designed by cuong aka buzzone day, it was sad for me to see that deaf person who left a comment at the blog how nad has not done enough for her/him yet. he/she failed to grasp the concept of value what america had taught us. the speech by john f. kennedy quoted,"ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country" did inspire us to embrace our deaf community and to build up our characters better.
last three years ago, i did design this madc logo, newsletter, letterhead, envelope & thank you card. however this madc logo would not be existed if it was not for trudy suggs. i thanked madc for having faith to put trudy in the charge of this project. but i also thanked trudy personally for her great job to handle this logo project and to work with me on professional level.
when trudy suggs was the madc vice president to announce about my madc logo design front of 200 people at the second annual pig roast. she did thank me personally on behalf of madc members, boards, officers and president then they gave me the 6 years membership of madc.
one good friend of mine talked to me privately, "wow, my experience job, i've deal with the logo project before, your logo design should be worth $6,000 or more instead of 6 years membership worth." i told him to shhhh! if i ask madc to "cough up the dough" then they could not afford me anyway. but i chose to be wise as grace rather than to be smart as greedy.
mind you, i am so proud and honor to accept this gift of 6 years membership as the token of their gratification for my design. if a person decides to become madc member or/and nad member both then that person has mastered to grasp the concept of "ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country" to build character is equally to my design or passion. it seemed right thing for me to make sacrifice rather in order to save our deaf community's voice to be heard for our right to protect asl, access, human rights, etc...
the bottom is that nad, madc, mcdhh and i among other activists have done more than that person who whined and complained to do nothing about it. has he/she gotten around to the real action to advocate? get my drift? again, my wife and i are proud to become the members of nad because our nad's voice is the one and truth for all deaf community!
last three years ago, i did design this madc logo, newsletter, letterhead, envelope & thank you card. however this madc logo would not be existed if it was not for trudy suggs. i thanked madc for having faith to put trudy in the charge of this project. but i also thanked trudy personally for her great job to handle this logo project and to work with me on professional level.
when trudy suggs was the madc vice president to announce about my madc logo design front of 200 people at the second annual pig roast. she did thank me personally on behalf of madc members, boards, officers and president then they gave me the 6 years membership of madc.
one good friend of mine talked to me privately, "wow, my experience job, i've deal with the logo project before, your logo design should be worth $6,000 or more instead of 6 years membership worth." i told him to shhhh! if i ask madc to "cough up the dough" then they could not afford me anyway. but i chose to be wise as grace rather than to be smart as greedy.
mind you, i am so proud and honor to accept this gift of 6 years membership as the token of their gratification for my design. if a person decides to become madc member or/and nad member both then that person has mastered to grasp the concept of "ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country" to build character is equally to my design or passion. it seemed right thing for me to make sacrifice rather in order to save our deaf community's voice to be heard for our right to protect asl, access, human rights, etc...
the bottom is that nad, madc, mcdhh and i among other activists have done more than that person who whined and complained to do nothing about it. has he/she gotten around to the real action to advocate? get my drift? again, my wife and i are proud to become the members of nad because our nad's voice is the one and truth for all deaf community!
4 comments:
Thanks Cuong for all you do!
sonny,
forgive me for spying on your blogs recently. cool to see nice deaf activist from minnesota!
you stopped writing last year and no report on your blog after your last post about deaf legislative day. did you attend at the minnesota's deaf legislative day last march 8th? have you met mary hartnett from mcdhh yet? she is sweet!
i thank you too for being deaf activist and to promote self-advocacy on your blog. you thumb up!
hope you will consider to apply for the mcdhh board as either at-large member or advisory council member if your time permits.
buzz
it is cool of trudy suggs to mention me among others in her last article at i711.com!
Nice logo design! Awesome service!
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