VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [W]

Grammar

i have been a long time not to eat spicy food – I haven’t eaten spicy food for a long time 

To celebrate the achievement of our work, our brand manager took us to a Japanese restaurant on Monday evening. We drank 8 bottles of red wine for 12 people, even though in the Japanese restaurant, it’s also at the Chinese dinner table, we drank it bottoms up several times. At final,I didn’t drink a lot, but my colleagues feel hungover that night. I have been to that new hotel twice because one of the salesman in it served our brand in travel agency before, he is extremely good at sociable.

To celebrate the achievement of our work, our brand manager took us to a Japanese restaurant on Monday evening. We drank 8 bottles of red wine for 12 people / we split 8 bottles of wine among 12 people, even though in the Japanese restaurant, it’s also at the Chinese dinner table, we drank it bottoms up several times. At final, I didn’t drink a lot, but my colleagues felt hungover that night. I have been to that new hotel twice because one of the salesman in it / there served our brand in travel agency before, and he is extremely good at socialising / being social.

Vocabulary

1 down, 8 to go. 
eg. if one of them passes out, i think it’s 1 down, 8 to go.

if I reach my limit

it is worth it
eg. it is worth it to leave the table for a few minutes and let them drink

split the bill / split the cake – half for each / shared it

we drank it all at once / in one go / we sculled it / we shotted it – “bottoms up”

meet this situation – experienced this 

drinking for the sake of drinking – drinking with no reason

binge drinking – to drink too much at one time

they are out of it – basically unconscious

an angry drunk – sb who drinks and then loses his temper 
eg. he’s an angry drunk

I am used to it / I’ve got used to it 

stumble – can’t walk in a straight line
eg. I always stumble around when I drink

Asian – ya zhou
eg. Nickole is Asian