An Alien Mom

Tom was a school-aged boy, whose mother was from Indonesia and couldn’t read and write Chinese. Tom was envious of his classmates because their mothers could study with them and even check their homework. Tom was ashamed of talking about his mother before his classmates. One day, his mother brought a lunch box to him, but he told [...]

An Honor Homicide?

Finally back to my writing journal again! I just read an article from Taipei Times on honor killing, which reported an Muslim man murdering his own daughter. The Muslim father discovered that his daughter was falling in love with a British soldier while she was working on an family aid project. Out of disgrace the father then suffocated the daughter [...]

A True Worshipper

There was a time when God commanded his people not to make for themselves gods of silver or gold to be worshipped. Instead he ordered them to make an altar of earth on which sheep or cattle must be sacrificed or burned completely. If they built a stone altar for God, the altar shouldn’t be cut [...]

Language Learning and Serving

How could a person be made valuable and marketable in a globally competitive market? The answer is a good command of at least one foreign language. According to a survey result, foreign language ability was the skill most office workers needed to meet job requirements. Another survey also showed that an office worker was often asked to [...]

Happiest People

The older you grow the happier you become. According to a newly released study, the happiest Americans are the oldest and being social also makes a person happier. Though a certain amount of distress can not be avoidable such as illness, pains, and the deaths of loved ones and friends, they learn to be content [...]

Healthy Fear of God

As the people of Israel stood at the foot of Mountain Sinai, they saw the lightening and heard the thunder on the mountain. They trembled with fear and dreaded going up the mountain even if they knew God was there. So they said to Moses that they would listen to him if he spoke to [...]

A Test for Good

Spit in it and we’ll test how well you are! A Web-based company just launched its personalized DNA test costing $2,500 dollars.  What a customers needs to do is spit into a tube and the company will tell you your risk for heart attack and other conditions. The company says the goal of a genetic testing or more specifically a [...]

Itching ears

Pope Benedict XVI (16th) is currently visiting the U.S. where he is going to exchange views with the Bush administration about various issues and try to brdge the gap between what the church teaches and what American Catholics practice. Benedict has been long described as disconnected, little appealing to an American flock, because American Catholics believe what they are doing, less caring about what [...]

Keeping the earth in good shape

Global warming has become the latest buzzword in health. The local government encouraged the public not to overeat in order to minimize global warming. They said that as people eat less, gas and electricity  would be less consumed and greenhouse gas emissions, which is claimed to be the culprit of global warming, will be reduced.
It’s time to keep in [...]

Luxury and sacrifice

In recent days, more and more people (especially the underclass) have been feeling the pinch with rising gas and food prices. In a report, the price of wheat has jumped 120 percent and rice prices have risen around 75 percent globally since last year. Several factors have caused skyrocketing food prices, one of which brought [...]