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 […]
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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
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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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Prof Tommy Koh’s article in the Straits Times (7 Jan) Reading Malaysia’s DPM’s tribute to retired servicemen in The Star (30 Jan) reminds me of an article Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large, Professor Tommy Koh, 74, wrote in the Straits Times recently. In the article, Prof Koh argued the case for paying re-employed older workers a fair salary
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I once asked my mom’s cardiologist which diseases doctors feared most for themselves. His immediate answer: stroke and dementia. I had expected him to say cancer. Dementia is incurable, irreversible and terminal. At least that is what doctors and medical researchers claim. The disease doesn’t concern us much until it strikes our elderly parents and
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My daughter forwarded me this article recently. It’s worth sharing, so here it is, with credit to Bronnie Ware. The article is an extract taken from her book ‘The Top Five Regrets of the Dying – A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing’. It is a memoir of her own life and how it was
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You might have seen this Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development ad in the papers over the Chinese New Year. Sure, it’s just an ad but it made me think. CNY or any festivals for that matter is a time for family reunion and celebration. Unfortunately, this tradition of family get-togethers to welcome the
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