[May 3] USF: Tri Gamma's 43rd Nursing Fashion Show

Some of the photos I took of this event. I had with me a step ladder, my Alien Bees ABR800 ringflash being triggered wirelessly, and my 70-200mm f/4 lens to take these shots. I was able to get my friend Manny's clothing line featured here Capita City. Others that were able to come through were Stussy and Urban Era of Daly City [whom I get some credit since I referred Kimiko, the fashion show coordinator, to]. Overall, it was a great event and the largest turnout since my freshman year! Good job to both Kimiko and Liberty.

Theresa sporting some of Manny's clothes Capita City. See her senior photoshoot at jcasasphotography.com

Kimiko going down the catwalk like a pro.

David modeling some clothing from Urban Era

Definitely it was a good show... during the intermission my friend Ryan, part of the band Sundays at Ten [I hope I got the name right.. =/ ] performed and most definitely we plan on having a photoshoot over summer!

Dim Sum King: Mother's Day Dinner

As of now, we are all at Dim Sum King in Ranch 99 (Daly City). For some reason we always go here for special occassions but can't blame the family--it's all good food here. I just got in trouble by my mom for drinking Tsingtao when my uncle gave it to me. =/ It tasted good too!

Photoshoot: Kaylee

This is my neice Kaylee. My cousin asked to do a quick photo for her party giveaways--a 2x3 frame with her picture inside and this is the end product of a 5 minute shoot. The background? My cousin just held her in front of his chest while having a white blanket placed there.

Did minor adjustments to the photo--a quick brightening and sharpening but otherwise, it was good to go.

My other favorite photo:


How cute is that. =D

Mother's Day

This is my aunty on the left and my mom on the right...they're sisters too! We just came from church and we decided to get some soup at TK Noodle on this cold Sunday. Dinner scheduled tonight per tradition.

This is the Special Ticket

Today, I took my first ever (and for the program's Junior I first time too) HESI exam. 55 questions in 90 minutes. This is ticket we all had to buy for $25+...shouldve been free but oh well. A C grade is 850 and well.. Let's just say I was a little below that... A little. Haha

CCD Report Cards

Tomorrow is my final class even though classes officially end on May 24 (I'm the primary godfather for my cousin's daughter and I have to be in the ceremony the same time the final class is for CCD). Real quick, CCD is those Catholic Christian Doctrine...aka...Saturday morning church school. I teach 7th grade which focuses on Morality. So we've touched on hot topic issues like euthanasia, death penalty, abortion, sex, peer pressure and etc. It's been a real fun year and tomorrow per request I got them hamburgers @ Jollibee (aka "Yumbergers"). My mom is helping out by getting some Capri Suns and some home made brownies. We're usually not allowed to have parties in those classrooms but hey, I somehow have to be the coolest teacher. Anywhoo, I'm writing their report cards and all of them honestly are good kids. Real cool seeing kids' thought processes develop within a year. :tear:

Huckfinn Lit Paper due Monday

I barely go to USF's library but this time I am here to get some resources for my Huckfinn paper. I'm basically going to write about the whereabouts of Huck Finn's morality in the novel and discuss its origins and all that. I sure hope I finish this by tomorrow because I have two more finals to worry about!

Last day of clinicals...

Finally!! After 13 or so weeks @ Seton Hospital...we are finally done here at our clinical rotation. I've seen open wounds, attempted IV's (didn't have any luck starting one!), hip/knee replacements (yyep...the surgeons used saws and hammers and mallets), and gave the usual nursing care (AM care baths, ambulating, administer meds, etc). After our last day, we all ate out at Elephant Bar and once I got home, I knocked out.

My photography classroom

I'm here at George Washington Elementary School's multi use room....man....remember multi use rooms? The ones in grade school where you use it for lunch, school wide announcements, and shows/plays on stage? Anywhoo, I'll be teaching photography here for the next 6 weeks to 5th graders I'd like to say. It's once a week, one hour sessions and hopefully by the end, the kids learn something and come to appreciate art in some way. Or hopefully they just all have fun.

Special Preview: "Text Box" [Summer 2008]

On April 02, 2008, I started a new project being scheduled to be printed/published end of Summer 2008. It's entitled Text Box and it will be a collection of square formatted photos of various people, places, things with annotated "yellow pieces of paper".
This is just a sample and it was actually taken earlier today at 7:30pm. I was driving around the block to find a parking spot and I see this lady with nearly a DOZEN neighborhood cats in the driveway. I've seen her feeding these cats many months ago and she actually travels from South San Francisco, takes a total of 4 SamTrans buses, lugs her heavy rolling bag filled with food, and fights the cold weather despite having surgery in her knee years ago. How do I know this? I talked to her and her name is Mila. I even asked if I can take a portrait of her and she agreed despite saying "I'm not dressed to take a picture!" She laughed it off and smiled in front of the camera. Her series included in Text Box is my favorite so far--you have to see her portrait [the third image of this series] when this project is completed.

Text Box will be collection of unique images in which the amount is only limited of how much I gather by the end of Summer 2008. It will also document my travels this summer including Daly City, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, and New York City.

Semester end already!

This is Euni sleeping during our exam review session.

Exams Coming Up

Here I am in front of my notes for one of my nursing classes "Principles and Methods of Medical Surgical-Nursing. For one week I've been reviewing and rewriting my notes and just today I just finished rewriting all 10 classes worth of material into 9 pieces of binder paper (wrote small indeed). Tomorrow is my final for this class and then up next is an exam on Saturday May 5 called the HESI (almost like a pre-NCLEX exam) and then the following week is my finals week. Sigh.

Araki at Borders

After USF's nursing Tri Gamma's fashion show, I decided to stop by at Borders in Stonestown to browse. If any of yall don't subscribe to Border's rewards...do so! I have them text me their coupons so I decided to use the 30% coupon. While browsing through the photo books, came across this photo book featuring Japanese photographer Araki. I personally haven't see his work but just heard him through an interview in Vapors Magazine. Haven't added a photo book in my collection in awhile so here's another.

Friend's Baby Welcoming

Today is my friend's baby welcoming...they actually planned to have the baby shower last month but they had the baby the same day!! So they postponed the lunch to today at Fresh Choice in El Camino. First time eating here and it's not bad at all considering there's so much salad and other healthy choices...it's all good though when there's an unlimited ice cream machine.

Basketball @ Brisbaine

Every Friday 1:30pm my friends from middle school and I play ball here. We know that the new War Memorial reopened in Daly City but you have to pay $2 to enter and you're not guaranteed to play with your own team--you sign up in 5s and there's a rotation. So we all drive 10 min to get here where no one rarely plays (although last week another group showed up and that's when I got dropped to the floor after one of them jumped from my behind and clipped me for a rebound... ) Nevertheless we get our games going on here.