My New Poisons

A few trivial things i missed while away in Ghana were my weekly dosage of Juicyfruit (chewing gum), Sunny Delight and the supposedly Ghanaian bread from my corner shop.

I came back tho and i'm yet to get any of those... i seem to have found some new poisons for myself. Apple juice seems to have replaced Sunny delight.

I take out £10 and stock the fridge with them and still manage to drink it all before the week is out. Of course that means you're more likely to find me standing in front of the bowl pissing.

I've also just been introduced to the so called "Late breakfast" pizza. It's pizza topped with eggs and bacon with tomato and onions... but i customize with prawns in place of the onions.

I think i'll definitely be going back to the Ghanaian bread and the juicyfruit once i get back into my routine. Now it looks like it'll take a while to get the pictures back online so i'll try to post one pic with every entry until i can put the whole bulk of 'em up.

Talking about pictures.. I just found out Carphone Warehouse (I work for them) are now offering some photo printing services in conjunction with Photobox. Of course as an employee i get 30% of all orders which is great!

I printed out about 50 images and the quality is great so i'll start printing out as many pics as i can.

Ok ok... i'll feed you your pic:

Picture was taking in Kumasi where i spent 2 days visiting my grandmother and nieces. There's a really scary story involving planes and turbulence but i'll tell that later.

From Left:
1. Helena - cousin
2. Wofa Bernard - Uncle
3. Auntie Ceci - Auntie (strangely enough) -- she's my mum's big sis. Does look her age at all though
4. Abena Akyeama - Niece. My sisters first kid. Pushing 4 and talks a LOT
5. Abena Kuma - Granma. My mom's mother.
6. Faf - Me. Moi. Me ankasa.
7. Abena Agyeiwaa - My sister's second. She misses London and loves Halo
8. Nana Mansa - Cousin. She hates turbulence.

Ghana Diaries: The Internet in Ghana

As y'all might know already i've just (3weeks is just right?) come from ghana. the internet cafes have good machines but they're poorly maintained and they really dont give a shit cos they charge by time so the longer u stay the better or business.

they'll share a 56k connection between 10PCs so you'll be sitting there for 2mins everytime you click a link.

I only went to the cafe a few times while i was there and for one of the following few things in order of priority:

1. Pay bills
2. Manage my finances so i didnt get cherged extra because of an overdraft
3. Move money into my sisters account so she could send it to me when i run out of dosh
4. Download some nude pictures that some certain someone used to send me
5. Attempt to fix my website which conveniently keeled over the moment i left for Ghana.

On the other hand... if you need to use the internet quickly for something important (assuming u live in accra).. you can go to busyInternet cafe.. it's near circle on the Ring Road Central.

The have broadband internet there but it's a fucking chore cos u have to queue up on a real busy day.

If u have ur own laptop, you can plug in upstiars for 18000 cedis an hour.

But there's good news yet, cos if you have a Wi-Fi capable ie. wireless internet enaled laptop,

You can browse for free at Liquid. It's a restaurant/cofeeshop right next to busyInternet.

That's where i spent most of my time catching up on all the internet porn and xbox news!! (Not before i'd spent 18000 at busy on one occasion tho! arrgh!!)

Yeah well be warned though cos Liquid arent stupid... they hike the prices of whateve they sell to make up for the free internet!

A bottle of Fanta anywehre else costs 2500 but costs 5000 cedis @ Liquid.

You can bet you ass i only drank Fanta while i was there. Not to worry if you're skint cos they wont hound you to buy something to use their net

Well..this was impulsively and hastily put together so let me know if i missed something.

Gmail Invite Up for Grabs

I've got a Gmail invite to give out so for those of you that know what it is, and want one go to the Ghana Community Forums and see whether you can convince me to send it to you.

Those things are going for about £10 in some instances on eBay but i'm not evil so all i ask you to do is write a poem or a haiku to qualify to win it.

Hurry before i change my mind and start asking for a pound of flesh!!

Recipe: The Late Breakfast

Or when you never like what mom cooks!

Ingredients:

1. Hunger (a lot of it from not eating anything all day)
2. Eggs (preferably thos laid by chicken)
3. Baked beans (Heinz 200g)
4. Apple Juice (Cheap turkish ones. Pick two up for £1 at 24hr shop on Tottenham High road)
5. Uncle John's Ghana bread from West Green Road
6. One Wi-Fi enabled DELL Latitude X300
7. Something to keep you from cooking too quickly. Ghana Community Forums will do just fine

Making Yay!:

1. Take laptop wit you to kitchen
2. Look aimlessly about to see if there's anything ready to eat.
3. Quickly survey the fridge and cubboards and spot eggs.
4. Go back to your room and find half eaten loaf of bread.Grab and hop to kitchen
5. Reply to a few threads on Ghana Community Forums
6. Dig around for frying pan, break 3 eggs into a bowl and go look for a tin of baked beans.
7. Put pan on fire and put a likkle bit av oil in it. Wait till it heats.
8. Realise you done fucked up and take pan off fire.
9. Make three big slices of bread
10. Get a plate and pour some egg into it.
11. Put pan back on fire and drop a slice of bread in it when it heats up again.
12. Get another plate to put fried bread in. Repeat fo all slices until all fried.
13. Wonder why there's still some egg left
14. Make an omellete with it
15. Get a foldable table and set it up in the middle of your room
16. Go back to the kitchen and reply to a few threads
17. Bring all food, apple juice and cutlery needed and laptop and set it up in your room.
19. Bai bai bo na bo no 'nti!! i.e Tuck into the food
20. Feel so good about making your own meal without burning anything.
21. Decide to blog about it.
22. Decide to attach a picture with it
23. Be pathetic and sit up you iPod so it shows in the picture
24. Blog about it
25. Go back to spending a pefectly good Friday night browsing Ghana Community Forum.