Thu Tu’s Blog

My paternal grandmother passed away two days ago. While her health has been declining for the past few years, and she was in critical condition with pneumonia for the past few weeks, it was still a shock to learn of her death. It's like when you can see the fist coming toward you but [...]

Outdoor Slumber Party
Earlier this month, I went white water rafting with co-workers as part of a team outing. It was a lot of fun, along with some hard work.
The night before the rafting, we camped nearby to avoid having to do a 3 or 4 hour drive the morning of the rafting trip. We [...]

I caught the dance bug in college at a dance party where people started doing swing dance. I was bummed that I couldn't participate so I resolved to take one of the social dance classes at Stanford. I took beginner and intermediate Social Dance, and also took more advanced classes to hone my swing and [...]

The past few months, there have been two items that I wanted to find but could not. I didn't go dancing because I could not find my dancing shoes. My parents invited me to go to China with them later in the year, but I had lost my passport.
The dance shoes weren't a big problem [...]

When my friends and I graduated from high school, we were so full of spirit and stuff we couldn't wait til the reunion. When it was time to decide to go to the reunion this year, I initially decided not to go. It's 350 miles away in Southern California!
Eventually, I became convinced to go... recommendations [...]

Aw shucks. I've heard some very nice comments from people about my Coppermine Map Mod. A recent thread, CoppermineR as rival to Flickr / Mappr, in the Coppermine Forums contains some of the most flattering commentary on my mod yet. (FYI, I'm tranzndance in the forum).
Wow! Someone thinks I could contribute a mod that has the [...]

Stingray Pierced and killed Steve Irwin
While watching a tivo'd Grey's Anatomy, I saw the commercial for the 11 o'clock news saying that Steve Irwin died. I couldn't believe it so I had to rewind to make sure I wasn't hearing things. Unfortunately, I was watching the show way past 11 so I missed the [...]