CNN

美國有線電視新聞網CNN，持續報導南台灣災情跟搶救狀況，報導中也引述專家說法，提到官方救災行動拖延，根本浪費了前3天的黃金救災期。
來到六龜鄉新開村，樑外大橋斷成兩截，救難隊橫渡惡水救人，台灣政府的救援行動，CNN引述評論家說法，全因3天黃金救災期，被白白浪費。
CNN主播：「得在湍流中救援，評論家歸咎台灣政府處理失當，評論家認為政府整整錯失3天，才宣布救援行動開始。」

CNN 根本什么都不知道
就在那邊亂講話
亂下結論
亂批評

拜托
拿地震跟臺風和土石流比
你懂不懂啊？！
什么“整整錯失3天”
風那么大
直升機怎么起飛？
路都斷了
山也蹦了
車怎么進去？

美國在 Hurricane Katrina 發生的時候
美國政府也是一點都沒做好
更何況
臺灣這次災情比Katrina更嚴重
CNN憑什么批評臺灣政府

我們臺灣的事情
輪不到你這美國記者評論
真令人討厭

八八水災

災後首週末　上萬志工抵南台！塞車

更新日期:2009/08/16 12:18 蘇詩雅

八八水災過後的第一個週末，全台數萬志工湧入南台灣，有客運司機，主動張羅物資送到災區，已經來回北高2趟，也有醫院耳鼻喉科醫生只要休假，就跑到災區為災民免費看病；熱心民眾湧入災區，安撫災民心情和幫忙重建家園，不過也一度讓高雄旗山和屏東佳冬，周邊道路出現車潮。
帶著2個不到10歲的孩子，在台北萬里擔任大客運司機的陳建宏，將張羅好的物資，送到高雄內門安置中心，而這樣送物資已經來回北高2次，因為陳建宏說，自己懂的災民的心情。
大客運司機陳建宏：「我們本身也是痛苦中長大的小孩，感受得到災民所受的痛苦，所以發個心。」
記者：「有幫忙做什麼嗎？」陳小弟弟：「搬東西。」記者：「會不會累？」陳小弟弟：「會。」
陳建宏父子三人，為災民盡一點微薄之力，就連要北上了，也在自己的客運上貼上告示，說「可以免費搭順風車」。
八八水災後的第一個週末，全台上萬志工湧入南台灣幫忙，雖然一度讓周邊道路出現車潮，但志工苦民之苦就是要來幫忙，也有醫院將災民可能需要的藥品，送到安置中心，有醫生放假後就輪流來幫忙。
服務志工戴安修：「因為我們也是在地人，是高雄縣的醫院，這次災區幾乎都是高雄縣，所以我們也有責任。」
發揮人溺己溺的精神，志工犧牲工作機會和休息時間，努力前往災區，親切教導災區孩子畫畫，忘記痛失家園之苦，因為他們相信，孩子也是大人重建家園的前進動力。
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/090816/8/1p66u.html

flood

 Flood waters brought by Typhoon Morakot submerge a house in Chiatung, Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan, on August 9, 2009

An elderly man is carried from a helicopter to a high school in Chishan, in Taiwan's Kaohsiung county on August 10, 2009 after being airlifted from the southern village of Shiao Lin

 Water flows past a severely eroded embankment near a damaged bridge that previously linked Pingtung and Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan on August 9, 2009


  A man stands on a roof as he awaits rescue in heavy flooding in Taimali, south-eastern Taiwan's Taitung county on August 8, 2009 during Typhoon Morakot

  A hotel building leans before falling in a heavily flooded river after Typhoon Morakot hit Taitung county, Taiwan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. The six-story hotel collapsed and plunged into the river Sunday morning after floodwaters eroded its base - all 300 people in the hotel had been evacuated and uninjured, officials said

A woman, taking shelter from Typhoon Morakot, rests in a temporary evacuation centre in Chiatung, in southern Taiwan's Pingtung county on August 9, 2009.

A girl is carried out from mudslide caused by Typhoon Morakot in Chiashien, Kaohsiung county, in southern Taiwan, on August 10, 2009.

