* . Math .

yesterday in business of fashion went a little something like this...

$ Retail = $ Cost / (100% - markup %)

($32 - X) / $32 x 100% = 20%

($32 -X) / $32 = 0.2

$32-X = $6.4

X = $25.6

:-/ looks foreign to you too? okay good.. :)

* . MIA @ FIDM .

sooo today in sketching my teacher decided to be hip and cool lol and talk about the Grammy's and Chris brown domestically abusing my fave person in the whole wide world RIHANNA!! sooo anyways about the grammy lol my teacher decided to draw MIA for those who missed the grammys (like me, since rihanna wasnt gonna be there!)



heheh funny!!

* . My Idol .

I miss school already :(!! Ive been looking at peoples styles and looking for me a new style for Next quater at fidm, so hopefully I will have a nu closet whoop whoop! me love the idea, and robyn since O5 shes mad bomb!! And her style just has been kicking ass lately :)












so you guys go and vote for her ;)

* . FIDM, Blues .

Soooo tomorrow is my last day and I'm actually pretty sad! Though I just met everybody in october (when school started) we have grown on each other (oct 7th-dec 19th)! With the whole write down your number themes, and the presentations I never been so outta my shell and open. I was kinda use to seeing evan everyday and having our little moments ;)! And brandon and kisses in front of me 8:3Oam :'( it seems like I'm graduating! But hopefully I will have them (sabrayah, evan, amandalee everybody I had this quarter lol) in my classes next quarter :)

Yess this is my FIDM bag after one Quarter lol that is really a dirt spot! :

see we do work hard @ FIDM lmfao, and its not even dirt it has like a jean dye blue mark on it :( ima sew fabric over it :)

(They really should invest in some black and hot pink bags lol with fur! Yess me and brittni planned that out ;])

P.s. Tranae got me sick today...lol or was it me drinking my frapp in 3O degree weather? Or I'm sleep deprived :'(...Either way my throat is giving me the business :'( and to top it all off it starts to RAIN!! :'( arrgg I would say ahhh but I can't even open my mouth!! I feel soo horrible luckily no speaking finals tomorrow :)

* . Life is GOLDEN .

wow soo I have been soo busy which I did mention in my Thanksgiving post but let me fill you in on my FIDM LIFE


Lemme tell you how bomb the end of November was for me...Soo My Friday class at 3:OO [Mr. Navarro] went to go see the YSL Collections [Yves Saint Laurent] for all you losers who didn't know!! :) I was soo juiced and excited and the best part is the tickets was paid for by FIDM!! yayy I got to see YSL for free!? And even though the signs said no touching I touched everything when I got away from the Security! :) hehehe but overall I reallly reallly! enjoyed being there and seeing creativity it was my little safe haven seeing how I was a victim of some bullshit this exact same week!! So putting her un loyal shit outta my head and focusing on my dreams with people who shared the same views as me felt damn good...Me and Jeannie had soo much funn and we even picked out fave outfits right next to each other lol. But YSL was actually a dope man his bio in the museum said that he work to strive women empowerment and you could tell!! When you first walked in there was a bunch of mannequins with Pants suits on! It was sooo rugged yet soo feminine!! There was also this one piece I thought was kick ass!! A fucking wedding dress Bikini made with roses!! Like EVE!! (from Adam and eve*) I thought that was the most fierce and kick assed piece ever!! If you have not seen this exhibit yet don't waste anymore time!! It is beyond amazing and you wont be sorry that you paid 14 bucks!! The museum also had original sketches of alot of the pieces and omg every section you went to was like you were in another world..From the bull fighting gear to the sexy dresses and even tho whole African theme it was truly amazing and a blessing!!



After the YSL Collection I worked at my first Fashion Show!! Ohh yeahh real LC - Like lol. But it was actually a bomb ass My two models were Amy & Aaron :) I love them girls they were so sweet and deserving of all the compliments I was giving them! lol I must admit that at first I was verrryyy verryy! intimidated because these were actually models lol and with heels they were taller than me and they were looking at us like hmm who the fuck are you...like peasants!! but I actually met people from my school I have never ever seen in my life lmao..it was fast paced but well deserving!! Than after that I stayed in the city and shopped with Alexis Cocoryan and Jessica! wow lucky mee!

* . 55 Stockton Street Dreams .

