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Hi,Dear Friends
 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
I do hope that you and your family members will be happier, luckier, healthier and more successful in the upcoming new year.
In the past 7 days, besides inviting my former classmate Mr. Zhu Bin, his wife and child to have a lunch and to thank their good help since Oct 19, attended a dinner party in the house of Ms. Carissa Griffin, the mother of one of my American students, I worked for more than 110 hours on my own art works, every day worked for 15 to 18 hours.
Not only have I completed 3 new paintings, created a piece of music for a classical Chinese poem, translated it, sang it in Chinese and in English, wrote an article to introduce it, but also, by the good help of my work partners Mr. Hannan Zhang, Mr. Charlie Quan Zhang from China, a new Christmas and New Year's Card has been created and sent to the 12,000 register readers from more than 30 countries. It is on the top right corner now, you can hit it and play it.
I was moved so much for Mr. Hannan Zhang - the Design Director of BBVISI, he just came back Shenzhen from his business travel in the night, Dec 21, and Mr. Charlie Quan Zhang would leave for the airport in the morning, Dec 23. Whole of our time to create this card was just 3 hours.
I mean, at about 5:30 pm Chinese time, 3:30am American time Dec 22, I called and made an appointment with both of them: let me see the sample card at 8:30pm to 9:00pm Chinese time and 6:30am to 7:00am American time Dec 22, to call me as soon as they completed their jobs, no matter what time it was on my side and I fixed my cell phone to call myself before I had a short nap.
However, when I opened my eyes, it was 9:00am American time and 11:00pm Chinese time. Their sample card had been in my inbox at 9:00pm Chinese time and 7:00am American time already, but they did not call me then.
I felt so sorry for time has been so later on their side. However, I had to called and to write to them since we had only about 10 hours before Charlie Quan Zhang left for the airport.
Thing made me moved once more: as long as I called Charlie Quan Zhang, I got his answer and just I sent out an email to Mr. Hannan Zhang, I got his responding.
What a lucky person I was!
Just by their good and efficiency help, our card was sent all of the readers before Charlie 's airplane set off.
Meanwhile, in England, at the same time to fight with the sickness, my English tutor Mr. Mike Joyce corrected my new translations.
With a grateful heart and so much respect, I wrote the names of my work partners on the card. I would really like to let all of the people got this card to know: if there were no so much help and support from my work partners and friends, I would not be able to do any things by myself. Each step on my study, thinking, exploration and creating road, includes so much hard work from so many people...
Then, at the dinner party of the local American friends on the weekend, once more, I saw with my own eyes: there is really a group of Chinese Fans who have been keeping learning Chinese language and culture with different dreams - to study in China, to travel in China or to deliver Bible in China...
Especially, I was touched by a local American friend who is a blind man, with a so positive life attitude, he has been studying Chinese via computer for a long time and he has been able to communicate with me in mandarin with very standard pronunciation.
As a native Chinese, I was moved so much when I saw how they were serious to study Chinese culture and language so that I am thinking, I should certainly do something for them with what I have studied, researched and created.
So, if saying last year, when I worked on my series book, DVD and art works, what I paid more attention was to create a new and efficiency artistic way to help non-Chinese speakers who are the beginners on Chinese learning via learning Chinese art and poems, now, I do have had a stronger sense of responsibility and the sense of mission. I want to work base on the language and painting, to help the non-Chinese speakers who have had a good Chinese level to know more about Chinese culture between the lines, to share the beauty of Chinese poems and paintings not only from the language itself, but also from the writing skills and the inspiration that a classical poem that was created thousand years ago to the Contemporary People.
It is no doubt more difficult job for me. However, since I would like to do a top project, I must give myself a higher requirement. Do you think so?
With this idea, this week, I spent a lot of time to complete a new article on a Chinese classical poem. Even though the process was quite difficult that I did not sleep for whole of one night and one day. After I truly completed it, my heart was full of the happiness.
All of the jobs I did in the past 7 days can be seen via the links below, you are welcome to check them. I will appreciate you if you can give me your comments, suggestions and advice.
Also you can see some new photos this week via the link.
How about you? How will you spend your Christmas? Do you have any thing special to share?
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