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Late last year, I found out about the Active Health screening programme from a friend. I was told that I would be able to obtain an accurate body composition analysis free of charge. My interest was piqued as I always wanted to measure my body fat percentage and this was perfect for me! As weekend…More

After my Christmas break ended in Jan ’19, I was looking to join an amateur football club in Dublin. Some of my friends were searching for badminton clubs in the region and I thought I could do the same for football. During my National Service days in Singapore (prior to the COVID-19 pandemic), playing 11-a-side…More

Just as I thought I would not get much opportunity to play football in Dublin, I was delighted to find out about the Med Cup. Every year, each of the five batches in undergraduate Medicine would send in a football team to compete against one another in a round-robin format some time in October. In…More

My first encounter with mechanical keyboards was in January last year while I was Dublin. At that time, my desk setup was nothing fancy as my Macbook was my daily driver. I was thinking of getting a monitor to enhance my desk setup and increase my productivity. I was browsing through pictures of beautiful desk…More

During childhood, I used to encounter mahjong only during Chinese New Year. As a child and adolescent, I would pick one corner of the mahjong table and sandwich myself between two relatives to play the role of a spectator. Many a time, I would imagine being told to take over one of the players and…More

I recently embarked on my third year of medical school and I am starting Week 3 of my 10 week-long Internal Medicine (IM) posting today. The first two weeks and last five weeks are spent in the wards, while the middle three weeks are reserved for home-based learning, where we will attend online lectures and…More

For the pre-clinical medical students at Trinity College Dublin, a typical academic year is split into semesters. For me, semester 1 was from Sep ’18 to mid-Dec ’18, followed by five weeks of winter vacation and subsequently, semester 2 was from end-Jan ’19 to May ’19. We had one reading week in the middle of…More

At Trinity College Dublin, week 0 of every academic year is designated Freshers’ Week. During this week, different clubs and societies would set up booths to showcase their activities and recruit interested students, especially freshmen. It was during my Freshers’ Week when I spotted the men’s football booth and signed up to trial for the…More

At the start of this vacation, I set out to be productive and have something to look forward to, while doing something fun at the same time. Looking back, I felt that my previous few university vacations passed me by very quickly. Hence, this time round, I decided to do something different. My goal for…More

In light of the recent announcement of the closure of gyms, I would like to share more about my home gym. A friend of mine inspired me to set up one last October, and this is how it looks like. My home gym has three main stations: barbell, dumbbells and pull-up bar. Barbell I have…More