How are you? How is your week going? I do hope that you are enjoying your weekend with an easy heart and many smiles.

My 10 days holiday has past and I will start to work in the company from Monday ? in fact from Sunday afternoon.

In my holiday, except working on the web site, I have been painting since Eve of Chinese New Year. And I have completed my Second Water Lily Girl with Chinese Gongbi Style and have drafted 3rd one. :-) I am in the emotion to create a group of Chinese girls and make my flowers, butterflies, birds and the national things to be their backgrounds... :-) I am also in the dream to go to an art college to learn as a full time student for awhile some day, maybe after I retire from the current work...:-)

First time, I turned on my mobile phone in my Spring Festival Holiday according to the rules by the company -- I had turned it off for painting in 2004 and 2005. Then I got so many greeting messages via it. The best one is that I got a message from the woman employee who was fired by the company. She thanked me for my help to her and she invited me to paint from nation in her hometown …

In the holiday, I got a wonderful service -- a succor car from the insurance company came to my car that had lost electricity within 30 minutes after I called them. Meanwhile, I got a telephone call from the traffic police station to ask me whether my car was repairing for they had found that the car was touching by someone... later, 2 customer service telephone calls to ask me whether I got the service free and whether I satisfy to their service...

I have lived in many cities and I enjoy the cultural breath of Beijing and the commercial atmosphere in Shanghai. Anyway, my favorite city to live is Shenzhen for its high life quality and first-class service. Here, no matter my telephone, Television or Internet connection has any problems, as long as I make a telephone call to a service center, within 24 hours, my problems can be dealt with… Maybe just for the first-class service and combined life conditions, more and more Hong Kong people have bought their houses here. They live in Shenzhen in the night and go to work in Hong Kong in the morning and more and more students abroad have chose my city to develop themselves…
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 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 coutinuously now and in the coming time... :-)

If you would like to publish something about your language and cultures on the web site as A Friday's Works , 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 as well.

--Shirley
Written and Edited On Sun, Feb 5, 2006