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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Death remains very much a taboo subject. Everyone faces death sooner or later, yet no one wants to broach the subject, even when death is knocking on the front door. Blessed are those who live to a ripe old age, who quietly make their exit in their sleep with a smile on their face. As
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Whenever I am in Singapore I love eating at the food courts in the malls. The selection is almost limitless, even for a vegetarian-to-be like myself. Among my favourites are laksa, yong taufoo, rojak (both Chinese and Indian varieties), carrot cake, fried oyster omelette, thosai and economy rice. For snacks and desserts, I confess to
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Trying to pack as much as you can see and do into a short family vacation involves making choices – and sacrifices. Today, for instance, I wanted to visit the National Palace Musuem. It had come highly recommended as it houses the world’s largest collection (more than 670,000 pieces) of Chinese artifacts and works of art. But I knew
This blog post is specially for my food blogger buddies and friends who enjoy a good sit-down dinner in a restaurant. Thanks to our Taiwanese hosts, almost every night we were treated to a feast of local cuisine. One thing I’ve discovered – in Taiwan beef is king, pork is close behind, and chicken is a distant third. As I don’t
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