...where am i?

2012-08-08

Happy Birthday to meeeeee! 🎁❤😁 (Taken with Instagram)

2012-08-06

When I say bring a bottle, this is what I’m talking about. (Taken with Instagram)

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If you catch me smirking, know I’m having an entire theatre production in my head.

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These are my ex girls keys, to my old apartment, when we used to co-exist. I still have then from time to time.

2012-05-16

I’m back.

P.S. Don’t read my old blog post.

2010-02-24

I listen way more than I talk without a doubt,
after all God gave me two ears and one mouth

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Artist: Taylor Made
Mixtape: Hustler’s Wit

Making this my truth. Speaking less, listening more. Because trust is an avenue, that with everyone just can’t be explored.

rookz is officially on mute mode;

[sor-ee, sawr-ee] –adjective, -ri⋅er, -ri⋅est.
1.feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc.: to be sorry to leave one’s friends; to be sorry for a remark; to be sorry for someone in trouble.
2.regrettable or deplorable; unfortunate; tragic: a sorry situation; to come to a sorry end.
3.sorrowful, grieved, or sad: Was she sorry when her brother died?
4.associated with sorrow; suggestive of grief or suffering; melancholy; dismal.
5.wretched, poor, useless, or pitiful: a sorry horse.
6.(used interjectionally as a conventional apology or expression of regret): Sorry, you’re misinformed. Did I bump you? Sorry.

So John Mayer recently made some ‘racy’ comments (no pun intended *smirk) while doing a Playboy interview. And the final outcome was this video. His apology. It’s not the sorry that makes this special, it’s something more. It’s the recognition of his short coming, his self-reflection. ”We all make mistakes”, and we always seem to have those words ready to give when someone close to us feels failed. But, why not feel failed, if failure leads to this?

We should all be able to look at ourselves objectively. That’s the first step towards changing the errors we make. Einstein said, “Someone who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” I think, a person who never made a mistake never tried to see where. It’s so easy to walk around in this soceity feeling like know it alls. ”I read books” “Oh really… I write books!” (Shout out to Author of LAID Shannon Boodram) We’re taught to that to exceed in life we must trump one another. When really to succeed we must first learn to trump ourselves. Our egos. Our titles, our income, our material. And understand that integrity should be the only governing factor.

To everyone I’ve apologized to, I may have or may not have meant it. But not because I wanted to trick you, but only because I may have tricked myself. For those waiting, I’m learning, discovering and looking in the mirror of truth aka, “rookz you fakked up” and seeing myself for what I am, and what I’m not. To the people here everyday I know it’s because you, “believe in the possibility of me being a grown up one day” too.

In closing, taking responsibility means taking the ability to respond to our circumstance into action. Things are the way they are in our lives, because we make them true.

Kudos to you John Mayer, for being human, (a real one.)

-rookz

2010-01-31

Honestly, Shi Wisdom is going to be a problem.

Toronto, get ready.

Producer: KR Moore http://www.krmoore.tumblr.com

Shi Wisdom http://www.shiwizkid.tumblr.com

Beat by: EnJ
YouTube and FaceBook Search “Shi Wisdom”

2010-01-29

*Disclaimer* I don’t even know this girl.

So I’m at this party. Girls are everywhere, in short dresses, breast up, bum cocked. You know how it goes. And amidst all the figure revealing, almost transparent, invisible fabrics, is this beautiful girl, dressed casually. Standing beside, who obviously is a family member, no clique, not being befriended by a million and one dudes. Just enjoying herself. Well, I must admit right away, my mind started asking all these questions, “Who is this girl? I know I’ve seen her before… What does she read? What does she do? Where does she work? What would she declare if she was center stage, world stage?” Taken back, and also intoxicated due to ingesting a Smirnoff, Corona, and Heineken with only a donut and as Shi says, a cold tea in my stomach, I couldn’t help but observe her. Looking back now, which might have been a little creepy for her. *rookz shudders*

The point of the story is, I found her, on facebook and decided to just add her. Not with the intention of, well, lol, you read my blog, I don’t do so well with romance. But just because her presence alone shifted my frame of mind in that environment for those moments I was thinking about her. And that in itself, is worth taking a chance and friend requesting her at risk of being punked, and now also realizing she probably thinks I have a staring problem and if this were the 3rd grade she would have told me so. Lol, anyway, I checked out a few pics on FB, and saw her playing ball, she’s a photographer, seems to be family oriented, all that family channel wonderfulness I love. But this picture… this picture made me smile, a silent smile.

It’s refreshing to know, a woman like this exist. Not in script, but right here in my own city. And I’m not suggesting for a second she is without flaw, but we all have some, it’s what we do outside our flaws.

“Helping others never goes out of style.” Really it doesn’t.

-rookz

P.S. I know that was random, and def a rant, but I had to get it out. And this does not mean I’m trying to holler. Just appreciating, people do enough hating.

P.S.+ Did I mention she wrote a book?! A BOOK! http://LaidTheBook.com SUPPORT!