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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...
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...
3 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Aalam Zaada
Hi-Fi Birdie But an ordinary one Just an Eagle...But Golden one Dreams so high.. He fly Himalaya...seem small He spread his wings making wide rivers shy Sun looked at him Admiring His golden wings Like fire at night In deep dark woods Calling the lo...
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...
1 Oct 2025 1 minute read 3 comments SergFarStars
Have you ever had dreams where you could fly, or better, have you had a dream where you could bend reality at will? What if those dreams are hints to the potential realities hiding among us? I wrote this piece more than 13 years ago. Enjoy. … A drea...
1 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments SergFarStars
(Take your time to read this... also feel free to be a critic and to express your opinion in any way) I wrote this piece more than 15 years ago. Enjoy. I sometimes… wonder about a beyond…I wonder what’s beyond our planets, moons, stars, galaxies, or...
30 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Teaching kids how to develop their writing muscles is no mean feat because the weaker ones find it hard to string a sentence together. Not to mention that most of them find writing a chore, given the prevalence of digital devices. Thank goodness for...
29 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I won’t go as far to call it a breakthrough, but never have I attempted to get my students to write a narrative using heartbreakingly simple words. I have always tried to infuse vocab words into my lessons and gotten them to internalise them as part...
