The Next Chapter: College

My co-worker just told me that I really should take pictures of my outfits. Little does she know lol.

Now guys, this a little personal post hopefully either helps you or give you something good to read. 

Now I'm going to throw something at you that might have thought about before. Our lives are full of stories. We combine each one of our stages of life into one huge chapter. Then at some point a chapter ends, and after a bit of commercial advertisement, a new one begins. We always call it the "Next Chapter" where we start fresh. We are anew again and we erase away a few year of stupidity to make room for some more wisdom. 

This, i will not deny, was a hard post to write. I first drafted this up in July O.o. Its hard to make a post like this without finding a source to complain about.

Since I already started college I thought I had to write this post no matter what! 

Last June, against all odds and a lot of fighting with the guidance office, I graduated High School. My senior year was a really tough one because my priorities weren't straight. I was working full time to fuel my unpredictable lifestyle, I was skipping classes too often cuz I was too tired to get up at 6:30am to make it to school by 7:15am. 

But I did it, even though my previously 3.3 gpa took a nosedive. Honestly I lost all direction. I didn't even finish the application process to my 3 choice schools...

I honestly wasnt driven nor did I know what I wanted to do with my life. I thought if I advanced quickly in my stint at McDonald's, I would make it to a high enough caliber that I would skip starting from the bottom in another industry ( which I was wrong). Then I realized a girl like me, was the only person there who was educated enough to not have to take remedial classes and passed all her regents the first time around, why was i wasting my time at a job when my caliber was way higher? 

I quit once I graduated high school, and started at a fashion retail store and an internship, both to show me two different prospects of the path I wanted to go to college for. Retail was really straight forward and was just a combination of skills i already had learned from Marching  Band and McDonald's. My internship showed me PR, running fashion shows, model agencies and etc. The dedication to this line of work was cumbersome but satifying. 

I had to quit my first retail job to find a higher paying job to pay my debt and education fees. So now I'm working at a fashion giant. The hours are long, the work is hard and tedious, but the pay is great and the experience is even better. However without a doubt I'll be working full time and to top that off I'm spending everyday in school with 14 credits (probably will  jump to 20 credits) to earn. 

Wait, what? 

The dream is to do 2 things in my life time career wise.

1. Design and manufacture my own line of ready-wear clothes and open an online and 1 physical store. This is however is the back up, and side job. 

2. Become a strong and distinct writer, with magazine features, blogs, and books. This is why my communication degree will be useful.  This is the overall dream. Everything else will just fall in place later on. 

For dream #2 I started this blog. It's not a niche blog, but I hope to one day develop such a distinct voice in writing I'll be comparable to famous bloggers like Xiaxue. The goal of this blog, is to help others while I try to discover myself as a writer. 

To establish these dreams Im going to apply and keep applying to FIT until I get in. I'm going to work hard this semester so that I can afford to dorm or rent appartment, and transfer to another store in the region. 

I'm going to have to overcome some serious hurdles. 1 being my lisp tends to limit me as in prospects, 2 my outspoken personality tends to get me in trouble. With this new job, I try to stay as politically correct as possible.  As for my lisp, it really makes people think I'm retarded. I, who graduated high school with college credits, have the literary comprehension of grad student, was dropped to level way lower because my th sounds aren't perfect... That's ridiculous. I realized in high school I easily  made myself a superior being because I worked harder to proved that I was smart. In employment and college, i have to start over. 

Yes I lose out on a ton of college experiences, I will struggle a bit and I will have to make some very hard choices but without struggle where is the accomplishment? 

Sometimes things don't go as plan, sometimes dreams aren't more than just that: dreams. People will try to bring me down, people will tell me I will never be able to do it. I don't care for any of that, as long as I try and keep trying until something is achieved.  

I want to "Break Through in the Fashion World" or "Break Through in the Social Media World" What's the title of your next chapter? 

Tell me you next chapter title in the comments below!!

Thanks for reading!

