How are you? Did you have a good week? I do hope everything is well with you and had an easy weekend.

Time is flying and 2006 will pass soon. This is really a week with meetings for me. Except holding the daily manager's meetings, on Tuesday afternoon, I made a work report with 53 pages and on Saturday afternoon, I attended another manager's meeting to summary our work in 2006 and to discuss the work in 2007 and to hear the opinions of all of the managers. This is just an oral summary and every manager must give a work summary and the work plan for the New Year before the 15th of December.

Meanwhile I am still working on my researching report and I have been working in my office for at least half a day every weekend since June.

This morning, before I wanted to go out of my house to go to work in the company, I could not use the gassystem in my washroom. I just realized that the Gas Company would come today to fix a new system for the residents. So, I stayed home and around 8:30am, a worker came in to change something and updated the gas system from coal gas to natural gas!

When the repairer was working on the system, I was thinking of so many things. When I went to the university in 1978, almost all of the people were using coal. Then, in 1986, when my son was born, my coal stove was changed to be coal gas system in Wuxi City. Then, in 1991, when I came to Shenzhen, nobody was using coal anymore and all the residents were using here gas now, changed from gas pitcher to pipeline gas, using natural gas. Every thing is getting better and better, our lives as general Chinese are getting easier and easier, convenient more and more. Food and cooking has changed to be the cheapest thing in our daily life. I do have the feeling at home that I have finally returned into the city.

Do you enjoy your life in your city? Do you have a feeling at home that you finally have returned into your own city?

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, Dec 10, 2006