NYJC visit to my school
I was asked to do a “mock lecture” for our student visitors from Nanyang Junior College who were keen to find out about life at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. However, I told the JC students…
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The real value of writing
Many years ago, I knew a star reporter whose news stories often made the front page. What readers didn’t know was that this journalist was not a good writer – the sub-editors always had to rework the copy extensively. But…
Newsletter 47 – Enjoy Your Work
After conducting a Gen AI workshop this week with OCBC bank employees, a participant said to me, “Your course is different from other courses, you teach it in quite a playful manner.” I said, “That’s because I really enjoy learning…
From PPT mockup to AI App
VISUALISING YOUR AI APP: For over 20 years, I’ve been doing simple visual mockups in PowerPoint to show colleagues and clients my creative ideas, marketing event setups, e-commerce website designs, and many more things. Today, I use the same approach…
Gen AI Is Just Guessing – an app I made
I’m always surprised that in 2025, many people are still unaware that Gen AI generates text by predicting the next probable word (which is why you cannot fully trust AI, since it is just guessing). For my Gen AI workshops,…
OCBC workshop – Sharing my daily prompt
I always show this slide in all my Gen AI workshops: “Check grammar:” [then paste text] I tell the audience, “No matter the AI literacy of this class, I will share this prompt with you because it’s what I use…
Nan Hua High School PDL Day 2025
Thank you to Nan Hua High School for inviting me to be their speaker at their Professional Learning Day yesterday. “Pedagogy x Gen AI” is a complex topic to tackle, and I shared my thoughts both as an educator and…
Newsletter 46 – Cats and Calculators
The title of today’s newsletter has absolutely no meaning, it’s just written to accompany the AI video I made of Calculator Boy walking his cat. Calculator Boy is a character I designed to decorate the presentation slides for my AI…
Newsletter 45 – Before love turns to hate
Yesterday, I got to know a female artist. She lamented that her daughter was not pursuing art further. The daughter had taken art as a GCE O-Level subject at an advanced level. I saw the young lady’s work and was…
Feedback that made my day
I had the opportunity to share my Gen AI techniques with over 1,800 civil servants during webinars organised by the Civil Service College. Thank you to everyone who attended, and also thank you to the person who wrote this comment –…