Thu Tu’s Blog

Last month, I was excited to find out that Super Paper Mario for the Wii was coming out on my birthday. I pre-ordered it from Amazon to ensure that I would get it as soon as it came out, without having to go to a store.
This pre-order has been plagued by delay after delay. Just [...]

Maybe I’m cranky because of PMS, but it bugs me when people sprinkle the use of “lol” here and there in messages and forums. Don’t people realize that it stands for Laugh Out Loud? It irks me when it is used in contexts that don’t even warrant a smile or chuckle… but a laugh out [...]

My reborn blog has been up for about a week and I already got comment spam. Word travels fast.
But I won’t get mad; I get glad… to report the sites of the spammers to Google’s spam report form.
Silly spammers: Your comments won’t see the light of day since I use comment [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/28/house.pledge.ap/index.html
A Democratic Congressman, Rep. Jim McDermott, omitted ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance and there was an uproar.
Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, accused McDermott of
“embarrassing the House and disparaging the majority of Americans who share the values expressed in the pledge.”
“He and those like him stand more for the liberal left than they do for [...]

I was behind this annoyingly slow car a few days ago. At that speed, I noticed a bumper sticker:
! Driving safely doesn’t mean driving too slowly (10 mph below the speed limit).
I did a google search and found that it’s part of Palo Alto’s Pace Car program. http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/cityagenda/publish/cmrs/1787.pdf
That’s so stupid. If a car is going [...]

Gifts to councilmen raise ethic’s questions 
In this article, they raise ethics questions because Stanford gave free tickets to council members. The value of the tickets, however, were below the legal limit, $350.
Palo Alto is such an ungrateful city. I don’t know officially, but I have a feeling that it would be nothing without Stanford University.
As [...]

Bye Bye barriers - Residents protest removal of traffic barriers, take home pieces as souvenirs 
This story highlights how obnoxious and pathetic some Palo Alto residents are. First of all, some of these people want to barricade streets with barriers. It is so annoying how these people think they own everything. The streets belong to all [...]