Blogging about crypto as I learn
29 Aug 2023 2 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.17
I unexpectedly got a fifth referral for my Trust app (AAH8FP2G). Guess it must be one of you peeps here since I haven’t broadcasted my referral code elsewhere.The 5th referral was double happiness because I got another $25 supermarket voucher. Not a...
21 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.06
How can an aspiring content creator on all things Japanese not review his Japanese wife’s cooking? Here goes… Every night, I embark on a journey of homemade Japanese cuisine, where the most humble dishes are made to meticulous perfection. The fragran...
20 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.06
My son developed an affinity for hippopotamuses, so we intentionally enhanced his learning by engaging his five senses. We not only visited the zoo and borrowed books on hippos from the library, but also encouraged his hippo collection and even made...
19 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.27
I actually teach financial literacy in school but when it comes to my four-year-old boy, I realise that I have to throw things like differentiating needs from wants and minimalism and budgeting out of the window. For one, he’s too young to understand...
12 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.06
Dear teachers, Spelling Bee fever is upon us. The quarter-final round awaits us on 15th August. This week, I will like to introduce to you “Egghead”, an Aldo Zelnick comic novel. It weaves disparate elements into a unique story: Thomas Edison, Ha...
11 Aug 2023 2 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei $0.04
Someone asked this question on r/askSingapore and I wrote a long and considered response as featured below. Cheers to all long-time suffering parents! — First, I will like to calm your nerves by bringing up the Chinese proverb “家家有本难念的经” (Ev...
10 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.03
I have stopped paying attention to National Day theme songs because they ride on the prevailing trend of the moment, only to dissipate the next year and maybe be revived ten years later. I mean, I don’t know if I’m just a cynical boomer grumbling but...
6 Aug 2023 1 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei $0.27
ChatGPT has dramatically transformed my life, be it personally or professionally. As a frugal father, I regard it as the paid version of Grammarly that I hesitate to pay for.As an avid writer, I love how it takes my writing in new directions and elev...
4 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.04
Actually I wasn’t going to do a review of this book, but I visited Anderson Secondary last Friday and was kinda entranced by its wall mural on William Shakespeare. This gave me the push to write about how I felt about this book. This was the first Ma...
2 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.06
As part of the semestral assessments, I had to conduct a speaking assessment for my students. To my horror, I realised that many of them lacked the basic vocabulary to give a decent answer. There were also the better students who resorted to stock ph...
