I had been working at my usual pace for the first few months of 2017 and I had to give up my Hong Kong marathon in February as a result of a bad flu. Giving up was hard in light of numerous miles of training that I had done to prepare for the race. However,…
I am known among my colleagues as a ‘factual’ man, i.e., I am not so much into ‘artsy’ things. I usually express my artistic talent in my work, making implant teeth and faces. Little do people know that I grew up with opera. A few months ago, my wife and I attended a Cantonese opera…
[Read Part 1 – Weight Loss : Three Keys] [Read Part 2 – Weight Loss – Another Key (Luck)] [Read Part 4: Weight Loss – One More Key] [Read Part 5: Weight Loss: One Simple Key] [Read Part 6: Weight Loss – One Fundamental Key] It is very common that people grow up after they leave…
About a week ago there was a big dental meeting in Singapore. A few thousand people came together to attend this biannual event, IDEM which usually happens near the middle of the year. I have never missed any IDEM meeting since I moved to Singapore as I found it is a great platform to meet…
I used to pretend to read newspaper when I was in kindergarten. One time I was trying to figure out the short comic on the newspaper during an afternoon dim sum with my father, a BEAUTIFUL waitress (you will know why I consider her beautiful later…) walked pass and told my father that I was a smart cookie who managed…
When I was a kid under twelve, this was the time of the year for me. We celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival on the lunar calendar, which usually fell in early June. I used to indulge myself with yummy rice dumplings. My grandma (Chan Yin-Mui陳賢妹小姐) made the best rice dumplings (with peanut fillings) in the…
Compared with many Asians a generation ahead of me, my generation was the lucky one. We had a minimum of 9 years of compulsory school education in Hong Kong. It was ‘compulsory’ because parents could go behind bars if they failed to send their kids to school. I was born in the 1960s. The generation…
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…
Bits and Bites from Dr Ansgar Cheng 