Category: Eating
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Europe 2012: What The Doctor Ordered Me Not To Order
I’m back on my regular low-carb, low(er) fat diet, but my stomach had a really good holiday:
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The Only Celebrity Sighting Worth Having
We had several celeb sightings and near-misses on our trip. Our traveling companion L found Kanye West blocking her view of some freshly launched merchandise at Colette; her husband S found himself gushing about some ‘famous French actress I forgot her name but she is very popular’ after dinner at Hélène Darroze; I cursed about…
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Fungal Infusions
Once I found out I was suffering from hypertension, I wasted no time and went to Funan to buy a blood pressure monitor dock that works with iOS. Mais well, right? So it turns out that without hypertension medication (I’m only on two types of statins), my BP has come down from 157/90 to 129/90.…
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A Week After The Uneventful Angiogram
Anyone else had an angiogram before and whose arm aches like all buggery even after a week? Mine does. But apart from that, I’ve rested a few days, gone straight into work at writing the Hossan Leong Show: Flying Solo with Hirzi and Jasmine (the multi-tasking Stage Manager) – got your tickets yet? – and…
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Turning A Health Scare Into A New Lifestyle
A month ago now, we went to Bangkok for a complete health check at a hospital famous for their health check packages. There are comparable packages available in Singapore in terms of price, but there’s nothing like the setup they have there. In this Bangkok hospital, batteries of X-ray and other diagnostic machines line luxuriously…