Living over a cafe sounds nice and all -- our apartment overlooks a patio -- but one downside is the cigarette smoke. We should have known. Who are the people who would sit outside in the sun, in an outdoors cafe? Besides 'mad dogs and Englishmen' that is.
To be fair, I think there are not as many smokers in Toronto as compared to Singapore. Still, it's a pet peeve of ours, because we think that it's not fair of smokers to force us to 'smoke' as well, and worse, this smoke drifts into our room. Grr. I can't wait for winter, where it's too cold for people to sit outside to smoke.
On a totally different note, here's something interesting I read last night.
To be fair, I think there are not as many smokers in Toronto as compared to Singapore. Still, it's a pet peeve of ours, because we think that it's not fair of smokers to force us to 'smoke' as well, and worse, this smoke drifts into our room. Grr. I can't wait for winter, where it's too cold for people to sit outside to smoke.
On a totally different note, here's something interesting I read last night.
In 1970 Prof Zhang (Zhang Jin-Zhe, head of the pediatric department in Beijing Hospital) suffered from meleana and was diagnosed to have gastric cancer and a gasterectomy was recommended. There were no fully trained surgeons around so the operation was done under acupuncture with the patient following the procedure in the mirror (guiding the surgeon performing the operation). When the surgeon said that he could not find the cancer, and asked what he should do as there was no facility for frozen section, Prof Zhang decided to risk losing half his stomach rather than the risk of missing a malignancy. The patient then continued to direct the surgeon in the operative procedure.
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