From Milliken Mills To Minnesota...

Friday, November 23, 2007

This Is Family Business, And This Is For The Family That Can't Be With Us

over the last 3 years american thanksgiving has been one of my least favourite times of the year. not because i don't enjoy the days off, but because it is way too quiet around here as nearly everyone takes off to celebrate with their family. too bad canada has already celebrating thanksgiving in october, and as much as i like to go home, northwest and aircanada have somehow convinced themselves it is ok to raise the price to toronto to $500 for an hour and a half flight. i'm especially not a big fan of air canada, who with a stronger canadian dollar could have decided to lower the price in canadian $, instead they chose to raise the us $ price which has always been lower. not cool. so heading into thursday, to say that i had the holiday blues is an understatement. plus with all this extra time around here to do nothing, it can pretty much drive you crazy. add that to the fact that over the last month i've managed to get into fights with two of my favourite people around here, i miss having my laid back roommate around, and my life adviser is no longer around either...sad.

but for thanksgiving, one of my friends still in the city, opened his house and invited me over for thanksgiving dinner with his family. i was extremely appreciative for the gesture, and had a real great time. it made me realize that i've been very fortunate to have met such great people, where if i had decided to never leave toronto, i would have never met and shared such great experiences. i can't lie and say that over the last few weeks, i have wondered whether i should have stayed in toronto because i miss all my family and friends back there. but it is times like these when i realize that the last 2 1/2 years, i have met some amazing people and have seen and done things that i would have never done otherwise. for that i'm extremely thankful.

"This is family business
And this is for everybody standin' with us"

Thursday, November 22, 2007

I Promise I'm So Self Conscious, I Have No Idea What I'm Doing In College

i basically retired from writing anything of substance on here about a year ago, and took up posting pictures with random hidden messages. but just like jay-z retired after he released the black album and fade to black the movie (ie. where i stole the name to theme of this useless site) and then subsequently released two new albums in the last year, i decided to comeback like jordan wearing the 45.

in reality i was actually inspired to write again after reading gilbert arenas's blog on the nba.com website. i never really care much for what celebrities or athletes write or say because it's usually just one cliche after another. checking out agent zero's blog, you can see a clear honesty that comes across in the things he writes. it's refreshing, and extremely amusing, and it's the same reason that i am always amused by the things that kanye west says. in gilbert's (first name basis) post today, made just shortly after it was releaved he has to miss 3 months of playing, he acknowledges the difficulty in trying to stay positive after he just came back from injury but then goes into his girl problems, and i feel bad for him...son(i don't think lebron would ever do that). check it.

You know what? When stuff goes bad it goes bad. I just broke up with my girlfriend and I don’t get to see my kids for a while because of the breakup. That happened right before those two games last week. I was so happy, went out and performed well with 30 and 11 and came back the next night with 28 and I was thinking, “Oh yeah, it was her that was bringing my spirits down…” Now she’s back in California. You ask for space, you know, because everything feels closed in … the house is dirty, the kids are drawing on the walls and on the couches and you’re thinking, “Oh man, I can’t do this. I’m not playing well and I’m coming home to all this.” So you ask for space and now you got clean walls, clean furniture and you’re lonely. And now you got to sit out three months. Oh man. I guess it has to get bad so it can get good. I’m not talking to my girlfriend. There’s a thing, “Watch what you say,” sometimes. She said, “I don’t want you to call me. I don’t want you to ask me about the kids. We’re going to do this on our own.” So, I decided, “OK.” Some things, if you don’t mean them, don’t say them. Now she’s mad that I’m not returning her calls. I guess she’s mad actually, I don’t know. Me and her brother are very cool so he goes, “Why don’t you just talk to her?” “Well, she just told me last week not to call her.” She told me I needed to start paying attention and listening from now on, now I’m paying attention and listening. - Gilbert Arenas, Nov. 19.21.07


if you didn't know the title of this post, is based on lyrics from kanye west - all falls down, off the college dropout album. (if you're somewhat of a hip hop head, you'd probably notice that every post title is something hip hop related...if you figured that out, deadly). anyways, the reason i titled this one the way i did, is that the reason that i stopped writing is that somewhere along the way i became self conscious of the things i wrote. i remember when i first started writing basketball newsletters to friends, and then used this to update my friends back home about life in law school, words would just flow like i was writing some dope rhymes. but then like a rap artist releasing his second album, you overthink everything you write, and everything goes downhill (i can't think of one example, where a second album was better then the first).

but today was one of those days where i had a little too much time, and started to think back about the things i wrote when i first started law school, and all the excitement and goodtimes that surrounded that. i'm going to try and repost some of those things when i get a moment, but i'm glad i have something like that to look back on and see how i was feeling at the time. as my law school career is coming to a close and i feel like i've already checked out, i can look back and remind myself why i came to law school, why i came to minnesota (of all places?)...because right now i'm not so sure, but i'm glad i did (or so i keep telling myself). i keep it real.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

I Wonder


Made some big moves yesterday.

I've been waiting on this my whole life
These dreams be waking me up at night

Monday, November 19, 2007

Stronger



Why is it easier to complain about others then it is to check yourself (before you wregigity wreck yourself...in the words of das efx)???

Regardless, some jokes are just not funny, even when I think they are, but that's because i'm so immature.

I'm done.
31 days.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

I'm Back to Vegas


Whether you broke or rich you gotta get biz
Having money's not everything, not having it is
I was splurgin on trizz
But when I get my card back activated
I'm back to Vegas cause (Welcome to the good life)
I always had a passion for flashing' before I had it
I close my eyes and imagine, the good life

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Everyday I'm Hustlin'


November has been busy.

Class Is Back In Session So I'm Upping The Grade, In Two Years Duayne Wayne Became Dwyane Wade


Dwade letter to basketball.
Pretty much how I feel about law school.

Monday, November 12, 2007

(What's The Story) Morning Glory?



A young warrior traveled abroad to learn the rules of fair………..
His teachings and travels were disrupted by a glorious winged angel, the warrior intended to give her an apple but mistakenly she received a rose.

The warrior tended to the rose which made the others realize his wonderful workings of the land…..suddenly the rose bloomed another head.

The warrior now had to tend to two roses both on the same stem.
The more he watered the one, the dryer the other grew…..soon his time was spent between both roses and he eventually decided to simply feed and water the flower by pouring nutrients in between the two rose blooms, causing both of them to be fed, and fight for survival…..each bloom needed more.

Soon the two rose blooms grew closer and closer and began to conspire against the warrior. Before long the warrior could no longer distinguish between the blooms, they were becoming one.

Remedy was achieved by a trip to a Northern region where the tears of frozen angels filled the sky in the month of 12.

The young warrior spoke to a Wizard who lived on the 31st branch of an Elm Tree, the fog began to settle and by the time of his return……….. the ides of spring had taken control of the two headed rose and one of the blooms had withered up and given up on waiting for nutrients…………..the other stayed the course and garnished the attention of the warrior for the months to follow.
-tk

Sunday, November 11, 2007

It Was All A Dream


more like a nightmare.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Out in Minneapolis When It's Cold In The Winter



it hit 0 degrees celcious today. still don't know what that is in Fahrenheit.

The Life and Rhymes

killah cam's lyric book...i wish i had a rhyme book this dope.




Tuesday, November 06, 2007

i'm focused...man



sums up pretty much every law student's ability to get work done.

Homecoming


Do you think about me now and then, cause I’m coming home again...

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Outtaspace Ballin'

even my trashbags are lv.

'Ballin

Let's Go Raptors!

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Graduation

less than 1 month of class left, less than 2 months till my law school career is over.
crazy.