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Damn, it's bloddy cold ; looking for work ? Gotta speed things up, how many months has it been already?
Every morning it's the same thing, can you imagine what you're mom would say if she saw you this way ?
I'm providing you milk on a platter when I'm supposed to be the little brother over here
Get on it, do something, hustle a little, every morning it's the same, hurry, do something! ...
My name is Jalaludin,
everyone calls me Jal
Like the airline that brought me here
Here, is Tokyo.
Immense.
So full that she is empty.
Distance wise, I couldn't run further if I tried,
it was either this or the aborigines
It's been 8 years since i've ran aground on this archipelago before settling at the bottom of the local Eiffel Tower
Thankfully, I'm living with my foster brother, also my conscience : Latyr
Go figure why, but he's Christian
And myself, a Muslim Gaul; but at the end of the day
We both turn to the same God
Guess it's all about finding THE light in this chaos of Neon lights
And this place isn't exactly a Dominican Convent
It's Tokyo, the ***, ***.
Strange refuge for two sods in the pursuit of the path to perfection, isn't it.
I am Latyr
For all those with a spiteful tongue, the answer is no
My dad wasn't The Transporter, my mom doesn't care much for Cars
And like any self-respecting fool out there, I was the clumsiest of all juvenile delinquents
I'm Senegalese,
born in Dakar, educated the French way
I grew up in London and landed in Tokyo in 2009 through the main door
My dad was an Ambassador until hell found its way to the land of Teranga
But as Ostad Elahi puts it: " No right is ever lost; God Is a Guarantor to this"
Fast track to today and my job is to recruit bankers for a commission
My own personal way of " occupying Wall Street "
I'm a sort of HR (Human Resources) hustler
Dealer of 'good conscience', small-time advocate of big causes
All in all, lost in this unquenchable quest called life
Hmm I think too much,
Most probably a bitter-sweet after taste of failure somewhere along the line.