How are you? I do hope that you are doing well and enjoy your weekend.

Feb 2, 2011 is the Chinese New Year's Eve. I will fly to Wuxi City to have a reunion with my father and my brother's family members. Before starting the travel, I would like to write a letter to you and I do hope that in the new year, you and your family members will be happier, luckier and healthier, make more achievement.

Since I came back to Shenzhen from Beijing and retreated from the company Jan 19th, 2011 because of my health problem. It is the first time, I did not paint and sing anything for 2 weeks in the past 8 years.

I am lucky enough to be cared for by many friends, classmates, former bosses, colleagues, teachers, my son, my son’s father and my own father and so on...I have had about 20 meals with them one by one and I have also had a travel by ship. As long as I have time, I read Bible and books. I have been thinking and asking myself, was I successful or failed in my 38 career life? Did I really have a career as a teacher, student, instructor, editor and manager? How should I go over my future life road?

I do not think that I was successful and I do not think I was failed, too. I think that I should be given 50 scores -- even though I have worked hard for 38 years and I had done many creative things for the country and the company, I have been an employee, I have no any share or actual career belongs to myself, except I have a positive life attitude, a smart mind and two skilled hands, some good and bad experience and lessons.

I pray the God to give me another 30 years or just 10 years, help me to grow up to be a rainbow bridge of cross-culture exchange, via my hard and sincere work, to contribute something more beautiful, helpful and meaningful to more people and this world; I pray the God to offer me the first and last wedding, to bring me to enter the Eden of human being.

I know the future road will be long and not easy to go; I do not know where my Apollo hides right now. I am sure that by the good direction of the God, great help of the friends and the continuous effort of myself, my little dreams will be certainly true on some level someday. :- )

Therefore, I am working hard on making a practical and efficient plan for my future road. I am thinking of that maybe I should make a big "strategy transfer" no matter on the key point in my life, but also on the geographical position. :-)

Even though I am confidence with what I am going to do, I have prepared to face the worst result. Even though some day, all of my effort and wishes change to be the flowers in the mirror or the moon in the water, as long as I have done my best, when the God comes to bring me to go, I will enter the heaven without any regret, but many smiles...

The good news is that after the reading, thinking and asking for about 2 weeks, right now, my heart has recovered in a peaceful style, and today, I re-have a wish to paint a new painting or sing a new song again. I am sure that you will find a new painting with my letter to you in the first weekend of the Chinese New Year... :-)

How do you think of my idea? Do you think you have your own career? How do you value it? What is your plan and dream for your future?

I am just a student on Art of Painting, Music, English and Management, to work on the web site in my free time. I would really like to do a few things with what I have learned to make this little web site to be an Electronic Bridge of Inter-Art & Cross - Culture Exchange, Chinese Language Learning & Friendship Making. To help the others while to improve myself.

I would like to appreciate you for your understanding, directions, supports and help.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, you are welcome to write to shirley@ebridge.cn or leave your message on Message Board.

Shirley Yiping Zhang
Jan 31, 2011