Amazing Amazon Service / Paying You To Stop Working

Recently, my  Kindle Lighted Leather Cover 's light stopped working. I wasn't sure what the reason was because there were no screws ...

International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (iCTLT 2008)

I am at the iCTLT conference at Suntec City today. It's always nice to come to conferences where folks get nice food, goodie bags and b...

What Is Good Writing? (Episode II)

Straits Times columnist Janadas Devan has written a follow up to his first article on 'good writing.' (Click here for Part 1.) Allo...

What Is Good Writing?

From time to time, the newspapers publish articles by parents who seem to be a little upset about how their kids are doing in school, partic...

Amazon.com Calling / ICT

I just received the latest parcel from amazon.com. The SingPost Speedpost guy carried the small box inside this huge USPS bag. I asked could...

R & R

So I'm back in Teacher's College for some R&R. Teaching Practice was fun; I had excellent mentors who were quite enlightened and...

A Poverty of Ambition?

"There’s nothing wrong with making money, but focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks t...

Evaluating Reliability

Source A : An online news report from Channel News Asia. SINGAPORE : A police officer crashed his car into a pillar along a walkway at abou...

Two Classes

I just completed my two-week stint working as a teaching assistant at the Stanford Uni EPGY expository writing workshop held at HwaChong. T...

Speak Good English!

I'm not exactly sure how my pedagogy stacks up against established schools of thought, but here's just a reminder to all: speak good...

The Social Sciences All Mixed Up Together

School has been lots of fun, even though right now I'm still stuck at a 400-word short essay trying to argue why 'the English Langua...

In The Jungle/Teacher's College

So a few weeks ago I started school again at Teacher's College. This place is really cool. It's in the middle of a thick secondary t...

Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness In A Sex Ed Class

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. ~Deuteronomy 5:20, The Nineth Commandment I last wrote about the separation of Chu...

CELTA at ECC, Bangkok

So this is the place where I took my CELTA (previous post here ). Like I said before, it's a very intensive course, but it's also ...