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My Facebook account was going crazy, I lost my friends, photos, videos, notes, everything in my Facebook. Please add me again, my e-mail is alien_0923@hotmail.com. Add me in MSN as well. Thank you.

Point Pinole and Angel Island

Hi everybody,

I went back to Point Pinole again last Thursday becuase we had extra time to walk a dog. It was still very pretty like the last time I was there. Things look different because the marsh was dry. That's sad but it will be filled with water this winter, hopefully. Here are some pictures from there.

And today which is Sunday we went to Angel Island because I heard Emen said it's so pretty there. He was right. It was pretty. The island itself is not pretty but the ocean view was great. I didn't take a lot of pictures there becuase my camera is not good with lanscape shots. I don't have the kind of lens that Weng and Kimika have. :D (Good excuse huh?) Anyway here come the picture. Any comments from anybody is welcome. I don't have much time for the comments. I'll try to do that later. See you tomorrow.

SFMOMA Sept. 1st - first free Tuesday of the month!

Hi everyone,

This coming Tuesday, the 1st of September we will visit the SFMOMA. The tickets are free on this day, but the Richard Avedon photography exhibition will cost $5. I recommend that we see this show, so please be prepared to bring the extra $5 so we can enjoy this retrospective together. You can click here for the link to the museum.

There are also three film clips that will be shown at noon that I think would be worth seeing. Here is some information about those clips:

FREE TUESDAY, Sept 1, Noon, Wattis TheaterClipson Presents Subversive Documentaries

Las Hurdes (aka The Land Without Bread)
Luis Buñuel, 1933, 30 min., 16mm, b/w

Hotel des Invalides
Georges Franju, 1952, 22 min., 35mm, b/w

Le chant du Styrène
Alain Resnais, 1958, 19 min., 35mm, color, cinemascope

Image: George Franju, Hotel des Invalides (still), 1951. Photo courtesy Gaumont Films.

In this program of film shorts, experimental filmmaker (and SFMOMA's own head projectionist) Paul Clipson screens high-art takes on low subjects. Luis Buñuel cast a surreal eye on rural poverty in Spain, Alain Resnais documents the lyricism of plastic, and Georges Franju upends nationalism and military glory. The museum would like to thank the Consulate General of France in San Francisco for its assistance and support of this program.

Museum and program admission are free.

Read about these programs at the San Francisco Bay Guardian – Weekly Pics!

Hope everyone has a great weekend, see you on Monday!

Denise

Something that I read in the library.

I read a book called " What are you", I found it in the teen area . This book is talking about being true to what you are. No matter who you are, Asian? African? American? European? or any other nationality... Please be proud of what you are. In this book, the writer has been referring to Tiger Woods. He is the first golfer in the world. But in the old days, golf used to be played by white guys, especially the rich white guys. Until a man, named Tiger Woods, who is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American and one-eighth Dutch took this game by a storm, taking it to new levels of championship. But his background never makes him feel ashamed, on the contrary, he is proud of himself.

RICH DAD POOR DAD

I'm reading 'RICH DAD POOR DAD' which is one of THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS.The book is based on a true story in Hawaii.
Robert is the main character who has two dads.One of them is real,the other one is his best friend's father.The real father is well educated intelligent guy who has a PhD.He makes enough money.
Robert's best friend's,Mike's, father is a businessman who has a couple of grocery stores and a construction company.He is one of the wealthiest people in Hawaii.
One day Mike and Robert want to make money at the age of 7,so they can buy comic books.They go to Mike's father to ask him to teach them how to make money.They think he is a businessman , he is supposed to know how to make money.
The story goes with Rich Dad's teachings.

Both fathers give them different advice.
The real father,POOR DAD, says ''get a good degree ,so you can get a secure and well paid job''.
Mike's father,RICH DAD, says ''you must get a degree,meantime you should learn how to manage money''.They do not teach how to manage money in the school.If you want to be rich , you have to know how to manage money.Otherwise you work for government ,companies etc.You'll always be in debt.You should how to make money work for you.

If you want to be rich , you need to be financially literate..

Talent is overrated

One of the books that I'm reading right now is called "Talent is overrated" by Geoff Colvin.
The author defends the idea that there is no such thing as talent as we conceive it, which would be some innate trait that would capacitate someone to perform a given activity better than others. By giving examples of real people and discussing about research that have been made on that matter, he tries to convince the reader that what makes some individuals outstanding in their fields is a special kind of hard work.
It reminds me of a little joke that I heard once, where a woman, after attending a piano recital comes to the pianist and says: "Oh! You played wonderfully! I would give my life to play like that!"
And the pianist replies: "Madam, that is exactly what I did."