Xoxo, @moonangelko 

Insta-Dump

It's a real shock that my viewership was so high and now it dropped so low...again... It's really my fault. I stopped blogging. I rejoined the real world, full of working people with such busy lives that taking the time to write a couple of sentances every other day has become a hassle. Then homework just adds onto that stress. FML to the max and all the homework I've managed to not do. Actually, I don't even recall the last time I did homework at home. When I get home, I read some manga and some blogs then go to sleep. Then I wake up super early so I can twitter stalk some singaporean bloggers. I come to realize that I have a boring life... Well not really, I just don't get to share my life much since I don't own a camera -___-". Black Friday should change that.

So to bounce back into the blogger scene I'm going to dump some photos here from my instagram and facebook.

FOLLOW ME AT: @moonangelko

#Disneyworld: I have a ton of photos from Disney that I have yet to edit. But I made a collage of the most memorable moments for me. Going to Disney was a great experience and it was honestly a very beautiful place.

#Permitphotoday. I used my sister camera for this. The quality was too high to add any filters onto this LOL. But I think photowonder lowers the quality anyway. 

#Summerpartyootd 

 #Backtoschoolootd All forever21. This was taken on my phone's camera.

#Throwbacks that I found on my phone from last may -__-

 #Schoolevents&etc In no particular order.

#HurricaneSandy nuff said

Aud tweeted this. It became the highlight of my week. #nolife

 #recentootd. I really love this skirt

#camwhore After a photoshoot that I'll be soon posting

#collegelife At Fashion Institute of Technology Open House

#collegelife At Suny Purchase Open House

Breaking Dawn Part 2 comes out this weekend guys!! LMAO


Lots of Love,
Angel
@moonangelko

Trayvon Martin Tribute

If you don't know what's going on with all this Trayvon Martin, these Americans have been talking about go to this link.

Basically an African American teenage boy was shot dead, for looking "suspicious". The boy was simply walking home in the rain, unarmed and wearing a hoodie. The thing that was assumed to be a gun was a can of Arizona and skittles.

Now the man who murdered him is walking free and the nation is stunned. Its a repeat of the famous Emmett Till case that happened in the 1950s. Remind you (for foreigners) the U.S was segregated at the time and African American were treated inhumanly and were denied of basic rights.

It's crazy how short life can be. To die at 17. You haven't even lived yet.


When the news broke out, everyone wanted to show their support and rally against racial profiling.

Here are some pics I gather that I thought was aspiring.

Even NY senator decided to wear hoodies in support of Trayvon. 

NY Legislature supporting Trayvon

Media really knows how spark up protest. I didn't go far for these pics. I found them all on Facebook. Some were pics of friends, others were pics that were shared. There has been thousands rallies nationwide. I participated in one. Have you?

Under the Stars

The New York nights weren't wet and cold this year. It was mild and dry, destined for opportunity. February is my birthday month.

Eden is that old-fashion House, we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away. 

Every girl likes a nice dress. Funny thing is, I am not the one who's wearing it. 

Kemme and I birthdays are just days apart. She is younger than me and wanted to celebrate in an extravagant way. She has every girl's dream:

                                                  To Be A Princess

<3 <3 <3 Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Ball <3 <3

The Star 

One camwhore pic and I'm gone for the rest of the post. I look so horrible that night, that nothing can fix it. 

She had a special birthday mass

               

Underneath the stars, dreams are awaken and realized. You live only so long.... Its pointless to waste time. "What ifs" and "I should'ves" don't exist in the correct mindset. If you want to be a princess, it is possible. I mean not every girl can grow up to be like Kate Middleton. If it's for an hour or even a second, anyone can rise into a dream.

on location: 

There was a lot of hatian food. 

The Party

           

When putting this together, I tried to pull some inspiration from Yutakis and his wonderful collections and photography. His pictures tell stories and I don't think I could yet present a talent like his.

 There were so many pictures, that I got lazy after a while and stop editing.  I'm kinda too lazy to write stuff to go with it. W.E  I hope you enjoyed the post.