TRINIDAD CARNIVAL 2012: TUESDAY MAS! THE BEAUTY, THE GLAMOUR...CARNIVAL IS WE TIME!

Tuesday Mas - WICKEDDDDD my costume from headpiece to the peel and stick glitter eye makeup to the costume to the boots looked very amazing. It was quite gratifying to have masqueraders as well as strangers and professional photographers asking me what band it was and telling me how nice I looked...proving once and for all it doesn't have to be TRIBE, Bliss, Harts, YUMA, or Islandpeople for it to be an excellent costume! I was happy to tell them my band is D'KREWE. :)
Not so amazing...the delays and delays with picking up the special order part of the costume (monokini, and a frontline headpiece for a backline order)...seems no matter what i end up collecting in full on Sunday so I will just stop scheduling Saturday as my pickup day if D'Krewe is my band and make up my mind that Sunday is the day for costumes and j'ouvert...also not so amazing...camera stolen in transit...and allllll my tuesday mas pics are on it. smh. I have pics on other people camera i am sure but as i was also photographer for my band and had really nice pics of not just me but the whole band AND VIDEO of us on the road and crossing savannah stage (i got to remain on stage for every section to tape/shoot them)...it's a serious problem. Hoping offering some money will get me at least the memory card back and the a-hole who took it can have the camera. smh. *UPDATE camera and memory card in it recovered! Hence the posts! Yay!*

[QUOTE=SWAGGERIFIC] [B]HERE IS MINES[/B]




Overall this was a great season for the Groovy, most of the artists were good with Kerwin being one of the standouts...


You could have counted the good power tunes on 5 of your fingersnext year we doing it again![/B][/QUOTE]

^^^this!


And...costumes were wicked this year, even ones not expected to look that great came out HAWT...except YUMA's goldeneye...errr glad I actually let that section miss me it looked very forgettable on the road. Bejewelled Blitz didn't look very blinged out either... (I tend to either want to play with D'Krewe or YUMA and was going to be in Goldeneye ONLY cause I didn't see beautiful Luxor backline til after the fact!)

Seems many bands had costume drama (bliss complaints bout sizes, yuma complaints bout various tings, my band - d'krewe - was HELLA late with the costumes and messed up my schedule for when to be done with that so I could be uploading pics and liming and other things!...I mean 2 and 3 times coming back to sort it out, and heard a certain large band's shipments of brassieres/etc had issues and they had a last minute re-order that was killing availability of things and hands for other bands.)

Seems many bands had FOOD drama. Last year no issues with food, this year people in YUMA actually didn't get fed, and people in my band got fed, but some had to wait on round 2 of food to come to the truck...wth was going on with food this year?


And they were rationing too last year i came late and still got breakfast in between on the road... this year they cutting off the food band as you get your lunch...that's it for you.

Costumes hot, groovy vibes rocked the place, and for the first time everywhere I went i was stopped to take pictures with people, dem friend, dem child, dem man (yes a girl asked me to take a pic with HIM that was...weird! lol)...and even people in TRIBE, Bliss and Harts costumes were asking me what band my costume was from and saying how nice it was...costume must have really been two and three times hotter than I thought it was cause people acted like it was an individual or something, last year i dont' think anyone went out of their way to take pics, this year is like a spotlight wherever i was walking...the headpiece kept bringing that same effect in the airport too! And the BOOTS big up Niecy's Custom Designs boots sell OOFFFFFFF.

 courtesy Pernella Rajcoomar

 

Learned this year that leaving first thing wednesday morning especially as someone who has business to sort out as part of her carnival responsibilities is a HORRIBLE idea...if i had only had downtime before takeoff to get the pictures off my camera and blogged or at least on Picasa I would not be having the mini-nightmare I'm having now...plus, i actually made friends that i kept in touch with all year, male and female, and did not get to link with them unless i ran into them by accident...not cool...if i had stayed wednesday i would have been able to put in some face time and ensure the picture thing sort out... coming friday not so bad but can't leave on a wednesday again i need a down day to handle the blog and safeguard the pictures an ting...smh.

But i did learn carnival can still be wicked even if it's a groovy year and not a year of lots of power soca...

And i didn't even cover every experience...imagine if i had been there longer? lol

For the rest of pictures see the Eloquence, Inc. Tuesday Mas Facebook album!

Videos are slowwwwwly creeping up behind the pictures, stay tuned to http://www.youtube.com/eloquenceinc they are coming I promise!

