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For this blog post, I have selected to address an issue that many of us seniors here in Malaysia and Singapore are familiar with – a reluctance to ask our doctors for more information even when we want to know more. Perhaps it’s to do with our Asian culture of keeping quiet especially when in […]

We’ve heard it before: 60 is the new 40 and 70 the new 50. Yet, there are many among us senior citizens who view themselves as 60 going on 80, and 70 going on 90. They think old, look old and act old. They have OLD stamped all over their body and mind. No wonder

MCO (Stay-Home) Day 24. Today is a good (Fri)day as any to take a trip down Nostalgia Lane. Am digging up some old blog posts and giving it a slightly new 2020 update. Join me in this first one. In April 2014, then US President Obama began a 3-day (26-28 April) visit to Malaysia. The

Sometimes one can’t help but wonder whether our city fathers and policy-makers consider the special needs of older people when they make decisions on improving the city’s infrastructure and public facilities. Do they study the demographics when they brainstorm at meetings? Admittedly there have been some improvement over the past few years, but there is

The other day I dug up my favourite pair of jeans from the cupboard. It has been a number of years since I last wore them. To my horror, I had to struggle to zip up. What used to be a snug fit was now a tight fit. I knew I was in trouble when

As Malaysia celebrates its 62nd independence day, it is time again to ask ourselves how far have we travelled on the road towards one nation, one people. When my former high school friends and I got together recently, we bemoaned how racially divided our schools have become, and how we wish for those good old

‘Diet, exercise, lifestyle, prevention, mindset…’ – these words were repeated over and over at the recently concluded 9th Malaysian Conference on Healthy Ageing (MCHA) organised by Malaysian Healthy Ageing Society (MHAS). So too were the more ominous words ‘cancer, diabetes, depression, dementia, death’. A total of 6 plenary sessions, 30 symposiums, 11 workshops and 5

I turned 71 today – 28 June, 2019.  When each birthday comes around, we get well-meaning reminders of how quickly the years have rolled by. It’s not just the number of big and small candles that announce our age on the celebratory cake, but also the family members that gather around us for the all-important

I didn’t get the results of the biopsy till my third follow-up visit on 4 May as Dr Chan was on leave. Frankly, on all my visits I was more interested in knowing when I could stop wearing the compression tights than in the biopsy results. When I found out that male patients had worse

It has been exactly one month since I had a lump removed from my leg. Thank God, it’s out. The incision wound is healing nicely, and I am doing fine. Also thank you, friends and SeniorsAloud members, for the concern and wishes for a speedy recovery. How did all this begin? About three years ago