MIRABUENO previously said:


Cafe santo domingo= Agua de Aguita which by the way is actually haitian coffee with the dominican label. have you ever tried cafe quisqueya??? the best in my humble opinion!

guillermone previously said:


Yes, I also agree, our coffee is just simply great. Though never tried cafe quisqueya, in fact I don't think I have ever heard of it.

I wonder if anyone had noticed or if it has happened to them, but I been offerred coffee numerous times in many better well to do Dominican homes and was given cremora alone or mixed with cinnamon to go along with the beverage. I found it odd. I personally would never use artificial coffee lightner in my coffee. I would rather just drink it the old fashion traditional Dominican way, black with suger. Was this just my immediate circle of friends or is this a new thing in the DR as if were a status symbol of hospitality or just another one of our adopted foreign influences?

MIRABUENO previously said:


looks like a bunch of lloronas to me. hey i see alot of familiar faces with brasileros africana and afro. fred dobbs el driver!!!! jajajajajajajajaja gladiador the navigator!

CarlosFranco previously said:



JAJAJAJJAJAJAJAJA

Y Josean, donde esta?

CarlosFranco previously said:



JAJAJAJJAJAJAJAJA

Y Josean, donde esta?

MIRABUENO previously said:


Josean is haitian american!!!! he has never been to haiti.

guillermone previously said:

xwill7-
Oh come on man...... Why did you have to ruin it. We had so many nice pictures, you just had to slap on a dose of reality.

But you know what, I remember the DR as a kid. I spent my summers vacations with friends, neigbors and relatives and lived in precisely one of those very similar fragile, but sturdy wood houses with corrugated zinc roof tops. I use to love going to bed, just falling asleep while listening to the sound of rain drops bouncing off the zinc roof. They were the happiest days of my life. You could just drop in on anyone, any time of the day, without a problem and they would be so happy to see you. We would make fruit drinks from trees in the back yard, brewed coffee with cloth strainers, eat home made desserts, bath "en el patio" in a make-shift shower "con un jarro de agua."

We did not have fancy clothes and shoes, residential luxury towers, McD, BK, Papa J, Tony Roma, Dominoes or any of the other US American eating icons, but we were all very close. We spent time with each other, always together. Today these houses sit empty, all of my relatives, cousins, aunts and uncles have moved on and now live on beautiful hill top mansions, pent-house condos with front desk security, week-end beach front properties and drive fancy expensive cars. "Progress and prosperity", yes maybe, you can call it that. But you know what? They are never home, too busy working to keep up the lifestyle. Can't never see them anymore like I once use to. They have become encarcerated within their own success and just like prison, visiting time are only certain days of the week, when and if they have time, exactly and just like the way it is in the good old USA.

Boy do I miss the simple life, when everybody was poor but free and knew each other by your first name. No one put up any airs and the whole neighborhood was like an extended family. Nevertheless, I have to accept that life continues and with time our past will disappear. It is inevitable. What we should do or at least attempt to preserve is the positive aspects of our Dominican culture and hold back the negative, depersonalized aspects of outside influences, no matter from where it comes from.

S1CAR1O previously said:




aw man how right you are. i also remeber visiting my family in DR and i honestly can say that the happiest days in my life were also when i was Dead Broke in DR. im here in the bronx now in a nice house, with jordans and nice clouths and a car but im nowhere near as good as i felt in DR.
i swear i used 2 go visit my cousins and they used to say "wow in wish i lived in NEW York and could buy and have all the things you have" but the real honest truth was that I envied THEM, because they lived simpler hapier lives and were so close to the family i was once as close 2.


forget these guys ALWAYS critizing and always talking bad about evrything. if you guys really dislike how bad things are in DR and love it as much as you say you do go to the ISLAND and become president so you can stop talking and actually DO something about the things you dnt like.

as for me id be just as happy if DR stayed broke but close and united as they are now instead of becoming a Huge manhattan all developed and what-not.

xwill7 previously said:


s1car,
I am sure that the fact that you live in USA gets you a ton of action with the women in DR... If you were poor in the campo you would only get the fatty's We all miss DR when we are here in USA but its the fastest way to build up nice cash and go bac k and build a nice house...If you would be in DR you probably would struggle to get gas money for your pasola