TRINIDAD CARNIVAL 2012: J'OUVERT & MONDAY MAS!

J'ouvert...Silver Mudders...showed up and got concerned after jumping ship from Chocolate City cause place was DEAD QUIET like ghost town...truck was late, real late. But it got wicked a girl was giving the oil massages so you could get mudded up, and one woman asked where the MEN to give the women massages? I said she had a point...so I went and got me one. He was SO cute and barely spoke English...and soon after he volunteered a nex one came to oil me up too...people started coming over wondering wait WHAT going on here??? lmao


Got my silver mud everywhere from head to foot.

Some girl was onsite cutting up and sexy-ing up the shirts. Thanks to her cause i have zero creativity in that department.

When our trucks showed up and powered up the vibes jumped way up and stayed up! Had a wicked time on the road! And is like some kind of rule that I must meet one of the sexiest men for all of carnival during j'ouvert...it happen last year and it happen this year...man came out of nowhere and chemistry was so instant and strong it hurt...we just leaned on each other with foreheads touching and wined and talked in that same pose like 2 lovebirds for the longest...only separate to exchange numbers...then the vibes was getting too strong so I was like okay we...we...we need to...*had memory problems rocking all connected to him like that*... we need to GO, we getting lost in our own little world and the trucks leaving us.

He was dangerous. Shorter than me and brown and absolutely the effing sexiest thing I saw all morning, including passing me in other bands (and Chocolate City had some nice looking things crossing my eyesight!)...whew.

Okay what was I saying?

Came back to meeting point, some man volunteer to spray the mud off me...fun tings. :)

Ate, drank more, was merry...HYPE...what!

Cleaned up properly at the guesthouse and no time for SLEEP what is that??? BACK out on the road in Monday mas finest with D'Krewe!

Monday Mas - dem shorts this year was rather...small...put the HOT back in hot shorts. Vibes nice on the road. Not so nice that i ran out of memory almost immediately and had to waste like 2 hours back at the guesthouse clearing out pics to make room for monday!

D'Krewe's King presentation above by bandleader Roland St. George WON King of Trinidad Carnival 2012!



See the rest of pics in the Eloquence, Inc. Monday Mas with D'Krewe Carnival Facebook album!

Trinidad Carnival 2012: SUNDAY LIME!

Seems many bands had costume drama (Bliss complaints bout sizes, YUMA complaints bout various tings, my band - D'Krewe - was HELLA late with the costumes and messed up my schedule for when to be done with that so I could be uploading pics and liming and other things!...I mean 2 and 3 times coming back to sort it out, and heard a certain large band's shipments of brassieres/etc had issues and they had a last minute re-order that was killing availability of things and hands for other bands.)  So end result is I ended up collecting final parts of costume and j'ouvert package as well on Sunday.

 

The last fete, Puro Blanco all-white boatride, was cancelled (I'll be sticking to established events after this or better yet skipping doing anything Sunday and use it for a nice lime and tying of last minute loose ends before j'ouvert).  So we (me and my clients and some people I helped get sorted out and prepared for carnival that were seated next to me on the plane on the way down... they were really a little clueless as to how un-ready they were, only thing they had sorted out was Girl Power and costumes) went to lime on Ariapita at Sweet Lime.  We looked really good in that all-white, no boatride necessary it was just a nice look and a nice lime!  Most of us actually ate before we got to Sweet Lime (and I wish I could remember the name of where we got the food in the pictures from, they were DELICIOUS!).  Also cool was taking in the sights and sounds of Ariapita Avenue on the way to Sweet Lime, including kids in costume. :)

Customer service so bad at Sweet Lime I had to help get orders, help get orders STRAIGHT, aaaand help SERVE our orders lol but I felt bad for the poor girl serving cause it was about 10 of us (I think it went up to 11 before the night was out) and one of her for what seemed to be the ENTIRE restaurant and she obviously needed help...even she said is like I work there. I had 2 Sweet Limers (non-alcoholic and quite refreshing) and a Banana Brace...or something suh (definitely alcoholic and sweet)...NICE lime, nuff jokes, and the place was full to the brim!



Some of Eloquence, Inc.'s Trinidad Carnival 2012 clients (except first 2 on the right)



See more pictures in the Eloquence, Inc. 2012 Sunday Lime Facebook album!

As always, videos are coming but are MUCH slower behind the pics...haven't even gotten all the Scorch ones up yet, bear with me they are coming to the Eloquence, Inc. YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/eloquenceinc!

Trinidad Carnival 2012: INSOMNIA fete review and pics!

