too long jogging can impair your lungs
the above is a sentence from a level six english word book which one of our prc friends uses, and there are many more strange sentences in the book but i cannot remember what they were because jolie was smsing them to me during class (she was in another class), and i was actually being asked questions by a professor, and the vice-dean at that!
which just means, very unfortunately, that i cannot skip this class at any cost.
i'm taking a module called study of international cases, and it's more or less geared towards improving translation skills. so, whenever there was a particularly difficult english word, the vice-dean would go 李惟明, polished accent all, so it sounded like leaaherrr weiiirr minggerrr. say it quickly and listen to the words roll off your tongue!
the vice-dean - who, although a nice man and good teacher, has, i'm sorry to say, a voice exactly like one of those eunuchs in period chinese soaps. i don't think he's gay or physically impaired in any way - he was just unfortunate. and his notes, which we are using, are more or less grammatically accurate but he has very long convoluted sentences with many commas, just like these.
to top it all off, some of the english words he uses are used out of their well-known contexts, used for little-known meanings. thankfully my chinese isn't that horrible (well, i voluntarily chose beijing for exchange) so i can usually guess what the english translates into.
it's quite fun, really.
***
i took down that particular sentence from the english word book because i'm sick. not from running, because i've been skipping - and the last time i skipped i skipped indoors at our lift landing on the eleventh storey (yes, you read correctly), because the air quality got quite bad in the past few days.
i can accept and understand forest fires, but here, some ill-wind blew sand from the gobi desert over the city and didn't blow it away again. furthermore the temperature throughout the day is erratic, which isn't very good for the body.
so, i'm sick.
AND. i got pickpocketed today, sometime before i reached home from school. i realised my wallet was missing when the bus was on the expressway so getting off to go back and search for it wasn't an option. i only had about 20-30 yuan in it, which is about SGD$4-6. my meal card and china ez-link card were also in my jeans pocket, so i wasn't too fussed about the entire thing.
anyway, i'd cut my juvenile delinquency module to come home and rest - and all i wanted to do was come home and brew some tea with the dried lemons and chrysanthemums i'd purchased. which i did, and i added fresh ginger and honey and it tasted really good.
jolie did go back to the pharmacy to check whether i'd left it there by accident, but she didn't find it.
all's well, just that it's rather inconvenient for me to get a new atm card. inconvenient in the sense that it'll take a while. but thank God i have enough spare cash, and i'll just have to budget until i have a ready source of cash again. which might not be such a bad thing.
the above is a sentence from a level six english word book which one of our prc friends uses, and there are many more strange sentences in the book but i cannot remember what they were because jolie was smsing them to me during class (she was in another class), and i was actually being asked questions by a professor, and the vice-dean at that!
which just means, very unfortunately, that i cannot skip this class at any cost.
i'm taking a module called study of international cases, and it's more or less geared towards improving translation skills. so, whenever there was a particularly difficult english word, the vice-dean would go 李惟明, polished accent all, so it sounded like leaaherrr weiiirr minggerrr. say it quickly and listen to the words roll off your tongue!
the vice-dean - who, although a nice man and good teacher, has, i'm sorry to say, a voice exactly like one of those eunuchs in period chinese soaps. i don't think he's gay or physically impaired in any way - he was just unfortunate. and his notes, which we are using, are more or less grammatically accurate but he has very long convoluted sentences with many commas, just like these.
to top it all off, some of the english words he uses are used out of their well-known contexts, used for little-known meanings. thankfully my chinese isn't that horrible (well, i voluntarily chose beijing for exchange) so i can usually guess what the english translates into.
it's quite fun, really.
***
i took down that particular sentence from the english word book because i'm sick. not from running, because i've been skipping - and the last time i skipped i skipped indoors at our lift landing on the eleventh storey (yes, you read correctly), because the air quality got quite bad in the past few days.
i can accept and understand forest fires, but here, some ill-wind blew sand from the gobi desert over the city and didn't blow it away again. furthermore the temperature throughout the day is erratic, which isn't very good for the body.
so, i'm sick.
AND. i got pickpocketed today, sometime before i reached home from school. i realised my wallet was missing when the bus was on the expressway so getting off to go back and search for it wasn't an option. i only had about 20-30 yuan in it, which is about SGD$4-6. my meal card and china ez-link card were also in my jeans pocket, so i wasn't too fussed about the entire thing.
anyway, i'd cut my juvenile delinquency module to come home and rest - and all i wanted to do was come home and brew some tea with the dried lemons and chrysanthemums i'd purchased. which i did, and i added fresh ginger and honey and it tasted really good.
jolie did go back to the pharmacy to check whether i'd left it there by accident, but she didn't find it.
all's well, just that it's rather inconvenient for me to get a new atm card. inconvenient in the sense that it'll take a while. but thank God i have enough spare cash, and i'll just have to budget until i have a ready source of cash again. which might not be such a bad thing.
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