Love is in the air and all around us today! Not celebrating? Not in a relationship? Who says Valentine’s Day is exclusively for couples. It’s a day when we express our love and appreciation for the people who matter in our lives. That means our family, friends, colleagues, hey, even our maid if she has […]
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I just watched all 47 minutes of BBC’s documentary on Warren Buffett. Absolutely fascinating. He’s one of the world’s richest men, yet he lives a very simple life. He still lives in the same house that he bought in 1958 for US$31,500. He still goes to the same barber for the same haircut, eats at
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I have often been asked why Chinese New Year is always celebrated with deafening loudness – firecrackers, drums, and incessant blaring of Chinese New Year songs at all shopping malls. Well, the Chinese believe the noise will chase away evil. Besides, what is a celebration without the sound of merry-making and gaiety? The Chinese are
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(Different versions of this have been circulating on the internet for quite a while. A version exists at ‘Malaysia First, Malaysia Last‘ blog.) To those of you in the baby-boomers group, may these images bring back nostalgic memories of the good old days when we were young. “Those were the days my friend, We thought
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Books to be donated. Still more to give away. When it comes to clearing out stuff collected over the years, it can be a challenging task for older adults. The other day I found myself sitting on the floor surrounded by mountains of books and files accumulated over almost 40 years of teaching English. Many
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Petronas has always come up with feel-good TV commercials to mark our various festivals and celebrations, like Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali and National Day. Malaysians would look forward with anticipation to check out the latest festive ads. This year’s Chinese New Year commercial from Petronas has just been released. It has already received
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Are parents partly responsible for why their children can’t get a job after they graduate from university? Is that why our local grads are picky about their first jobs, and expect a good salary when they have no working experience or employable skills? Remember those days back in the 1950s and 60s when we had
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Retirees come from a myriad of backgrounds. But one thing they have in common – an accumulated pool of financial resources to draw from by the time they turn 60. The size of this pool is determined by how much they have been saving during their working years and how well they have been managing
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This is one book I am definitely going to get my hands on, based on what I read about it in the New York Times. I am referring to ’30 Lessons for Living‘ by Karl A. Pillemer, professor of human development at Cornell University and professor of gerontology in medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical
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From Agingcare.com Seniorsaloud regularly receives emails from people who write in asking us to recommend good daycare centres or nursing homes. Some of these emails come from senior citizens, but the majority are written by adult children concerned about their elderly parents living alone or left alone at home for much of the day. The
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