Blogging about crypto as I learn
8 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Teaching in my country isn’t easy. We work harder and experience more stress than our counterparts in many other countries. The data even supports our predicament. Coupled with the fact that I prefer teaching teenagers to children, I doubt if I will...
7 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Did you know what BBCCFGM refers to? Yup, you wouldn’t know. But this is something my well-schooled Science students are very familiar with. Butterfly beetle chicken cockroach frog grasshopper mosquito. Just yesterday, a student asked why we limit ou...
7 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
My fifth graders finished their composition examination today. Cue huge sighs of relief. Well, I don’t know if they would do well or not, but I have given it my best shot. I am enough. Anyway, this preparation process made me realise just how hard it...
6 Oct 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Started the day right by using Epic to read a book aloud to my son. He turned to me and said, “animals can grow!” I didn’t even realise he knew this word - grow. As busy adults, 15 minutes is too little for us to get started on any one task. When I...
5 Oct 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Happiness Journal 24/09/2025 My ex-colleague from my previous school sent me a photo to inform me that my ex-students had made it to the finals of the Spelling Bee this year. One of them was a veteran who had taken part in the Spelling Bee last year....
5 Oct 2025 2 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei
It would be great if my students read voraciously. Unfortunately, they don’t, and their final-year exam is snapping at their heels. If they can’t acquire good writing skills through osmosis with reading, then I need to ensure that they at least read...
4 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
My son will enter elementary school next year, so I feel compelled to revise my primary school maths. Indeed, the Primary School Leaving Examination (Mathematics) is notorious for testing 12-year-olds questions that leave them stumped in spite of the...
3 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Singapore may be one of the smallest countries in the world, but I have yet to explore every nock and cranny. But when my son expressed his desire to visit a dairy farm, I could not very well decline his request. Thus began our journey to one of the...
3 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Today was the eve of Children’s Day, so I got to be dismissed from work early owing to Children’s Day celebrations. Since I had the afternoon off, I went back to my previous workplace, which was a junior high school. It has only been three months...
2 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
“Days at the Morisaki Bookshop” follows the journey of Takako whose life shattered into pieces after her boyfriend announced that he was getting married to her colleague. She didn’t have the slightest clue, so talk about being blindsided. She fell...
