Prescription from The Carnival Doctor
Rhadi Ferguson, PhD
"The Carnival Doctor"
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"The Carnival Doctor"
For the best information in the world concerning carnivals please visit www.TriniJungleJuice.com. For the most comprehensive site available for fete tickets and masquerader costumes, please visit www.MyCarnivalBands.com
For more information on how to properly prepare for carnival like a true veteran, please visit www.CarnivalVeteran.com
Have You Ever Had A Roadgasm?
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 24-Mar-15
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HAVE YOU EVER HAD A ROADGASM? New Trini Jungle Juice Term - Carnival RoadgasmDefinition - A carnival roadgasm is defined as an euphoric experience that occurs on the road while playing mas. It can be triggered by a song, by pain in the foot (which sometimes bring about this feeling of euphoria) or by wining on a bumper. More often than not, this feeling is heightened and brought to its climax in the evening hours on the ...
Bacchanal Jamaica And Why You Should Do The Double
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 12-Mar-15
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So here's the question....
If you could get doggone near the same vibes, similar fetes, have a great time, go to a superb island, play mas, and spend less money.... Would you do it?
Well, if the answer is yes, then you have probably entertained going to Jamaica Carnival, Cayman Islands Carnival, Cropover and and a few others. But right now we want to talk about Bacchanal Jamaica and..... those that want to #DoTheDouble
So Let's Begin!!!!
The Carnival Doctor TNT 2015 Recap - Part 5 of 6 - "Jouvert" | Dirty Dozens Jouvert
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 08-Mar-15
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For me, the best day in TNT is Monday but that’s because I just love, love, love Jouvert. And you have to realize that some people live for Jouvert and to them it is more important than the road on Tuesday. This is not the case for me. I love Monday and it is my favorite day, bar none, BUT, I am in TNT for Tuesday. Please believe that!! I love Monday because i get to do it all in one day. I start Jouvert early in the morning at about 3am all the way until around 9am and then I go back to my residence, shower, eat and get on the road to play Monday Mas and I don't get back to the room until about 10pm. I love the grind. I just love it. I actually enjoy that feeling when my legs are a little bit sore on Tuesday and somewhat tired. I like it. It really doesn't concern me because I do a 1/2 marathon before carnival and I train for 12 weeks to prep for TNT. As a former athlete, I know I'm going to be fine and just look at the aching as a welcoming hug from my body with a message that is interpreted as, "Ahhhhh, I'm glad you're back. We've missed you."
The Carnival Doctor TNT 2015 Recap - Part 4 of 6 - "The Brian Lara Fete" - The Greatest Fete Ever
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 02-Mar-15
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After the Vale Breakfast Fete, I was able to run around and meet with Safiya Davy who handled most of my carnival needs through her service Sauce Concierge. I was able to pick up my Jouvert particulars because the jouvert band that I played with Dirty Dozens Jouvert had a costume/bag pickup time change. Thank goodness that I had a system in place so that such adjustments could be made with ease, otherwise, I would have had to run around and secure my own things and change up my schedule and my ability to rest and/or fete.
So, even though some people see concierge services as expensive, I see them as handy and useful. Especially if you get in on Friday instead of Tuesday in terms of your travel and your fete time is tight. The last thing that you want to do is run around Port of Spain, picking up your costume and jouvert particulars, waiting in lines and catching cabs. You could be at a fete, on the way to a fete or resting. And that in and of itself has a price and that price I'm more than willing to pay. Peace of mind is a great thing.
I love Safiya Davy and SAUCE Concierge Services.
The Carnival Doctor TNT 2015 Recap - Part 3 of 6 - "D'Original Vale Breakfast Fete" - De Vybz Cyah Done
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 27-Feb-15
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When you go to Vale you can actually see the evolution of a fete. You can see the romantic foreplay of the fete. The major selling point with Vale is what Vale calls, "The Vale Vibe." I'm not sure if I could do this justice by explaining it but its like the feeling that you get when you step under the jets of a pulsating shower and it hits your back and massages you. Or that feeling that you get when you finally ease your whole body into a jacuzzi. That is was Vale feels like the whole time.
