The Transfer Of Titles

You may have noticed I have changed the name of this blog. "Welcome to the Station" was the original, but the problem is that no one really understands what it means. My nickname when I played football was the "KTrain", and in some circles I still go by it, sometimes by "K (or Kay)" or by just "Train". Since football was basically my life during high school, the license plate on my car is "DATRAIN"... I couldn't get "KTRAIN" because it was already taken. So when my blog was called "Welcome to the Station" I had the tagline saying, "Why the station? Cause I'm DaTrain, it says so on my license plate." I later on noticed that while this sounded semi-cool to me, it wouldn't make sense to other people, save my personal circle.

I decided to switch to the Ben Folds song Rockin' The Suburbs, because one of the opening lines fits me: "Let me tell you all what it's like, being male, middle class and white. It's a bitch if you don't believe." Yep. I'm male, middle class, and Farmington Hills-ed enough to be white, at least in the eyes of other Asian people.. I'm what they call "whitewashed" (of course all the people who say that are the Asians who think they're black).

Plus, my perspective comes from a kid growing up in the American suburbs, the middle class "American dream" if you will, a person who is educated enough to understand the world and humble enough not to be ignorant to it.