Insomnia...wicked as always...got there in time for Machel, in time for the WATER HOSES (favourite part *smile*) and got TOTALLY soaked especially up by the stage! Throw wine on cute man throw wine on big man throw wine on man that remember me from LAST YEAR Insomnia (how???? my hair totally different him still remember!), throw wine on man in wheelchair (is a row of them in there wth going on there? but all in good fun!)...throw wine on man who said "I never wine a Jamaican gyul before yuh know, allyuh could wine?" ...and they chose that moment play suppen like Buckets...a who tell dem haha I was about to walk past cause i was headed somewhere but I smiled sweetly, turned my back to him, and let him have it...his friends laughing at him for biting off more than he could chew by time di song done. Smiled sweet again and walked off. lol

Had doubles in the fete from the feistiest doubles GYAL ever, who want to serve man who not even in the line but want to fold up and screw face like ME a cut line when I reach out to take the next one she put down...even other girls in line who louder (and meaner) than me race her up and tell her I been in line long time just like them and is only one i want what she carrying on suh for. Cause most people in line was getting all 5 and 6 one time fi dem an dem friends. hm.

Insomnia always wicked... outside waiting on taximan to find me, some car across the way BLASTING Swappi's "Bubble On A DJ"...I normally don't like soca that have a similar vybe to dancehall but Swappi sick mi body wid it dis year man couldn't help it...song drive me CRAAAZY only ting get mi worse for 2012 is BUCKET...taxi shows up, as i go to get in some young (and CUTE!) maxi driver come rush mi bout where am i going he will take me straight to the door. I said that's okay i paid this one already. He said no you didn't I saw you the whole time you were across the street...i was like wait just how the hell long was dude WATCHING me? So i told him i paid the taxi roundtrip on the way UP...he said okay what's your number. lol I said ohhh is THAT you wanted all this time he said YES what you doing tonight?

Swappi's fault the man get a show...song maddddd...

KNOCKED out in the car. Taxi man nice enough to remember i needed to stop by pharmacy for Icy Hot, him wake me up cause I would not have remembered. Love that taxi driver...and I told his boss how great he was too!

Full album in the Eloquence, Inc. Insomnia 2012 Facebook album!

Videos slowly but surely coming to Eloquence, Inc.'s YouTube page!

Trinidad Carnival 2012: SCORCH fete review and pics!

FINALLY we get to the pictures and videos of one of the biggest celebrations on earth!  All the individual posts will be collected at the end into one big Trinidad Carnival 2012 Superpost just like the 2011 collection, but check back each day for updates here and on Eloquence, Inc.'s YouTube!

(Soca Monarch pics and vids not sorted yet)

Scorch...WICKEDEST FETE EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR what!!!!! The wait to get inside and the b.s. they were on with issuing their fancy schmancy "email only" tickets had me thinking not me again any year after this...got inside and forgot ALL BOUT DAT. lol. From the girls on pole dancing and beside her trying to get me drunk off apple and banana flavored puncheon shots (i say a little she says "noooo have MORE!" and pours the thing to the top...and refills right after i try one! smh)...to the goodlooking people all bout...to the food and drinks and drinks and drinks...to the dancefloor, the HYPE AS HELLLL dj's (hypa hoppa, dj private ryan, and many other shirtless eye candy keeping the vibes well hot on stage), the music...and one of them dj's kept picking random girls to pour whatever he had in his bottle down their throat...somebody tell me turn around and he wanted to pour it down my throat lol. ;) So the music had to lock off per police at midnight... "so when yuh feel seh di soca done, well is more soca to come...when yuh feel seh di wining done, well is MORE WINING TO COME" out come rhythm section and people animal instincts take OVER bwoy lol. One of the drummers motion me to come over by him an him jussa wine wid me an drum same time...another girl come join us an mi tell him him TALENTED to manage both of us and STILL hitting dem drums hard!

Good times, good times...yaadies came out and repped in that fete too, anywhere one of us heard the accent or saw our flag (male or female) we hail each other up.

Oh yeah and BEENIE MAN walked into the fete like nutten...only a small entourage too!

I can't say enough good things about that fete.

It made me late for Insomnia.

And I normally put nothing before Insomnia. :)

Went home, caught a nap, should have set my alarm cause was suppose to nap 1 hour, it turn into 4...what i should have done was nap in the car on the way straight to Insomnia cause that was a nex 1.5 hours of time wasting just trying to GET there!

See full pictures in the Scorch 2012 Facebook album!