It's just.....
That's it....
It's a SOUL MASSAGE.
Vale massages your soul.
The Carnival Doctor TNT 2015 Recap - Part 2 of 6 - "Soca Brainwash: The Festival of Love"
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 25-Feb-15
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After Ambush....
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After AMbush was over.... I got back on that damn fete-a-thon and kept wining until like 11 am.
Wait, please allow me to mention that the fete-a-thon bus with Candy Coated started at 11pm. We arrived at AMBush at 2:30. We partied until 10 am, we ate, we played on water slides, we limed and THEN got back on the fete-a-thon bus and partied all the way back to Port of Spain.
It was bananas.
By the time I got back to my domicile it was about 12 noon and then I had to take a fresh and then ready myself for Soca Brainwash.
I had NO SLEEP and was ready to do another 6 hours….. LIKE A BOSS!!!
Soca Brainwash is a quality fete. High quality.
The Carnival Doctor TNT 2015 Recap - Part 1 of 6 - "Make Love In The Bush"
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 23-Feb-15
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As usual, on Tuesday night on the road, I cried. I was having such a fantastic time and I was enjoying myself and I looked at my friends on the road and all of the people in my crew and extended crew and just got so overwhelmed with joy.
I turned to my main man Winston and put my hand over my heart and screamed over the music, "I love you bro!" He responded, "I love you too" and that was it for me. I broke down so bad that I had to go on the sidewalk on the side of the road and put my hands on my knees and let it all out. Unknowingly, my friend Khalilah followed me and witnessed my moment when I was trying to hide. That certainly was not how I planned my emotional breakdown moment LOL.
I really, really miss my man Edgar Ter-Oganessian. We called him "T.O." Every time I do carnival, I wish he was doing it with me. He would have had a ball. He passed away in 2012 of cancer and every carnival as I celebrate life, I celebrate his. I loved him. He was a good dude man, a really quality dude. And when I try to get my friends to come to carnival and they are apprehensive, I'm like, you are MISSING an opportunity that we will never get again. But...... what can you do. Every man has to pour his own trouble. And I pour mine and drink it willingly.
Sooooo, here it goes.......
Carnival Tip #18 - Start Packing Your Bags Now | TRUST ME ON THIS
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 21-Jan-15
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What I'm getting ready to tell you, many of you are NOT going to do.
And I'm not sure why, but some of you all will just not do it.
If you are a CARNIVAL VIRGIN, please take this advice like it is the gospel.
I'm telling you right now - START PACKING YOUR BAGS FOR TNT!!
Yes.
Start packing now.
How To Live Your Life In 2015 Like Yuh Playing Mas
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 12-Jan-15
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Well, here we are..... deep into the New Year of 2015 and most of you all have either stuck to your resolutions or have broken them and reset them again.
Many of you started out the New Year in church, in a party or fete. Some with loved ones and others alone. Some of you brought in the new year with tears of joy for new beginnings and some, tears of sadness due to the loss of some loved ones in 2014.
No matter how you brought it in what's most important is what you DO in 2015.
Just like a race, a good start is great, but a good finish is better -- because life is not a sprint, but a marathon.
In 2015 I, like many of you, am committed to "living my life like I'm playing Mas!!"
Carnival Tip #17 - Think Of Trinidad Carnival Like The Olympic Games And Yourself Like An Athlete
- By Dr. Rhadi Ferguson aka The Carnival Doctor
- Published 24-Dec-14
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Today's tip is in harmony with pacing yourself.
To date, I HOPE, that you all have followed instructions and stayed on pace in terms of creating your fete line up (schedule) and getting your fete tickets. I provided you some advice before this on making sure that you listen to a carnival veteran or find yourself in a crew because I already know a few people who have NOT purchased a ticket for a certain fete because they are "waiting to see what meh friends dem wan do." Well.... while yuh waiting allyuh goh stick and be outside de fete wit de long face because you fall off pace!!
