Week three in the year. Did you manage to nail one of your new daily practices in a continuous streak of 21 days? If your answer is yes—congratulations, you have created a new habit. Often, this does not happen. Old habits die hard. The comfortable path is homeostasis. You cannot give up, you have to try […]
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After punching your weight with a strong New Year enthusiasm, there would be creeps of distraction, lack of focus, discipline and maybe self-punishing thoughts. Plainly, it is the resistance. Businesses take advantage of this—a common theme from the fitness gym industry: Gyms take advantage of New Year’s resolutions to rope newbies into year-long contracts, knowing full
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Happy New Year! Wishing all of you a great start to 2018! A New Year is about renewed spirits and often, New Year resolutions. Usually, you would expect: go to the gym every day, eat organic vegan diet, or get that lucrative job or promotion. If you’ve made such New Year resolution before—Did it work? Well,
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In June 2015, I left banking for the second time to do “peer learning” experiments. Like my travels 3.5 years earlier, I gave myself two years. After the Ramly Burger experiments, we explored further with two private groups. One with a church group and another with Caryn’s private tutoring group. It was tough engagement, due to language
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What a week! The Eagles finally got their games published on Wednesday and they ended the week with a celebration at Kiddomo and an evening gathering to celebrate the birthday of our youngest Eagle! Thank you Kiddomo for hosting us, Thank you coach Wen Ying & coach Mona for all the swimming lessons (and patience
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—Upload in Progress— Upload: https://coding2017.actonkl.org Status: 1.618MB of 2.718GB transferred Time left: 6 days and 03:14:16 (at 1.1412 KB/s)_ One week before Exhibition Day. Preparation, anticipation, and lots of debugging. The lure of giving up. Tough, hard work. How shall we start such an intense week? Inspiration from the real world—an Eagle-led trip to ACE-Edventure
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T-8 to Exhibition Day Time never stops Eagles, your work will be public, online and accessible for anybody to see. Do you have something to show? The pressure of Exhibition kicked in. Also, we were on the week of Thanksgiving. Not that we celebrate it, but coincidentally we had a week of festive mood. Eagles
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We ended the first post with this question: Can students teach each other, instead of having teachers? I was inspired by nature. Exactly, it was an army of ants that found an impossibly connected path during one of the many hiking sessions with Shien Jin. The way the ants solved problems, signaled each other, worked together
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life+=rand()*experiments? What do you think about programming? Is it lines of code that’s machine-like and mundane? Or something creative? The Eagles were diving deeper into algorithms. They challenged each other to create different pieces of code. We saw Elementary School (ES) Eagles stepping up by testing with new experiments algorithms among themselves and the studio. Read
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What were the origins of Acton Academy Kuala Lumpur (ActonKL)? Here’s a short answer: “Curiosity, experiments, and the inspiration from resourceful children around the world, and a lot of luck…” OK, here’s the longer version. As promised a few weeks ago, I am going to tell you this story over a few blog posts. Here’s part
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