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SCORCHin’ The Pot : Pelau

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Nothing makes a man/woman more attractive than knowing how to cook. Especially being Trinis, we love nothing more than our bellies. So this Friday afternoon, SCORCH decided to teach some of you (mainly those who have KFC on speed dial), how to cook on of our staple meals…PELAU. And just in time for Sunday lunch! So here are the steps you need to follow in order to make a bossss Pelau, just like we did at SCORCH. Well, first, before we start with the steps,…

Breakfast of Champions

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So one morning, bed was feeling too nice and dream was going too good, until I find I eh hearing my alarm. Only to jump up and realize I’d overslept, so yuh know one time morning start bad. I wasn’t really able for no cuss up from the HNIC, so I dive out the house and is hot and sweaty up the road! But I jump out my house so fast, by the time I reach South Quay, the hunger pangs quickly brought me back…

# VAL – Bent but not Broken … kinda :/

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This carnival had the potential of being popped down in many regards. As many of you know , one incident changed everything. Changed the game, changed the mas, changed me and even changed the tone of this post, making it very different from the others. But there is something hysterical and telling about being in an ER two weeks before carnival with your first three questions being, “When can I get back to work?” “When can I drink?” …and “Can I play mas?” No wonder…

#Val: Project MAS-ccessory

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FACT – the average masquerader, without even realizing, spends at least TT$1000 in addition to their costume cost…*Cough*…”Designers, in Mas you either wine IN or OUT, wave left or right OR drop to the ground and roll!” (In Heidi Klum’s voice). You will now have till the end of this column to realize whether your costume this year will be properly ACCESSORIZED or become a proper hot messy ACCIDENT (Screeeeech…BADANG!!!). The months between launch and the road really is like entering Project Runway – challenge…

#VAL

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No stranger to the world of Mas, Social Media or Ole Talk, we welcome Valmiki Maharaj to the SCORCH team with his weekly installments of whatever the hell he feels like talking about. Coming to you every Wednesday. Enjoy!

The Snappening: You thought you were safe?

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So you survived the stress and worries of “The Fappening” and you saying to yourself yuh GT. For those of you living under The Rock of Gibraltar and don’t know about “The Fappening”, it was when Apple’s iCloud server was hacked and a bunch of nude celebrity photos were posted online. This also led to every Tom, Dick & Harry joining in and posting very intimate pics of their exes, outside ting and/or chile mudda using the hashtag #thefappening. Yuh would think you might have…

Kimye Boobed?

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So Kimye are apparently making their rounds at Paris Fashion Week, *lifestyles of the rich and famous and surgically bodacious* but umm Kanye has always been notorious for his rather risque choices in fashion and it hasn’t let up one bit on his Paris trip… In the midst of photographers hecklin at the couple for being late to a show and runnin round trying to rescue his woman from crazy sickafants, he is seen here looking rather relaxed and boobalicious sitting at a Lanvin show…

Kardashians: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

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Love them or hate them, you just can’t seem to ignore The Kardashians. The controversial family came into the spotlight when a sex tape featuring Ray J and Kim Kardashian was released in 2007. Later that year the family received their own reality tv show on E network: Keeping up with The Kardashians which has earned them millions and led to two other spin off series. Some praise them, many criticise them but no one has ever stopped and wondered, what can I learn from them……