My window to the outside world

In the literal sense, I found a window to the outside world. Am truly grateful to have a chance to be out there. Been in my cave for so long that it is difficult to tell which day of the week it is. Realised that I had not rode my motorcycle for so long, that I had almost forgotten how to. Not many cars on the roads these days. Clear skies, light traffic and much less stress.

Please let this Circuit Breaker period end soon. I hope many others who are locked in have not gone all Short Circuit. At least I can power up my circuit and go out. Some may be in Open Circuit mode and never have the current to power their lives, and it is sad to see more of my fellow Singaporeans suffer.

Another short blog post. Haven't got much to share since life in the cave is pretty monotonous.

Some community service for the Circuit Breaker period in Singapore

I guess many Singaporeans are stuck at home, worried about their jobs, the economy etc. While I can't find the extra cash to donate for the greater good, the time at home hasn't been squandered (at least not 100%). Last year, I started picking up Scratch, and came up with a whole series of lessons for kids to learn about programming. Found many ways to create interesting game interfaces, that can be incorporated into an additional course. It wouldn't be difficult to teach using a Zoom session or via other web meeting platforms, but I do not have the students at the moment. Hence, the decision, as a form of community service, to create a YouTube video for everyone to learn the basics. Embedded video is shown below. It took about 8 to 10 hours to get this done, as I had to run through the screen recording at least a few times. The voice was narrated subsequently, and final video created by synchronising the different video and audio tracks created in the process.

As this is a time consuming process, it is quite difficult to find the motivation to do this. If there are at least 200 subscribers on the YouTube channel, I will spend the time to create the next video lesson for free, as I will know that there are enough viewers for these classes to be useful. Please subscribe if you think the lesson is useful for you. I do hope that learning will take the boredom and worries away for as many as possible.

Have a look, and decide if this is good.

A short blog post

It is almost 7am in the morning. Been learning online for the past few hours now. This is something I like to do. There is so much I do not know at the moment. If only there are jobs that pay well and allow for skills upgrade along the way. Life would be pretty much like a Role Playing Game, where I bash through many stages to skill up. Sometimes I wish there were more than 24 hours in a day, so I can do a lot more. What should I do with my kid today? Last time we met, we had dinner and a nice session of Twist, the card game I created. Wife was in Kamikaze mode, so all of us lost. Almost managed to beat her attempt but made a careless mistake. Anyways, this must be boring to any reader, who finds this rather incoherent and random.