A massive landslide is seen across a mountain road in Pingtung county, southern Taiwan, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009

 A storm-damaged bridge in Chiashien, southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung county, seen on August 10, 2009


  Evacuees sit on top of a military vehicle as rescuers search the flooded area for people after rains brought by Typhoon Morakot inundated the area in Chiatung, Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan, on August 9, 2009

An aerial view of flooding caused by Typhoon Morakot in Chiatung, Taiwan

 A distraught woman waits for word of her missing father from Shiao Lin village, which was covered in a landslide from Typhoon Morakot in Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan, at a rescue landing zone on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009

 A railroad bridge damaged by Typhoon Morakot is seen in Taitung, eastern Taiwan August 8, 2009

    Driftwood and debris fills Fugang Harbor after Typhoon Morakot hit Taitung county, eastern Taiwan, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009

A man carries a baby as a family is rescued from flooding brought by Typhoon Morakot in Chiatung, Pingtung county, in southern Taiwan, on August 9, 2009

A man trapped by floods gestures at rescuers delivering food and drinking water after Typhoon Morakot hit Pingtung county, southern Taiwan August 9, 2009

A man trapped by floods gestures at rescuers delivering food and drinking water after Typhoon Morakot hit Pingtung county, southern Taiwan August 9, 2009

Two women hold each other in a local emergency room after being rescued by helicopter from a village covered in a landslide from Typhoon Morakot in Kaohsiung county, southern Taiwan, Monday. Aug. 10, 2009

Images from:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/08/typhoon_morakot.html

迫切幫臺灣禱告

颱風讓1/4 的臺灣泡在水里
大量土石流讓好多村子被活埋
還有河水暴漲村子變河流
我覺的像神用洪水淹沒大地 “一個從東邊來的中度颱風
讓台灣在二十四小時內
從七年來最嚴重的乾旱危機
掉進另外一個五十年來最嚴重的水患危機半年之內，台灣同時經歷大水和大旱。“

家

很多人會問我

我常常這樣子跑來跑去

我的家在哪里？

一直到高中畢業

我多不知道如何回答這個問題

小時候的我覺得這問題真的好難哦

我不斷的反復思索著問題

一直問自己哪里是我的家？

到底是香港，臺灣，加州，還是芝加哥？

後來我發現

我對家的定義和地點沒有關系

家在哪？

我的家人在哪，我的家就在哪。

再要好的朋友都比不上家人

家人最可靠

“如果需要他們，他們多會在”

家人在背後的默默支持

他們不計較的付出

和他們無私的愛

成了我的力量

“家 是避風塘

是安全的堡壘"

家

"累了，就回家吧”

Advertising vs. Christianlity

大 家好，我叫Likyer，自我介绍一下，目前在悉尼的Mediaedge:cia工作，１１岁开始因为妈妈信主的缘故开始接触基督教，但直至开始查经班之 前都不算真正了解，２１岁在悉尼受洗，去的是UNSW大学的FOCUS教会，以装备留学生为使命的团契，看这个博客２年了， 谢谢小强让我加入这个博客的作者群，以后会在这里写些见证和分享

进 入广告界快一年了，越来越发现， 广告和基督教其实很多地方是相抵触的，广告讲的是潮流，名人效应，品牌，性感，新鲜，刺激的内容通常比较有市场。它影响大众的心理，同时也是顺应大众行为 趋势来发展的，有人总结说"所谓广告就是商家利用媒体说服大众买他们不需要的东西，或者不值得那么贵的东西。"有人说"空气是由氧气，氮气和广告组成的, 每天呼吸它"，我们都接触不同媒体，被不知不觉灌输信息，用了某产品就会怎样怎样，达到如何如何， 广告把普通的人包装成大家追捧的偶像，把普通的商品变成地位的象征.

如 果基督徒从事广告业,要寻求平衡其实很不容易， 一个脑袋里要有两种思维，一边说不要随世界沉沦，信主才是正道， 另一边又鼓励大众追求物质的东西. 很多人进入广告界就偏离主了， 这其实是一个非常诱惑的行业， 很容易就随波逐流了， 而且广告人还要倡导这些流行，做先锋...当时害怕理想和现实有差距，但现在是理想变成了现实，现实又和新的另外一种理想有了不可逾越的鸿沟

从 事广告行业，一直是我从中学起的理想，因为它能创造的魔力，因为它艺术和商完美的结合，因为它和日常生活紧密的联系，也因为这个行业的dynamic性, social fulfillment,挑战,以及可以跨行业不间断的学习. 大学的时候一直在思考，是从事广告创作，还是媒介策划，这两个领域相关，但并不相同。后来发出去的简历，找我面试的基本都是媒介策划的，现在看来， 很感谢神，因为他比我自己还知道什么是对我好的，或者利于我在主内成长的。创 作的工作就会象我上面说的，要用两个南猿北辙的思维了，工作时间不固定，常常要加班，脑子里不间断要想创意，遇到截止日还会有无比压力。而媒介策划只是投 资，和咨询，帮客户把广告费投资到不同的媒体上以获得最大效益，使更多人能看到听到，稳定的工作时间，腾出时间去教会，查经看书充实自己。

