halloween

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year. When else can normal girls dress slutty and it is perfectly acceptable. I know that's one of the things I look forward to every year. Every guy I talked to always remembers a costume or 2 where they reminisce as if they are talking about the "good ole days" or something.

Memo to guys - where an interesting costume and girls will approach you. One of the few times of the year where meeting women should not be a problem. Last Saturday I wore an Amare Stoudamire jersey. 2 girls told me they love Steve Nash and another asked me (with my fro'ed out hair) if I was supposed to be Rick Fox in an Amare Stoudamire jersey. I would normally take that as insult since he's a former Laker but he's also a former model.

As kids we enjoy Haloween but as adults there's another level of appreciation. For instance, we're not dressed by our parents so no more stupid polyester costumes with plastic masks that have the elastic band that burns behind your ears. We can spend more money on costumes and dress up as something you've always wanted to be, such as a Jedi Knight, or Jack from Jack in the Box.

Next year Anthony and I have decided that we are going as the ghostbusters. It will be a coin flip between Anthony and I for who will be Winston, but we already agreed that 2 of our other friends will be part of it. We are going to make our own proton packs and i figured out an ingenious way to incoporate slimer. Get a helium baloon, green, and draw a face and attach arms and a tongue to it and tie to one our persons.

I love scaring people on Haloween too. Tonight is going to be fun. The Suns are playing the Lakers and the freaks will be out!

basketball

Is it just me or was Miami the worst champion team we've seen in a long, long time? Dwayne Wade carried the team and Shaq was basically a non-factor. The Pistons and Mavericks laid down for the Heat last year and they stepped up and took it from them, straight up.

And now they are favored to repeat? These supposed basketball geniuses aren't doing their homework. This team is old, they had an easy run to the finals, last year. It's definitely going to be harder this year with the emergence of the Cavaliers, Bulls, and Pacers.. not to mention the Pistons.

And now all these teams are trying to change their style, play faster, play smaller, play like the Suns. I think it's great for the league and great for the fans. But I don't think that these other teams have the talent the Suns have to play that style consistently.

This is the year that all Suns have been waiting for. We're all patiently waiting for Amare's knees to recover fully. At the same time we want to watch Nash and the rest of the team play our style and win games and find a defensive balance with offensive juggernaut that exists already.

Hopes are high so the disappointment will be very, very bitter.

my business

I'm in the business of organizing people and getting things done. It's that simple. Some people might see that as very vague or almost stupid. Call it want you want but the most successful I have been blessed to influence me have all told me that they were in this business as well. They never thought of the themselves as the smartest person or anything like that.

They knew that people had to help them. They needed other people's expertise to make their dreams come true. I think of myself in the same way. There is no such thing as a self-made man. Someone has to teach you, someone has to buy from you.

That being said, people look at the major accomplishments but don't see the real elements there that helped create them. I can give an obvious example from my own life. I didn't create Sunsetronics. In fact, I came in after the business was semi-established. But I did initiate www.sunsetronics.com's creation. I lead this project by organizing our skills and people and utilzing untapped resources.

But why would I tell you this now? I think I'm telling myself. Once a day I try to refocus what my goals are and what I'm good at and what I'm not good at. My productivity is tied directly to my motivation. My biggest motivations are to prove people wrong, to prove to everyone and myself that I AM THAT DAMN GOOD, and after doing that my motivation moves to maintaining that status. I mean you want to do good things that people will admire. I also want to make lots of money and get the recognition that I feel I deserve. But it is very important to do it the right way and on my terms. I've seen what the opposite can do to people.

Akeim Kelly is trash

Akeim Kelly, a guy who hired my consultancy to do his business plan for his production company screwed me over. He hired me and then found funding for his production company and then said he no longer needed my services. Rather than give me the amount due and be fair even though I was out 2 grand, he said he would rather give me $500. I wanted to take legal action but my friends told me not waste my time because these legal preceedings are too much for me to handle what with my schedule and other things.

The scary part is he works with kids. www.la-sportskidz.com. He is putting together 3 televisions shows where he's the host. First of all what kind of message is this guy sending? He's letting his bigass ego get in the way of what he built up from doing good in the community and that is why he will fail.

Next, he's not good enough to be on 3 TV shows. He just doesn't have that kind of personality. As a consultant you can't tell someone you don't think there business is not going to reach the potential that think it's capable of. But I can say now if we see this TV show on the air I will be pretty suprised. We had 2 ex-football players that were just like his personality and they couldn't cut it on our show Cars 101.

Eh...

Dating Non-indians

I had a conversation with a friend of mine who self-admittedly told me she doesn't really fit into the Indian scene. That's a whole nother topic (word/phrase?) to delve into but it came in realm of her finding a guy, or dating a guy. She feels that Indians in groups or Indians hang with just Indians are not open-minded. I disagree I think that they are similar minded. The same way we hang out with people that have similar interests and are similar in other ares. For instance, I don't really hang out with alot of convservative Republican people and that is not a coincidence.

I think that when you date someone you have to think about where it's going and what the objective is. When I date girls that aren't Indian I know in my heart that it can only go so far. It took me a long time to realize that but and I feel bad because in a way I led on some people I think. But some girls knew before I knew and they ended things with me.

It's funny because most girls complain to me how Indians guys dont treat them well. They follow that up with how a white guy made them feel special with some gesture, however trite and conventional it was. Indian guys don't come mature. In fact, we take longer than the rest of our species.

I feel for Indian girls because I know that the pickin's are slim especially when you get to that age. I encourage you though to comprimise and open your mind. Sticking to a dream or a vision in your head of what you imagined as a partner, that has to be something that can shift.

We have to carry out our family traditions and values otherwise they will fade away. It's what makes us special in America. I'll write more on this later.