OMGmeiyu美语 I watched two episodes of OMGmeiyu this morning. That's FAIL and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. There are some expressions about the weather: 1. sunshine 很阳光、很开心 说一个男孩子看起来很阳光（长相、打扮）也是几年前开始说的吧？是不是受了英文“Mr.Sunshine”的影响呢？ Man:Mr. Sunshine woman/girl: Little Miss Sunshine Today is such a beautiful day! I can't wait to get out there. There are so many things to do and so many places to see! 2. cloud over head 不开心 是不是和“愁云密布”很像呢 中文也是用很多云来表示一个人不开心 Today stinks! I don't want to do anything! I just want to go back to bed. Aw! She seems like she has a cloud over her head today :( 3. cloud nine 兴奋、高兴 我发现这个很巧！中文也有“九霄云外”这个成语，说的也是高兴地忘乎所以，非常得意的样子。 I'm on cloud nine!! Bob was on cloud nine all week while he was on vacation in Las Vegas! 4. shoot the breeze 闲聊 有一个中文的说法也和“风”有点关系，“没事一起吹吹牛”（一般男人之间才这样说），应该和shoot the breeze有点像吧 What are you guys doing? Nothing much, just shoot the breeze. 5. when it rains it pours 祸不单行 I missed the bus this morning, so I was late to work. And then on the way home, my shoes broke. And then when I finnally got home, I realized I left my keys at woek. When it rains, it pours!! Last night, when we were having a club activity, I knew that alumni are the people who used to be students in a same school, college or university. In another word, they have graduated. Therefore, I cannot use this word when they are still going to school. Am I right? In that case, "classmates" should be uesd, because it is different from Chinese, in which people always use two words to tell "people studying in the same school (校友)" from "people studing in the same class （同学）".

Language exchange When I just came home from the pouring rain last night, I had a skype talk with a new friend from italki. We started a chat at 10:30 pm, first in Chinese and then in English. It lasted for one hour. I think we were both doing great with the teaching. Just like what I had told to him, I need to enhance the speaking and writing English, because "I will be transferred another department". I want to make a notice book here to memorize what I have learned from every talk. 1. I just came home from the pouring rain 2. I will be transferred another department 3. Could you please bring the Phase II clinic report for the last 50 patients? 4. what are the most common expressions used to set up appointments? 5. How to make Phase II clinic plan? 6. Can you tell me which people I should notify about this meeting? (the difference between notice 注意 and notify 通知For example: I noticed you were out of office yesterday) 7. What should we bring to the meeting? (Reports, tables, papers, some results) It's very helpful.

Badmiton game There is a badmiton branch of our staff clubs. We play badmiton every Wedesday night, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.. It was very hot and frowst last Wedesday, so we sweat profusely ( dripping with sweat ) in less than half a hour. The temperature is too high to keep playing, therefore, we asked the receptionist whether we could return (check out) one field one hour in advance. But she turned us off, and said it would only happen in a case that it was booked by other people. But she came to our field very soon and told us she had managed to book it out. Lucky for us!

This is an email to reply my friend from Hong Kong. Jimmy, I have received your email yesterday in my company mailbox. Hong Kong is very lovely, it's full of energy , with lots of impressive buildings and nice people there. I have recommanded it to my friends. I thought Sichuan cuisine was wonderful enough, but HK food taste great beyond my expectation. I really have had a good time, and hope to go there again! Please let me know if you come to Chengdu. Niya ------------------------------------------------ Hi Niya, I've replied to your email few days ago. Received a Mail Delivery Error. Then again the same message last night. So I know you have not received my email. See message below. Anyway, I'm glad to see you in Hong Kong. Though it was a short trip. I hope you like Hong Kong and will come back again. You are always welcome! There were no photo 4. My mistake. If you need more photos from me. Just let me know. Take care & keep in touch. Jimmy

I will go to Hongkong next weekend I will go to Hongkong next weekend, and stay in the city for 3 days. Do you know which place is worth seeing?

I feel unwell I am a peroson with bad intestines and stomach, so I always prefer have dinner, mostly blander food, at home to outside. I can cook, sometimes I make it very delicious . But as (being) a Sichuanese (a native of Sichuan, the hometown of giant panda), I eat hot pot and spicy food about four or five times a month. Recently, there is so many events and I have had dinner outside for a dozen days. The host treated us with seafood, beef, ...dishes with a lot of spices and little vegetarian food. I feel sick this morning, I think it's because I ate too much meat.

my diaries My Ipad worked out the other day, so I have to use my lap top to write recently. The problem is, I cannot start it up ( boot? ), there shows the charging icon in the screen and going to black in a second. I think it's the problem of the battery. I gave a call to the the after-service and plan to go there this weekend. When I was looking for the invoice in the ipad box, I found three diary books, from my high school to the college times. I opened one of them, uh, that one was from ten years ago. I was a resident student in high school, I came home once a month. It was the first time I left my parents and live with teenagers of my age. Homesick was one of the most frequent topics. The others are study performance, friendship and the opposite sex. The confusion and difficulties which I used to be upset was long long away, and I suddenly realized how time flies, because I could hardly recognize the characters of mine. Ten years, it's long enough letting any person see their changes and improvement, so did I. These days ( This time? ), I do have some tricky business, I distracted myself and lose purpose from time to time. I met a career bottleneck, there is little space for further development. I felt in love, and end it with heartbroken 4 months ago. Two years, so many good memories. However, I was very lucky to see that diary at that moment. What will happen in the next ten years? Who knows? At least, I believe, then I will care about another important issues instead of these troubles in front of me. It's not big deal. I like who I am now much better. 人生路上我们常会看见自己的梦想破碎了，渴望落空了，但我们仍需做梦，否则心灵就会枯死，博爱便无法渗入心田。——保罗·柯艾略《朝圣》

Hi，everyone. some thoughts about language partners. Our HR department has cruited an American guy recently, that remind me of language exchange which I once read about in a book named Eat, Pray, Love. When I planned to reach him, one of my colleague told me about italki.com where I could find much more language partners. I have learned English for many years, but I never want to improve it so egent as I do right now. For a better career prospective, I got BEC Vatage by self-study. In future, I'm going to learn professional session in the field of law, project management and finance. But first I need to improve the basic skills ,like pronounceation, listening, speaking, vacabulary.... I'm glad I can help people learning Chinese in return. I will be patient and nice, please feel free to contact me.