The Wild & Crazy....but Glamorous & Exciting......

This crazy but exciting event is celebrated every March in whole of Lousiana State.

It is just like The Carnival de Braziliana but in a smaller scale.

The Carnival de Braziliana comes with sexy sexy samba dancers and distribution of condoms !

In Louisiana, we have King, Queen & distribution of "jewelly" & "gold coins " !

@ Lafayette, the event normally falls on the first Sunday of March and is celebrated in down town Lafayette. On that afternoon, hundreds of residents of Lafayette will gather along the streets of down town to watch the whole line up of exciting programmes.....captivating parades....high energy marching bands....& the colourful floats with Kings & Queens "throwing" beads-of-rings and golden coins to his spectators !

The legend says that , the more beads-rings & golden coins you collected, the more luck will be betowed on you by the King & Queen.

On that believe, every one will yell & scream and jump for the rings & coins when His Majestic "fly" them all over the sky !!!

After the parade, the party starts....roads will be blocked and stage setup & live bands will start the hot & lively Rock & Roll musics......

The whole Lafayette community will then immerse in the high fever of ceremonial atmosphere & whole of down town will be transformed into the dance floor......

Budweiser & Lite beers are spilled everywhere & everybody will just dance or sit somewhere & have a good time !

Now, if this can not " excite " you, then you can drive 200 miles to

New Orleans where the REAL ACTION awaits you !

In New Orleans, the event is celebrated over three days....the last day being the wildest & the most crazy one !

So normally we went to New Orleans on the Third day

to " catch " the BEST !!

@ New Orleans, there are parades & floats every 2/3 hours and so plenty of chances to collect the beads-rings and golden coins & bring back

to USL tans of luck !

After 4pm, the procession will stop and thousands of tourist and locals will stroll along the city especially the Jackson Square, the French quarters and the nearby Bourbon Street......

@ the Jackson Square, you must go and visit this famous

" Hang-On-The-Wall " pasar malam style art gallery.

While strolling around, you will meet all kind of funny fello with 1001 kind of

fancy make-up !

& to stir up your mood & make it more exciting....I have personally saw quite a number of young & beautiful naked babes walking along the narrow Bourbon street !!! ( I wanted to take some snaps but was stopped by LS......what a waste !! )

When you are in New Orleans, if you dun visit Bourbon Street is just like you walk into a treasure island and come out empty handed !

Remember this "budget" " A-Quater-An-Aweful-Face " service @ Bourbon Street ??

This ever popular Bourbon Street is very unique and distinctive......

Along the narrow walkway, on one side, there are hundreds of pubs and cafe with live bands playing the ever nice nice Jazz music....

& just across the opposite ends, you will find yourself in an " ADULT " world....

all kinds of SEX SHOPS !!!

From magazines to "tools & equipment ", from brothels to whores.... anything related to sex...you name it, you got it here !

I remembered myself , LS & Low Hong Chong went into one " 1 Quater Peep All --XXX" shop with a lot of small small windows.... you put in one quater, the window will pull up a little and you'll see "some-thing"... to see "more" thing,you need another quater....& the "sweet" voice behind the wall will keep asking you to insert in more quaters & tempt you that you gonna see some "very nice" thing right now .....

So we 3 stoogers kept inserting the quaters....one after another...& that "nice" thing revealled only a little bit by a little bit......

Allas...being the " amateur " , we spent almost US$8 and managed to see only her (maybe is a "his"... ) hand !!!

We three realised kena " ke-tuk " liao

&

We cursed and sweared .....this Low Hong Chong even spitted on the window !!

The Highlite & the moment we all waiting for.........

Come around 10pm, thousands of people will flock to the French quaters and anticipating the " CLIMAX " to commence.

All French quaters come with a balcony and there will be ladies either standing or leaning againt the balcony, drinking & looking down at the down stairs crowds.

Notice the Balconies at the background ? That's where the " actions " are !!!

Then all the crazy & wild fello, both men & women, will start "chanting " to the balconies.......

" show your tits ! show your tits ! "

" show your tits ! show your tits ! "

Those ladies at the balconies will shut back,

" I cant hear you....come on.....louder louder ! "

Then the already half drunk crowd will scream back with all their breadth :

" WE WANT TITS ! SHOW YOUR TITS !!! "

" WE WANT TITS ! SHOW YOUR TITS !!! "

& this screaming and shouting will go on until when the clock strikes 12 midnight .....

The ladies at the balconies, now fully drunk & highly " charged "....

will start stripping ....

one by one ............

while the crowds yell & scream & cheers to top of their voice !!!

the louder the cheer,

the faster they strip.......

until...........................

ALL TITS ARE AS SHOWN BELOW....!!!

