best may yet still to come.”
― Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket II: Babydaddy Series
Lovers who broke your heart
Friends who betrayed you
Family that let you down
Opportunities \ jobs that never worked out.
Whole heap a people you still have not met yet
Whole heap a places you haven't been.
The best may yet still to come.”
― Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket II: Babydaddy Series
“I tell my christian relatives that "churchianity" is the central reason the church is not teeming with young people. The hypocrisy within the church is not concealed from this growing, informed generation. The arrogance among church goers is unnerving, Jesus was such a humble individual to begin with, he did not discriminate.”
― Mama Brown's Family
― Mama Brown's Family
“Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
“It is funny how we often want what we cannot have. What do we do in these prickly moments of disorientation and despair? we plunge in for one dance with our tormentor or we ignore our feelings, hoping in time, they will fade away..”
― His Property
― His Property
“Some relationships are like glass its better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together again.
When you start reading the Bunna Man, most of my readers hate Dre and then they realize that Dre doesn't really have any power. The only power he has is the one Saf gave him. What happens now is that by you reach the middle of the story, your anger turns from Dre to Saf cause you realize that Saf is the catalyst behind her own misery. If she'd leave Dre alone. Her suffering would end”
― The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
When you start reading the Bunna Man, most of my readers hate Dre and then they realize that Dre doesn't really have any power. The only power he has is the one Saf gave him. What happens now is that by you reach the middle of the story, your anger turns from Dre to Saf cause you realize that Saf is the catalyst behind her own misery. If she'd leave Dre alone. Her suffering would end”
― The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series
“To be completely honest about your flaws is the only liberation from feelings of inferiority, inadequacy and external manipulation. Your happiness is only a change of conviction away.”
― Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
― Ten Things Your Mother Should Have Told You about Dating
“The people who don't give you a standing ovation for the hurdles you cross are just afraid that you might win the race. They do not cheer you but they sit, lurking on the sidelines, biting their fingernails hoping you will stumble before the end. They secretly wish you will never win this race. But watch out for them, they will be the firstto stand and cheer you when you stand on that podium of success.”
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
“You are not beneath me. I am so not beneath you. I might not be as glamorous as what you are accustom to but I am a diamond in the rut. It doesn't matter how pretty one of those Chinese store accessories are, they will never worth more than the dirtiest diamond in the deepest parts of the earth's core. That my dear is a fact.”
― Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket
― Every Man Deserves A Good Jacket
“I am like that to most people, an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on, someone to ask a favour, Rock of Gibraltar.
I called her back.
I listened to her rant.
I repeated these four words i saw somewhere earlier this week, they had become a sort of mantra for me.
LIVE ABOVE THE NOISE
I told her that I'd noticed something about most gossipmongers.
They are stagnant.
I remember i hadn't been to my natal community in two years.
As the sun riseth, i guaranteed when i stepped foot into there that i would find the same set of bingo playing all day women, who knew everybody's business and thought sleeping with someone's man was some sort of achievement:gathered at the same spot.
I did.
People who chat people rarely are good at anything else. They are focused so much on what's going on around them and less on self improvement.
They so busy watching people's business, they miss opportunities for advancement.
Instead of working on their faults and deficiencies, they highlight the flaws of another to detract from their shitty lives.
You cannot live your life at the mercies of another's opinions.
Opinions are like assholes everyone has one.
Yes from time to time we will become rattled by mindless chatter, remember to live above the noise...”
― Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary
I called her back.
I listened to her rant.
I repeated these four words i saw somewhere earlier this week, they had become a sort of mantra for me.
LIVE ABOVE THE NOISE
I told her that I'd noticed something about most gossipmongers.
They are stagnant.
I remember i hadn't been to my natal community in two years.
As the sun riseth, i guaranteed when i stepped foot into there that i would find the same set of bingo playing all day women, who knew everybody's business and thought sleeping with someone's man was some sort of achievement:gathered at the same spot.
I did.
People who chat people rarely are good at anything else. They are focused so much on what's going on around them and less on self improvement.
They so busy watching people's business, they miss opportunities for advancement.
Instead of working on their faults and deficiencies, they highlight the flaws of another to detract from their shitty lives.
You cannot live your life at the mercies of another's opinions.
Opinions are like assholes everyone has one.
Yes from time to time we will become rattled by mindless chatter, remember to live above the noise...”
― Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary
“I asked Saf. “How do you do that?”
Saf smirked. “He has you on punishment, he thinks you are hurting and wasting your time morosing over him while he lives his life”
“He is exacting punishment and he is enjoying it!”
“He probably not thinking of you any at all”
“His hope is to come back and see you same place he left you!”
“And ready to take him back and take you out of your suffering!”
Saf chuckled.
“Waste his time!” Saf half shouted.
I leaned in conspiratorially. “Me no understand!”
Saf always spoke in colloguish manner.
“Change the ending, the outcome!”
“Let when he checks in back, he has lost the compass!”
“You can’t be found!”
