Friday, July 10, 2009

Phish and Scam Emails....

Here is a blog that topic that should be address to anyone who read this blog.

I have receive plenty and more than plenty scam and phish email. What are phish
and scam emails? They are emails where people write such emails as with the following
titles and messages:

1. Congratulation - You have won $ 100,000. Please send your name, address, phone
number and so in a reply email.

2. From the Director of FBI - You have been awarded 1,000,000 in funds from another
country. Please send information in a reply (The same kind of questions as listed
in Number 1.)

3. From a Relative of a love one that died - Please be the next of Kin so that I
can get the money out of the bank and I will award you so and so amount for
assisting me. Please give me your contact information in a reply email.

4. BUSINESS REQUEST - A person send an email saying they have a proposal and
they need your help collecting money for them in the United States.

You get the general idea of the kinds of emails I mention above. Any emails that
ask for any personal information from you like your name, address, phone number or
any personal information that you never thought they would ask like your checking
account number and son are red flag emails.

Those emails are phish and scam. The best advice is to simply delete them and do
not answer them. If you do answer those email and give out your information, you
will guarantee be ruined financially. I never even bother to answer those emails.

I have one more Scam that very popular that you should be aware of. It is when you
receive an email like from Bank of American, AOL or from a Bank in England saying
that your account has been loss and they need your personal information like your
credit card information or your bank account information in order to reactivate
your accounts. When you get those email, forward those email to the Fraud department
of those place. They would appreciate your assistance and will one way or another
look for the person that is sending out these email and they will try to track down
the person who is doing this. Again with these type of emails, never give out your
banking information, credit card information, or even your social security number.
They are death traps that you don't want to fall into.

I hope you have learned something from reading this blog. Thank you.

Monday, May 25, 2009

CI, Deafness and God.....

From the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant website with the defintition and meaning on CI:

A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. The cochlear implant is often referred to as a bionic ear.

Deafness is when a person can not hear anything at all with out any hearing devices such as hearing aid, CI and so on.

God is who is the person that created all of us and tests us with everything in life while we are all on Earth. Atheist are one group of people that I know that does not believe in God but that is not the issue in this blog.

The issue in this blog is dealing with Parents who thinks CI is the answer to their children problem that are deaf. Hearing parents wants their deaf children to be successful in the hearing society and think that putting CI on their children is the answer to the problem. That is not the answer to the problem because CI cannot make any deaf child an automatic hearing person. When the child takes off the CI, they are totally deaf again. The problem I have with this is that when a parents decide that in their best interest is that the child should have CI isn't in the child shoes or feet. They don't know how the child will feel to have a CI or what the long term affect will be on that child. Even if they become successful with the CI, will
that child be happy in a very long run? Once that child meet someone that is totally deaf, he/she could get confuse about why the other deaf person does not have a CI or why they accept being deaf?

Be deaf can be a test from God to see if the person accept being deaf and how they handle life being deaf. When a child is born deaf, God wants to know how parents and people deal with a deaf child. I really think God is surprise to see that parents decide that the child should have CI to hope the child be successful in the hearing society. Did God want that child to have CI and live with it? Is that the kind of test that God wants for the child to have in life? I don't know that answer but only God knows.

I have Cerebral Palsy and I have had 5 legs operations. Those operations I know will never cured me of Cerebral Palsy because it is a permanent brain damage. I had to have those operations to allowed me to move some muscles. But I know down the road, I will still end up in a wheelchair knowing that those 5 legs operations will not help me to walk for life.

I am also hearing impaired and use a hearing aid. I could get a CI but I would rather not get one. I was told one time, a CI operation is very risky to make half of the face flat because they put nerves to sleep prior to the operation. It would have taken me one year to recover the nerves on that side of the face and to be able to talk correctly. I know the technology maybe better than that but still I will never get a CI operation.

In my opinion, Parents should think more than twice before they have their child be operated on for the CI. Parents should know that those kinds of operations comes with risk and the well-being of that child. Even if the child gets a CI and does well, down the road, the child might destroy the CI device and be angry at the parents for having the CI. A day might come when the child might yell at the parents saying "Why did you get me a CI? Why can't you accept I was deaf before you had the doctor put CI on me? Why?". That is a very emotional thing that a child can do in the future.

