Category: Footprints
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Pet cafes
Teenagers like to hang out with friends at an Internet cafe, while cat lovers will stay in the pet cafe enjoying meals and playing with their favorite pets. In Japan the pet cafe business has been burgeoning since many apartments don’t allow pets. At a cat cafe in Tokyo, customs pay abound 250 NT dollars plus the cost of…
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Human being vs. human doing
Recently, the high school graduating students who have applied for universities through either recommendation or application would’ve been anxious about where they will be admitted to the school they have chosen from. Universities examine each applicant’ background in great detail, including academic achievement, standardized test scores, extracurricular activities and performance in the interviews. The result, as we know, is…
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Alaways enough
Sometimes we feel we are not enough, say, to give or help. We are reluctant to give away money because we have our own car or home mortgage to pay; we are unwilling to help because we find ourselves incapable of performing things well. There are always reasons or excuses involved with our inactiveness. In Mark 12 Jesus stood…
TJ Gong 