With a little help from the Retirement Docs’ Quiz you can rate yourself and find out whether you have the traits that are prerequisites for achieving retirement happiness. If you don’t, it’s not too late to make adjustments or changes for a new YOU in 2011. I took the quiz and my score put me in […]
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Source: Straits Times Would caregivers for the elderly do a better job if they could experience the daily challenges that their patients or loved ones go through? The Tsao Foundation of Singapore believes so. The voluntary welfare organization has been running workshops to train staff of the SingHealth group to better understand the daily challenges faced by the elderly in carrying out simple tasks.
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Source: Straits Times Over the past weeks disgruntled readers, mostly senior citizens, have written to the Straits Times complaining about being discriminated against when applying for credit cards. I can empathize with them as it too happened to me several years ago when my credit card application was rejected by Public Bank. It was my
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In this day and age, I am often amazed at the number of older people I meet who confess to being computer-illiterate. They tell me they regret not picking up pc-skills in their younger days, yet refuse to entertain any suggestions to learn. Their stock response: “Oh, I’m too old. Technology is for young people.”
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In 2006, centenarian granny Wook Kundor married her 23rd husband. She was 104 at the time, and he was 34. Recently, an under-aged 14-year school girl married her 23-year old teacher. The public furor hasn’t even died down yet, and now we have another marriage that’s making headline news around the world. I am referring
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Click on image to enlarge. Came across the above while clearing my backlog of papers this morning. It’s a picture we will never see in Malaysia – a Rabbi, a Buddhist monk and a Muslim cleric chatting and smiling at an interfaith dinner. Indeed, every attempt to set up an interfaith council to foster religious
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(Source: The Sunday Age) No need to waste any more energy protesting about our draconian Official Secrets Act. Wikileaks is doing everyone a favour by releasing classified documents. And governments all over are squirming. I happened to be at an SABM dinner talk on Saturday night where MP Khairy Jamaluddin was the guest speaker, when he
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Despite the progress made by women in all spheres of life and industry, it is still pretty much a man’s world. In almost every country, women outnumber men and outlive men, and if given half a chance, they would outperform men. In Malaysia, women make up slightly more than half of the total population of
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(Source: Straits Times 9 Dec) Know what to do when someone chokes on food. Learn how to perform the Heimlich Manoeuvre for CHOKING ADULTS. A choking victim can’t speak or breathe and needs your help immediately. Follow these steps to help a choking victim: 1.From behind, wrap your arms around the victim’s waist. 2.Make a
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The Straits Times headline says it all. Whether one agrees with it or not is another matter. In a research study funded by National Geographic for the happiest city in each of four continents, best-selling author of “Blue Zones” Dan Buettner has identified Singapore as the happiest city in Asia. The criteria for his selections
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