It’s been almost 20 months since COVID-19 first surfaced in China in November 2019. From then until now, our arsenal to bring this pandemic under control comprises mainly of safe distancing, testing (for infectious cases), contact tracing, treatment (mostly symptomatic treatment) and now vaccination. Testing is key as a false […]
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There is this group of people in the gym of who will attend the classes and then take pictures of himself/herself/themselves with the instructor. Really “religiously” as in they do it all the time. Before COVID-19 struck, getting to classes was less of a hassle, most of us can get […]
Meaningless SNS Posts of Gym
驺吾 (騶吾, 騶虞) Zōu Wú 林氏国有珍兽，大若虎，五采毕具，尾长于身，名曰驺吾，乘之日行千里。 — 《山海经》卷十二·海内北经 In the State of Lin, there was a rare beast that was as large as a tiger with five different colors running through its body and a tail longer than the length of its body, known as the Zou’Wu. It could carry […]
驺吾 (Zouwu)
I look at this yellowed paper pasted on this storage box (where I place my stationery and knick-knacks that I need) on my desk where it stated my target for this site for 2017: “1 post a day or minimum 4 posts a week”, and “post a glossary every week”. […]
First post of 2018
I was wondering why did the hospital suddenly unceremoniously send me an SMS to postpone my follow-up in the eye clinic from October to November, they never gave me a reason why. Nor did they even bother to call to check if the patient, i.e. me, is alright. Such is […]
Customer Service in Hospital
I do understand that advertisements should try to grab attention, whether with words, images or sounds. But should not the language matter? Saw this advertisement promoting Elle Singapore magazine at the bus stop as the “Biggest selling magazine”, what is that? It’s not best selling, so what does this term […]
Biggest Selling?
We are now halfway through 2017 and today I moved to a new web address, hoping that this will help me boost my work prospects as well as improve my lot in life in general. I used to own ace2z.com but the website name simply did not gel and I […]
New website
Working as a translator is not easy. Other than the basic language skills you need to have, there are many things to look out for to make this a reasonable means of living. 1. Knowledge There are so many different domains and areas that a translator can work in. Language skills […]