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My main man at the bottom of the alphabet, U, hooked me up with this and I just had to post it.

For those of you who have never heard the works of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, check the man out, he’s got some serious skills.

I was watching CP24 around 1ish yesterday and they have some guy on talking about the gas shortage in the GTA and some of the surrounding areas so I thought maybe I should actually listen to this since we all paying a ridiculous $1/litre prices nowadays. I’m watching and they open the lines up for people to call in (and no I didn’t call in and that is not what this post is about) and some guy calls whose name I don’t remember and doesn’t matter. So this guy calls and the lady and the gasoline analyst or whatever he is, are waiting for a question to answer but rather this is what the guy said:

I just wanted to say you’re show has been very cheesy lately and you got too many immigrants working for you.

Now my first reaction was the usual ‘ohhhhhhhh shit’ and I laughed a little because the guy actually got this off on live TV but then I got a bit mad. I know, I know “Why you have to be mad? He might be a good guy.” I got mad because even today in this multicultural city we call Toronto we still have racists like this guy who called. Now I’m going to assume it was a white guy (yea that’s right, I said WHITE and not Caucasian). The only reason I think that is because of past experiences because let’s face it, we’ve all been a victim of some sort of racism at some point in our life and in my experiences, the person(s) on the other end were white. I ain’t scared to say that person was white, that person was black because behind everyone’s back when y’all chilling with your little “crews,” y’all saying that white guy was wack or that guy was straight up acting like a Jew.

Now I ain’t a racist by any stretch of the imagination since I get along well with white people, black people, brown people, and any other colours you want to include in there. Now while this person could have been talking about Asians or South Asians when he used the word immigrants, he should know that the word immigrants actually defines people from all races including his own, no matter if he’s white, black or any other race. Usually people like this caller keep this kind of stuff internal and very rarely will actually call in to a TV show just to shit on immigrants. Since I ain’t got nothing better to say, I’m just going to assume some Uncle outsmarted this fudu at some job they used to work at and took his job and now this guy’s got his dirty underwear up in knots. Too bad for him and biggups to the uncle who took this mans job.

If you’re attitudes still can’t change in a day and age like today’s, you’re pretty much worthless. Because everywhere we go — hold up — everywhere we go, people wanna know, who we are, so we tell them, we are the Khalsa, the might mighty Khalsa. Damn that was off topic but admit it, you had a good laugh while reading that. (If you never attended any Sikh camps, you won’t get that joke so don’t try to get it because you’re just wasting more time for no reason.) Now back to the serious stuff. Because everywhere we go today, we end up dealing with people from so many different backgrounds and we respect each other beliefs and values and that’s that. We don’t go around calling TV shows and start mouthing off racist remarks. Anyways, people like this man should be beat because of the stupidness they still believe nowadays with regards to racism.

Since I don’t know what else to write, I’m just going to end my pointless ramblings right here so holla at ya boy.

Now many of you reading this probably have a cell phone yourself and you’re always trying to find the best plan available so you can talk as much as you want and keep the costs low as possible. (Anyone reading this that has a City Fido plan, screw you and stop reading; this is meant for normal people.) Now I’ve realized that one plan majority of people have and I try to sell it as much as I can (for those who know where I work, you know what I mean) because I truly think the plan in question is a good one.

Now the plan I’m talking about is the Unlimited Incoming Calls/100 Outgoing weekday minutes/1000 outgoing evening and weekend minutes (or some combination of the minutes but the main thing is the Unlimited Incoming Calls). Now the plan is really a good one if you get a lot of incoming calls and everyone obviously assumes that they are too important to call people and people always call them. Yea right, get over yourself. You’re as important as ShindaSingh.com, and that’s saying something.

Now the only reason I bring this up is because I think we’ve reached a point where everyone is rolling around with this Unlimited Incoming plan. Now we’re at a point where no one wants to call anyone and just wants to receive the call. If two people want to talk, this is how the conversation starts:

Person A: Yo, call me back. (Hangs up)

Person B: Fuck, this guys making me use up my minutes.

Person A: WTF, why isn’t this guy calling me back? Ah well, I’d rather wait than call him back and use up my minutes.

