Cupcake + Coffee: Where to Find?

It’s a strange craving to strike at 12 midnight on Sunday evening… true… but it’s a perplexing question.
The various cupcake sellers in Singapore, often operating out of their homes or in small bakeries, tend to sell cupcakes in batches of 6 or 10 which are then delivered to or picked up by the customer. Few [...]

Cost-effective Guide to Medical Instruments Fair

As many of the NUS meddies are aware, the Medical Instruments Fair 2007 (MIF 2007) will be held on the 29-30 November 2007 (Thursday and Friday) at the foyer outside the Clinical Research Centre (MD11).
This is particularly catered towards the M2s who will be starting their clinical rotations shortly after their examinations. Unfortunately, this means [...]

Humour: The Flying Spaghetti Monster

Repent, oh sinners! Come forth to the the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! (Church of the FSM / CoFSM)
Join the few hundreds thousands millions of Pastafarians who have been touched by his noodly appendage and now know the deliciousness of the FSM.
He flies! He’s made of spaghetti with two meatballs!
Confused? Fret not! Here’s a [...]

Belt Up, Back Seat Passengers!

Before we begin, here’s a link to the Singapore Police Force Seat Belt Rule FAQ.
If you care for your friends and family’s safety more than your own comfort. Here’s why:
When back seat passengers use seatbelts, not only do they reduce their mortality risk, they also reduce the mortality risk of the driver and front seat [...]

General Medicine Posting: Rumour #1

Rumours are passed along by word of mouth and can be notoriously unreliable. So this might not be the truth. Please take with a pinch of salt.
Over 3 weeks into the posting, the reason that everyone suddenly has to do writeups from the previous 0 (SGH), 3 (NUH), 2 (CGH), 1 (AH), 1 (TTSH).
Rumour has [...]

Review: Swirl Gelateria

Dropping by Crown Centre to use the washroom some days back, J. saw Swirl Gelateria and thought it looked promising. Some time later, he passed by again with a friend and this time, they decided to try it out.
Anyone who’s been to Marble Slab Creamery (previously reviewed here) (USA, Canada), Cold Stone Creamery (USA) or [...]

Intra-Faculty Basketball Part 2 – Completed

Despite an overcast sky, a weather forecast of 60% chance of thunderstorms and a damp floor that had to be overcome with rollers and newspapers, the Faculty of Medicine Shield (FMS) Intra-Faculty Games – Basketball was successfully concluded this day.
Unfortunately, the turnout was far less than the previous attempt (which ended in rain). The M5s [...]

TCM Centre @ SGH – Inappropriate

The 22 Oct 2007 (Mon) The Straits Times had a newspaper article titled:
2.8m TCM centre at SGH from Nov
As mentioned in the article, this place will be called Bao Zhong Tang and will “complement SGH’s suite of services” and “is expected to become a draw for patients in the region.”
Modern medicine is evidence-based medicine. It’s [...]