Every disability a child is born with is a test from God to see if the child can accept who he is. I have accept my disability and I know God is testing me. I know that techology is out there to make me be a better person but I choose not to touch those new techology because I would rather accept myself as I am before I die. That will show to God that I love him unconditionally even with what I have.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

The Coldest Cases from NTID.....

Today topic deals with two actually coldest cases out of NTID which stands for National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, NY. I ain't talking about any murder cases but cases that to me is beyond my understand why in the world NTID can't even solved them. If they can't solve them, then only God knows the answers to those cases. I will explain how with God at the end. So now on with the true cases:

Case No. 1: The smoke bomb between Tower A and B in 1983. This happen during the Summer Vestibule Program. I was living in Tower C that associate with Tower A and Tower B at the time. When it happen early in the morning. I was told to wait in another dormintory. I don't recall if anyone got hurt or sick from the smoke bomb. Camput Saftey did their share of work trying to figure out who set off the smoke bomb and they never found out who did it. It is like a scar to remember this event with no suspect ever caught. It wasn't a laughing matter when it happen and it isn't a laughing matter remembering it even today after it happen almost 26 years ago. Even the current President of NTID, Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz doesn't have the answer. I have ask him last year during the NTID 40th anniversity reunion and he doesn't even know. That is a cold case that hasn't be solved even to this day.

Case No. 2: A laptop was stolen from NTID last summer in July that has the students name, state of their residency and their social security number. According to NTID, that information is being used for research purpose and has all the students record from 1968 to approximently year 2007 students records. The laptop has not been recovered and the students social security numbers are still out there. Anyone who has that laptop could use the students social security numbers to do things like apply for a loan and so on. I don't recall signing any papers prior to NTID to allow them to use my social security numbers for research purpose. That is a violations of privacy in my opinion. I never knew they were using my social security numbers for research purpose or put that information on a laptop. I have never heard of any other colleges or university having their laptop stolen with students records on it including the students social security number. I have a guts feeling that who ever stole that Laptop knows about the laptop prior to taking it from NTID. You could put 5 laptops on the table and know what is on which each one. You would take the laptop that has the most information you needed and leave the other four laptop behind. So that is the point as who ever knows what they were looking for did take the laptop with the students record for their gain or whatever purpose. Why hasn't the Rochester Police Department, FBI or campus safety ever solved this problem? Social Security numbers are federal property because we use those numbers to file for jobs and for our income taxes. Social Security number comes from the United States Goverment means it Federal numbers. They come from the Social Security office which is a federal agency. Why can't NTID find this missing latop? Have they forgotten to install Lawjack alarm system to find the laptop? I mean the same kind of alarm system that is installed on new cars to help find stolen cars.

Anyhow, with those Coldest cases from NTID, the only person that knows the answer is God. God is recording things everyone is doing in their daily lifes. Once the person dies, God shows the video of what the person has done with their life. God will question to person on why did they do those things. I don't think God is laughing about the smoke bombing event or the laptop being stolen. The person can't take the laptop to heaven when they die. The person can't hide the smoke bomb event that they did at NTID. Everything in life is being recording even what I am doing now.

Whoever those people are that did the smoke bombing and the laptop, should come forward to face their punishment on earth as being truthful prior to their death on Earth. If they don't, God will reserve whatever punishment he can put on those people. I wouldn't want to see what those punishment might be even the worst punishment is being thrown in the "Lake of Fire" for lying to God and doing bad deeds. I would not want to put myself there because that is a second death means the end of my life for good. That would be end of seeing good people that are in heaven.
That will never be a laughing matter.

I wish these cases were solved to put NTID at peace and put these event in the past. For anyone who read this and did the crime, you have your choice to either come forward to face the punishment and ask for forgivenees from the society or face God and see what he would do to you for the crime that you have done. I am one of those that is willing forgive the criminals because criminals do make mistakes and learn from mistakes.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Mother Day and Unexpect Deaths.....

This blog has two different subject: Mother Day and the second one is on Unexcepted Deaths....

First one -

Happy Mother Day to all the mothers in this world that deserve a very special blessing day. All the mothers in the entire world deserve to be given thanks for all the wonderful things they have done to raise their children and helping their children raising their childern like they are the grand children. Without mothers, life would be living. Without mothers, there would be no children to help other children grow in this world. All children in this world today are our tomorrow future. The Children we have today can developed new technology in the future for better living for ourselves and for future generations to come. So Mothers, be thankful that you have a special day today as you deserve it.

