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Filed Under Jul21
This site has to go hiatus for a while until I am able to buy a full version of the newest Photoshop CS5 but with Illustrator and InDesign. Hopefully within the next two weeks I have a job, in that case I’ll use money I already have for it and just save whatever is in that first paycheck to cover the cost.
Bye bye guys 
Mhm, honey B.
May30
Too lazy to do daily updates right now. Life is a blur. Been busy trying to literally organize my life, but into suitcases. In three weeks, I will be saying goodbye to London town for a good long time. Definetely not coming back next year to continue studying fashion. If anything a trip here would be for a visit! 
But yes, yes. I am in a really big designing mood but am not sure how to utilize for the site. So many nooks and crannies need updating that it is kind of intimidating when I attempt to start that… end up wandering doing things like this Beyonce in Telephone blend.
BTW – The hosting site is almost up. I need to design a layout and link a new paypal account to it and it will be all set in three weeks. There are already about 10 subdomains already set up under oh-word.com. Email me if you want one asap!
Chepe siempre anda con un machete
Apr9
So I kind of went on vacationnn? Left the world for three weeks basically. Even when I left London for Boston, very little people knew I was in town for three days then going to Guatemala for Semana Santa. Holy Week was great and I will get back to posting tomorrow or Saturday. Below is a picture summary of my trip.
I tell you, it’s a cold world. Stay in school. You tell me it’s a man’s world, play the rules.
Feb9
I saw this interview on Trey Songz’s blog months back but lost the link. I refound it! It is of one of most insightful, truthful and at peace interviews I have ever read. Granted it will take about an hour to read the entire piece but if you have the time and/or love the realness that was the late Tupac Shakur you will not be disappointed in taking the time out to read it. Here is an excerpt, if you decide to continue the link is at the end of this post.
How do you feel after everything you’ve been through these past few weeks?
Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you’ve been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn’t know myself. I was sitting in a room, like there was two people in the room, evil and good. That was the hardest part. After that, the weed was out of me. Then every day I started doing, like, a thousand push-ups for myself. I was reading whole books in one day, and writing, and that was putting me in a peace of mind. Then I started seeing my situation and what got me here. Even though I’m innocent of the charge they gave me, I’m not innocent in terms of the way I was acting.
Could you tell me specifically what you mean?
I’m just as guilty for not doing nothing as I am for doing things. Not with this case, but just in my life. I had a job to do and I never showed up. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They’re going to come 100 percent, so if I don’t be 100 percent pure-hearted, I’m going to lose. And that’s why I’m losing.
When I got in here, all the prisoners was, like, “F-ck that gangsta rapper.” I’m not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times, you know what I’m saying? People was trying to kill me. It was really real like that. I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. I wasn’t having them because my brain was half dead from smoking so much weed. I’d be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn’t happy at all on the streets. Nobody could say they saw me happy.
When I spoke to you a year ago, you said that if you ended up in jail, your spirit would die. You sound like you’re saying the opposite now.
That was the addict speaking. The addict knew if I went to jail, then it couldn’t live. The addict in Tupac is dead. The excuse maker in Tupac is dead. The vengeful Tupac is dead. The Tupac that would stand by and let dishonorable things happen is dead. God let me live for me to do something extremely extraordinary, and that’s what I have to do. Even if they give me the maximum sentence, that’s still my job.
Can you take us back to that night at Quad Recording Studios in Times Square?
The night of the shooting? Sure. Ron G. is a DJ out here in New York. He’s, like, “Pac, I want you to come to my house and lay this rap down for my tapes.” I said, “All right, I’ll come for free.” So I went to his house-me, Stretch, and a couple other homeboys. After I laid the song, I got a page from this guy Booker, telling me he wanted me to rap on Little Shawn’s record. Now, this guy I was going to charge, because I could see that they was just using me, so I said, “All right, you give me seven G’s and I’ll do the song.” He said, “I’ve got the money. Come.” I stopped off to get some weed, and he paged me again. “Where you at? Why you ain’t coming?” I’m, like, “I’m coming, man, hold on.
If wishing to continue reading this interview, click here. Note that the link will open in a separate window.
I said REVAMP.. but..
Oct12
I couldn’t see my website this weekend? Wierd. I could access everything else like my WordPress and FTP programs though? Anyways a new theme is coming. Coding it tomorrow after class, after homework and on Wednesday. It will be a two day project fer sure. I was trying to do the theme first but then what happened was that it said something did not exist on my page, so I had to delete the revamp page I had up to see if some things worked. COMPLICATED. I know. I will stop talking about it.
It is 1:03am, no early class tomorrow. Psyched. Sorry that her tutor displaced her knee. OUCH! But that means I get 2 hours more sleep. During one of my two classes, I am going to try to start on coding ideas. Need to come of with some new and exciting things. Plus it makes decisions quicker once I pull up notepad.
Uhm.. oh yeah. My last entry was up for like a day before I put up that Gaga sign about the revamp. I have been working on the vamping up part! Got tons more stuff for the portfolio. Learned new things to make tutorials for thanks to my photoshop class. Taking down the shop. Sorry no more time for it anymore! Will be setting up the subdomain for graphic design requests, but I am still trying to figure out a way to make it so I can inform people of days I can not do any? Like I don’t want to post up my class schedule or nights I go out haha, but something. So people can see why I am taking long to respond back?
Besides that, still have school. Loads of work. But for once I love it. I am currently studying fashion, for those that do not know at London College of Fashion for the year. Yeah, that intro thingy on the side is def wrong. Need to update haha. There is nothing “academic” about it. I love it. Except one thing. This does not have to do with fashion, but I have a yearning to do math all of a sudden? Like english whatevs. I can write an essay on anything any day. Look at the notes section on my iTouch. But math?! It has gotten to the point. When I can not get rid of this craving, I look up algebra problems to do. I would do precal too, but haa don’t have a graphing calculator! Sad though. I must have no life OR maybe my high school prepared me too well?
p.s. To my affiliates!! Sorry for the abrupt hiatus I took, tell me how you’re doing in a comment :]
/*EDIT*/ I put this Nicki theme up already. Tweaks are done. Opinions? Adding pieces to the portfolio in graphic, mixed media, maybe illustration. Took the shop down. Music is up. Think that’s it. Starting next entry will be changing the blog up a bit.
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