Can you spare some change? Cause I'm tryna get somewhere but my vans won't take me I just thought it would be nice to paint the world a different color than it is now. Some how its still hard to believe there's still people with no idea about what life is C'mon what's the worth of breathing if your unfamiliar with Life? There's still people whose consider weird because they think outside the L7. I mean right now is the time I'm more curious than ever I've been experimenting getting tattoos (believe me I want one now as I'm typing this lol) reading up on buddhas spiritual sayings (the dude is soo deep in the higher meaning like on not stressing and living your life) there's also been a slow decrease in my shoe buying days :( (ima have to fix that asap'y) I don't know I'm just growing into my own being and the fact that I have a job yet I'm DUMBASS BROKE so therefore I can't get what my body urges for...ima need rehab before I run out and get a credit card and blow the roof off a mothafucka lol..



But lately as for me I'm still striving school is def a handful and it feels like a hunnerdmilleean things that I have to do an or is looking forward to doo...blahhh! And my job don't understand I need my off days for doing homework and more sooo SLEEP :( I am soo damn tired I wake up @ 4 or 5 to catch a bus @ 621 to be to the bart by 630 or 7 just to make it to school on time which is 8 and on fridays I'm here all damn day :( meaning 8am to 7 or 8pm :'( and tomorrow my job making me go in at 6am ooo sheez fidm kids taking 6 classes know what I'm talking about! I'm not complaining cause this is what I wanna do and where I wanna be I just need time management cause I've been procrastinating and its been killing me soo far I think ima work 2 days hmm...school Tues Thurs & Friday work sat sun mon weds so where does that leave homework :( where does that leave me times? Shit the job aint my top priority but money kinda is...but that 26 grand makes school my top priority! Soo I met have to work just sat & Weds? Or sat & mon?



Anyways I'm sooo in love with my blackberry and this funky new inspector gadget lookin case I have on it lol my new fave thing is to post my blogs in the car while listening to 94.9 wild jam :) hehe its kinda bomb shiiet since I don't listen to my house radio and both ipods are kapessh and my blackberry battery will be drained with the media player running!



Song I'm listening to now : My life your entertainment - TI feat. Usher

Ps. Looks like ima be a little late lady today :( the bus came early today and I missed it yikers 1st class is @ 8

* . I Live in the "GHETTO" .

so sure going to FIDM sounds like AMAZING right?! but it can also have its downs!

Like the fact that its a WHITE dominated school, yess I said it is White dominated because the fact that the race population is sooooo big that they start to think that they own the school, or just because you black you cant afford that school?

well this is what happened exactly Thursday [1O.16.O8] in my Sketching class,

Me : Whats up LC?!
Lauren Conrad : heyyy aha
[yes, her name is actually Lauren Conrad, and yes she goes to FIDM with me, and yes she iss studying fashion, what a cowinkydink?!]

somehow The Hills moved to The Hood,
with this snoobby white b[bleep]h [im sorry but I dont like High Sididdy type of people] she was saying how she moved from Los Angeles campus to our campus how she asked about Lauren Conrad and nobody had anything good to say about her and how she only showed up to school when she wanted to film and how she was at a club with Lauren "Lo" Bosworth and how she was rude how she lived everywhere from westwood to downtown LA and how that campus was "GHETTO" and in "THE HOOD" and how "BLACK" guys can rape you an some other pointless ish,




some 35yr old white woman that sits next to me replies with : Oh yeah I live in the ghetto I live right in Richmond its soo freaking hood!

now wait seeing how I am and was the only AFRICAN AMERICAN [cause black doesnt fit the fact that I am part of the USA, so maybe i'll add the american part] person in that room how am I supposed to feel?! I just had to outta all this shit im sitting back and taking in say : Look man dont be talking about my hood.

seeing how I was raised in the bay area [Born right in East Oakland Ca and Raised in West Oakland Ca and TRUST ME I wouldnt go back and change it for nothing in the world!!] she may have thought I was joking but I wasnt...

