If you are suffering from a serious bout of bad-news fatigue like I am, it’s time to reach out for that medicine bottle for some comic relief! FLYING BACKWARDSTwo elderly gentlemen, who had been without sex for several years, decided they needed to visit a cat-house for some tail. When they arrived, the madam took […]
A cowardly act of violence against an elderly. (Photo: The Star) As a Johorean, I am aghast at the high crime rate in Johor. The latest incident was reported in the papers only this morning. A pregnant woman died after robbers pulled her off her motorcycle in Air Hitam, Johor. On April 22, an 80-year
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My mother will be 83 in October. Except for a couple of age-related problems, she is in relatively good health and physically independent. Still, a time will come when she will no longer be able to do things for herself. Would I be sufficiently equipped with the know-how to look after her? As her sole
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Thousands of Filipinos queueing up outside a mall during a job fair on May Day. (Reuters) MayDay! MayDay! This is the SOS distress cry that’s reverberating around the world – from North Africa which has an unemployment rate of 10.3% to Australia with 5.2%. This surely must be the longest labour pain on record –
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These much maligned porkies have now become Public Enemy #1. For the past week headlines around the world have been screaming SWINE FLU (now renamed Influenza A H1N1). At the moment it seems to me that the media is spreading more panic and pandemonium faster than the H1N1 virus is spreading. Pharmaceutical companies are seeing
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Malaysia’s new Deputy PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and PM Datuk Seri Najib Razak There are 29 ministers and 40 deputy ministers in our new cabinet making a total of 69 MPs in the Malaysian Parliament. A look at their pictures (see previous post below) shows an overwhelming number are aged 50+. PM Dauk Seri
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Click on the image for a close-up view (Photo: The Star) When our new PM announced the line-up of his cabinet recently, I eagerly scanned the papers to see if the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development or the Ministry of Youth and Sports had been expanded to include the elderly. I should have
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47-year old Briton Susan Boyle has been making waves all around the world ever since she appeared on “Britain’s Got Talent” on 11 April. She’s the media’s darling at the moment. Just saw her on CNN’s Larry King, and I hear she’ll be on Oprah next. For the past week my email inbox has been
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“Even with a five figure salary today, you are going to be devalued overnight when you retire; a peacock today, a feather duster tomorrow! This is a tough scenario. Is it necessary to be so?” asks Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Ani Arope during his thought-provoking talk to Guthries retirees recently. Things look pretty glum. You
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“Milk King fights sons for power”. Yet another family feud has made the headlines, and invariably it involves family members fighting over property and inheritance, or as in the case of the ‘Milk King’, squabbling over control of the family business empire. For every case that made the headlines, there are probably tens of thousands
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