Nov. 17th of  this year is the 79th birthday of my grandmother. This age is very important in China because it means she will enter ��Mao Die�� time, an old Chinese notation whose age is greater than eighty. To celebrate this day, I planned to buy a jewellery for her. It was quite a coincidence that three colleagues invited me to visit a gold shop named Laofengxiang of Shanghai after chorus training yesterday. One of them three knew the manager of the shop so she can get a big price discount.

At the shop, they chose silver and platinum jewellery carefully and I just concerned gold products because people likes gold more than other noble metals in Chinese custom. Finally, the manager gave us a very large discount. The 18K platinum products could cut 55% price and the silver and jade even might be 60% off. As for gold, one gram gold��s price could be cut 20 yuan. I chose one ring in weight 7.5g which cost ��1906 with the ��263 unit price.

The ring I bought belonged to one couple rings originally. One was carved a Chinese LONG and another was a flying phenix(Chinese FENG). I separated it and bought only the phenix one under the help of the manager otherwise I couldn��t do it according to the shop rule. When I gave it to my grandma last night, she was surprisingly happy and replaced the old ring. So, I felt happy also because of  her happy feeling.