Canada takes in immigrants all the time, in the 70s they took in a lot of Vietnamese refugees. Canada, being close to 9 million sq km in size, gave them a place to restart their lives. When I was a young professor at the University of Toronto dental school, I heard from older colleagues how…
Ansgar Cheng / History / Philosophy / running
In Japan, New Year celebration always comes with good food & a few Ekiden (long distance relay) races; corporate, intervarsity, high school, male & female. Every new year, in Japan, Hakone Ekiden 箱根驿传 (short for Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip University Ekiden Race东京箱根间往复大学驿传竞走); a 2 consecutive days, 200 kilometres+ male intervarsity relay attracts a lot of media attention.…
Berlin marathon has been one of the first ‘world major marathons’, it is known for being flat, fast and cool. As a result, hundreds of thousands of applicants apply for it, and only a few tens of thousands get lucky enough to run it. Then a runner friend told me there is a way to…
Ansgar Cheng / people / running / singapore / sports / Uncategorized
Most of us know that 4 legged smaller domesticated animals with horns hopping around on grass is called goat. My younger daughter used to sing, ‘High on the hill was a lonely goatherd…’ from The Sound of Music, which happened to be one of the all-time favourite movies of my mom. Yes, they love music.…
It was about summer in 1980, the moment before I started science stream study in preparation for my O-level examinations. I bought a book that was about track and field training. I could not care too much about the examination as it was supposed to be in 1983. Two years away was a long time…
[First part – Tale of the 2 students] [Second part – Mom of the 2 students (next part)] One day when we were having breakfast, I saw Moon popped a pill in her mouth. She always stock the family up with some pills; vitamin this, vitamin that, this oil, that oil, super-duper essential whatever, etc.…
[Continued from previous blog: Tale of 2 students] [Blog after this: Mom of the 2 students: the tale after next] I met Moon over a birthday party in 1988 in Singapore. It was a party next to a pool, not a pool party in swimsuit. To be exact. It was August 13, 1988. I was on…
[Continued from previous blog: Did we see bugs? (2019/20)] [Read next part: Mom of the 2 students: another tale (next part)] [Read following blog: Mom of the 2 students: the tale after next] When my wife and I were making babies, her idea was to have the babies closer in age ‘so that they grow…
So much in 2019. We revisit & look see 😁 https://bit.ly/3IOlNW1 When my gal was sent off at the airport, I quietly said a prayer but brought back the rational self; she would visit Singapore again. It is home. Saying goodbye is always hard, however, I also told myself we had seen various unexpected events…
[Read Part 1 – Travel back (& forth) in time] [Read Part 2 – Travel back (& forth) in time] March 17, 2019 was the Taiwan marathon, exactly 4 weeks after the Hong Kong marathon, which is against conventional wisdom; thy shalt not run 2 marathons within a few months’ time! This time I got…
[Read Part 1 – Travel back (& forth) in time] [Read Part 3 – Travel back (& forth) in time] 2019 February Hong Kong Marathon was a good one. I had two young boys (they were younger than me at point of time when their age added up), Jeremy and David, working together on it.…
[Read Part 2 – Travel back (& forth) in time] [Read Part 3 – Travel back (& forth) in time] My family was there for me at the 2016 Hong Kong marathon, my second marathon ever. Their support was priceless and I remember seeing them about 200 meters from the finish line while I was…
2020 started off as per usual, I bet no one could guess what was emerging and waiting for mankind. The new coronavirus has been storming the world and took numerous lives. As of today, there has been over 200 million cases with approximately 2%+ mortality rate. No one really knows its natural history and more…
The Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon in December 2018 was a good run. I had my “cheat shoes” (those 4% faster shoes) and I was training well. I had probably covered over a thousand km with my running friend, Jing Song. Jing Song is relentless and intelligent. He decided to run his maiden marathon in Singapore…
(Read Sub3 part 1 here and Sub3 part 2 here) The Singapore marathon course is flat but being less than 200km from the equator, it extremely hot and humid. The Hong Kong course is hilly but cooler in the winter time. Both places are not known for fast times. One is my home court and…
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