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Satnaam
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Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Birthday: 5/29/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Sports, watching movies, reading, writing, AIM...my screen name is TriplPlay2, Finance major at DePaul University in Chicago (just transfered from UIC), listening to my music mostly rap, r&b, hip-hop, reggae but also rock and alternative
Expertise: Sports Trivia esp...baseball
Occupation: Student
Industry: Business
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Website: visit my website
AIM:  TriplPlay2
Member Since:
3/6/2003
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| I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Carlito Jose Cardona. My family hails from Mexico and like any other Mexican family, we have the legend of pure Spanish blood (but we know better, mestizo is the way of Mexico). For as long as I can remember, I've been considered an outsider....maybe it would help if I told you my father played semi professional baseball in Mexico and AAA baseball for the Florida Marlins organization. He was what would be considered a top prospect in the Marlins organization at the short stop position until an awkward slide into the catcher at home left him with a gimpy knee and some torn cartilage. My father has settled to become an appliances installation guy for a local retail store, but I know that he has a great deal of pain from the fact that he was so close to his big break.
Anyways, my father dreams big for his children but seems to have come to terms to some degree that he is "just an appliances installer" (his words not mine, hell who am I to complain?). I have an older brother and a younger sister. I am about to enter my freshman year of highschool where my bro, Jamie (pronounced hi-may) is a star pitcher for the baseball team. I know it is only a matter of time til I am pressured to do the same. The problem I seem to have is an appreciation for the game that gave my family the opportunity to come to America. Then again, my family doesn't seem to respect me and my passions.
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| I've started to realize some things. Sorry for all of you who used to care to read my blogs, but I've realized that this was a therapeutic outlet that I used to use...it helps to have a document of your life, an online journal...when things are materialized in print, it is easier to realize what has happened, and what needs to happen in order to progress. This may or may not make sense to any of you...
P.S. Thank you to any of my previous xanga friends who read this post...thank you all for remaining friends and taking the time to check out my site again...
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| How do I live without freedom?
How do I survive without compassion?
When people who say what is good for God's Kingdom
Lack all of the above in spectacular fashion
Oppression is too easy
Standing up is the only way
At the risk of sounding cheesy
Hopefully we will get it one day
God loves us all as one people
Yet sometimes we forget this
The misplaced hate doesn't seem feasible
And we still pick up our fists
Wouldn't it be great if hate dissappeared
Into the depths of the cold, thin air
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| Abra Kadabra....Like magic, Satnaam is back. I apologize to everybody for not writing in a long ass time. The last Time I wrote, I talked about my sisters engagement, the wedding is going to take place this summer. I just had my final exams (so glad they are over) and seem to have more time on my hands that I can finally devout to my xanga bretheren.
So whats new...Michael Jackson just got off in his molestation case. While I do think he was guilty, I am very proud of the American Judicial system. In a case where it is he said, he said the only thing we can go by is credibility and obviously the accusers mother was a golddigger as well as the kid having a differences in the story he told cops versus in court. All in all, I sure am glad that America's Courts are nothing like India's where you are guilty til proven innocent. Whether you agree or disagree with the verdict in the Jackson trial, he was not proven guilty.
June 3rd was the 21st anniversary of Operation Blue Star, a large scale attack by the Indian government (led by Indira Ghandi) on Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple). Since 1984, there have been about 150,000 Sikh's from Punjab that have been killed or are missing and gone without a trace. The Ethnic cleansing of the Sikh's was justified by the fact that the Indian Government was pursuing Sant Jernail Singh Bhinderwahle, however the search of one man doesn't justify the death of thousands as well as the destruction of our holiest shrine...Please visit Sikh Genocide. I have to warn you, some of the images are graphic and indeed did make me cry, but if you're Sikh or even if you are interested in human rights, its a must see.
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| Hey all,
So sorry I have been awol for about 2 months...perhaps I'm still in shock over the presidential elections...well anyways, all is well and school is out for the winter break. I'm going to England in exactly a week to visit familia and go to a wedding. Oh, and my sister that isn't married yet just got engaged
Johann (Amrith's fiance) and Amrith (my sister)
So I guess I have another wedding to gear up for next summer...
And there you have it. My life has been taken over by family and sibling weddings
Peace
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