Week 4 - Ego

Words of the day
Conscience – the voice within you that judge your actions
Egocentric – self-centered
Black tie – formal dress code
Match fixing – dishonest activity to make sure that one team wins a particular sport
Reminiscence – the act or process of recollecting past experience

Phrasal Verbs
Screw (sb) up – damage (sb) personality
Zonk out – to collapse from exhaustion
Off hands – without needing references
Zone out – to completely relax one’s mind
Make out with – kiss someone passionately
Freak out – lose emotional control from extreme excitement

Proverbs/Quote
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly (Oscar Wilde)
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Blood is thicker than water.
Variety is the spice of life.
Do not judge a book by its cover.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Sponsored Program “Ego” by Ah Kyi Ma & Khant Khant
Ego = I (Latin)
It is a profound topic for discussion. Yet, we had an 1-hr long engaging conversation as ego is inside all of us. We have been having too abstract topics two weeks in a row and it lead us to spend more time for writing. I promise to select a simple topic for Week5.

Some guidelines for this week's journal entry:
Do you believe in helping others especially those who are close to your heart like family members and close friends? What do you think drive you to help them - your satisfaction for being a good daughter/sister/friend or the fact that they are relieved from the problem/need. On the other hand, how do you feel when you are helped by others? What do you do to acknowledge their kindness, help, etc? How do you return their gratitude?


Here are some good use of language from BBC documentaries: 10 days in Haiti
Blame game of the failure
Started work in earnest
Pockets of people; lines and lines of people
Cruel destruction
Pan-caked down
Rubbish tipping
parents just abandoned the body
We are alone
Epicenter
Dramatic and dreadful
Nightmare of falling buildings
Haitian
Trashed/ scrap
Slam area
Patch of filthy open ground
Resilient
Slowly some emergency medical care was established
Psychological trauma – keep hearing the noises
Creole language
Displaced people
Fleetly? glimpse of normality
Bleak and dusty plane