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The 51st Friendly Greeting From Shirley, China, Sun, Aug 20, 2006

Hi,Dear Friends

How are you? Have you had a good week? I do hope you are well and have a relaxed and easy weekend.

This week, except my projects, I used much energy to organize the company to check our business activities in the past few years to see whether there were any bribe activities ? this is something we must do as a part of work to fight against the bribe in the business field in the country.

Also, I thought much for some positive and negative news that relate to some foreigners in our city from the local newspapers and TV.

The positive news is: Shenzhen has become the first Chinese city that engages foreign pilots, we engaged 18 captains from Brazil last week and there are 40 foreign pilots in Shenzhen Airline Company now. Shenzhen also set up another new airline company with Germany this week. More and more foreigners who have good education background and wonderful culture level are coming into our city. It is not a strange thing to see a foreigner in the street in my city.

A thing that touched me very much is that a president of a multinational company from the U.S. found a common girl worker who was suffering the leukaemia in his Shenzhen branch, both of his wife and him donated their own money to help her. His company paid whole of the money to save her in the hospital, also, he has connected many places to find the suitable marrow for the girl, now, a suitable marrow from Taiwan will be replanted to the girl. Her young life will be saved and be last...

Meanwhile, many foreign companies in the city are continuing to donate money to help the disaster area in Guangdong.

The negative news is: an English teacher who is from Ghana personated him as an American or a British in different occasions. He tricked 2 girls to be his girlfriends at same time via his "English teaching" and made a girl pregnant. Another man who is from same country has got marry a Shenzhen girl, also, he made another 3 girlfriends in Shenzhen, Hangzhou and the other city at same time, and made a girl pregnant,too.

I am very uncomfortable for the terrible news, how can we allow the dregs of human being to be our "English teacher"? They are doing some thing to insult the noble reputation of teachers. Except the government should drive them out of the country at once, our educational departments have to think of some way to make more test to the people who want to be teachers...

Meanwhile, I feel quite pity for those girls who were tricked. Why were they ticked? What made their eyes to be blind? I do feel the lesson of theirs is also knocking an alarm bell for all of us -- be careful more, when we make a friend from different cultures and country.

Do you have any experience to make a foreign friend? Do you have any experience to be helped or tricked from someone from the other culture or country? What is your principle to make a foreign friend?

Chinese Gongbi--021(Flower & Bird): Water Lily and Mandarin Duck
I completed this picture many days ago, but, I did put it on my web site. I feel there are so many things that I need to learn, so, after painting 99Gouaches, 21Chinese Gongbi pictures and 92 Chinese Xiyi pictures, I started to learn Chinese Calligraphy from this week. A good Chinese picture should have poem, calligraphy, picture and stamp 4 parts on it. Now mine have picture and stamp 2 parts, there are no poem or line and calligraphy on it yet. So, I will try to learn something new and to make them to be on my pictures in the coming time, maybe in 2 months. From my 100th Xieyi and 100th Gouache.

Chinese Xieyi(Flower & Bird)--092:Water Lily Practice
I created the picture in my art lesson Wednesday evening. My teacher thought that I had done a good work on the water lily and the leaves but the birds and grass have to be improved. Yes, a telephone broke my thoughts and I painted the first brush of the bird wrong so that I could not make my birds on the seed-case of lotus, so, I added a caudex to make the birds on it. Once more, I understand why my teacher said that it is a taboo to complete a Chinese Xieyi picture twice and why my teacher asks me to hold my breath to complete this kind of pictures once.

Chinese Classical Poem 0053 & Shirley Created Music-0043:Ting Linjian Chuisheng--To Listen to the Pipe-Wind Music From A Neighbor
Do you enjoy instrument music? What is your favorite instrument? This poem writes the beautiful music by an instrument -- Sheng, just like a phoenix was singing from the other side of the rosy clouds. To be attracted by the beautiful music, the poet went out to look for it. However, what he met were so many closed gates and doors, so, he guessed that maybe the wonderful music was from a fairyland with thousand flowering peaches... The little poem has painted a picture "Looking For the Song of a Phoenix" with some music for us. As usual, I wrote a piece of music to match it and hope you enjoy it.

Shirley Sung Chinese (Xinjiang) Folk Song--0031: The Girl of Daban City
My vocal music teacher hurt her feet, so, I taught myself a new Chinese (Xijiang) folk song in my music lesson time Saturday evening. This song was written by A Famous Chinese Musician Wang Luobing. Can you imagine? Since this song sang that the beautiful of the girls in Baban City, this little city of Xinjiang has changed to be a famous tour city, almost all of the people who go to Xinjiang want to visit the city to see the beautiful girls there... :-)

Chinese in Current Affairs-0018(Sentence: 147--149): How to Say "The 2006 World Basketball Championship Opened in Japan"
Do you like sports? Do you like basketball? I have been enjoying basketball since I was young and I was a basketball player when I was a student. :-) Even though I have not touched a basketball for a long time, I still enjoy watching NBA on the television when I have time. :-) So, this week, when I was thinking of what I should offer you as today's Daily Chinese, I thought of the 2006 World Basketball Championship that is playing in Japan.I do hope what I have done will has a little bit help to your Chinese learning.:-)


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, August 20, 2006

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