The PJ Challenge ’09 Bloggers “K”arnival (The blog below was written as my entry in a live blogging contest, so excuse the advertorial tone 🙂 The eventual winners were a professional photographer and a senior graphic designer. So it was ok to lose to them, lah! Congratulations to them. I enjoyed the fun experience competing […]
WHO SAYS SENIORS CAN’T BLOG!!! Read More »
Connecting online (Photo: NYT) In a previous post, I wrote that many seniors I have met have little interest in learning to use the computer and the Internet. A common response from them is: “Already retired. No point in learning to use the computer and the Internet.” While I respect their wish to stay out
DINOSAURS IN THE DIGITAL AGE? Read More »
Of late there has been a spate of letters to the papers from retirees lamenting the lack of re-employment opportunities available to them. Citing age discrimination as the main reason, they also complain that companies are reluctant to hire them despite their wealth of knowledge, experience and academic qualifications because it’s cheaper to recruit younger
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(Cancer, Diabetes, & Heart Disease can be overcome through diet. Dr. Tom Wu’s breakthroughs with Cancer & Diabetes have earned him the “Remarkable Contribution Award” from the American Cancer Society and the “World Famous Doctor Award” from The United Nations. ) At the age of 30, Chinese doctor Tom Wu was diagnosed with advanced stages
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Much has been written in the media about General Motors filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 1 June. Among the causes that helped topple the once-invincible GM were the pension bond and the retirement-trust obligation. As early as 2002, GM’s pension fund was already US$20m under-funded. GM is not the only one. Across the
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Having gone through a couple of failed relationships, I am certainly in no position to counsel the soon-to-be-(re)married or the soon-to-be-divorced. For those among us seeking to revitalize their marriage or contemplating a second marriage, here is some advice from marriage and family therapist, Dov Heller. Here are five questions you must ask yourself if
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Some people just don’t seem to learn. Despite repeated media reports about Malaysians falling prey to all manner of scams and frauds, there are people who find the lure of easy money too tempting to resist. Some of these scams are so obvious, yet there seems to be no lack of victims. According to statistics
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A report in The Star yesterday probably had many mothers-in-law either squirming with guilt or fuming with anger. It published the results of a study undertaken in 2004 by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN) that listed “meddlesome in-laws” as the number one cause of marital breakups in Malaysia. Mothers-in-law (MIL) have long
MOTHER-IN-LAW OR MONSTER-IN-LAW? Read More »
(The following speech is from Pulitzer Prize winning ex-journalist and best-selling author Anna Quindlen’s commencement address at Villanova University, 23 June 2000. Do share this with your adult children before they get sucked any deeper into the rat race.) I’m a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don’t ever
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(This article is posted here with permission from the writer, Tan Sri Ani Arope.) I have been asked many times why I took up flying at this stage of my life. Wasn’t there a more sedate way to spend one’s retirement than to go in for something that demanded one’s full attention to master a
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