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The 37th Friendly Greeting From Shirley, China, Thuesday, May 16, 2006
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Hi,Dear Friends
How are you? Is everything well with you? Are you enjoying your new week?
I am sorry for I have not worked on the web site for over 2 weeks because my holiday. At the first, it was the May Day Holiday as a China鈥檚 national holiday, then my own holiday. I am still in my holiday now, but, I would like to re-start to work here. Maybe I can not work regularly as usual in the coming 2 or 3 weeks yet. Anyway, I will try to do my best to keep the working on the web site. After all, art, music, and language learning will be my main work after I retire some day and in whole of my left life...
During the holiday, a good service by the telephone company in my city really made me to be touched. I found one of my home telephones did not work in May Day Holiday, so I called the telephone company on Saturday morning and in the afternoon, when I was shopping, I got a telephone from an engineer and he had checked the line outside and wanted to check it in my home... But I could not come back soon, so, I wished him to come on Sunday morning... Anyway, in Saturday night, a telephone from the company asked me how my telephone working going, and why the line had not been recovered. Then, in Sunday morning, the engineer came to check and re-fixed the lines for me... later, after he went out of my home, an automatism voice telephone called me to ask whether my telephone was ok and whether I satisfied with their service...
Can you imagine? When I applied the first telephone in 1994, the price was 4600 RMB ? about 574 USD and I had to show a document by the company to prove that I needed to work at home. In 1997, I applied the second telephone, the price was 1500 RMB -- about 187 USD. But now, you can get a telephone with only 100 RMB -- about 12 USD. Even though there is no a line by your home, and to offer a line from the telephone company, the totally fee is only 300RMB -- about 37.5 USD. What a big change in the city and in my country!
Today, 16th, May, 2006 is my 3 anniversary to learn to paint with Chinese style . During the time, I painted 73 kinds of Chinese Xieyi ? freehand brushworks paintings ? I means I made more practices on same pictures, if plus them the number will be near 500 pieces and I have learned to paint flowers and birds, now I just started to paint landscape. 18 Chinese Gongbi -- traditional Chinese realistic paintings; Meanwhile, I painted 99 Gouache Paintings, and also over 500 pen sketches...
I am really proud of myself that I have kept for 3 years already and I will try to do my best to keep another one or two 3 years, even 30 years to work on it for whole of my a half life鈥�
How about your city? Is the service industry in a very good service way? Is it convenient and fast for you to apply a telephone?
Do you enjoy music and art?
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Chinese Xieyi -- 075(Flower & Bird): A Harvest Season
After learning to paint flowers and birds for 3 years, first time, I started to learn to paint a landscape with Chinese Xieyi style with a brush directly. Now, I just know why my teacher taught me to paint stone times and times :-) It is just the foundation to paint a landscape. :-) I had forgot to paint the red leaves on the mountains in my art lesson, so I had to add it after the colors were dry later so that I had to add something on the trees by the houses for making the colors looked harmonious... but, it does not seem like very natural...:-) How do you think of my first landscape picture with Chinese style? Do you enjoy it?
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Chinese Xieyi--074(Flower & Bird): Happy Birthday!
First time, I learned to paint peaches and Soudai birds for they are something often painted to celebrate old people's birthdays and to wish them to be healthy and long lived. I was very interested in learning them. So, instead of painting 4 peaches according to my teacher鈥檚 requirement, I painted 6 ones. :-) Today is the 3 anniversary that I learned Chinese painting. I have kept for 3 years already. I am thinking how to keep another 3 years and even 30 years in whole of my left life鈥� :-) What is your dream about your left life?
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Chinese (North) Folk Song: 020 -- Fifteen's Moon
As every family, a husband and a wife support it together, here it is just a song to admire both of a wife and a husband to share the hard and happy time in their common life, to express their missing feelings in a moonlight night. I learned it in my music lesson on the Saturday and I have not given up any lesson even though I am in my holiday. I do hope my song will bring you a happy smile.
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Chinese Classical Poem--0042: Thinking of My Brother on the Double Ninth Festival -- Jiuyue Ju Ri Yi Shangdong Xiongdi
--By Wang Wei[Tang]
As an alone guest in a strange land, I get double homesick on the festival day ? just the feelings of this poem. When the poet was in a new place lonely when he was 17 years old on a traditional festival -- the Double Ninth Festival (Now it has become to be the Chinese Old People鈥檚 Day) and imagine how people stepped on high places and to collect the dogwood as some apotropaion to ward off evil. As usual, I wrote a piece of music to match this poem and hope you enjoy it. :-)
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I am just a learner on art, music, English and the work on the web site. Anyway, I would really like to do a little bit things with what I have learned to make this little web site to beAn Electronic Bridge Of Culture Exchange, Friendship, and Language Learning. During the process to help the others and to improve myself. :-)
I do appreciate your understanding, directions and supports. I do hope to get your great help continuously now and in the coming time...
If you have any questions, comments and suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn , or shirleyz004@haoo.com, You are welcomed to publish your opinions in the forum,too. :-)
--Shirley
Written and Edited On May 16, 2006
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