Second One -

Unexpected Deaths. This morning my family and I went to church. There was announcement when saying prayers of those who passed way include the Priest's brother who died unexpectly this morning of a heart attack. He was rushed to the hospital and the Doctor could not revived the heart from the heart attack. It was sad news to me because it reminds me of a death of my older brother, Paul who died of a heart attack at the age of 41 back in December of 2000. The last time I saw him before that was at Thanksgiving time in Nags Head, North Carolina. Nobody expect my brother Paul to pass away of a heart attack. I know as well as some of you do know that the easy one of people that die commonly is of Cancer, or those who have serious injury like in the Intensive Care Unit in the hospital of those who have injury that are life threaten as are expect to die, or those with real health situation like having internal bleed and organ that are not working and shutting down. All those kind of situation, we know the person will die and I almost forgot to metion people who take overdose of medicine or drugs and die from it.

All those people who have heart attacks, those people did not see it coming and that their life was cut short because of the heart attack. They never had a chance to say good bye and they never knew that their time on Earth was up. They never knew at that moment that God has decided to take them home to heaven like he did with my brother, Paul.

Sure, some of you just walk around and doing things not know that you can get a heart attack unexpectly or die unexpectly in other ways like a neighbor I know died last year on Thanksgiving day. She was outside and fall backward. She hit ice and broke the back of her head and I guess the neck. She did die unexpectly. Nobody knew she was going to die at that time. It wasn't fair to her husband that she died before he did unexpectly. She never had a chance to say 'Good bye' to him and to others.

Death can come at anytime, any hours, any day and even when you least unexpected it to happened. That is exactly what happen to me when my brother died back in December of 2000. I wasn't expected it and it was of course shock to me. My dad died in March of 1999 of Liver Cancer which that expected but surely I did not expect my brother Paul to die about a year and a half after my Dad.

Do yourself a favorite and enjoy life as much as you can and love people around you including your family. You and I just don't know when our time is up and when we will die. That is the most unexpectly thing to happen in life is Death. Death has no age and it has no appointment. God wants us to enjoy life. God gives life and he can take a life anytime he wants. God is in charge of all of this. Even if he takes someone home via a heart attack, he still loves the people he took a person from. I know God loves all of us unconditionally.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Trust and the Bible...

When you read the Bible in either the Old or the New Testament, do you notice there is a word that is missing that that there are many stories that the word "Trust" is missing. For example, God warn Adam and Eve not to eat the Fruit of a tree or he will be angry at them. Even the snake fooled Eve to eat the fruit. Adam and Eve should have known God was saying "Trust me, don't eat that fruit" but God did not use the word "Trust". Adam and Eve should have "Trust" what God was saying before eating the fruit. Another example, Moses and God had a conversation. Moses ask God to prove he was with Moses. God told Moses to throw his stick on the ground and it will change into a snake. God did not have to say "Trust me and throw your stick on the ground." Moses did what God told him to do because he "Trust" God.

In the New Testament, Jesus said that he will come again. He did not have to say "Trust me that I will come again". It is for us to "Trust" Jesus. Another example when Jesus fed a large crowd with fish and bread. He did not tell the server "Trust me and pass this around as I will feed those people". The server trust Jesus and did not have to ask him any questions.

So the word "Trust" isn't use as often as it should in the Bible but it is in our heart and mind that "Trust" is very well in the Bible. We have to learn to "Trust" God and Jesus as it is told in the Bible.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Driving USA...

Just about anywhere you drive, you will surely find someone that is either wreckless
or careless when they are driving. Just the other day, a driver in a classic car
from the 1960's or 1970's was driving very aggresive and speeding on I-95 in Maryland. He was passing people just about anywhere in the four lane highway like
he was in a real hurry. I am like saying, where is the police officer to slow
that driver down. But there wasn't one.

Today, even if I was following the speed limit, a driver would make a left turn
in front of me less than 20 feet onto a two way road. The driver could have at
least wait until I pass to make that left turn because there was no car behind me
and there was no car coming the other way.

