How are you? Is everything well with you? I do hope you are well and have a relaxed weekend.

As usual, it is a busy week for me. Anyway, no matter how busy I am, I keep reading three industry newspapers and one local newspaper as soon as I enter my office in the morning to know what have happened in the industry, country and the world. They will help me to make a quickly daily judgment to see whether our work and my projects still keep on a right way to serve the industry and the country... I think, maybe one of duties of a manager is just to hold the direction of a work or a project or a company, instead of the details. A manager should be a captain of a ship instead of a sailor. Do you think so?

This week, I have checked at least 9 contracts that relate to our different business on television, web sites, telephone, plane design, technology serve, information publishing and so on. The feeling was very complex when I worked on it. One side, I felt that I do have a responsibility to help the young people to grow up as soon as possible, not only on their business level, but also on their writing level. The other side, I also feel that maybe our university education has to think something more to serving for the society practice with more useful lessons. Can you imagine? Most of the young people who have bachelors or master degrees can not really write a formal office document well. So, I had to show them how to write and correct their contracts according to their different business one by one. It is not strange for me to see this situation because I also started to learn to write a formal office document after leaving from the university and in the work in the companies even though I was major in Chinese language and literature for 5 years, had learned about 30 kinds of lessons and could recite at least 1000 classical poems… : -)

Have you written any contract or document in person? Where and when did you learn to write an office document? Do you think your university lessons arrangement is suitable?

This week, the biggest progress on my little web site is that my edition system has had a new function that allows me to invite someone to correct my English or the content that I have appointed on the web site from any place in the world. So, if you are a native English speaker or a friend who is working in English, you are welcomed as a volunteer to help me to correct my writing, or to introduce something from your own culture or to offer an English lesson.

I am just a learner on art, music, English 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 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@yahoo.com, You are welcomed to publish your opinions in the forum,too. :-)

--Shirley
Written and Edited On Sun, July 9, 2006