& this drives the crowds to reach their highest peak of climax of craziness !!!!

Whoooooooops !!!!

that sounds hell lot of exciting FUN, isnt it ????

& You know what ??

I really really miss this

MAD MAD MARDI GRAS of LOUISIANA !!!!!!

>= < : -- O BL

Footnote 1 :

Lafayette, Louisiana is home to the state's third largest Mardi Gras celebration, which includes eight parades of floats and
bands during the Carnival season. The first parade, ten days before Mardi Gras, is the celebrity-led Krewe of Carnivale en Rio
Parada, featuring over 600 riders. Parade royalty on Fat Tuesday includes King Gabriel and Queen Evangeline, named for the
hero and heroine of Longfellow's epic poem, and King Toussaint L'Overture and Queen Suzanne Simonet, named for the great
Haitian historical figures. Mardi Gras parades have been an annual tradition in Lafayette since 1934 and attendance on Mardi
Gras day has been estimated as high as 250,000 by police spokespersons. The first formal Mardi Gras ball and parade in
Lafayette dates back to 1869 and they haven't stopped celebrating Fat Tuesday here since. In 1897, King Attakapas, the first
Lafayette Mardi Gras king was crowned. He rode into town on a Southern Pacific train decorated to look like a royal throne and
led the parade. After 1897, formal Mardi Gras parades and balls seemed to come and go until 1934 when the Southwest
Louisiana Mardi Gras association was formed by representatives from civic and service organizations to ensure that Lafayette
would always have a Mardi Gras celebration.

Footnote 2 :

"Mardi Gras" (French for Fat Tuesday) is the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is the final day of Carnival, the three day
period preceding the beginning of Lent, the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday immediately before Ash Wednesday (some
traditions count Carnival as the entire period of time between Epiphany or Twelfth Night and Ash Wednesday).[1] The entire
three day period has now come to be known in many areas as Mardi Gras.[2] Perhaps the cities most famous for their Mardi
Gras celebrations include New Orleans, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama and Sydney, Australia. Many other places have important
Fat Tuesday celebrations as well. Carnival is an important celebration in most of Europe, except in the United Kingdom where
pancakes are the tradition, and also in many parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Indian Student in USA

Contributed by PPL:-

It was the first day of a school in USA and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Subramanian entered the fourth grade.

The teacher said, 'Let's begin by reviewing some American History..

Who said 'Give me Liberty , or give me Death'?
She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his hand up:
'Patrick Henry, 1775' he said.
'Very good!'

Who said 'Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?'
Again, no response except from Chandrasekhar.
'Abraham Lincoln, 1863' said Chandrasekhar.

The teacher snapped at the class, 'Class, you should be ashamed.
Chandrasekhar, who is new to our country, knows more about its history than you do.'
She heard a loud whisper: 'F**k the Indians,'
'Who said that?' she demanded. Chandrasekhar put his hand up.
'General Custer, 1862.'

At that point, a student in the back said, 'I'm gonna puke.'
The teacher glares around and asks 'All right! Now, who said that?'
Chandrasekhar says, 'Al Gore to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.'

Now furious, another student yells, 'Oh yeah? Suck this!'
Chandrasekhar jumps out of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher , 'Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997!'

Now with almost mob hysteria someone said 'You little shit. If you say anything else, I'll kill you.'
Chandrasekhar frantically yells at the top of his voice, ' Michael Jackson to the child witnesses testifying against him- 2004.'

The teacher fainted. And as the class gathered around the teacher on the floor, someone said, 'Oh sh*t, we're f**ked!'
...................
And Chandrasekhar said quietly, 'I think it was George Bush, Iraq, 2007.'

Anita and the CAT

Anita and the Cat C.C.
A pretty lady who used to stay in the same house with us in St. Joseph St. We refered her as my " HOUSEMATE" but she liked to refer it as my roommate. So what is roommate???? I wish!

C.C. the cat. Anita's Pet. When Anita was offshore, I had to take care of this cat. The cat would just ran in and out of my room in the morning trying to wake me up to feed her. You see, I was a Pizza man came home late at nite and you got a cat waking you up before seven..... Anyway, I still treat C.C. reasonable well.

Now, she is staying in Connecticut, mother of two. working for State of Connecticut department of Environment Protection.

The Chronicles of East Main..the Ya Sui & the Yan Tau.

Here's the story........

The 4 ladies ( well, actually there are five ladies in the picture, but Taukay Soh Ah Gan is not the subject matter therefore I penned it as 4.... ) are nicked name

The 4 White Fairies bcos they lived in the White House of USL ( again....there should be 5 White Fairies but Amily was not in the picture ).