不 过广告本身的意思是广而告之，把一个讯息利用媒体传达出去，这和传福音又是同出一辙的。基督徒广告人的增加，无疑是一件值得喜乐同时又令人担忧的事情，很 重要的一点就是要在主里站立的稳，明白自己追求的是什么， 什么才会带来真正的快乐，自己最终要去哪里等等。希望神在我们心里做工，经过试探， 让我们做好的见证，把福音广而告之

Q: 作创意的弟兄姐妹们，你们在做创意的时候， 有过我说的这种矛盾吗？

http://adchristian.blogbus.com/

Cross Cultural Psyc: Experiencing a Culturally Different Ecology: Rainbow

There is a first time for everything

 

I did not know what kind of feelings I had when I was preparing to visit the lesbian bar.  I was thinking of it as an assignment that I had to do, but did not really want to do.  I was probably a little bit excited because I had never been to a gay bar before.  After walking around for an hour, Leah and I finally found the bar.  When I got to the building and walked up the stairs, I was complaining about how the bar was so hard to find.  The door of the bar was a heavy iron door which people cannot look through as though the bar was a secretive place.  I walked in and saw a bar that was half the size of our psychology classroom, and four people in the bar and I thought to myself “this place is tiny and crap, there is no one here.  This is going to be awkward.”  Sure enough, it was an awkward feeling.  The awkward feeling might have come from the fact that neither Leah nor I know what the appropriate behavior was, we did not know what we should do.  Leah and I sat alone near the window, when all the other people sat around the bar table.  I had this uneasy feeling rising within me, not because I was afraid of being hit on.  I actually thought it would be really cool if I get hit on by a lesbian.  The uneasy feeling came from uncertainties.  I was not sure if I should pretend to be a lesbian or not and how to start a conversation with them.  I did not know what they will think of me if I was heterosexual and what would happen if I lied to them by saying I was a homosexual.  The owner then invited us to sit with the other people and we started chatting with them like we would when we make new friends.  It was the exact feeling I had when I talk to random strangers, except for the guilty feeling I had since I felt that I was “lying” to them.  I felt that I was lying because I was there for a class assignment and I talked to them because I had a class assignment.

These happened in the bar

We talked about how men sometimes never get the message we were sending.  We bashed those nasty men who attempted to sexually abuse us together.  We shared our unpleasant encounters with men and got excited when we all had been in the same situation before.  All a sudden, we bonded through these talks of similar experiences that we had.  There was a girl my age who was interested in me and that made me more confident.  I got more comfortable as we talked and I felt that they were excited to meet someone from a foreign country.  Later on, the owner asked me if I am a lesbian.  I knew that question was coming, but I did not have the answer.  I did not know whether I should lie or not, so I smiled.  I thought she felt I was a bit weird that I smiled.  She asked me why I smiled and I answered her “well, I don’t know how Koreans view lesbians.  It seems like it’s a taboo here”.  This opened up another discussion about different views on homosexuality from different countries, so it turned out to be fine that I smiled.  

Study them

After my interaction with them, I do not think there is much study which needs to be done about homosexuals.  They are just like any other human beings.  In fact, I find them easier to talk to. They are nice, they are friendly, and they are more welcoming and more open-minded than some heterosexuals are.  I think especially because we were all girls, it made it even easier to bond with them.  I find it hard to comprehend why some people think they have mental problems.  I believe if any study is to be done, I would need to develop an understanding of the mind of the people who think homosexuals have “problems”.  I have friends who do not have any homosexual friend at all and have never interacted with a homosexual person, but think that homosexuals have “problems”.  I consider those who think homosexuals have “problems” the ones with real problems.  

Theories

The people who think homosexuals have “problems” probably fit into Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions- Uncertainty Avoidance.  They feel threatened by the homosexual community because they do not know the community, they developed the belief that “homosexuals have problems” to avoid them.  They are also “separationists” in the Models of Acculturation (Berry, 1990, 1997) who rejects the other culture’s values and beliefs.  Although the model is used for immigrants, I think it can be used here since homosexuality and heterosexuality are two different cultures.  I think I am a “marginalist”, although I do not identify with the homosexual act, but I share similar beliefs with them.  I believe that they should have the same rights heterosexuals enjoy.