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Make her laugh

8 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.05

My daughter was screaming hysterically during dinner because I took her puffs away. She has a voracious appetite and wasn’t amused that she couldn’t eat to her heart’s content. I was at my wits’ end. My son, however, rose to the occasion. He placed h...

Book Review | Giada De Laurentiis’s Recipe for Adeventure Naples!

5 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.03

Given that I chose to visit Italy for my honeymoon, you bet that I devoured “Giada De Laurentiis’s Recipe for Adeventure Naples!” with voracious interest. This is particularly so because I didn’t get to visit Naples during my maiden trip to Italy. An...

Head fake

5 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.01

If you haven’t read “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, I can tell you the most important lesson he imparted us. Head fake. It’s a sporting analogy in which an athlete moves his head in a way such that his opponent believes that he is about to move...

‘Amok’ comes from Malay

4 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.01

Special thanks to @carlosfandango who told me that ‘amok’ comes from a Malay word for ‘frenzied’. Thanks to him, I had a lovely conversation with my colleague the other day. I’m so excited about this discovery that I wrote the following script for my...

Book Review | “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20”

3 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.05

Tina Seelig was teaching an entrepreneurship course at Stanford when she wrote the book, so the initial chapter about how her students were given a measly $5 and a weekend to create value and earn some bucks was the most exhilarating and breathtaking...

Preparing phrases for my year-end review

3 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.03

- When students engage in discussions and share their thoughts and ideas with peers, they learn to take turns, listen and negotiate their point of view. They learn to respect, listen to, and understand a diverse range of views, be it to seek truth,...

Traits of Published Authors

31 Jul 2024 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.05

Driven by the need to create more visual space for myself, I have been aggressive in my reading this year. The great thing about consistent reading is that I have started to spot several traits that successful authors share. Well, this gives me a cle...

Invert conventional logic

30 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.06

Many personal productivity advocate that we tackle the most challenging and important task in the morning. After we expend our valuable cognitive energy trying to solve it, we will experience a soul-stirring feeling of exhilaration, which will power...

My innovative punctuation lesson

30 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.01

What is Sensei’s teaching challenge this week? I thought that knowing how to use the comma was a given for my Year 1 students, but it turned out to be something novel for them. They had little understanding of how to use the comma. As an eager teach...

Transcribing interviews with TurboScribe

29 Jul 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.01

My students interviewed their Vice-principal last Friday. However, since they are not yet proficient in spelling and taking notes, they were unable to record down key points mentioned by the vice-principal. After all, it must be a nerve-wracking expe...