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The 56th Friendly Greeting From Shirley, China, Sun, Sep 25, 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.

My original plan for this week is to focus my time on one of my researching reports and to complete it before October. However, except my daily work and projects, I was given a new job to hold a short daily manager meeting in the morning, to hear every department to report what they will do for today and give all of the managers an opportunity to adjust their work.

Someone had sent something bad on one of our news web sites and made the web site was closed for about 4 hours. We want to strengthen our management work. After all, we are entrusted to publish the official information of different organizations in the industry and the government via different mediums ? web sites, Television, magazine and newspaper. Meanwhile, we want to avoid doing something repeatedly and improve our efficiency.

I feel honor for the new duty. Meanwhile, I feel triplex press -- I have to arrange my other project's daily meeting at another time. I must read three industry newspapers and one local newspaper before 9:30am and make sure what has happened in the industry and the country, what we should stress to work on. Then, I can give my own opinions after hearing the reports from the others; also, it is a work with a very high risk.

I remember clear, 10 years ago, August, 1996. I was working as a department manager in a newspaper office, one of engineers in my department fixed a wrong data into our system and an editor who was in charge of the checking did not find it. So that two of the listed companies half year’s benefit were confused and the wrong information was published in the next day’s newspaper. We found it before the stock market started to trade. We reported the thing to the Stock Exchange. The stocks of the two listed companies were stopped to be exchanged for one day, until the mistake was corrected next day. This is a very big accident and a group of people, a vice chief editor, me, the editor and the engineer were punished via some documents and also salary. I had no one coin salary that month.

Maybe for the psychology problem, the more to be scared to make a mistake, the more mistakes were made. Very often, we had checked something several times, then, it was wrong once more next day. In the following time, my department continuously made 4 times mistakes, so that I did not get any salary for about 2 months. I could face any punishes with a calm heart, for it was really that we had made a mistake, but I could not find out of the reasons. For about 3 or 4 months, I was scaring to hear the telephone from the chief editor. As long as I hear his voice over the telephone, the first responding in my mind "Bad, something wrong once more", tears would be down at the same time!

The last time that I was punished was in 2002, for a similar mistake on one of our web sites.

Now, since 10 years I have been punished, I am still feeling press. But I have had more confidence and ability to face and deal with the things wrong or good in my work, with a stronger psychology and smiles, work has changed to be an enjoyment and an art.

Have you been punished for your mistakes in your work? How do you face the mistakes and punishes. How does your company to deal with the mistakes of its employees?


Chinese Xieyi(Flower & Bird) 097: Eagle Practice No.2
After painting hundreds little birds, I just started to paint a big bird with a brush directly -- Chinese Xieyi painting does not allow to draft at the first with a pencil. People must paint it with a brush directly, that is why, Xieyi painting is considered the highest peak of Chinese traditional art. My teacher gave my second eagle 65 marks for both of its wings are not be parted enough,its tail is too wide, its feet are too big. The bamboo's leaves are bad, the two big characters of calligraphy is not good. Anyway, the stone is quite well, the head and neck part of the eagle is good, its leg is wonderful and the small character of calligraphy is cool. Ha, 65 marks, it is really too less, do you think so?

Shirley Sung Chinese Popular Song--008: A Blade of Grass
My vocal music teacher is still in her traveling. As an immigrant city, Shenzhen people are used of going back home to visit their families in the holiday time -- May Day holiday, October Holiday, the New Year's Day and the Spring Festival are our big holidays and there are 1 or 2 weeks free time. My piano teacher came to accompany for me. It is seldom that I made a recorder except my own created music without my vocal music teacher together -- she is so serious and responsible to teach me. For 4 years, almost all of Saturday nights, we had our lessons. Many times, we recorded a song over 10 times and my lesson was lasted for 2 or 3 hours.

Chinese Classical Poem 0058 & Shirley Created Music-0048:Jue Ju -- Two Yellow Birds Are Singing on the Jade Green Willow
This morning, when I was running in the breeze, when a bird was flying over my head, I got an idea to write a piece of music for the poem by Du Fu (712-770). Jue Ju is a kind of traditional Chinese poems with 5 or 7 characters every line, it requires the words in two lines to be opposite on part of speech, meaning, even color and so on. So, when we read them, we can not only enjoy the beautiful landscape that the poet has painted for us, we can also enjoy the wonderful rhythm of the language. I do hope that my poem comments, music and singing will be a little bit help to you to know more about Chinese culture.


Chinese in Current Affairs --0023(Sentence: 162--164): How to Say "Number of Chinese Broadband Subscribers Reaches 77 Million"
Do you often connect to the Internet? How do you connect to the Internet? At the end of June this year, China had 788 thousand websites and 54.5 million computers connected to the Internet.. The number of Chinese Internet users totaled 123 million, of whom 77 million people were broadband subscribers. This weekend, I would like to offer you some new sentences relates this topic and hope it is 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 be An 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 or suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn or shirleyz004@yahaoo.com. You are welcomed to publish your opinions in the forum.

--Shirley
Written and Edited On Sun, Sep 25, 2006

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