God gave me a mind to think and a heart to feel, but sometimes I get confused about when I should be thinking and when I should be feeling. That's when I just talk.
Topical Guide
Places to Go
- BMV Wedding
- BMV Wedding Blog
- Defining Faith as a Latter-day Saint
- GG Viet Branch Young Adults
- Hồ Ngọc Đức's Dictionary
- Orientalist Kitsch
- Parenting Orange County
- Small Fortunes - Microcredit Documentary
- Tran Creative
- Unsense at garageband.com
- VietACT - Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking
- Vietnam Country Studies
travel log
- 02.13.08 - to the temple with Luan and his mom, good to be back
- 02.14.08 - Mẫu's alive! and staying for the weekend
- 02.15.08 - floor hockey and Thái food makes for some strange dreams
- 02.17.08 - frisbee and swamp monster at the park: fun but I'm pooped!
- 02.19.08 - just read Triết's response to my last post - game on!
- 02.20.08 - raining and expected to continue through Sunday - thank goodness!
- 02.21.08 - 3-hour nap is a bad idea right before bed
- 02.23.08 - to the beach to watch kites, a baptism @ 5pm, and homemade bulgogi - what a day!
- 02.25.08 - just gave myself a haircut - woo, cold head!
- 02.26.08 - 75° and spring cleaning - couldn't feel better
- 02.27.08 - fed the elders bún đậu tonight - think it's their first time
- 03.01.08 - working on new background...
- 03.02.08 - finalized javascript to change background without muffing up my other scripts
- 03.03.08 - fhe: "In his strength I can do all things" (Alma 26:12)
- 03.07.08 - some decisions are harder than others, but some are downright excruciating
- 03.08.08 - there is life after work... i almost forgot
- 03.11.08 - the distance between good and bad is much shorter than between better and best
- 03.12.08 - conversion is sometimes a gradual process, so much so that we don't even notice
- 03.14.08 - for some reason everything was a little harder today, looking forward for bed!
- 03.15.08 - last night after blog reading, I missed OnlyBlue, today I find she's back
- 03.16.08 - best day of my life!
- 03.19.08 - "Pray for the answer that they've been looking for"
release notes v1.0 - FINALLY DONE!
- 12.07 - first thought of starting a new blog
- 01.08 - busy with election stuff but blog design still on back burner
- 01.13.08 - first idea to imitate jk rowling with the "desk" theme
- 01.28.08 - start sketching current design, breaking down development into phases
- 02.02.08 - election only days away but still drafting final plans
- 02.04.08 - v0.6 LAUNCH
- main components (blog body, sidebar, header, etc) designed and implemented
- styling for font, links, drop caps, etc. finished
- 02.07.08 - v0.8 LAUNCH
- image style to imitate polariod
- moveability - post-it notes and static clings can be repositioned by drag and drop
- release notes styled and written
- 02.16.08 - travel log (beta) added in hopes of catching the mundane
- 02.22.08 - lightbox 2.03 reinstalled and working fine (hopefully - let me know otherwise)
- 02.26.08 - v0.9 LAUNCH
- travel log seems to be working, so I'll keep it
- lightbox also seems to have passed the test, so it's a keeper
- some credits/info added to bottom (will expand)
- keeping old Viet terms in archive for future viewing
- 03.18.08 - v1.0 LAUNCH
- installation and testing of time-sensitive background completed (for now)