Now everyone is afraid to use up their outgoing minutes and would rather receive the call instead but what people fail to understand is that, the other person has the exact same plan and has the exact same thinking. So is it really worth getting this plan when no one really wants to call you even though you think you’re so damn important that they should be calling you. Reality is that you end up calling more people and the only people that call you are your parents/siblings and other family members. Now either you get a different plan or make yourself important so that people will actually have a reason to call your lazy ass. Or cell phone companies need to come out with a plan where it has an Unlimited Outgoing so that this can be evened out but I doubt that’s going to happen.

Also, don’t get me started on those people that go to school outside of the GTA and whenever they in the GTA, you gotta call them, hang up and wait for them to call you back just so that they can avoid some long distance charges. (Although if you have Unlimited Incoming that actually works in your favour. This cell phone system is messed up. Just bribe someone and jack their City Fido plan or just go pay some Rogers guy 50 bones and grab the unlimited incoming/outgoing shit.)

Anyways, I’m with my man D (look around, you’ll see him) and I’m gone.

Tim Hardway recently made anti-gay comments which got him banned by the NBA. And now a member of the gay community is after Tim Hardway as well.

Now Shinda Singh continues to show support for Vince Carter and I for one can not and will not stand for it. Since he’s my boy I ain’t about to pick up a sword or a gun and shoot the man, I’m going to fight him with what I have, my keyboard.

Now Shinda says,

So apart from the coaching staff, and upper management and their lack of direction or focus what more could a player who wants to go somewhere do? What is the point in trying, when you’re surrounded by a franchise who had no vision or goal for success?

Now I considered what he was saying but then a particular player comes to mind, Pau Gasol. Let’s use him as an example because his situation is very similar to the one that Carter faced here in the T-Dot.

So check it, Pau is a legit star in the NBA (obviously not as a big star Carter was in Toronto) and he’s dropping 20points and just over 9boards a game this season after being injured early on. The franchise, Memphis Grizzlies, have no sense of direction as they fired a great mind in Mike Fartello and were sold to a group but then unsold because of some contractual issues. Their long time GM & VP Jerry West is rumoured to be leaving Memphis after this season and the owner himself wants to sell the team. Now when Vince was here, he had a similar situation with the coaches as we had our share of them but in the earlier years we had a constant GM in Grunwald and the franchise wasn’t about to be sold and there were never any rumours of selling. Now Pau Gasol has been playing at a high level even though he asked for a trade and has not quit on his team even though they are in the basement in the Western Conference.

Vince went down, got up but unlike D-Wade he didn’t get up every time after he fell down. He fell down and he stayed down. Pau Gasol comes back from an injury and he continues to do what he does best and that is play basketball. And you’re right Shinda, it is a TEAM game and Pau Gasol certainly doesn’t have any other superstar or star with him but you don’t hear him complaining. You don’t see him giving up on his team. So don’t make excuses that it’s the franchises fault or that it was the coaches and the upper management. He quit on the Raptors, he quit on the fans and he quit on people like us.

I still give respect to the man because he did indeed put the Toronto Raptors on the map. He put us on the map and then he cried and whined and got his way and left the city. We became the laughing stock of the league as fast as Vince put us on the map in the first place. I don’t forgive Carter and I don’t think I ever could. I’ll boo him every time he comes to Toronto until he publically apologizes to the city, the fans and the franchise and publically admits that he was wrong and that he quit on the team, he quit on the city and he quit on the fans. But even then I don’t know if I could truly stop hating Carter.

And I don’t know how people can cheer for Vince “Pwassy Boy” Carter. We should boo him every time he touches the ball because recently he has been rattled by our boos. He’s been rattled because he never thought that we would keep hating on him for this long. He’s become jealous of the Raptors success, jealous of CB4’s success and I, along with many other Raptor fans are loving every single second of it.

We’re all going to keep continue chanting the following even if Shinda Singh doesn’t wanna join in.

Carter Sucks! Carter Sucks! Carter Sucks!

The way I see it and the way the Raptor Nation sees it, If you ain’t with us, you’re against us!

Another NBA All Star Weekend has come and gone and once again there was controversy involved in the main event, the Slam Dunk Competition. I’ll get to that later on but first the results.

Rookie-Sophomore Game: Sophomores (MVP: David Lee)

Skills Competition Winner: Dwayne Wade aka D-Wade

The Race: Charles “Chuckster” Barkley

For those of you who may have missed one of the best All Star moments in recent history, fear not, you can check out the race in its entirety in the following video.

