Thu Tu’s Blog

After my ups and downs and then up again with getting Super Paper Mario as a birthday gift to myself, I should provide an update after playing it for a few days.
SPM is one of the funnest video games that I have ever played. Its 2-D / 3-D mechanism is a refreshing change of pace. [...]

Not long after the Wii launch, I went to Target to try to buy a console. They didn't have any. They didn't have many Wii accessories. They did have silicon skin grips. I doubted that they would make a difference with regards to the grip, but I figured they would be useful for color-coding the [...]

Sony execs and fans are doing all they can to differentiate Playstation 3 from the Wii, to the point of saying PS3 shouldn't be compared to the Wii. They're right. I didn't consider buying a PS3, so Sony didn't lose a customer, but Nintendo gained one.
From all my Wii posts, I might come across as [...]

Today was a work holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I went to see if I could pick up my Wii delivery from shipping & receiving. It wasn't open, as someone had told me it would be.
Oh well, at least I could go to Costco on my way home. At [...]

With two cats, the area around the litter boxes can smell funky. Since I was going to have a friend visit for a weekend, I decided to try something to fight the odors. At the pet store, I came across Arm & Hammer's Cat Litter Deodorizer. Honestly, I didn't think it would work. But it [...]

My sister gave me her bottle of Grannick's Bitter Apple. It is a taste deterrent to keep dogs/cats from biting/eating inappropriate things. I sprayed it on the handles of plastic bags my cat would chew on. My cat would check out the bag but wouldn't chow down on it like dessert.
It also worked to keep [...]

I just saw a commercial for the Lexus LS, which parallel parks itself!! Woohoo!
Well, I am not buying a car soon, but it's reassuring that the technology will be around the next time I buy a car. I live in the suburbs where I rarely have to deal with parallel parking. However, when I go [...]