December 31, 2010
By some strange means, I was en route to Louisiana. My parents decided to go on a random new years eve family gambling trip to Lake Charles, LA. Casino stops included Grand Casino Coushatta (until then, I had no idea Tribal Police existed) and L’Auberge Du Lac. I won about $40.
Who knew Star Trek slot machines even existed? Taken at L’Auberge Du Lac.
PS – catch the Simpsons reference?
HTC Nexus One
December 30, 2010
My fav New Yorker foodie was in town! Melissa came back home to Houston for a couple weeks. Today’s adventure included Tex-Mex lunch at Lopez, dessert at Jungle Cafe and wandering Cost Plus World Market for beers and hot sauce that don’t exist in NYC.
Cappuccino dessert at Jungle Cafe in Houston, TX. Awkward depth of field.
Canon T2i
Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8
December 29, 2010
Mouth x-ray… COOL! What look like impacted wisdom teeth? Not cool. Finally started the wisdom teeth extraction process by going to the dentist/oral surgeon and getting and x-ray. I’m 22, this is bad!
HTC Nexus One
December 28, 2010
Gaby and I headed to Minuti Coffee to meet up with Katie for a late Christmas gift exchange.
Katie gave me the delicious gift of diabetes through half a dozen cupcakes from Sprinkles Cupcakes.
Vegan red velvet, banana, peppermint chocolate, lemon, pumpkin, black and white… omnomnomnom!
Canon T2i
Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8
December 27, 2010
Dr. Cell Phone on Weslayan Street in Houston fixed my cracked Nexus One. Yay! Including parts/labor/tax the total ended up being $135. Kind of pricy but better than buying a brand new phone (or fearing that I’d get glass shards into my ears or hands.)
Dropped off my phone for repairs, had a lunch of falafel and hummus at Aladdin’s Mediterranean Cafe with Gaby, and within a few hours my Nexus One was back to normal.
I just wish I had Googled their Houston area locations a bit more thoroughly, apparently there is a Dr. Cell Phone in Sugar Land on Lexington near First Colony Mall. That would have saved me a driving trip into town.
Canon T2i
December 26, 2010
Christmas tree decorated by my mom! Day after Christmas activities included: shopping, buying half of candy, sleeping at weird hours, and watching Pokemon with my cousins.
Canon T2i
Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8
December 25, 2010
Christmas dinner / graduation dinner at Fung’s Kitchen in Houston.
Canon T2i
Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5
December 24, 2010
I decided to start Project 365 up again to document my life, improve my photography skills and to get a head start on the usual January 1st beginning for Project 365 (which I’ve failed the past 2 or 3 years.)
Taken around 9:30 a.m. on Christmas Eve, this was the line for Honeybaked Ham in First Colony. It wrapped around the shopping center.
My mom made me pick up a ham she’d reserved for dinner. It took about an hour and a half to get through the line. Irony = I’m a vegetarian. The cashier who rang me up got a laugh out of that.
HTC Nexus One
Canon T2i. Drug the shutter with flash fired with the Canon 430EX Speedlite, hence the neato light streaks. 10mm. f/8 @ 1/6. ISO 400
Zlam Dunk
Noble Ancestry CD release party
@ Emo’s in Austin, TX
12.4.2010
Brett Thorne, fellow editor at The University Star, invited me to see his band play their album release show at Emo’s in Austin last night. So glad I finally got to see Zlam Dunk after hearing about them all the time… so much energy! My face = melted.
Canon T2i. 50mm. f/1.4 @ 1/400. ISO 3200
They even had light sabers!
Having the time of their lives in the pit. L-R: Katinka Pinka, Jason Baker and Scott Thomas.
Fist pump
Hey I went to high school with that crowd surfer.
With my undergraduate college career ending in less than a week, lot of people have been asking me, “Tina, what are you going to do after you graduate?”
Well, you’re all probably familiar with the I Dunno lol dog meme.
I decided to use Photoshop to create an appropriation combining the lol dog with me, my feelings towards graduation and plans for “grown up people life.”
Get off my back.
PS – a couple weeks ago I got this email from the professor who is in charge of reading out names at graduation: “You are receiving this email because I am unsure of the pronunciation of your first, middle and/or last name, and I want to make sure that I say your name correctly.”
Phuong Anh Tonnu Phan is complicated.
