We have our annual ‘Specialist Dental Group’ gathering at the end of every year. November 29 is the date for this year’s dinner celebration. This is just one of the little traditions that we have at our company. What is the soul of a community? What is the soul of a football team? What is…
I am getting some home run(s). I am visiting my parents in Hong Kong this weekend. So I call it a home run weekend. I will be running with my high school classmate KC, a seasoned marathon runner, early on Sunday morning before sunrise, followed by another run with my high school cross-country team boys…
Monday afternoons are my teaching time. In addition to my Monday afternoon schedule, I occasionally receive some minor teaching assignments on other days of the week. I would say that on average, I spend approximately three quarters of a day every week at the National University of Singapore (NUS). When I first moved to Singapore,…
2014 is the year of World Cup soccer and the year of the Commonwealth Games. I did not watch the World Cup this year for various reasons but I managed to catch a little bit of the Commonwealth Games on TV from time to time. My little girls at home love it as they are…
About a month ago we had a little reunion of Northwestern University Prosthodontics alumnus. Northwesten University alumnus form the largest group of American-trained prosthodontists in Singapore. In our training, a big portion of our work was based on classical literature in Prosthodontics. Believe me in this, there is such a thing as ‘classical literature’ in…
My wife and I visit North America at least once a year. We always go during the first week of May to visit my God-daughter, Natalie and her family in Omaha, Nebraska. The trip takes about 24 hours of travel one way. We make it a point to visit friends, business associates, eat a lot…
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…
Bits and Bites from Dr Ansgar Cheng 