(Several friends have forwarded this article to me in the past week. I take it they want me to share it here on the blog. In the article, first published in the Philippine Star, an online network for the global Filipino community, Letty Jacinto-Lopez offers advice that I think parents with adult children should pay […]
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Source: Daily Mail At 65, Ronnie Wood is the baby of the group. Mick Jagger is 69, Keith Richards 68, and the grand-daddy of them all Charlie Watts is 71. Half a century has passed since the Rolling Stones performed their first gig in 1962. To mark this milestone, the band has just embarked on
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Moringa – the most nutritious plant on planet earth. Many of you have probably heard of moringa, if not from the media, then from friends who have used it. I read about it some time back, but dismissed it as yet another one of the many so-called plant-based miracles e.g. acai berry, that are sold
GOD’S GIFT TO THOSE WHO CAN’T AFFORD EXPENSIVE HEALTH SUPPLEMENTS? Read More »
The cover feature of The Straits Times supplement ‘Mind Your Body’ (Nov 15) is a timely reminder for all of us to get off our butt every couple of hours or so. Now that we know sitting too much can kill us, we have no excuse not to do something about it. And I am
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Jalan Tun H.S. Lee in downtown KL is swarmed with foreigners on Sundays If you haven’t been in downtown Kuala Lumpur in quite a while, you will be surprised to find the old KL that we used to know no longer exists. Sure, most of the buildings are still there, but the inner city has
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This picture taken from The Daily Mail shows the world’s largest family. Mr Ziona Chana has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren. Large families with far fewer members than Mr Ziona’s are a rarity today. Once upon a time families were large and everyone lived together under the same roof. Today family size has
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From The New Straits Times 12 Nov 2012 The on-going controversy regarding Nurul Izzah’s statement (see photo) shows no sign of abating, at least for now. We all have our views on this issue, but few would want to express them publicly. In Malaysia, any controversial comment touching on the official religion Islam is considered
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I don’t drive anymore, so when the Automated Enforcement System (AES) was introduced, I couldn’t understand why there was such vehement protest from car owners and drivers. After all, it would discourage speeding and help reduce the high mortality rate on the roads. That was before a friend sent me a video last week that revealed the
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I was out the whole day yesterday at back to back meetings till 10pm. I missed out on all the US elections excitement on TV. With our own national elections coming up anytime, there’s much we can learn from the US elections, both the good and the bad – from media coverage and the way
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From The Straits Times If you were residing in the US, you would either be suffering from campaign ad nauseum or from election fever. The relentless blitz of media coverage of the elections is finally coming to an end. Today US citizens go to the polls. What strikes me most about the run-up to the
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