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Blogging about crypto as I learn


Book Review: Coping with Learning Disability

16 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

  I teach English at a school, where students have failed the Primary School Leaving Examination. Bottom 200 children of the cohort. Where 12-year-old kids come to me, not knowing how to spell words like family, friend and nervous. It’s a testament...

My reading routine

15 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

Here is my reading routine: begin with the end in mind. After i finish reading a book, i will donate it to the paper recycling machine near my house. It earns me less than a cent, but it makes me feel great that I’m in control of the possessions...

Horse therapy!

14 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

It’s always heartwarming to visit EQUAL, a unique organisation that uses horses to guide high-needs adolescents towards emotional regulation and prosocial behaviour. Yesterday was my 4th time there, but it felt like a novel experience. Due to the ra...

Book Review: Help Me!

14 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

“Help Me!” details the journey of Marianne Power, a British freelance journalist who resolved to read one self-help book every month and apply its principles to whip her topsy-turvy life into shape. I enjoyed her second chapter so much that I am doi...

Money lesson with my son

13 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

To say that my son loves toys is an understatement. He even knows how to declare his affection in his third language: 我喜欢玩具。His enthusiasm, unfortunately, isn’t infectious. I worry that he will grow up to be the kind of person who always chases...

Book Review: “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”

12 Jan 2024 2 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

There’s plenty of downtime involved in raising my infant girl actually. She ignores me whenever I try to do something with her, but hell hath no fury like a woman scorned when I try to leave her playpen. Her screams can burst eardrums, I swear. Anywa...

[For Singaporeans Only] Doing surveys with CrowdTaskSG

11 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

Being a teacher is hectic and pressuring, but there are opportunities when brief windows will open up, just like how the sun shines through the rain-streaked clouds after a downpour. So, I am doing the surveys on CrowdTaskSG now. It’s definitely leg...

Introducing the soft and hard C rule to my colleagues

10 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Dear colleagues, Many of our students have dyslexia. They find reading difficult because of a lack of familiarity with important pronunciation rules. Our VE colleagues conducted an engaging programme for Year 1 students during Orientation last week....

A father’s empathy

9 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

Nothing anyone says, nothing you read will ever prepare you enough to be a father.   Until you become one and are struggling in the vast ocean.   My boy has this annoying habit of playing with his toys before shower time. I get very exasperated with...

First day of work!

8 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

Inspired by my recent trip to Japan, where entire walls were adorned with just one artefact, I ruthlessly took down all the things pasted on my cabinet. I then placed the first positive Japanese affirmation torn off a calendar right in the centre of...