It has been three hundred odd days since we celebrated the Year of the Snake. 2014 is special as we celebrated the New Year and the Year of the Horse exactly one month apart. As today is the 7th day of the Lunar New Year, we are still not done with the Chinese New Year…
2013 marked the 30th year since I graduated from my high school, St Louis School, in Hong Kong. In the early 70s, TV was the best channel to distribute information in Hong Kong. One of the major TV highlights, at least to my family, was the inter-school quiz competition. We witnessed the St Louis school…
It has been over 20 years since I first set foot in the US. I went to the US for the first time to visit a few dental schools. I was in the process of searching for a post-graduate program in dentistry right after I graduated with my Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) from the…
As a small boy, my family taught me that rationality and sensibility are important in life. These principles are why my family behaves the way that we do. People who know me know that I do not drive in Singapore due to affordability issues – another reason I always give is that the accident rate…
This was an email interview with the Straits Times which together with a face-to-face interview, resulted in an article published in the Sunday Times on June 3, 2012 in the “Me & My Money” column. My wife, Moon, and I initially had some reservations about being featured in such a column as it is rather…
This is an article that I wrote for Impact, a Christian publication, which was published in the August/September 2013 issue of the magazine. To view the original article, please visit: http://bit.ly/1d9DCwR. There are many thought provoking articles that explore how the Christian faith applies to contemporary issues. I was born in a very prosperous city during…
Are you a James Bond fan? I have been a fan of the James Bond movies since i was a kid. My favorite Bond is Sean Connery. The blog post below was written for the Specialist Dental Group Dentists’ Blog when the movie “Skyfall” was shown in Singapore last year. It was on a wonderful…
The following post was recently posted on Specialist Dental Group’s Dentists’ Blog. I wrote it to express my thoughts that dentistry should not be looked at in isolation as being about teeth only. We are also practising medicine but from a dental aspect. Read more below… I ran into a physician friend at lunch time…
1963 was a few years before I was born. I had absolutely no recollection of where I was at that point of time. I had heard it was a cool nice sunny day on November 22, 1963. It turned out to be one of the darkest days in the history of USA. President John F…
Bits and Bites from Dr Ansgar Cheng 