3-Point Shootout Winner: Jason Kapono

Slam Dunk Champion: Gerald Green*

Now the only reason I post an asterisk beside Gerald Green’s name is because my main man Dwight Howard (D-How) was robbed. Check out his second dunk of the night and tell me how you could not give that dunk a 45+.

Dwight Howard put a sticker at 12.6 feet and still dunked the ball. The man touched 12.6 feet with ease and the judges (who barely gave out a 10 and were the hardest judges for the Slam Dunk contest as far as I can remember) did not give one 10. MJ was straight up on crack as he was the toughest judge of them all and just refused to give anyone any love. I’m guessing he either lost too much money in Vegas since he’s been there or he’s just mad that he can’t play anymore but either way, MJ was mad at something and this time he had nobody to shit on. Now last year it was Andre Iguodala who got robbed and this year it was Dwight Howard. I have no doubt in my mind that it should have been Gerald Green & Dwight Howard in the final round instead of Nate Robinson, (who STUNK it up in the final round) but then again there is only sooo much a 5′8 man can do. In my personal opinion, had Dwight Howard made it into the final round he would have done something spectacular and also would’ve put the pressure on Gerald Green to do something amazing as well and not just catch a ball out of mid air and dunk it. Hopefully D-How stays true to his word and does come back next year as he said he would. Now I don’t want to take anything away from Gerald Green, the man did his thing and pulled out the victory and I hope he also returns next year to defend his crown. All in all I wasn’t that impressed with All Star Saturday but I wasn’t that disappointed either. On the bright side, at least the NBA had their All Star festivities during the weekend.

The All Star Game itself was one of the more entertaining ones in recent memory as the players put on a show. Also, the windmill dunk has replaced the 360 as to what dunk a player should do if he’s on a breakaway. Chris Bosh showed that he can dunk with the windmill that he did when no one expected it and Shawn Marion was just a dunking machine. Dwight Howard showed that he is the next Shaq with the way he just abused the West Centers with his array of power dunks. LeBron had some nice ones as did Wade, Melo, T-Mac and the rest of the crew. The MVP was no one other than ya boy Kobe Bryant. Now anyone that even tried to guard him had no success whatsoever. Look at it this way, Early Boykins has a better chance of dunking on Yao Ming than anyone has of guarding Kobe. He showed off his full arsenal as his array of reverse dunks, shots and blow bys made everyone get out of their seats. All in all, the game itself was very entertaining and hopefully the games continue to be this good in the upcoming years.

One last note, if you missed the hilarious dance off between Shaq, LeBron & Dwight Howard on Saturday afternoon, no worries, y’all know Imma hook you up.

Actually one more note from Scottie Pippen:

“I know that, but I think people love me just as much as they love Michael,” Pippen said. “The fans who understand the game, the GMs and coaches. I think they’d rather have a Scottie than a Michael.”

There was an awkward, shocked pause after Pippen answered—Pippen over Jordan?—and someone finally asked why.

“Because I’m an all-around player,” Pippen added. “Coaches would rather have a Scottie-type player than a Michael. I was an all-around player. I made people around me better.”

Now I know I said MJ was on straight up crack during this weekend but I think Scottie finally outdid his Airness this time as he had to be doing some real bad crack to say something like that. Scottie looks like he’s a recovering crack addict. Those skinny ass legs combined with that fucked up face he has now for some reason. When he’s laughing, his entire face runs a transformation Optimus Prime style or maybe it’s jus me and he looks exactly the same. Nevertheless, I still say he had to be on crack when he made the above statement and he’ll probably find a team to play for in these upcoming months.

Final Results:

Me: 1-4

Shinda: 2-3

Deep Singh: 3-2

Harsimran: 2-2 (He didn’t feel the need to choose a Slam Dunk winner)

PS: If you want people to come out to Youth Kirtan Darbars, stop scheduling them on the same day as NBA All Star Saturday.

Now I saw this on Shinda Singh’s blog and it I found it to be quite funny. But then I remembered the fact that Shinda is pro Vince Carter and I felt it was my duty as a Raptor fan to post this and let the fans be heard where the Raptors are appreciated and where we are Anti-Vince Carter.

Vince is straight up jealous of the Raptors success and the success of Chris Bosh.

Bargnani for Rookie of the Year. Chris Bosh for MVP. Sam Mitchell for Coach of the Year.