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A New Choice - Shirley's 138th Friendly Greeting -- Sun, April 27, 2008

Hi,Dear Friends

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

This week (in fact, since I was robbed ), I often suffer the stomach-ache, but, I have been keeping working in the company and I have not stopped to learn art of painting, music and language for one day.

Now, I am facing a new choice again.

At as almost same time as last year, this Monday, I am lucky enough to be offered an opportunity to take part in a project that is supported by both of the Shenzhen government and a state government of a Western country -- to train senior managers for some big and middle size companies of Shenzhen in the Western country’s university as visiting scholar students for one year.

I was surprised to be informed by the project organizer. They are impressed of me and feel it was a pity that I gave up the same opportunity last year. They think that my qualification is suitable for the project and wish me to join it.

I am touched for their diligent work. I am thinking of their suggestions and to make a choice.

I have not discussed the thing with our company, because I have not made a decision yet. I would like, before thinking of it, to be clear and to know what the opportunity cost, benefit and negative is. What should I do to get the best result of the thing? To continue my current life and work style in China or to make some adjust and to re-arrange my work and life style via this opportunity?

Anyway, I will make the final decision before the first ten days of May.

How about you? Is there anything special in your work and life?

Shirley Created Art -- Chinese Xieyi -- 0164: Peony
Peony is one of the most popular flowers in China. There are many peony exhibitions in China. The most famous is Luoyang Peony Fair. This week, I have painted two new pictures of peonies, one is Chinese Gongbi Painting, but I have not finished it yet. The other is Chinese Xieyi Paintings. Even though I had not had art lessons for two weeks, I kept teaching myself and kept painting. So that my teacher thought that my last two paintings with my own combined arts style has had some new progress and would be bought if I wanted to sell them. How do you think of my new paintings, do you enjoy them?

Bilingual Song--0028: Shirley Sings the Chinese (North) Folk Song --0068: "I Love You, the Snow in the North of the Great Wall" in English & Chinese
After teaching me to breathe and to sing with diaphragm, my new teacher is teaching me to open my tooth joint and to support my sound with chest. Now I have finally known why I could not sing this song well before. So, Saturday afternoon, I tried to re-translate, re-sing and re-record it in English and in Chinese with the ways that my teacher had taught me. I do hope that you find that I have made some progress even though there are still some problems in it.. I do hope that my effort will be of some help to you to improve your Chinese listening ability.

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, 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, April 27, 2008

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