Everything is wrong in the world right now. There are wars, deadly viruses, disastrous extreme weathers. Fundamental rights are being seized left and right. Things that shouldn’t happen, happen. Yet here you are, about to watch me rant about a bag of chips I saw the other day. Welcome, to…

A Follow-up To That Viral Post — Last year, I wrote about a bag of Lay’s chips. The post was featured by this site. It now has 10.8k views. I was in… another state of mind when I wrote that post. You should go read that post first. I Got Sucked Down A Potato Chip Rabbit Hole And Barely Made It Back What is the actual flavor of this bag of Lay’s “Fromage Flavoured” Chips?thatshirleylee.medium.com It is always good to coast off the success…

More Idiom Stories, or Idiot Stories, If You May — I can’t believe my last Chinese Thought Pills post was written in 2020. That’s three years ago. I have since written about a lot more things. So if you’re new here, hello! Here’s a brief introduction of this publication: This is where I trick people into reading about Chinese idiom…

You should be reading about AI. You should be reading about fossil fuels. But sometimes, you do need to experience a minor mental breakdown and get unreasonably outrageous over something utterly meaningless. For a chuckle. It’s good for your mental health. That’s why you are going to read about a…

Step-By-Step Guide Included — Last month, a student of mine told me that his family showed him an easy trick to get the last drop of toothpaste out. I tested it at home. It works. So we made a video about it. I have written a step-by-step guide below the video, but you should…

I Can’t Believe I Did These Things For Free — What a wild year was 2022. One big thing I learnt was that money can buy you a lot of happiness. But we are not here to talk about that. We are here to talk about cool things I managed to do for free this year. Somehow this involved me…

Tumblr Blaze is Worth It — Brief Intro Tumblr is a weird social media site. It has been described as a “famous microblogging website for freaks”. It has a new feature called Tumblr Blaze. Tumblr Blaze lets you show your own post as a sponsored post across the platform if you pay. I “blazed” two favorite posts of…

I teach kids for a living. Not long ago, I heard about kids playing with imaginary phones. A parent told me their 4-year-old would pretend to scroll on their “phone” and “show stuff” to other people by holding their palm out to them. Then they would use their thumbs and…

Why? All schools need promotion nowadays. The kids are learning English and they need a real reason to practice it with. When they learn their lines, they are repeating bits and pieces of the language in chunks and internalizing them. Then other kids (or at least those who are involved in…