How are you? I do hope that you are well and have an easy and relaxed weekend.

We started a 4 days New Years Holiday on Friday night. I continued my research report Saturday morning.

Last year I led project groups to complete 3 research reports with 110.000 Chinese characters, except daily work. In 2007, I spent more time to make our thoughts and opinions to work. Last years, I worked on different single media or a part of the producing process. In 2007, I spent more energy to adjust the work or relationship among the multimedia -- magazine, newspaper, web site, TV, telephone, mobile phone and database daily. To work or to adjust whole of the producing process -- design, development, maintaining, marketing, sales and customer service.

I am lucky as the only company manager to touch the first hand company business information, phenomena and problems via a manager meeting every morning. I do think that my duty and obligation are not only to resolve the problems themselves during the working process, I should also think and research them, to lift the research result to be some business theory to serve and to help the company. Then, I will not be sorry to the company, to my position as a senior manager with a doctoral degree on business management.

So, no one asks me to work in the New Year’s Holiday. I have been keeping working on my research report at this time for 5 years.

Instead of driving, I walked to my office in the songs of the birds and the sweet smell of the flowers with a peaceful heart in the morning. After working for 3 to 5 hours, I came back home to enjoy my holiday with my own birds, painting, music and language learning.

After treating my first vocal music teacher a Christmas dinner, I stopped her lesson. In 2008, I will keep learning to sing from my new vocal music teacher from Shanghai Music College, to learn painting from my current art teacher. Also, I have applied to be a student of Beijing Foreign Language University, to learn English via the Internet mainly for 3 years.

I am happy, for finally I have found an advanced and a flexible style to learn English in the best Foreign Language University of China.

Because of my education background, I need not attend their entrance examination and I need not learn their 4 public lessons for the other students. I will just learn 16 English lessons. I have confidence in myself to complete them with a good achievement. After all, I have been looking forward to get a formal English education opportunity for a long time. After all, I have been looking for a suitable learning style for many years. I am happy for my dream will be true in the near future.

Are you happy for me? Do you have any plan to improve yourself in the coming year?
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 30, 2007