Making People Feel Like Human Beings

There are several basic rules that should go along with this idea. Easiest rule, don't do anything insulting, like call them a bad word, gossip about them, or mock them in any way. Next, try to give some empathy, or look at your actions from their perspective, if you wouldn't like it, then they probably wouldn't (Golden Rule!). Then, give them respect, be generous, be kind, just anything that you'd do to one of your family or friends.

What can I do?

First of all, one big thing I can do is volunteer service. And while maybe not SOCO, because I really don't know how to contact or volunteer with them, there's always things like soup kitchens or cleanup services that could indirectly influence those in cage-dwellings. However, overall service to the community is a good thing anyway while not directed to these people and is a viable option. Second, there's the possibility of getting to know one of these people and establishing a friendly relationship with them, since friendship would probably be a positive thing for people in cage-housing, but this would be extremely challenging because it's first of all a little difficult to befriend strangers and I don't know a single word of Cantonese. Therefore, I think the best option is just volunteer work, as it gives a more organized sense of assistance to those in need.

Cage Housing Research

My partner(David) and I discovered only one organization, SOCO. However, while noble a cause, I find the organization a little bit sketchy. First of all, the website has horrid design which, while not necessarily a main reason to be suspicious, tends to be common among scam sites or ad-based sites. Secondly, the site provides no insight into what they're actually. All that's stated on the sight is that they are "helping" those in cage-dwellings but we don't know how they do it. While I do appreciate what these guys are trying to do, this to me, appears to be an "awareness" sight which in reality doesn't take much action but I guess if try to look into this I can figure out what they really do.

Letter to Someone

Dear ____,

Hi, I know you’re not Christian, but I’m going to show why Jesus can be trusted. First of all, he’s fulfilled every type of prophecy said about himself. He road into Jerusalem on a donkey, he was resurrected within 3 days of his death, he would be pierced with a spear on the cross, and many, many more. While there is always the extremely miniscule chance of this all being coincidence, this is, like I said, overwhelmingly small and can be excluded. Secondly, he had great authority through his miracles. Through his healing and other miracles, Jesus persuaded so many to his cause. One could say though, that he was simply a magician of some sort, but coming back from the dead? I heavily doubt any magician in all of history could replicate that. Finally, he was an overall great person. He taught to serve others, to be humble, and treat others as ourselves. If he believed this, then he couldn’t be corrupt or lie, however I understand that this may take some faith to accept, which is key to trusting Jesus. In all, I hope that you may read this letter and place your trust in Jesus Christ.

From,

Trevor

Gandhi's Quote

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
-Gandhi

Quite the obviously, the quote tells us that if we see a problem, we should take action ourselves. I for one love this quote and wholeheartedly agree to it. We should absolutely fix problems that we see or else we are only contributing to the dilemma. However, there are exceptions, we can't all become the president and solve the recession and we can't really go to the middle east and kill every terrorist leader. These actions though, are only small exceptions and are ridiculous and therefore, don't really tamper with the quote's main message. There is another exception too, raising awareness and inspiring others. Things like encouragement, while helpful in a way, feels slightly hypocritical in my opinion, but I feel that it can be okay if you do some service, but nothing is better than taking direct actions with others and being the change you want.

Camp Experience

My camp experience consisted of many ups and downs. First of all, the capture the flag and zombie apocalypse games were a blast, and the free time let me do anything I wanted, which was air hockey. However, during zombie apocalypse, as I was being chased by a zombie, I tripped and twisted my ankle so now I have to limp around everywhere. Another bad thing was that as we left the bowling alley, my tribe and two others were left without a bus to return, so we had to take the MTR and arrived to camp to be able to eat whatever was left from dinner. As a whole, I'd say this camp was pretty negative for me considering my injury, and without I'd probably still prefer going to school over going to camp.

Iphone 5s

What do you think of those who line up a day before for an Iphone?

I honestly have no negative nor positive feelings. If you want to line up, go ahead, the iphone is a pretty nice device and I'd love to have one but I myself wouldn't line up for it. Not to mention, I have an iphone 4 already so there's not an absolute need for a new one. However, I do think you need a little bit of weird devotion if you are going to do it, but if you really want one, line up. Just a word of advice though, I seriously think that ordering online is way easier than waiting in line days for an iphone.