Juin Koo

Education

Can we encourage deeper learning?

What if everything you knew about education was wrong, by David Didau.

Education

3Es to gaming up your lessons

I share from personal experience that it is not easy to always get ideas to make lessons exciting in the classroom, gamify a learning objective, lest to come up with a game-based learning experience, include experiential learning, real life application, what not.  It also does not help when your kids

Fun & Games

Wedding reception fillers

Little quirky touches from our wedding that made it special for us.

Education

Quest for a Spouse Visa in Malaysia

Brit trying to apply for a Malaysian spouse visa. Follow our journey here.

Dear Jay

Birth, aging, sickness, death

The start of 2023 was already a horrendous roller coaster ride! I wonder what 2023 will end with...?

How to marry a foreigner in Malaysia [part 3/3]

This is it! The Registration of Marriage!

jalanjalan

Tasik Villa International Resort Port Dickson

There's more to Port Dickson than just the beach!

Dear Jay

Coordinated clothings & Playful peeps

We look good in this pic! How can we do more of this?

How to marry a foreigner in Malaysia [Part 2/3]

One stop post about what, where, how to get hitched for interracial, international couples in Malaysia.

Dear Jay

Book binding experiences

Becoming better at a new skill is an experience to cherish on its own.

jalanjalan

Artisan Playground, KL

A potential venue for our microwedding that is at the peripheral side of KL. Check it out!

Interactive-notebook-making

When it comes to interactive notes or interactive book, what you can find is usually for young kids or students. You get touch-and-feel books for toddlers, pop-up books for young children, pull-out notes or hide-and-reveal notes for school-goers, but has noone realise there is no fun notebooks for adults? Why

Dear Jay

It is selfish to be kind.

I strive to be continuously selfish this year. What about you?

Fun & Games

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Although not from a culture that celebrates Christmas, I cannot help but be eager for December to arrive.  T'is the season of giving, feasting, and imagining not just Santa and his reindeers, but also snow in a tropical country! This year, just documenting and sharing a few home, office, and

Dear Jay

Unputdownable gift

We are now authors of a children's book. Just one book, literally.

Education

Learning about Designs

8 week virtual design course at DesignLab.

Education

How to nurture happier, better learners for life

Sharing my takeaways from Free to Learn, a book by developmental psychologist Peter Gray

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Celebrating 30+

Hopefully another year wiser.

Podcast

Pandemic-triggered pursuits?

Have the pandemic triggered a new sense of discovery in people?

Fun & Games

My Creativity Inspo

All ideas grow out of other ideas. I second this quote!

Dear Jay

Interview: When was your last?

It was about 6~7 years since my last interview, and I'm experiencing another one...

Education

What is your Element?

Sir Ken Robinson's book: The Element-How finding your passion changes everything.

Education

Non-academic education [Part 2]

So many things to learn, so little time in school. What can we do differently?

Bella

Let's Play Spot Bella

Challenge: Can you find the black feline in each picture?

Dear Jay

Emotional roller coaster of idea pitching

Do you get that many butterflies in your tummy before a meeting with the big bosses too?