Comments on: Semester complete!

By: suzie

suzie — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:42:46 +0000

…. i thought i would receive a notice of your reply by an email, as the email address is required when leave a reply.

thanks for the explainations!

Epic fail sounds familiar, but i have never used it before, is it quite common to use?? when should we actually use it??

By: Mat

Mat — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:10:07 +0000

Hey Suzie!

Thanks for your kind words REB is a world famous examination place is it? Maybe that’s why they do that, they like to take nice photos with thousands of people there. Obviously the photos are much more important than facilitating the examination process…

Portfolio is most often used as a collection of your work, but it can also be a collection of responsibilities. For example: “When the minister took over the defence portfolio he was then in charge of the armed forces.” You might run into it more commonly as a body of work though, like a collection of examples artwork that an artist might show a prospective employer.

Home turf. Same as home ground if you like. It’s a sort of sport analogy which implies that you have the advantage because the game is being played on familiar ground. I used it here to say that this was my strong area.

Epic bad, you wouldn’t really say that. You’ve heard of “epic fail” right? The whole “fail” thing is an internet meme you must have run into? Ones one of those words you can’t really go doing an -ly to easily. So you can only really use it correctly by saying something like “It was an epic tale” or “that really sounded like an epic experience”.

Catch up with you soon!

By: suzie

suzie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:17:58 +0000

lol ‘bastard student’. . i dont know what i would look like if i return to Uni once again after 10,20 years… would i study harder and feel more responsible for my study.. like wat you did this semester, an excellent student! really a 榜样！ in fact, i know how to study harder, how to use time more effectively, and understand what kinda effort will bring me a sufficient result, but i just allow laziness to drive me thro. i guess i could have learned English better if i have ever tried to study it as hard as you study chinese. lol~human are interesting.

“The shock for this exam was that it was held in some huge hall near the Melbourne Museum”

you mean the spectacular REB?? hah, i heard that it was one of the world’s famous examination places.

some questions here:
1.portfolio—–i know what it means but hardly understand how to use it..
2.home turf 我的主场？ means my advantage??
3.epic bad : can we use this phrase in colloquialism?(colloquial language?)
Thx!