new year, new blog

namphuong — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:14:00 +0000

Hi everyone. Thank you to all who have visited this site for 2 and half years. Additional thanks to pokemon enthusiasts who search for pokemon related stuff and made my stats hit 800 views/day for awhile. That felt really awesome. But now that it’s a new year and I’ve grown to understand the web more and more over that course of time, I’ve decided to make a new main blog on my own domain. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still have thenthpower up so that others can continue to download sheet music and also to blog about new ones that I upload from time to time. Well, that’s all for now… what are you waiting for, go check out namphuongvan.com/blog :D here’s a little quick peek of how it looks like

a very panini christmas

namphuong — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:13:12 +0000

Look what I just made with the panini maker Jeff got me for Christmas!! I loooovvveee ittttt omm nommm noommmmm

blog on my own website?

namphuong — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:16:49 +0000

Lately I’ve been thinking about switching to my own site to do all my blogging. Plus sides: a lot more themes to choose from and customize and it’s on my own domain. Negative sides: I’ll lose the average 110 views I get per day from people searching pokemon and sheet music and lots of work to set up the new one. I think what I’m going to do is leave this one here as is so people can still download the sheet music while also making the new one to start blogging there. Yeah, I think I’ll do that.

nishiki bike project post #13

namphuong — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:28:30 +0000

Finally finished stripping off all the paint! Primer and new paint up next and I’ll be officially done whoo hooo! I guess post #14 will be the last one of me updating where I am on fixing it up heh.

evolution of the geek

namphuong — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:24:38 +0000

I’ve always considered myself somewhat of a geek ever since I was a little girl getting good grades and honor rolls and eventually evolving to a modern day geek who likes design and Glee. I saw this flowchart and simply put, it’s awesome. Which geek are you?

Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application

namphuong van 3.0

namphuong — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:21:40 +0000

For some reason I keep forgetting to blog stuff after I tweet and facebook them. Anyway, DAH DA DA DAAHHH my portfolio version 3.0 is now up!! Also, I switched to using html again instead of flash, the things I wanted to do were wayyyyy too complicated for a code noobie like me. Go check it out if you haven’t already at namphuongvan.com. Everything you see was created and coded by me (with advice guidance from Jeff, and tutorials on how to code suff from sites like tutvid). I spent sleepless nights trying to get all the coding right since that’s the hardest part for me but alas, I made it. Sometimes I even went a little crazy too from all the errors :P But after I finished making this, I have to say, it made me want to learn more about CSS, Javascript, PHP, and other web languages. Maybe I’ll pick up some more coding skills and make version 4.0 even better bwahaha…

alice in bummerland

namphuong — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:13:08 +0000

Just downloaded Netflix onto my Wii and the first thing I watch turned out to be not so great. I’ve been meaning to watch Alice in Wonderland for awhile now and since it was the first thing I saw on Netflix, I was excited to finally see it. Kind of a let down… first off, the quality of streaming Netflix through the Wii and onto the tv is absolutely horrid. It’s like watching a large scale bad quality youtube video that buffers from time to time. The movie itself was almost just as bad. It was kinda creepy for a kid’s movie and the storyline was scattered. But if I had watched in on a regular dvd, I’m pretty sure I would have been a little less irritated because the quality would have been clean and crisp. Overall, I give it a 2/10. On a brighter side, the song that played during the end credits was really good and caught my attention so I looked it up. Who knew Avril Lavigne was still singing haha. PS the quality of this video was like 10x better to give you an idea of what I sat through.

what a thrill

namphuong — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:37:41 +0000

Boy, if you’ve never ridden on a moped before, go do it! It’s so scary and fun at the same time!! Jeff just bought a 1970′s moped through craigslist for just $100 and restored it to a ride-able condition. The first time I got on behind him was sooo scary; I hung onto him for my life, especially on the sharp turns! It feels just like a roller coaster, it’s so frightening but the thrill of it makes it so fun. Time to search for a helmet of my own now hehehe.

nishiki bike project post #12

namphuong — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:15:36 +0000

Today was the most I’ve worked on my bike in one sitting (about 4 hours). As you can see from the picture, I finally stripped off the paint in certain sections of my bike. So now I just need to strip off the remaining half, apply a coat of primer, and spray paint it. I’m gonna estimate it’ll be done for sure before 2011. Oh and also, last week I took off some parts I didn’t need like the front brake and left gear changer thingy so it’s like a pound lighter and looks sleeker too :P

namphuongvan 3.0 in the making

namphuong — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:53:05 +0000

I’ve been looking at my current portfolio and thought to myself, this needs to be revamped again. It looks too childish for any agency to hire me, except maybe like a children’s store or something. So now I’m reworking it to take it to the next level of style, to an “Urban Outfitters inspired look” and keeping it very simplistic. And this time, this time it’s gonna be on flash, that’s right. Last night I spent up to 4:30am in the morning trying to get my codes to work and it paid off! All my moving buttons are functional and everything. It’s the best feeling in the world when before errors keep popping up and it won’t work and then finally, after half an hour of trying to find the error it works and your stomach jumps up in joy! Anyway, enough of my nerdy talk, for those of you who read my blog, you get a sneak peak at how my portfolio will look like in about a month (hopefully).