How are you? Have you had a good week? I do hope that everything is well with you and you are enjoying a relaxed weekend.

This is really a great week that our city Shenzhen is successful on the competition to be the host city of the Summer Universiade in 2011. When the good news came to the city from far away Turin, Italy, whole of the city was boiling and people celebrating the great success with different ways.

I am so happy for the good news as one of residents and builders of the city. And I have given my time, energy and life, for about 15 years to the young city, that has only 26 years in history. So I would like to write something from now about my city and to show you something more via my writing and pictures. After all, I love my city and many people thought that this is a city that has the beauty as San Francisco and the quick speed as N.Y. C.

In the company I worked on my greater amount of meetings. Besides the daily manager meetings, I attended many conversazione with general colleagues, engineers, editors, reporters, designers, photographers, hosts/hostess of the TV programs, translators and so on, to hear their comments about our work in 2006 and the suggestions for our work in 2007.

After a written investigation into all of the people in the company, we published some documents to encourage everyone in the company to compete the position that is higher then their current position. No matter a manager department manager or a vice department manager position, we would like to find more talent young people from our team and to choose the best ones and put them on the positions that is suitable for them. To keep our management team energetic, creative and to be the most excellent one.

I am still working on my researching work and I do feel lucky to have some opportunities to help the company to make our practice work to be stepped up on a theory level. Meanwhile, I painted much more in my free time with more free and more relaxed heart and style. -- I worked in my office Saturday and Sunday, so that I did not have time to make my 3rd new picture this week to be yet attached. Both of my work and life are busy and delightful. I do feel happy and lucky as a person who can enjoy the double beauty every day.

How do you feel in the New Year? Do you enjoy your work and life? Do you feel the beauty and happiness every day?

I am just a learner on art, music, English, French and the work on the web site in my free time. Anyway, 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. 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 or suggestions, please write to shirleyz004@yahoo.com or shirley@ebridge.cn . You are welcomed to publish your opinions in the forum.

--Shirley
Written and Edited on Sun, Jan 21, 2007