Back then in early 1982, they are the "presious gems" in the eyes of " bujang bujang or buaya buaya" of Malaysian males studied in USL. Simply bcos "supply" was much much less then "demand", therefore these Fairies are a bit "tarek harga" in the sense that they seldom accept invitation by the buaya-buaya for movies or party.


A brand new chapter was written when a young fello Malaysian from Kluang, Johor arrived at USL in Autumn 1982. He quitted Boys' Dorm and stayed at Richard Dorm for a short duration ( refer to my posting on " Tony Lim, My Super Duper Senior " ) then he moved to South Washington Street.


The big old house at South Washington Street was originally occupied by 3 smart Sarawakians ie Lawrence ( Petroleum Engineering ), Patrick Lau ( Business ) and Jeffrey ( Agriculture ).






Lawrence was then sharing with Jeffrey and bcos Patrick was occupied a big room singlely, he felt very scary and very very "lonely" at night....therefore, Patrick decided to take the young fello in as his "sleeping-mate".




This young arrival was really of havoc type.... " Life = Fun ! Fun ! Fun !" was his motto & his main objective of going to USA/USL was

to have FUN X 1000000000 !.

So he started organising BBQs/parties/dinners almost every Friday night.




Bcos of his "xtremely charasmatic" & Charming personality....coupled with his "intense Leadership quality", all White Fairies attended his parties without fail and that has attracted all buaya-buaya to come to South Washington Street & socialise under one roof.




& so South Washington ( SW ) Street Gang was formed & "registered" in USL students' circles !







One year later, the SW St Gang's " business" & membership expanded ten folds, the old venue can no longer house the activity, the young fello decided to relocate his "association" to 432 East Main Street, and thus the

ever famous and popular EAST MAIN GANG

was officially established in Louisiana, USA.

circle in BLUE : Kenneth....the East Main Gang "subsidiary"...the

Painter's Gang Leader...was a bright badminton player

circle in RED : sorry...forgot his name but was a very good talker and stayed with Architecture Ho and EE Hooi , neighbour to SW Street old house.

circle in GREEN : again....sorry...forgot his name ( but I think is Goh XX...)..a tall and very 3H man (handsome, helpful & humourous).

circle in PINK : I called him " Tai Ko " bcos he was the HOTEL Gang's Boss. Mind you, he was the first Malaysian that was able to get a part time job with a local hotel in Lafayette. If I am right, Tai Ko then married the Hotel's owner's daughter and I think by now , he should be the REAL Hotel Tycoon now.

OK, the one in the centre was nicked name " Ah Chiau " ...one hell of nick name !

He looked very "ah Beng" and naughty but in actual fact, he was always the first one to volunteer to drive to fetch the Freshman whenever there is one landed in Lafayette Airport. He was always very cheerful & joyeous and talks very funny.

The one on the right was Ah Chiau's good buddy...but again, sorry, I forgot his name.

Both Ah Chiau & his buddy were Tai Ko's close aides.....members of Hotel Gang.

BL

p/s : reader who can recall those names that I forgotten, would be much appreciated if you could post them here so at least I can address our old USL friends in good manner.

A wife's Promise.

There was a man who had worked all of his life, had saved all of his money, and was a real miser when it came to his money. One day, he told his wife, " when I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I wanna take all my money to the afterlife with me."

His wife promised with all her heart.

So when the man died and when the ceremony was finished, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said, " wait a minute."

She went over to the casket and put down a big box along his dead hubby's body.

The casket was then buried.

Her close friend saw what happened and she asked " hey madam, I know you weren't fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband ! "

The loyal wife replied, " Listen my friend, I am a Christian and I would never go back on my words. I made the promise and I will validate the promise. "

Her friend was at a shock and asked again, " So you really put all money in that box and go with him huh ?? "

" I sure did ", the loyal wife replied. " I 've got all his money put into my bank account and I wrote him a cheque. If he can cash it there, then he can spend it ! "

BL ( boring & nothing to do.....so share a joke with you all...hahaha ! )

Enjoy the kopi...my friend.

'The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.'

A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic,glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite -telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee, the professor said:'If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the simple and cheap ones.

While it is normal for you to want onlythe best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee.

In most cases,it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... Then you began eyeing each other's cups.'

Now consider this:

'Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee.

Enjoy your coffee!.'

The happiest people don't have the best of everything.They just make the best of everything :

1. Live simply.

2. Love generously.

3. Care deeply.

4. Speak kindly.

You are the miracle, my friend; Your life either shines a light OR casts a shadow!

Shine a light & Enjoy the Coffee !!!

BL

International Food Festival

Photoes taken during one of the International Food Festival.
Still remeber KungFu Lee, Gan and Han??
In the Picture : Low Hong Siong, Gan, Chiang. Cannot remember the other two.