Originally posted by Stevenson101:

Well, one end of the Western world probably couldn't understand the spoken English from the other end. Hell, people from Beijing have problems understanding the Mandarin from the Shanxi province or Sichuan.

Again, it is nothing that can't be resolved after just a month of mixing around with them.

One month? Maybe you're talking about elementary conversational chinese. Or they could be using simple language so that you can understand them.

皇天不负有心人 - the heavens will not let the good people down

转化 - to change into

施展 -  to display / exhibit

传播 - to spread

男女受受不清 - men and women are supposed to keep a distance

即能够。。。。。。，又。。。。。。。 - not only can....but also...

即能够。。。。。。，也。。。。。。。 - not only can...but also...

触礁 - to hit a reef (referring to the ship)

懈怠 - xie4 duo4    to slack

解冻 - to thaw (can refer to the solid ice or relationships)

磨难 - trials and difficulties

辛勤 - hardworking

法案 - a proposed law

冰山 - iceberg

缓和 - to warm up (relations)

融入 - to be integrated

远远低于_________ 的水平 - far lower than ...... 's (standard).

纯度 - the purity

成色不足 - not enough metal composition; normally refers to gold or diamonds

八面玲珑 - smooth and slick (in building relations)

成分 - the composition (of materials)

恰如其分 - the amount is just right

恰到好处 - the situation is just nice / right

不起眼 - not appealing to the eyes

果冻 - jelly

欢声笑语 - laughter and sounds of joy

乐趣无穷 - endless joy

谜团 - mystery

神秘莫测 - hard to fathom and guess

风雨交加 - heavy rain. Sometimes also mentioned as 雷电交加

半个小时车程 - half an hour of journey by car

空旷 - very broad (place)

划分 - to create a seperation / border

I see sense in low's speech. Try talking to someone from one of those big cities in china and I tell you many singaporeans won't understand what they are saying when they speak fast enough.

We should forget about this chelsea game, it bears little significance on the state of this current united team.

The signs were there even before this game. Sluggish passing, jones faded, rooney unpredictable. When I saw the line up of anderson, fletcher and evans.....I knew that's it. Seems like fergie hasn't really learnt since that defeat to barca because he said "we're getting closer to barca" before the match.

Man city thrashed utd even with nasri, dzeko and tevez not playing. I don't remember them being thrashed like that for 20 years. The team of '99 would never have forgiven them.

Just bring your passport straight to ICA and check. You don't want to be rejected travel at the airport when you have already bought your air tickets.

Originally posted by SgStudentStressed:

is no $ la

so it's your money or your balls. Make a wise choice.

Wow, cause for rejoice. This is what you get for bloodsucking the people's resources all these years. I won't hold my breath thinking that the same can happen to small Lee though.

Wah lau eh, why this world got so bloody many gullible suckers? Chio bu no need go dating website la.....and you don't know how many other fishes she's got up the hook.

no balls to visit a doc.

All the PAP leaders earn more than Donald Tsang. Come on! A more accurate report pls.

Yeh but very boring. Malls malls and malls. No mountain no river. Pros and cons according to the individual's discernment.

Shucks, this must be very bad publicity for china heh. 5000 years of culture but some of their habits leave much to be desired.

I'm wondering why it took 14 years.

Straits Times is rubbish.

This is not the worst I've heard of mankind.

China is a place of extremes. There are as many saints as there are farking animals.

枉然 - wasted (normally refers to effort)

急功近利 - doing fast work to make short term gains

There are always pros and cons for sure. Some places have more pros than cons according to the individual.

So he is involved after all. TRE tried to distance themselves from him. Anyway, sad day for Singapore politics. Used to read so much scoops from there but it's all gone now.

Professionals who cannot play professional football. A pity that such words are coming from one of the only few bright sparks at liverpool.

PAP MPs in singapore parliament.....I believe their motto is: "Ask only what we can answer, not what we cannot."

yes a draw is a good result. Man city will also lose their form sooner or later.

This questioning of preferential treatment by lim wee kiak seems to be a case of "ok go ahead and ask because we have ready answers". Haha wtf as usual.

If they could, they would have asked for GIC and Temasek to be more transparent.