Monthly Archives:: April 2010

18/1/2010 9:00 11:30

1. Work Advantage
   It’s a fairly easy job. However, the hours are good. And the good thing is that I always have the weekend off. It’s quite well paid. It’s much less difficult.
   Disadvantage:
   Sometimes it’s very boring.

14/1/2010 3:30 – 5:00

1. pharmacy, chemist’s shop, drugstore
   two type medicine: over the count/household – medicines under prescription
   antibiostics
   sleeping bills
   drowsy medicines
2. She was suffering from indigestion.
   diarrhoea: you have a loose bowel.
   food poisoning
   pharmacy

14/1/2010 1:30 – 3:00

1. We are being kept in a limbo.
   maternal(paternal) grand parents
   maternity(paternity) leave
   comfinement
2. home province
   Single: She is a spinster.
   Qian is a bachelor.
   USA:bachelor girl
   a big extended family.
   She comes from a small

13/1/2010 11:00 – 12:30

1. We greet one another.
   Meet and greet service.
2. There have been complaints about doctors in Singapore.
   cosmetic surgery
   plastic surgery
   Is it healing?
   If you are Singapore Citizen, you can get subsidized treatment at a

13/1/2010 9:00 – 10:30

1. morning rush hours 7:30-9:30 am
   evening rush hours 5:00 – 8:00 pm
   (peak hours)
   YiShun station is where the MRT begins.
   I can get a seat easily.
   8:30: half past eight
   mid night
   7:45: quarter to

12/1/2010 3:30 – 5:00

1. I get bored.
   I get frustrated.
2. I toss and turn in bed.
   sculpture – sculptor
3. earthquake
   proof
   Taipei is below sea level.
4. You grill(boil, fry,stir fry, deep fry, saute, deep fry) meat with frame.
   barbecue(outdoor)
   You

12/1/2010 1:30 – 3:00

1. Do you have a strong will-power?
   I have a strong will.
   I review my work after every class.
   I tend to forget what I learn.
   I find it difficult to remember.
2. I learn to cook Chinese

11/1/2010 11:00 – 12:30

1. Immediate or nuclear family
   father, mother, children
   Extended family
   grandparents
   uncles
   aunts
   cousins
   nephews
   nieces
   in-laws
2. vacation holiday
   vacant 空位
   vacancy
   recreation
3. You could get a nervous breakdown.(mental breakdown)
4. We have to meet stringent deadlines.
   You

11/1/2010 9:00 – 11:30

1. nut change -> move a new house
   chip board
   It’s not durable.
   Do you have to assemble the furniture yourself?
2. mutton – goat
   lamb – sheep(not ship)
3. ground floor(England)
   1st flour is a void deck.
   miscellaneous