so she replies : Nahh, I like being in the "Hood" it makes me seem tough?! haha



what the hell type of white talk is that?! now what happens if I was to say : Ooh well I like being in the suburbs or the white neighbor hoods it makes me feel like a pedifile or some other dumb type of shit..what gives them the right to try and justify whats right or wrong? Whats Hood and whats Black, Just like we cant Justify whats what for them...I wanna know who woke up in the morning and made WHITE Judgement more powerful than BLACK?! it might be a different shade but its the same body it might hurt me this time but its the same feelings!! we are alike so there should be no need to put yourself on a High pedistal because believe me baby your sure to fall and your ego will not catch you, AND NO THIS DID NOT MAKE ME WANNA DROP OUT OF FIDM IT JUST MADE ME WANT TO WORK HARDER GRADUATE AND MAKE MY $$$ LIVING SO SOONER THAN LATER I WILL BE LIVING BETTER THAN THEM :)




since ive been listening to TI cd since it came out I minus well leave you with this : Seems as though you lost sight of what’s important with the positive....Your values is a disarrayed, prioritized is horribly. Unhappy with the riches cause you piss-poor morally. Ignoring all prior advice and fore warning. And we might be full of ourselves all of a sudden aren't we?
[ T.I. Featuring Rihanna - Live your Life]

* . FIDM brat .

so it has been awhile since i posted my last post,
i have been sooooooooo busy caught up with school work && working [ it is no joke! ]
sooo since ive been OFFICIALLY a fidm brat has things changed?! hell no!! im still same ol` still working and still striving to FUFILL MY DREAMS && find out what i am destined to be!! today i was at ross and this loss prevention guy took my bags [ because i didnt wanna carry them ] and when i came back this dude walked up on me [ the loss prevention guy ] and asked me what was i going to be...and i simply replied "a fashion designer" and he said is that your portfolio? and i was like no an organizer, and he said thats good at least you being something maybe one day your clothes will be in here and i said "no i wont my own store" and he said oo bwalla! and thats when i felt moree excitied and most anticipating schooooll!!

but ive been realizing i have stayed the same since high school it seems, same height, same weight, same hair, only thing that changed is me having tattoos now! and my age... i desperately wanna change!! i wanna find myself, specially cause i found the path to my dreams..i feel like im living a lie like that rihanna && dream song..but i know ima find it on my college venture!

i was thinking of cutting my hair like rihannas yall know how much ilHer if not well i do since o5 [ no homo ] tho i dont need to say, cause im 1thou straight.. because since i can remember i have been shy!! and >:o i hate it specially since i am starting college and im becoming a grown woman, i feel with my hair short i wont be able to hide, since i am 5'9 1/2 and i will have no reason to be shy! like starting a new life..i was reading a magazine and rihanna was like "im still finding myself maybe this is a phase i wont know until its over" and thats sorta how i feel but i dunt wanna tat up my whole body before i can find me..i just want to clear my canvass and start brand nu.

well anyways it is Friday 10.3.o8 and school starts 1o.o6.o8 [ tuesday!! ]
enough of my blabbing illl hit u more when school starts

* . woohoo!

no this isn't no wamu commercial or silly blog advertisement ! this is me yeeping with excitiment ! sadly that ryhmes and i feel totally good while saying it :] yesturday i had my FIDM interview and i must say i was EXTREMELEY NERVOUS ! i arrived a little bit late considering i was suppose to be there @ 13O and i caught the bus @ 123O and got off the bart @ 14O but i did arrive at 14O and had to take my placement test ehhh :-\ including ENGLISH [ yayyy ] and MATH [ booo ] and i sat in there soooooooo long taking my time and revising . the easy part to me was the ESSAY because this is truly a dream come true to me!! i want to be in that building in that class soooooooo much that the words just came out PERFECTLY!! as i sat in the room writting i kept think "ehh rejection" but i try to stay positive like "no! i want in!" who am i kidding?! when my advisor walked in she said "i don't know you might have to take JC math" sooo i was like that was her nice way in saying "sorry, sakura but your not ready" so i didn't take it tooo hard as i was lefted in the room sitting by myself...as i was transfered to another room we talked about a couple of things than i was left alone again for the 3rd time :-O the suspens was killing me!!

than it was that time ! as i walked next to my advisor as she gave me a little advice in the empty slighty lighted hallway all i can say was this is my FUTURE and there is no looking back!



but as i can say this is only my beginning! i got accepted so dreams do come true i am the happiest ive ever been to be going to school LOL and i will work my arse off and show improvements and a will/drive to be there!! and plus i got this pretty acceptance bag :] [ ill post pics when i get home today! ]



keep in mind : nothings ever promised to anyone . procrastinating only shows you how much you won't grow! be couragest and go out on a limb! life is a muse, Sakura :]

[ p.s. ima end every posting like rev runs morning txt`s so be prepared! ]