I recently read something that triggered this post at: http://www.guardian.co.tt/community/viewtopic.php?p=631947#631947
I could write an entire thesis on the madness that goes on at UWI campus! That is, if I knew the half of it!
One thing I do know, is this madness of UWI security stopping people at the gates, and locking of the gates has to stop!!
Everyone knows, they are not sealing out any criminals by having guards stop people at the gates. The criminals always find other ways to get in. Some of them probably know a guard, so they just get waved in, instead of the third degree that an innocent person might get. Tell me that is not madness!
And the gate-locking, what is that about? They're not stopping any criminals by locking the gates, but they are certainly being an inconvenience to anyone who is on campus late or has to come on campus late...because they always have to wonder, "Is this gate locked? Or is it that gate?" That is madness!
Monday, February 28, 2005
Saturday, February 26, 2005
The spirit and the letter....
Isn't it madness when people honor the letter of the law but not the spirit? Like when a car slows down to pass a hump then speeds up right after to get past before the pedestrian can cross....am I the only one who sees the irony of this?
What about people who put on their seatbelts only when they spy a police officer?
What about people who put on their seatbelts only when they spy a police officer?
Labour relations
Recently I heard news that the Minister of Labour wanted to revamp labour relations or something like that....true and he should start with the labour relations nightmare that is the Ministry of Labour at Riverside Plaza.
Friday, February 25, 2005
Madness to avoid
Cellphone users who expect and demand that taxi drivers turn down their radio so that they (the selfish user) can continue their conversations while the rest of the taxi are forced to listen to them.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Some madness you should emulate - marketing madness!
Most businesses have their 'heroes'. They're the trend-setters who lay the foundation for the rest to follow.
In the publicity business, the real trend-setters are the Press Agents. They're the people who literally 'create' news stories.
They're people like George Evans. His company was hired to take a relatively unknown Vegas lounge singer called Frank Sinatra and try to make him into a star. Evans hired a dozen girls, at $5 each, to jump and scream 'Oh Frankie, Oh Frankie' and toss flowers at the stage. They met and practiced in the basement at the Paramount Casino where Sinatra was performing.
Jack Keller, Evan's West Coast partner explains what happened:
'We hired girls to scream when he sexily rolled a note.
The dozen girls we hired to scream and swoon did exactly as we told them. But hundreds more we didn't hire screamed even louder. Others squealed, howled, kissed his pictures with their lipsticked lips, and kept him a prisoner in his dressing room between shows at the Paramount. It was wild, crazy, completely out of control.'
And it continued to be for many years. Sinatra was now an established star thanks to a 'media campaign' that only cost the promoters a total of $60 paid to a handful of women to act crazy.
(Read the entire article: Making Up A News Story, Legally by Paul Hartunian at http://www.site-reference.com/Marketing/5271/index.html)
This is true...no lie! See what good marketing can do for you! LOL
In the publicity business, the real trend-setters are the Press Agents. They're the people who literally 'create' news stories.
They're people like George Evans. His company was hired to take a relatively unknown Vegas lounge singer called Frank Sinatra and try to make him into a star. Evans hired a dozen girls, at $5 each, to jump and scream 'Oh Frankie, Oh Frankie' and toss flowers at the stage. They met and practiced in the basement at the Paramount Casino where Sinatra was performing.
Jack Keller, Evan's West Coast partner explains what happened:
'We hired girls to scream when he sexily rolled a note.
The dozen girls we hired to scream and swoon did exactly as we told them. But hundreds more we didn't hire screamed even louder. Others squealed, howled, kissed his pictures with their lipsticked lips, and kept him a prisoner in his dressing room between shows at the Paramount. It was wild, crazy, completely out of control.'
And it continued to be for many years. Sinatra was now an established star thanks to a 'media campaign' that only cost the promoters a total of $60 paid to a handful of women to act crazy.
(Read the entire article: Making Up A News Story, Legally by Paul Hartunian at http://www.site-reference.com/Marketing/5271/index.html)
This is true...no lie! See what good marketing can do for you! LOL
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
In Trinidad everything is either fete or madness....
Well, not entirely but mostly everything! We do love to party! Those who don't party go mad! LOL I'm just making up stuff here cuz I just want to go home and sleep!
I'm running a 5K in 4 days, I need to sleep! Good night!
I'm running a 5K in 4 days, I need to sleep! Good night!
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