Week 2 - Online Dating

Words of the day

1. Stalking – is a term commonly used to refer to unwanted attention by individuals (and sometimes groups of people) to others. Stalking behaviors are related to harassment and intimidation.
2. Internet fraud – a person who makes deceitful pretenses
3. Couch potato – the one who sit for long time on the coach and watch TV or play on computer
4. Man hunt – a gay who is trying to get a partner on the internet
5. Serendipity – an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident
6. Con artist – con man

Phrasal Verbs
1. pick up – try to initiate a relationship with someone
2. stick around – try to stay around
3. get around – try to avoid
4. put out – extinguish fire
5. cut and dried – predictable
6. take back – accept

Quotations
1. All days are short to Industry and long to Idleness.
2. Word’s easier said than done.
3. A fool and his money are soon parted.
4. Save me from my friends.
5. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
6. Beauty is in the eye of beholder.

Sponsors for the day – K Khaing and Cherry
“Online dating”
- Virtual venues to date developed in 20th century
- 1990s – become more popular
- Advantage:
o common interest (everyone has interest to look for relationship)
o opportunity to look for info about someone
o opportunity to meet people you would never meet in day-to-day life
- Disadvantage:
o False information
- Tips: do not keep yourself only online; try to mingle with friends in the real world
Don’ts
- be too excited
- put contact information; you can give it anytime if you are comfortable with someone
- talk to people without photo in the profile
- meet just after a short while after knowing him
Some questions in my mind
“Online dating makes you speak more openly” do you agree with this statement. Why/ why not?
Will you reveal all your information online?
How can the dating websites do background check?
“Culture plays an important part in online dating” do you agree with this statement? Give some examples.

Listening Exercise:

To listen to the podcast and write down
first 8 min: Ah Kyi Ma & Cherry
second 8 min: A Nge Ma & IE
third 8 min: K Khaing & Saint

Journal Entry:
"My learning experience _ Week 2"
Note: try to use the words of the day.


Next Week Sponsored Program: "Courtesy" by Ah Nge Ma & Ma Saint

Founding The "Singapore Symposium"

Today is a special day for eight of us as we started our learning class. In hornor of Sayagyi U Wynn Naing, we name the group "Singapore Symposium". Here are some ground rules for the group.
- starting from today, we will study together for 2 months
- we will meet at least 80% attendance
- we will pay SGD 5 if we are absent from the class with notice, SGE 10 without notice
- Reflective learning journal (writing journal) of three hundred words will be submitted by Wednesday midnight; those who miss the first deadline will submit 500 words by Friday midnight; we will try to use the words we shared in the journal
- two of us will sponsor a program (a talk for 20-25 mine and Q&A 20-25 min) on each Saturday
- one of us will take the role of class leader to ensure the group's learning agenda is met
- we will share 1 word, 1 phrasal verb and 1 quotation/proverb each at each session
- we will have listening (20-25 min) and discuss about the subject
- we will pay fine 10cent/ use of Singlish and Myanmar

20 Mar 10
Words we shared today
susurration; presumptious, mezzanine; solitude; tweak; scout; swastika; sleaze

Quotes we shared today
- Pen is mightier than swad.
- Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Home is where your heart is.
- Everything will be alright in the end; if everything is not alright, then it is not the end.
- April showers bring May flowers.
- Birds of the same feather flock together.
- Time and tide wait for no men.
- Like a water off from the duck's back.

Listening for today
Netrimony: Online dating in India
Next week's sponsors are K Khaing and Cherry