On Sunday 19 Dec 2021, the Hong Kong government decided to make 99 percent of the city’s transport free for all. That was why on the day before that, my mom asked me repeatedly while pacing around the apartment, “Shirley, will you go outside with me and Dad tomorrow? Transport…

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. They 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 indexes to do a「」 to…

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…

I needed to attend a “personality” workshop recently. I was told, by the speaker, who was pointing at her PowerPoint slides, to draw a pig. I implore you — in fact, I dare you — to go get a piece of paper and a pencil to draw a pig now. …

Classic rambling post when it seems like anything in your head is not worth posting — I have thought long and hard about whether I should yet again write a post on Medium, about Medium. Normally when I see these posts about Medium, I will eyeroll at it, then not click on it. Sometimes I even click on the “Show less like this” button whenever I…

A so-bad-it’s-funny game ad compilation followed by a concerning message — I am having a long holiday. Before the holiday, I have put together a list of things I want to do during the holiday. And then of course I did a completely different, extremely important thing instead: I immediately downloaded several mobile games on the first day of the holiday…