Quite often I come across books that cater specifically to retirees. For many, the transition from employment to retirement isn’t as smooth as they would like it to be. How does one fill up those long hours with nothing much to do? Where can one find new friends with common interests? What opportunities are there for […]
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HAPPY DIWALI to friends and blog visitors who are celebrating this Festival of Lights. This YouTube video is specially chosen for you. I love the music and the song even though I don’t understand a single word of it. Makes one feel happy just listening to it.
In case you haven’t viewed this video….Much to learn from it.
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This article has been making the rounds on the Internet for some time. I believe it’s written by a Singapore retiree. Excellent advice that should be shared. 4 Pre-Conditions for Retirement I retired in year 2000 at age 52. I am now 61, thus I can claim that I got more experience at retirement than most!
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I cringe whenever I hear our ministers and politicians talk about making our country the centre of educational excellence. Our varsities have consistently fared poorly in the World Universities Ranking (WUR). University Malaya, our premier institute of higher learning, has dropped to 207th in the 2010 WUR, UPM to 319th, UTM 320th and UKM 309th. Yet with
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The just-released Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) couldn’t have come at a worse time for the government. Only two days ago at the launch of the ETP, the PM was sprouting impressive numbers to draw investor confidence in the ETP. Foreign investors study CPI rankings before they decide whether to invest in a country. With a ranking
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I was at the launch of the government’s “Economic Transformation Programme: A Road Map for Malaysia” at PWTC this afternoon. Listening to the PM’s presentation and viewing the ETP video gave me a bad case of indigestion. Those astronomical numbers that he was throwing out were churning my stomach. Even when I tried to take
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The media in Malaysia and Singapore must start using the correct terminology when translating from Malay to English. Article 153 of the Constitution refers to ‘the special POSITION‘ of the Malays, and not ‘special rights’. I almost choked when I read these words in The Straits Times (22 Oct) report on Najib’s keynote speech at the UMNO
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Straits Times 18 Oct 2010 Under the proposed changes to the Maintenance of Parents Act (Singapore), adult children may not be legally obliged to support their aged parents if they are undeserving of the support. Let’s admit it. Not all parents are role model material. Every so often we read about parents who are violent and
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Retirement planning encompasses much more than just ensuring we have enough set aside to sustain our retirement. But for retirees and soon-to-be retirees, it is the bread-and-butter issues that concern us most. Given the longer life span of 75 and early retirement age of 55 (private sector) and 58 (public sector), will our retirement savings run out before we
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