We don’t have to be Americans, or be residing in the US to recoil with shock and horror at what happened in Sandy Hook elementary school on Friday 14 December. As we follow the media reports and watch the news updates on our TV screens, we can feel the pain and anguish that the bereaved […]
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In the bustle of daily living, we rarely give any thought to life’s big questions. It is usually in our quiet moments, or when we have experienced a life-changing event, or when we arrive at the departure lounge of life that we begin to reflect on our lives and ponder on what lies ahead for
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Still active and able to carry on working at 60+. (Front page article of New Straits Times Dec 8, 2012) So it’s confirmed. The Minimum Retirement Age 2012 Act comes into effect on July 1, 2013. Under this Act which was passed in August last year, it is mandatory for employers in the private sector to
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From plan to bricks, from vision to reality The elderly in Kuala Lumpur now have a place to go to to learn new skills and make new friends. The AUTORR Foundation Centre finally opened its doors last Sunday 2 December 2012, almost eight years after the ground-breaking ceremony in January 2005. AUTORR Foundation founder, Lin
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Here we go again. Some women (and men) never seem to learn. No matter how many times they have been warned about it, they still turn a blind eye and a deaf ear. I am referring to the recent spate of articles in the media about online scams targeting these gullible souls. What sort of
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A typical Granny Pod. There are variations, of course. (Source: The Times) With the world population rapidly ageing, and with baby boomers demanding better options for housing when they retire, innovative ideas for elder housing have sprung up in the USA and elsewhere. One such housing option is the Medcottage or more popularly referred to
YOUR FUTURE RETIREMENT HOME MIGHT LOOK LIKE THIS Read More »
(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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