VIP Class Notes (Celeste) [S]

Vocabulary

a pushover is sb who is easily tricked or easily manipulated / taken advantage of 

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Chinglish / Konglish / Frenglish

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start a fire vs. put out a fire

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when sth is dangerous it means it is too good or too convenient or too cheap
eg. It’s dangerous for my wallet because I could go get a massage every night.
eg. The coconut dessert was so good, so dangerous, we almost ordered another.
eg. There’s a burberry trench coat for 100RMB. That’s dangerous!

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use sth up (verbal phrase) = to finish using the last bit of sth
eg. Your roommate used up the last bit of toothpaste in the tube last night. You need to buy new toothpaste.

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pass out = fall asleep 
eg. The babies passed out in the car during the drive home.

Grammar

It’s been about 3 years since we have seen each other. 

What did you do with your friend? 

He is my good friend in Korea. And then he is working for Puma. Before, he was working in HK. I have some of the HK friends introduce to him before. 2 and half years before he moved to Japan for work. He didn’t have any China project so we don’t have any chance to meet for 2 and a half years. Finally, he got the Chinese project and he arrived Shanghai 2 days ago. We hangout last night for dinner and massage and we talked about his new life in Japan. And had a lot of fun.

I have a Simply Thai membership card so I wanna use that before the end of this year. I have coupon. So, I reserved last dinner at Simply Thai. We ordered curry crab and dong miang soup and song gam, papaya salad. We ordered dessert what is sweet coconut dessert. Each nice he also likes Thai food so we had a lot of food and very, very full. And then we went to the massage shop. Originally, we wanted to talk more but when we got massage we both slept in the massage sofa.

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He is my good Korean friend who is working for Puma. Before, he was working in HK. I introduced some of my HK friends to him when he was living there. 2 and a half years ago, he moved to Japan for work. He didn’t have any Chinese projects so we don’t have any chances to meet for 2 and a half years. Finally, he got a Chinese project and he arrived in Shanghai 2 days ago. We hung out last night for dinner and massages and we talked about his new life in Japan and had a lot of fun.

I have a Simply Thai membership card so I wanna use that (up) before the end of this year. I have coupons so, I reserved last night’s dinner at Simply Thai. We ordered curry crab and dong miang soup and song gam, papaya salad. We ordered sweet coconut for dessert. It’s nice that he also likes Thai food so we had a lot of food and we were very, very full. And then we went to the massage shop. Originally, we wanted to talk more but when we got massaged we both passed out/fell asleep in the massage sofa.