An inclusive budget for Singaporeans. (Front page of Saturday’s Straits Times) Senior citizens in Singapore had reason to smile yesterday when Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam unveiled the 2012 budget that addressed some of the financial problems facing this cohort of the population. Headlines such as these below bring heartening news not […]
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(The Malay Mail did a full page write-up about me and my blog in 2008. I’ve reproduced a slightly edited version here to answer some of the many queries I’ve been receiving about the blog. A note of thanks to those of you who attended SeniorsAloud’s first offline community event this morning. It was a huge success! ) By GABEY GOH
Photo: Straits Times Did you know that 14 February is not only Valentine’s Day but also World Marriage Day? The actual date is the second Sunday of February, but today Tuesday is just as good as any day for happily married couples to celebrate their years together. In Singapore 50 married couples participated in a
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For more on the activities during Social Media Week, click here. Today was Day 1 of the World Bloggers and Social Media Summit 2012 at PWTC. Learned a lot that I am eager to apply, and made some new friends. Social media is still pretty much dominated by Generation Y. Here’s a video that was
SOCIAL MEDIA – RESIST IT AT YOUR OWN PERIL Read More »
Eric Johansson. Who? He’s the Photoshop wiz kid behind all those incredibly realistic photo images that were circulating on the internet last year. Digital photography has become increasingly popular with retirees. Many of my retired friends have taken up the hobby seriously. They attend classes, and think nothing of spending thousands of ringgit on cameras
ARE OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS KILLING CREATIVITY? Read More »
If you grew up in the 1950s, you would remember Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1952. As Malaya was still under British rule at the time, the occasion was marked with celebrations in my hometown of Batu Pahat. Up till 1957 when Malaya gained independence, QE’s portrait would grace our classrooms and all the government
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For this blog post, I have selected to address an issue that many of us seniors here in Malaysia and Singapore are familiar with – a reluctance to ask our doctors for more information even when we want to know more. Perhaps it’s to do with our Asian culture of keeping quiet especially when in
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Me, my mom, my elder daughter and my mom’s four great-grandkids at Dementia Homecare Centre during a recent CNY visit, When the doctor told me last March that my mother had dementia, the news wasn’t exactly a shock. My mother had become increasingly forgetful over the past months, and acting peculiar. Initially I put it
AM I JUST FORGETFUL OR DO I HAVE DEMENTIA? Read More »
The special report in Saturday’s Straits Times is of interest to retirees. The report which spreads over eight broadsheet pages centres on retirement living, and gives readers an insight into the advances made in retirement living in the Netherlands, the US and the UK. Watching telly (or dozing off) in an.old folks home. The very
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Today I spent the entire afternoon checking out two press photo exhibitions. First up was the Star’s “Capturing Malaysia Through the Years” press photo exhibition at Galeri Petronas. The selection of photos covers the categories Newsmakers, Arts and Society, Sports, and Conflicts and Disasters. If you are into photography, or enjoy a bit of nostalgia, head
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