Last Friday, 5 September, I was in Batu Pahat to attend an informal reunion dinner. There were 11 of us golden girls from the Class of 1964 of Temenggong Ibrahim Girls School, Batu Pahat. Some of us had not met for 44 years! Mother Time has certainly been kind to us. Had we bumped into […]
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(The article below is reproduced from The Star dated July 6, 2008.)MANY agree that senior citizens can still contribute to the workforce after retirement. According to Assoc Prof Dr Tengku Aizan Hamid, director of Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Gerontology Institute, physically and mentally fit retirees and pensioners should be given job opportunities, depending on the job
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If you enjoy songs from the 1950s to 1980s, you’ve got to check out this website http://www.tropicalglen.com/index.html. Turn up the volume on your speakers, sit back and relax. Or sing along if you know the lyrics. Or have the music in the background while you surf the internet or work on your computer. To quote
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(The Malay Mail did a full page write-up about me in 2008. I’ve reproduced a slightly edited version here to answer some of the many queries I’ve been receiving about the blog. A note of thanks to those of you who attended SeniorsAloud’s first offline community event this morning. It was a huge success! ) By GABEY GOH MALAY MAIL
This list of recipes for healthy juices has been making the rounds on the Internet for some time now. If you love juices, do try these out. Personally, I prefer to eat the fruits & vegetables straight. Less work, and the fibre’s not wasted. But, hey, if someone’s willing to do the juicing for me,
The Star (Wed 13/08/08) carried a news report that left me feeling very disturbed. “Maid beats up old woman” ran the headline. The whole incident was recorded on CCTV cameras hidden in the house. Footage showed the maid beating the 78-year-old woman unconscious, with the latter ending up in the ICU. Only two days earlier,
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(It’s that time of the year again when Toastmasters here in Malaysia and elsewhere in the world are gearing up for the annual humorous speech contest. I wrote the speech below two years ago when I participated in (and won) the contest. Try and visualize the gestures and facial expressions that went with the speech.
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If you have money to spare and are looking at investing in a business that’s almost guaranteed to give you your capital back many times over, may I have the audacity to offer somesuggestions. First, let me confess I don’t have money to spare, and neither do I have an MBA or even a HFB
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By mountain trekker, Mrs Jagjeet Singh 18th March 2005 will invariably remain in my mind as one of the cornerstones of our life spent together. It was just after day-break – and we beheld a beautiful sunrise as we stood tall on the summit of awesome Mount Kinabalu, some 13,510 ft.high. It was gratifying to
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