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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! -- Shirley's 119th Friendly Greeting--Sun, Dec 23, 2007
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Hi,Dear Friends
 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Even though Christmas is not a Chinese national holiday, there is still strong Christmas breath in China. In many public occasions, we can see the Santa Clauses and Christmas trees. Many clerks are wearing the Christmas caps to work in the supermarkets or restaurants. There is also a big Christmas tree that is around of flowers with colored lights in the hall of the first floor in our office building as usual.
At the most important festival and special holiday time on your side, I would like to send my best wishes from the other side of the Ocean via my own little Christmas and New Year's Card (You can hit the link or the picture right and up to see it while to hear the music with it together). I do wish you and your family, love, friends Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I do wish all of you will make much more successful in the coming year with good luck, health and happiness in the coming year.
Meanwhile, I would also like to appreciate you for your great support, nice help and friendly respond to my learning work on the little web site Shirley’s World in the past year. I do hope in the coming year, I can do little more things for you and all of the friends who have come to the web site, to learn something new, exchange cultures more, making friends and to improve your Chinese and my English, too.
This week, there are many things happened in the company. But, a little thing has touched me indeed. Saturday morning, I went to my office to take a file and I found that one of my computers could not be turned on for an electrical outlet did not work. I mentioned it to a guard when I left from the office building. He wondered whether I needed to find an electrician to fix it. I said "No, I can wait until Monday" for I did not want someone else to work in his /her free time for the little thing since the other electrical outlets still worked in my office. Also, both of the guards and the electricians are the employees of the building management office instead of our company. However, when I entered my office second time Sunday morning, the first thing I found that a new electrical outlet had been on the wall.
I was touched by the little thing and I did feel that a great career can not be completed by one person, no matter what a great talent he or she is. It is certainly completed by many people with a good cooperation together. It is certainly completed by many people who are rather than to work on his/her common work position as some little bolts. Then the career can be pushed forward as a huge machine.
So, I do wish that in the coming year, all of us will keep a harmony, friendship, love and all of the great feelings of human being, to create a peaceful and beautiful world together.
How do you think of my idea? Do you agree with me?
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Shirley Created Art -- Gouache--0107: A Little Road
In the first 4 weeks to learn to paint Gouache paintings, I have painted 6 ones and a color sketch of my little parrots. My teacher wanted to cancel the lesson after knowing I was suffering a stomachache. My answer was "No", because it was not easy for me to get a direction by a professional artist and an art professor. So I completed this picture while tied my stomach with something. My teacher satisfied with my works and gave me 93 marks -- this is the second time I got a mark over 90 in the 4 years and 7 months. The other is one of I created combined paintings. Can you imagine? I would be invited to manage a Chinese Painting Training Class while to learn paint if I would really like to retire earlier 5 years than the regular time in 2008. Are you glad for me for my effort has been admitted? Do you like this picture?
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Shirley Created Art -- Gouache--0106: Summer
I painted this picture with a little bit stomachache Tuesday night ? recently, I often feel extra tired and in a stomachache. But, I did not stop to work in the company and to learn art of painting, music and English at home. I enjoy the feeling to "Play" colors and I feel the biggest relaxed and free when I paint. No matter what has happened in my work and life, as soon as I started to paint. I feel a peaceful and a kind feeling in my heart. When I completed this picture, I almost felt that my stomachache has gone. My teacher checked it in my art lesson and gave me 85 marks for my colors are not rich and the dark places was not dark enough. How do you think of this picture? Do you enjoy it?
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Bilingual Song--0020: Shirley Sings the Chinese Art Song--0031 "Zhufu Zuguo -- Bless My Motherland", in English & Chinese
It is near Chinese Spring Festival, so, my new vocal music teacher had prepared a new song for me to sing in the company yearly party and she has taught me twice already. Even though I did not think that I have mastered it well, I tried to translate it and to make a record as a practice. I have sung it in English and Chinese and hope it is a little bit help to you to learn Chinese.
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Chinese Classical Poem 0106 -- Lyric 005(By Li Zhiyi ) & Shirley Created Music-0086-01: Bu Suan Zi--Song of Divination
I created a piece of music to match this Song (960-1279) lyric on the airplane when I was flying to Hainan from Shenzhen for a business trip. I translated it and sang it in English and Chinese this weekend. This lyric has expressed how a young lady would like to be loyal to her lover. Meanwhile, it expresses her worrying about their love. After all, she misses him day and night, but he is not in view at all. What she can see is only the water. What is connecting them is only the river. This is a typical Chinese expressing style -- to talk about love, but, there is no any word to mention love directly. You have to feel something behind of the lines and the words.
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I am just a learner on that art of painting, music, calligraphy, languages and to work on the web site in my free time. I would really like to do a little bit things with what I have learned to make this little web site to be An Electronic Bridge Of Culture Exchange, Friendship and Language Learning. To help the others while to improve myself.
I appreciate your understanding, directions and supports. I do hope to get your friendly help...
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn or shirleyz004@yahoo.com. You are welcomed to publish your opinions in the forum.
Shirley Yiping Zhang
Written and Edited on Sun, Dec 23, 2007
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