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.…
[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…
[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…
I finished my UCLA implant residency in the summer of 1993. My wife and I drove past Omaha en route to Toronto. We did not stop in Omaha as we were rushing over to Canada for my interview at the University of Toronto. I was trying to look for a job then. Since we moved…
When I was 15, my family moved to a newly developed area. There was a new department store that occupied two stories out of a building right across from my home. It was a small retail chain called Klasses, which has since gone out of business. One of my favorite past times was to window…
A group of 12 teenage Thai boys and their young coach were lost deep in a cave system in Thailand due to unknown reasons. After close to 10 days, they were found by a British rescuer. Rescuing them out of the cave system was not an easy task as the cave was narrow, little known…
Bits and Bites from Dr Ansgar Cheng 