Kids are born artists but somehow when we grow up, we lose most of that creativity.
These are each child’s self portrait cut out with paper. Absolutely amazing!
Check out the flickr photos set
Tag: school
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I usually drive Kate to school on the day I work from home. But this last time I was late by 10 minutes. I had to fill out a little tardy slip for Kate with the reason of ‘traffic’ as an excuse.
I strolled leisurely to class with Kate and as I stepped in, 5 other girls came over and said hi to Kate, showing her their morning projects, trying to get her attention. One other girl even leaned the top of her head on Kate’s back and rubbed her head up and down Kate’s back. Kate was firm and held out her arms to me, took my face and gave me a goodbye kiss and sent me on my way. I tried to not cry and not take too much time since I was disrupting the class. It was one of the sweetest moment of my life!
I’m very proud of my daughter for taking the initiative to make friends at school. I’m happy for her that she so obviously love to learn and love being school so much. From this point of her life until she is 18, school is going to be the biggest part of her life. It’s going to be where she will meet most of her friends, where she will find her place in the world, where she might fall in love for the first time. School will be the constant force in her life no matter what else happens around her.(but when she turns 18, her father will be off to Europe, there is no doubt about that, sorry Kate)
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Kate’s teachers tell me that it so nice having Kate at school, she is really happy there.
Today Yahoo! let some of us leave work at 2:00pm to get started on the long weekend. So I decided to pick up Kate from Berkeley and take her to get her shots so she won’t be kicked out of school.
From Sunnyvale to Berkeley took me 1 hr 20 mins, then it took me 1 hr 30 mins to Livermore. I was 40 mins late for my appointment. I called the medical office twice and they made me feel like such an incompetent dad. Then when I got there, three people told me there was no way I could see the doctor for Kate to get her shots. Nothing I could say except to apologize then beg for the soonest possible apointment.
Now Kate will have to miss the entire week of school until she gets her shots next Saturday.
Kate, I’m so sorry, I felt lousy for about 3 hours. Now I’m back as happy dad.
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Happy parents, happy kids, crying kids whose parents left too fast,
socializing with teachers, proud parents, excited Kate.The first day school for Kate, I’m so proud of her. She will enjoy
learning at the French American school so much. But I think she will love
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That photo is of Sproul Hall, the administration building in UCB
This announcement brings back floods of memory when I was in UC Berkeley in 1998-1992
Yahoo! Research Labs Establishes New Center of Excellence with UC BerkeleyTop Ten Memories Of Berkeley
- Sitting in a huge auditorium for my first CS 60A class with probably 200 students listening to Common Lisp programming
- Falling asleep on the keyboard in the WEB (WorkStations In Evans Basement) on a Sun Sparc station at 2:00am
- Riding my bike down Bancroft street as fast as humanly possible at 2:00am without a helmet
- Printing out the entire set of unix man pages on my dot matrix printer so I can read them in my spare time
- Having the largest slice of pizza in the world at Blondies Pizza. Having 3 hotlinks from Top Dog after a 1:00am lab session in EECS
- Traveling to different schools to play badminton tournaments
- Sitting on the steps of Sproul Hall listening to ramblings of the polical left while getting a sun tan
- Skipping class and playing pool and video games at the bottom of the bookstore
- Paying $70 for a text book
- Spending the most carefree 4 years of my life in the most laid back town in the west coast.
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If you are within 30 miles of Berkeley anytime of the night (b4 2am) and you have the cravings for hot dogs, drop by Top Dog in Berkeley (7 reviews Y! Local).
My favorite, Hot Link (beef with 4 kinds of peppers) grilled, in grilled crunchy sesame buns. Fresh onions.
(People rave about the fact that they serve RC cola, never tried it)
Other popular dogs:
Bockwurst (1/2 veal, 1/2 polk, milk, eggs )
Calabrese (all pork fennel, paprika, cayenne )
Bird Dog ( turkey, cilantro, lo fat )
The Wienie ( veggie dog, wheat gluten soy protein )
Pick up some chilli as well, and a large lemonade.
Tony Tam 