“That’s how you get back control!”
“Right now he has all the control in the world!”
“And you have none!”
“You start to get back your control!”
“Remember when i told you about that rope!”
“The one people tug every now and then to see if you still at the end of it!”
“We move pass that now…!”
“You come tie the rope to a stump of a tree!”
“Or on a stick or staple it to the ground!”
“And you gone run…!”
“You gone play the same game he is playing…!”
“Play it his way but still play against him”
Saf sucked her teeth.
“Precognitive!”
She pressed her index finger against her forehead.
“Same story as the Tortoise and the Hare”
Yakima II
Crystal Evans
Copyright ©️ 2023”
― Yakima II
Saf smirked. “He has you on punishment, he thinks you are hurting and wasting your time morosing over him while he lives his life”
“He is exacting punishment and he is enjoying it!”
“He probably not thinking of you any at all”
“His hope is to come back and see you same place he left you!”
“And ready to take him back and take you out of your suffering!”
Saf chuckled.
“Waste his time!” Saf half shouted.
I leaned in conspiratorially. “Me no understand!”
Saf always spoke in colloguish manner.
“Change the ending, the outcome!”
“Let when he checks in back, he has lost the compass!”
“You can’t be found!”
“That’s how you get back control!”
“Right now he has all the control in the world!”
“And you have none!”
“You start to get back your control!”
“Remember when i told you about that rope!”
“The one people tug every now and then to see if you still at the end of it!”
“We move pass that now…!”
“You come tie the rope to a stump of a tree!”
“Or on a stick or staple it to the ground!”
“And you gone run…!”
“You gone play the same game he is playing…!”
“Play it his way but still play against him”
Saf sucked her teeth.
“Precognitive!”
She pressed her index finger against her forehead.
“Same story as the Tortoise and the Hare”
Yakima II
Crystal Evans
Copyright ©️ 2023”
― Yakima II
“One of the defects or deficiency of being a somewhat evolved human being in terms of emotional and practical intelligence is that I see through people. Sometimes I am wrong about them… because I read them based on their output and not their intentions…
I am impatient with slow, unintelligent and lazy people. When they are just being average human beings. I sometimes despise them living this simple and bliss life with no care in the world while I am constantly grappling with figuring out my next move or step in some life mission process I have that keeps sprouting detours, obstacle courses and problems that only delay me and might one day completed undermine my efforts and ambitions.
When it comes to friends, men, family… I have lost some of my ability to have good relations with others…
Simple put, anything or anyone that isn’t moving towards an end goal, mission or completion, annoys me to a fault and my only solution to that is to disengage and abandon it or them.
Anything that isn’t aligned to my end goal is a waste of time.
Last but not least, I loathe my indiscipline in certain areas.
Specifically weight loss, I know what I need to do, I still haven’t done it.
It creates episodes of self loathing where I am forced to reckon/recognize that I have some of the same issues, shortcomings and icks i despise in other human beings.
While they can’t write a long paragraph, book or dissertation they can commit to running five miles.
And then a part of my brain clicks, a voice says, running for them is writing for you…
They aren’t that special…
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― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
I am impatient with slow, unintelligent and lazy people. When they are just being average human beings. I sometimes despise them living this simple and bliss life with no care in the world while I am constantly grappling with figuring out my next move or step in some life mission process I have that keeps sprouting detours, obstacle courses and problems that only delay me and might one day completed undermine my efforts and ambitions.
When it comes to friends, men, family… I have lost some of my ability to have good relations with others…
Simple put, anything or anyone that isn’t moving towards an end goal, mission or completion, annoys me to a fault and my only solution to that is to disengage and abandon it or them.
Anything that isn’t aligned to my end goal is a waste of time.
Last but not least, I loathe my indiscipline in certain areas.
Specifically weight loss, I know what I need to do, I still haven’t done it.
It creates episodes of self loathing where I am forced to reckon/recognize that I have some of the same issues, shortcomings and icks i despise in other human beings.
While they can’t write a long paragraph, book or dissertation they can commit to running five miles.
And then a part of my brain clicks, a voice says, running for them is writing for you…
They aren’t that special…
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― Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis
“The odds are never in my favour and that’s my source code. I used to say cheat code. But not anymore.”
― The Country Gyal Journal
― The Country Gyal Journal
“Him: Sound like you monkey branch a lot
Me: Nah.
Me: I am not a regular monkey…. Me is homo erectus ”
― 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women
Me: Nah.
Me: I am not a regular monkey…. Me is homo erectus ”
― 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women
“Step by Step…
Can you write out your ideal business step by step
Here is a business I am setting up for a client.
She wants to shipping start her own shipping company…
One she will need a US partner to collect and transfer packages to her in Jamaica.
She will also need one in China.
I have two contacts.
One has a warehouse in Florida
The other has two in China.
Chinese connect makes goods available within 3 weeks, she has to tell her customers four.
The US connect makes it within 3-5 days. She has to tell them within a week…
Next she will need a website where her customers can login and track their packages.
