Reckless spending or genuine aid? Will the rakyat be happy and grateful enough to vote the ruling party back into power? Life is good for Malaysians. Regardless of your age, ethnicity and profession, if you are a Malaysian, you are in for a windfall. You don’t even need to ask, yet you shall receive. This […]
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I make trips down to Singapore on a regular basis. I have family, friends and relatives who reside there. The city nation is a model of cleanliness, efficiency and age-friendliness. But it has become increasingly less so in the past years, especially since the huge influx of foreigners. My biggest grouse is the overcrowding on
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Four generations here. My 86-year old mother, with me (in green), my elder daughter and my four grandchildren
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Straits Times May 11 Thanks to better healthcare and medical advances, we now enjoy a longer life span. Unfortunately, not everyone benefits from the longevity bonus. There will be some among us who may suffer from chronic health problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis and diabetes. Or face varying degrees of functional
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Straits Times May 4 Now anyone can study. Thanks to free online education provided by some of the world’s top universities. In my blog post of October 6, 2011, I wrote that Stanford and Yale would soon be offering free online courses. The latest to join the bandwagon are Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Screen shot from The Sunday Times May 6, 2012 You can be in a room full of people, and still feel lonely. The same can be said of the elderly living in a house full of family members. When your adult children have little time for you, and your grandchildren prefer to spend time with
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It’s Sunday morning as I am writing this. If you are in Singapore and have no plans for today, you might want to drop by at Suntec Convention Centre and check out “LIFE MATTERS” on Level 4. It’s an event for active agers. I was curious enough to drop by yesterday. Here are some photos
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We have all been to farewell parties where we bade a fond goodbye to a colleague who is leaving for better job prospects elsewhere, or to a family member or a friend about to emigrate to greener pastures overseas. We experience mixed emotions – we celebrate the occasion but at the same time feel a
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Screen-shot from Sunday Times 22 April Who would have believed that old friends Thng Wan Kow, 70, Tan Kok Sing, 87, and Teo Kee Huat, 68, have made it to Oprah’s blog. “Oprah who?” they would probably ask, wondering what all the fuss was about. While most of us are still struggling to get out
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Yesterday’s Mail Mail cover page (30 April) Many of us will remember MM in its heydays. It was the only English afternoon paper then, and arguably the best local paper to refer to for sports coverage and classifieds. Then as the years passed, its readership slowly declined as it lost its competitive edge to other
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