Kept receiving photos from the colleagues I met in Beijing and feel like a celebraty. When we finished the last meeting session, and before we went back to the hotel room, NLC staff handed us CDs full of conference ppts and photos. Their efficiency suprised us all. Now back to work, I received Mr. Yin and Ms. Lu Haiyan’s prompt email reply getting on to serious business. That’s efficiency!
Lingbo asked me to post this here, and hope we can attend together.
Date & Time: Friday, October 23rd, 2009 — 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Location: The Paetzold Health Education Centre Auditorium Jimmy Pattison Pavilion South Bldg
Main entrance – 899 West 12th Avenue – (proceed past the Info Kiosk > past the elevators > doors will be to your right)
Parking: available across the street on West 12th Ave (pay parking)
Admission: $2 (free for children and students)
(a donation basket will be available if you wish to donate to Div B)
There will also be light and healthy deserts and refreshments provided as well as several door prizes.
We are expecting a large turnout (last year 149 attended) and need to order an appropriate amount of food — we ask that you RSVP to rodney@ewoliving.com to confirm your attendance. Thank You.
Rodney Denno, ACS, ALB
Division B Governor, 2009-2010
Toastmasters in BC, District 21
9月8日的晚宴， 见到了很多老朋友：李馆开心大叫一声，让我感觉很亲切。纽约的老同事张鸿运先生加入CALA团队，即将赴西北培训中国馆员。在北京重逢真是意外。 当年瘦小的Jimmy已经是MIT的学生啦。前辈和大哥们引见一些国图的同行们，但是茅台和家常让我不便提起工作的事情。
Alex from A-Train came in for this character. He wants to have a creative and pretty image carved to his bass guitar. Seals dictionaries in Asian Library met his needs. I was curious about his interests of combining musical events with Chinese culture, and checked out his web site. A photo caught my eye, but I can’t link or paste it here. Alex and his band, made up by black musicians on the stage, was performing with a traditional Chinese dancer. I would love to take the kids to a concert like that!
No time for the congregation, but did remember to pick up my diploma on the way to Asian from LPC. “Congratulations!” The person at the Brock Hall desk was very cheerful when she handed me the diploma. At that moment, all the MAPPS folks came back to my mind. I miss my classmates who are all over the world now, and my profs. Oh, how much I enjoyed learning from them. Now, with all the confidence and clear mind, stronger sense of belonging and commitment, I am achieving more at work.
Anna stopped by my office. We both looked at Ken’s reply from USC, and fascinated by his finding from 1930’s LA Times. When Anna tried to point something on the screen, she knocked over my coffee mug, and the poor diploma… I really meant it when I calmed down Anna. It’s just a piece of paper, and all the knowledge and happy memories will be with me forever.
Glad to see some new faces at Asian Library recently. The girl was thrilled finding her favourate journal on the browsing table-San lian sheng huo zhou kan. A young man, sounds like a graduate student, asked me for Chinese text books in his field–热动力学。A soft speaking girl needs academic resources on 独生子女问题研究, and she worried about the requirement of her first academic paper in English.
According to the public affair news release in December of 2008, thousands of students from China currently study at UBC, up from just 291 in 1996. Asian Library may disappoint some of them, it definately should serve these students and help them to survive and enjoy their UBC time.
They always come in the summer time, and this time is a documentary film on dance in Tang dynasty. They usually request for original images and artifacts from various time period and provinces. They like to use poems or proverbs from China, so request for translation. Sort of fun reference work, but very time consuming. Would be nice to delegate some work to our students.
I can attest to this piece of wisdom. How precise!Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull your down.
–Anonymous
A big thank-you to all my cheerful friends out there! Happy New Year.
金融街上的名店商城里汇集全球的高档消费品，价格远超北美。让我想起那些图书馆里翻烂了的儿童书。