This will come with individual dashboards.
She will need an interface and warehouse management software and logistics APIs.
She will also need an automated email set up (journey) to send emails to her customers without her or her agents needing to do that.
Without this Saas she would have to hire someone to reply to messages and emails about , someone to call and track, use usps and FedEx tracking numbers to track and reply back to customers.
She also needs a beta ApI to allow her warehouse guy to update the CRM with information about her customers packages…
Key nodes such as - Intransit to destinations
Held at customs
Clearance
In transit to store
Pick up available etc…
These will come in as email notifications
Fully automated.
Everything will be connected using Webhooks… entire system.
Saas she might need to use a combination of GOhighlevel, Workiz and
To run this as a System as as Service.
Each platform can work together using webhooks.
Gohighlevel as a Saas is $500 a month
Workiz is $200 dollars
She can use Odoo which is open source alternative as a CRM
And Clickup as Management.
This is how a conversational business plan looks.
You can see it.
You can research it.
You can confirm that it’s plausible.
It doesn’t sound like pipedreams.
It sounds workable to credit companies /banks and investors.
It sounds doable to a BDO Client.
I also sound as if I know what I am doing.
Not a lot of technical language.
A confused prospective business investor or banker don’t want to use a dictionary to figure out everything…
They want to see the vision as clear as day.
You basically need to do to them what I did to you when you joined my programme. It must sound plausible.
All businesses is a game of wit.
Every deal that is signed benefits both party.
Whether initially or in the long term.
Those are the sub-tenets of business.
Every board meeting or meeting with regulatory boards, banks, credit facilities, municipalities is a game of convincing people to see your thing through…
Everyone does
Algorithm is simple. People want you to solve their problems with speed and efficiency.
Speed is very important and automation.
Progress, business and production are tied to ego… that’s why people love seh oh dem start a business or dem have dem online business and nah sell one rass thing.
Cause a lot of people think being successful and looking successful are one and the same thing until they meet someone like me or people who done the work…
Don’t rush it… you are young and you have time.
There are infact certain little nuances Weh yuh only ago learn through experience. Experience and reflection.
One of the drawbacks of wanting to run your business by yourself with you and your family members is that you guys will have to be reliant on yourself for feedback which is not alw”
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Can you write out your ideal business step by step
Here is a business I am setting up for a client.
She wants to shipping start her own shipping company…
One she will need a US partner to collect and transfer packages to her in Jamaica.
She will also need one in China.
I have two contacts.
One has a warehouse in Florida
The other has two in China.
Chinese connect makes goods available within 3 weeks, she has to tell her customers four.
The US connect makes it within 3-5 days. She has to tell them within a week…
Next she will need a website where her customers can login and track their packages.
This will come with individual dashboards.
She will need an interface and warehouse management software and logistics APIs.
She will also need an automated email set up (journey) to send emails to her customers without her or her agents needing to do that.
Without this Saas she would have to hire someone to reply to messages and emails about , someone to call and track, use usps and FedEx tracking numbers to track and reply back to customers.
She also needs a beta ApI to allow her warehouse guy to update the CRM with information about her customers packages…
Key nodes such as - Intransit to destinations
Held at customs
Clearance
In transit to store
Pick up available etc…
These will come in as email notifications
Fully automated.
Everything will be connected using Webhooks… entire system.
Saas she might need to use a combination of GOhighlevel, Workiz and
To run this as a System as as Service.
Each platform can work together using webhooks.
Gohighlevel as a Saas is $500 a month
Workiz is $200 dollars
She can use Odoo which is open source alternative as a CRM
And Clickup as Management.
This is how a conversational business plan looks.
You can see it.
You can research it.
You can confirm that it’s plausible.
It doesn’t sound like pipedreams.
It sounds workable to credit companies /banks and investors.
It sounds doable to a BDO Client.
I also sound as if I know what I am doing.
Not a lot of technical language.
A confused prospective business investor or banker don’t want to use a dictionary to figure out everything…
They want to see the vision as clear as day.
You basically need to do to them what I did to you when you joined my programme. It must sound plausible.
All businesses is a game of wit.
Every deal that is signed benefits both party.
Whether initially or in the long term.
Those are the sub-tenets of business.
Every board meeting or meeting with regulatory boards, banks, credit facilities, municipalities is a game of convincing people to see your thing through…
Everyone does
Algorithm is simple. People want you to solve their problems with speed and efficiency.
Speed is very important and automation.
Progress, business and production are tied to ego… that’s why people love seh oh dem start a business or dem have dem online business and nah sell one rass thing.
Cause a lot of people think being successful and looking successful are one and the same thing until they meet someone like me or people who done the work…
Don’t rush it… you are young and you have time.
There are infact certain little nuances Weh yuh only ago learn through experience. Experience and reflection.
One of the drawbacks of wanting to run your business by yourself with you and your family members is that you guys will have to be reliant on yourself for feedback which is not alw”
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