Blogging about crypto as I learn
21 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I have come to a stage in life where I think blogging is self-indulgent and lack the motivation to blog because nothing exciting enough happens anyway but I was looking at an ex-student's reflection for 2009 and his conviction behind his smooth-flowi...
21 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I gave myself one week to finish “Malice”, you know, before the protected school holidays. Instead, I finished it off today. Devouring it every second I got in the lull moments during Prize-Giving Day. Avoiding small talk with my colleagues to focus...
20 Nov 2025 3 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I never had the appetite for business.To be honest, I don't think male teachers get a lot of respect in Singapore, if I can generalise what my student once uttered to be a sentiment held commonly: "Like you meh. Still teach in YJC". I never did let h...
20 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Trudged my way to the last day of school. Which is a remarkable feat in itself because any teacher who has had to teach students to sit still, focus and learn after their exams can attest to the excruciating pain involved. Still, I spent two periods...
19 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Yet another distinctive day! The girl whom I had trouble collecting homework from wrote me a book. Okay, strictly speaking, she ran out of steam by the fourth page, but Sensei won’t begrudge her efforts, considering her lackluster attitude towards ho...
18 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Happiness Journal 6/11/25 Ordering aprons for my school’s food waste project helped me come up with an original idea. I took one apron from my sci lab technician and pasted two concept maps drawn by my students earlier this week. In colour, no less...
18 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
This book fell on my lap because I saw a student carrying it. Half-seriously, half in jest, I asked him to lend it to me. And he really did. So, I finished reading it in between household chores last night. Its cover beckoned me, its vibes reminis...
17 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Teaching is a calling, or so they say. I’m not so sure if I regard my profession as a vocation. After all, there is more to life than my job, even if it involves something as groundbreaking and earth-shaking as impacting lives. But one thing’s for su...
17 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
My school had a collaboration with the National Institute of Education, which meant that my fifth graders got to test out a LLM chatbot dedicated to honing writing skills before they crafted their composition. Sample prompts were given to me by the I...
16 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Happiness Journal 1/11/25 People say that parenting is expensive, but they don’t reckon the surge of fatherly love and pride that surges within a parent when he buys elementary school uniforms for his boy. Money can buy happiness sometimes. Why...
