TJ Gong

America has jumped to No. 1 incarcerator in the world, according to a recent report. Almost one out of 100 American adults are put in jail or prison.   States are thus urged to cut down on corrections spending, because its rate of increase was six times greater than higher education spending.  Reflecting on this increased…

On the mountainside of a remote island near the North Pole lies a modern Noah’s Ark, a large concrete room called “doomsday vault“. This vault or storage room is built to hold all known varieties of the world crops and protect them from catastrophic events, such as nuclear war, climate change, asteroid attacks, earthquakes, rising…

The Super Bowl is one of the biggest sporting events in America.  Friends and families tend to get together in front of TV watching the game and enjoying the group atmosphere.  Even churches provide their facilities for brothers and sisters to enjoy the the Super Bowl together. Prior to this year’s Super Bowl XLII, the…

A Germany man was so furious when his girlfriend lit up that he emptied a fire extinguisher, put out the cigarette  and coated his apartment. When asked if he was upset, the man said he didn’t regret causing the damage and he’s been through with her girlfriend. Paul in one of his epistles said, “All…

A six-year-old Japanese girl set loose a red balloon with her handwritten letter inside at her elementary school. Fifteen years later, a fisherman found the letter stuck to the side of a flatfish he hauled up from 100 meters below the surface of the sea and it is still legible. “Cast your bread upon the water for after…

In his new book “The Third Jesus” Deepak Chopra describes Jesus as a three-person figure, “a sketchy historical figure”, “a abstract theological creation”, and “a highest level of enlightenment.  The term “The Third Jesus” has been coined to reflect the highest level of enlightenment for humanity.  In Deepak’s description, Jesus is not a savior, nor…

With enviornmental awareness in mind the Canadian government has urged its citizens to conserve water.  But it has turned out that the less water the citizens consume the water department gets  stuck in tight budget.  Burdened with rebuilding an aging water infrastructure with declining revenue, the government has decided to raise the water prices by 9.4 percent.…

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist who made his fortune by inventing dynamites and other powerful explosives used as  weapons.  Years later, when his brother died, an local newspaper accidentally printed an obituary for Alfred instead.  He was described in the obituary as a man who became rich by encouraging people to kill each other in…

The early days of March in Taiwan will signal election time, when the presidential hopefuls from two major parties maneuver for votes and the people cast their ballots for their favorite candidates. And, like it or not, for the next four years we are stuck with whoever wins the presidency. If it’s not our kind of…

Early yesterday morning  a hired worker came to clean my apartment’s water cistern (tank). The moment the cleaning of  the tank was completed my tap water stopped running. I tried to figure out how to fix the water problem as I kept running upstairs and downstairs checking on the tank and the taps.  I couldn’t do anything about it. Later…