How are you? Is every thing ok with you? I do hope that you are doing well and have an easy and relaxed weekend.

Saturday night, I worked on my English lesson until 2:15 am and I wanted to sleep for a long time. However, I was woken up in my bird's singing at 7:00 am Sunday morning. With two sleepy eyes and in a dreamy state, I turned off the air conditions, opened the windows, put my birds out of the door and went to bed again. Nevertheless, I re-got up and came to my computer at about 7:29am. My eyes still wanted to close, the sensitivity as an artist told me to catch the snatchy dreamy snippets, otherwise, it would slip away soon. Here are the snippets in my dream:

I was informed to arrange a work dinner for our cooperation partners, the biggest shareholder and our bosses on Sunday... I called the director of the administration office to order a room in a restaurant...I called the secretary of the biggest shareholder to tell her the dinner time... Anyway, in my dream, the biggest shareholder was not our mother company, but my new music teacher from Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

I walked back home... Nearby my apartment building, I saw a new house that has not been completed, with light pink and orange colors, a big front hall and big windows, opposite of the street... There were no glasses on the windows and doors yet...

Walking over the house... I was in a opening hall of the other house, the secretary went to me and told me quietly for the biggest shareholder was still sleeping... I saw some engineers of our company were having their lunch while listening to some radio news under some pavilions in the garden. I told them to eat less and there would be a work dinner and I required them to wear in formal suites... then I saw my best friend, her husband was sick, I went to find medicine for them...

I noticed the radio was reporting in English. I went out to talk with the engineer who was holding the radio... I saw a picture on the T-shirt of a girl engineer. The picture was combined by some small piece of color clothes by her itself. I was interested in it so that I could not help discussing it with her... I gave her my ideas... and I showed her how to re-combine the picture with some art skills as Chinese doing a baby's pillow...

I showed her my works with my thoughts... several mandarin ducks with beautiful feather on the stones in a river were accruing on her T-shirt; some heroes from the Homeric Times were accruing on her T-shirt... Instead of from Olympus of Greece, they were from Spain...

Along with my work, I saw a new and huge picture on the wall... in a wide and long and wandering river, there were some huge stones, a few Chinese mandarin ducks who were regarded as signal of love were standing, sitting on the stones or swimming around of the stones... a boundless virgin forest of pin trees and bamboos besides of the river... continuous far away, until the horizon... it seems like the time that a new sun would raise up from the remotest places, in the end of the river, and nearest place, I saw some heroes with long beard in the water...it seemed like they were from the famous Chinese history novel and TV play -- Romance of the Three Kingdoms...but their faces were little bit like Westerners. I was talking with the girl that how to re-create some new and small pictures via cutting a part of the big picture and how to combine these little parts to create a new and big one... then I heard the music of symphony and then, I opened my eyes in the singing of my birds...

Now, when I am re-recalling the snippets in my dream, once more, I have realized what my true love is. Meanwhile, I have had a new thought that maybe I should not part the art of management and the art of language from the art of painting and music as I did before. After all, art work also needs to be managed and expressed with their own languages. As an ideal artist in my dream, I should go ten thousands miles road, read ten thousands books and experience then thousands things...

Do you agree with my inspirations from the dream? Do you have any new thoughts about your life and work?
I am just a learner on that art of painting, music English and Chinese language, 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, Language Learning & Friendship. 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, you are welcome to write to shirley@ebridge.cn or shirleyz004@yahoo.com, or to publish your opinions in the forum.

Shirley Yiping Zhang
Sun, June 22nd,2008