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chris lin posted in Book, Movie, Personal on August 22nd, 2005

With nothing to do for the past weeks, I have been watching movies. Whether with friends in theaters or by myself, my eyes have been glued to some type of motion picture box or screen. I'll list the movies I saw with like a sentence of how I liked or disliked it. So far, all the movies I have watched I liked or loved.

Finding Neverland - What a sweet drama movie, actually made me teary. You know it's a good movie when it can change your emotions.

Crash - Man, this movie seriously moved me. It had so many racist issues of today and shed some on me. Arg, so good, it hit me so hard so many times.

Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story - If you love Family Guy, this is a movie about it. It's seriously funny as hell. I laughed harder watching this then I normally do when I watch the episode.

Deuce Bigalow - European Gigalo - Comedy movie, had my laughs. Wasn't as good as I wanted it to be but hey, I didn't expect much from it.

Wedding Crashers - Another comedy movie (get the trend?) that I watched in the theaters. This probably tops as one of the funniest movies I have seen. Everything was, in my opinion, delivered perfectly. Then again, this movie has a lot of sexual jokes and that's right down my alley

For some reason, i thought I watched more. Anyways, I movies to watch for this week are…Shawshank Redemption, Seven Samurai, Madagascar and maybe a few other ones.

Oh, besides movies, I've been reading 2 hours every night too. Just finished the Harry Potter series, the whole month of August I was reading 3-6 and I just finished 6 the other night when I stayed up til like 5AM finishing it (then again, I started at like 1AM). Good series, I will be awaiting the seventh and final book. I plan on reading the following books before school starts: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book3-5), America The Book by Jon Stewart, The Art of Intrusion and The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick and some other books I downloaded online (ebooks rock!).

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chris lin posted in Book, Reviews on August 15th, 2004

Throughout this week, I have been reading the Rich Dad Series. Here's Amazons review of it…

Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle class work for money," but "the rich have money work for them"). Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out his the philosophy behind his relationship with money. Although Kiyosaki can take a frustratingly long time to make his points, his book nonetheless compellingly advocates for the type of "financial literacy" that's never taught in schools. Based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains how those assets might be acquired so that the jobs can eventually be shed.

Ever since I finished reading the first book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, I have been more open minded about the financial world today. It's funny how our teachers teach how to study hard and make us work for our money when the rich just do the exact opposite and have the money work for them. Most people will never accept that reality since it is just easier to accept something everyone does instead of something so…surreal.