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A Good Inspiration -- Shirley's 129th Friendly Greeting--Sun, Feb 24, 2008

Hi,Dear Friends

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

It is the end of February, 2008. Most of Chinese have been in the second business week after our Chinese New Year's Holiday. But, the Chinese Spring Festival has not past until Thursday -- the Festival of Lanterns. So, there is still strong festival atmosphere everywhere. Many service companies and even many shops have not worked normally. My art and music lessons have not been normally, too. Everything is not very convenient yet.

However, Saturday morning, when I found something was not normal in my refrigerator. I would like to make a telephone to its producer -- Qingdao Haier.

Thinking of the troubles and the after service cost, I have bought almost all of my electrical appliances that were imported since I bought my apartment in 1997. Until last Nov, I started to use a homemade natural gas appliance since it was offered by the government. Then, my cleaning lady and a colleague bought this new refrigerator for me.

I was surprised that instead of some telephone number of Haier, an address and post code of the Shenzhen service center, there is not any telephone number of the local center as I had thought.

So, I tried to call the telephone on the service handbook and asked to get the telephone number of Shenzhen service center. A girl answered my phone call and told me that she would arrange someone to deal with my problem. With a heart that was not very trusted, I continued my work while waited for. In about one hour, I got a telephone call from an engineer and he came into my home in 10 minutes. The thing in my refrigerator was resolved soon.

Then, at about 12:45 in the noon, I got another telephone from Guangzhou; a clerk from Haier asked me whether the problem of my refrigerator has been dealt with before 12:30 and whether I was satisfied with the service.

I did feel good for their good work indeed. It has also reminded me to think of the other services by the Chinese Telecommunication Company, the insurance company of my car. They all did not only offer their after service at the first time with the first class style, but also, they make a supervised telephone to follow their after service quality. For enjoying their good work, I have been using my mobile phone, telephone by same company for 11 years and 14 years. Also, I have been buying my insurance of car from the same company for 5 years.

I do think that our company should learn from them. I would really like to write a new proposal and mention out some new ideas to set up our company’s own after service system as soon as possible.

How about you? What is the best inspiration in your life this week?

Shirley Created Art -- Gouache--0119: The Beautiful Nature
When I was a student, my favorite color was white. When I was a teacher, my favorite color was white and blue. When I started my painting 5 years ago, my favorite color was green. But now, I enjoy all of the colors and I think that every color would be the most beautiful if it is used on a suitable place. Anyway, green is still the most color that I have used. Maybe it is because I most enjoy painting something relates with the great nature, a flower, a tree or a land? I enjoyed the painting process. I enjoyed the color playing and the happiness in the art learning world indeed. How do you think of this picture, do you enjoy it?

Shirley Sings the Chinese Folk Song 064: Mo Chou A, Mo Chou-- Don't Worry and Don't Worry
There is a Mo Chou Lake in Nanjin and it was named because of an ancient girl -- Mochou. She was from a poor family and she was hardworking, kind, clever and beautiful. When she just had a baby, her husband became a soldier in the frontier and there was not any news for 10 years. Instead of being in the sadness always, she made her worrying about him to be not worrying and to help her neighbors and people always. So, after she was gone, people changed the lake’s name to be "Mochou(don't Worry) Lake”, and they fixed a statue of the Mochou Girl in her former residence to memory her. I do hope my singing will bring you a smile and be a little bit help to your Chinese learning and to improve your Chinese listening level.

Chinese in Daily Life-0026 (Sentences: 189 - 191): How to say "Spring Festival" in Chinese?
February 21, is China's Festival of Lanterns, also, it is the last day of the Chinese Spring Festival. In the night, there are many different exhibitions and activities of the lanterns in China as the last celebration of the Chinese Spring Festival and a part of Chinese cultures. So, I would like show you some new Chinese sentences about this topic and hope it will be a little help to you to learn Chinese and culture.

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
Sun, Feb 24 2008

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