Medicine, Music, & Musings
Tag: vol02
This blog post is my translation attempt on the fifth chapter of LLPSI FR. If you wish to learn Latin, all you have to do is just follow me from chapter 01. The Latin text is designed such that you can learn Latin from scratch just by reading the text itself without any external aid. … Continue reading 02(11): LLPSI Pars I Familia Romana, Capitulum Quintum
This blog post is my translation attempt on the fourth chapter of LLPSI FR. If you wish to learn Latin, all you have to do is just follow me from Chapter 01. The Latin text is designed such that you can learn Latin from scratch just by reading the text itself without any external aid. … Continue reading 02(10): LLPSI Pars I Familia Romana, Capitulum Quartum
This blog post is my translation attempt on the third chapter of LLPSI FR. If you wish to learn Latin, all you have to do is just follow me from chapter 1. The Latin text is designed such that you can learn Latin from scratch just by reading the text itself without any external aid. … Continue reading 02(09): LLPSI Pars I Familia Romana, Capitulum Tertium
This blog post is my translation attempt on the second chapter of LLPSI FR. If you wish to learn Latin, all you have to do is just follow me from chapter 1. The Latin text is designed such that you can learn Latin just by reading the text itself without any external aid. Such is … Continue reading 02(08): LLPSI Pars I Familia Romana, Capitulum Secundum
The diagram shows an island (insula), town (oppidum), and river (fluvius). Rome is in Italy. Italy is in Europe. Greece is in Europe. Italy and Greece are in Europe. Spain is also in Europe. Spain, Italy, and Greece are in Europe. Egypt is not in Europe; Egypt is in Africa. Gall is not in Africa; … Continue reading 02(07): LLPSI Pars I Familia Romana, Capitulum Primum
A few years ago, I decided to start learning Latin for various reasons. Firstly, I thought that it was and still do think it is a majestic and beautiful language. Its words just have that accompanying gravitas. It had so much weight. Somehow, the mere fact that something is written in Latin seems to lend … Continue reading 02(06): Getting back to learning Latin again after a hiatus; learn Latin with me.
I need to ensure the question to which I am giving my response is the same as the question that another party might be asking. It is easy to take for granted that both the former and the latter are always equivalent. They are not always the same, given the different lenses through which people … Continue reading 02(05): Are there really different types of intelligence?
In this post, I will be introducing the question bank of AMBOSS. Before diving straight into that, I think it helps to establish some essential background information so that we can at least understand slightly better AMBOSS's role in medical education today. My earliest encounter with AMBOSS was probably late in 2018, where I chanced … Continue reading 02(04): Take learning in medical school to the next level with AMBOSS
Today, I was playing the piano (indulging in the majestic opening chords of Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto and some soundtrack pieces from The Phantom of the Opera) and as I also played other pieces I was familiar with, I reminisced about the past. Specifically, I recalled how someone had written me a note when I … Continue reading 02(03): Thank you, anonymous listener
Today is March 14, which can be written as 3/14, and these digits correspond to the first 3 digits of the mathematical constant which is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, at least in the decimal system that we human beings have arbitrarily chosen to adopt. π is … Continue reading 02(02): Pi day
What a long time that has elapsed since my last post in September 2019. Five months have passed and now here I finally am, again, with yet another (long-awaited?) blog post. Earlier this morning, I attended a session from 9-11 am where the movie "Wit" (2001) was streamed in the lecture theatre. It was the … Continue reading 02(01): Thoughts on the 2001 movie “Wit”
Nicholas Loh 