Blogging about crypto as I learn
16 Jun 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.01
Since it’s Father’s Day tomorrow, I thought I would share a bit about my dad and invite you to share about yours. When people talk about my dad, they will definitely mention his calligraphy. He learnt it from a young age. He was so passionate about...
16 Jun 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei $0.01
Happy Father’s Day 2024! Being a father means that I walk an extra 200-300 metres to shave 20-30 cents off my coffee fix. And a poem: My bodyis the logon which my children restto watch their TV.It’s like a seesawhas descended upon my being,with the...
15 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.03
Give the world all you’ve got, for you never know how it will reciprocate in kind. You would think that the success of a goalkeeper is measured by whether his team emerges champions. So, Singapore just finished its World Cup qualifiers this week. D...
15 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.01
Because it is in Mandarin! I usually don’t read Chinese books in the name of productivity because I want to apply what I have learnt in my job and it seems that English books allow me to apply takeaways more conveniently. But I recently had a chang...
14 Jun 2024 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.04
My neighbourhood barber shop closed down, so I had my haircut at a new place yesterday. It was a great move. I felt incredibly pampered. My hairstylist, Hasan (yes I got his name) was gentle, yet forceful. His movements were slow, sharp, deliberate,...
12 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.07
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ~Thomas Edison Thomas Edison certainly practised what he preached. In regard to his invention of the light bulb, didn’t he famously clarif...
12 Jun 2024 4 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.03
A pungent smell wafted from the cluttered apartment. Tak boleh tahan1, the neighbours raised the alarm. When the police came to pry open the door, they saw a rotting corpse that belonged to an old man. He had been dead for days; no one had noticed....
11 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.02
Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander interviewed 64 individuals to get them to spill the beans on “My Morning Routine”. So, each interview is written in a straightforward question-and-answer format, in which you can hear the interviewee’s inner voice. T...
10 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.05
When I was living in Japan, the dish I missed the most was fish and chips. I couldn’t fathom why something so ubiquitous in Singapore was impossible to find in Nippon. I missed it so much that the first meal I devoured when I visited Busan, South Kor...
10 Jun 2024 4 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.04
If there were a global ranking of Stoic Masters, I reckon the Japanese would rank among the top. The 2011 tsunami alerted the world to the potent devastation of formidable waves; it also let the world witness the unparalleled resilience of Japanese p...
