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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Thoughts are powerful. A thought is like a seed. Once planted in the mind, and given the right environment to grow, it will thrive and develop into something concrete. From thought to reality. When a thought is translated into action, and sustained through commitment and perseverance, it will bring you the results you want. This
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Source: USA Today I have been following the debate on gun control in America even before the horrific Sandy Hook incident where 20 first graders and six teachers were gunned down by Adam Lanza, a 20-year old former student of the school. He had shot and killed his mother before he went on a shooting
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Some of the apps on my mobile Seniorsaloud is mentioned in today’s New Sunday Times write-up on “App-Charged Assistance“, about how smart phone applications can help to connect communities and provide much-needed assistance. You can click here to read the NST article which containS excerpts from the original email interview reproduced below. 1. Can you
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These days it’s with some trepidation that I read the morning papers. Why so? I dread reading yet again about another round of goodies given out by our government. I have nothing against the government playing philanthropist when it comes to helping the poor, the needy and the less fortunate. Indeed these groups should be
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