Do some drivers care about Red Lights? Do some drivers care about the speed limit?
Do some drivers care if they are breaking any driving laws? Do some drivers care
about they are driving rude or aggressive? Pick any kind of drivers and label
them to any of the above questions I have asked. The answer to any of those
questions for those type of drivers is "No". They don't care what you or anyone
else think about how they drive. They simply think, once they have driving
license, they can darn well do what they want when they drive. They figure, if
there is a way for them to do any of those things, they will gladly do it. If
they get into an accident, they will find a way to pin the fault on the other
driver. If they get pulled over by a police officer, they will find a way to
get out of a ticket and at a least hope to get a warning.

Sad but true as even if you pray to God to get safe driving from Point A to Point
B, you better pay harder.

All of us as drivers can't trust other drivers. Even if we drive at the correct
speed limit, there are people that surely will drive 10 or more miles above the
speed limit. Take I-95 which is the beltway in Washington DC area, what is the
average speed limit the drivers go? About 70 miles an hour and above on a 55 miles
an hour zone. Some will go even beyond 70 miles an hour.

Do yourself a favorite and use your mirror when you are driving as well as check
your blind spots. You will see from time to time not know where or how did a car
get to that surprise location.

Sadly no matter what we learn in driving education, we all have become enemies or
or no respect for each other when driving anywhere. In another words, there is no
respect for each other when driving. Just be careful where ever you are driving.
Thanks for reading this blog.

Update: According to the Triple AAA, they say that 78 percent of the people that drives in the Washington DC area are aggressive drivers. At the same time, 50 percent of those drivers admit themselves that they are aggressive drivers. So there you have it, there are all kinds of drivers out there either you like it or not.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

The Purpose Driven Life and Me....

I was sick yesterday with a Stomach Virus probably due to my daughter was sick and I took care of her this recent Tuesday. Yesterday I was sitting bed and thinking about things I have done mainly on the computer and life in General.

My daughter is 6 years old and she wanted to help me while I was sick. I did not ask her to do anything but she was very helpful making sure I was okay.

Anyhow, there is a book called "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren. The same pastor who was at Barack Obama event when he was sworn in. Forget about what you think or believe of the conflict of Rick Warren. He has written a book that talks about what is our purpose in life is on Earth. What is yours, other people, people all of over the world purpose is life is and how it is related to God. God plans everyone life for those who follow him and believe in him. He knows when you were born and he knows what exactly all of us are doing now, tomorrow, next week and so on. He plans things for all of us. You can ignore this blog and go do just about your things. But you can't hide from God no matter what you are doing.

What I have been doing on the computer is more than shameful to myself, my family and to know it is now what God wants to see. I have been going to Adult website which is wrong. You can get the picture. What is wrong with those website? Oh I know they are pleasure to look at and so on. They are out there to entertain people.
They have every rights to be out there for those who care to look at them.

For me, I come to realize after a while of doing it, it was totally wrong. It is as addicted as nicotine because it was a hard habit to break going to those websites.
So I decided to delete all those favorite links to those website from my computer.
I felt it wasn't right to continuing doing those things knowing that God is recording what I am doing in life. There was no life and no purpose for me to continue to access those websites.

Yes, the internet is a very dangerous world that has tons of many interest and things to explore. I do know that what I am doing is not only being watch by God but the Government. What you are doing on your computer is your choice. But keep in mind that the Government is watching you and everyone else. You have probably read stories of people getting arrested for going to website that has Child Porn, download pictures or for trying to talk with a young child on the internet hoping to met that person some where. Once you go met that person, you find out it was a federal agency that you were talking with and you got arrest for doing so. Once you get arrested for any crime related to the computer, you earned a ticket to Jail.

The computer is not a Purpose Driven Life. It is just a machine and you don't necessary be at the computer 24/7 means all the time. There is more life than the computer.

My family is more important than the computer and those adult websites. As Rick Warrn book says, God knows exactly what I am doing now and what I will be doing tomorrow. I know he did not drive me to those website but I went to those website as part of Freewill. We are all free do do what wish on Earth.

One last thing, I leave you here with a link to a Chick book to share with you that talks about how God record your life and what happen after you die, the choices are up to you. Here is the link:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0001/0001_01.asp

Just as you know even through you believe your name is in a Book of Life to go to Heaven does not necessary mean you are going to Heaven regardless what you do with your life. It is how you live your life is what God wants to see.