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Straits Times
20-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Straits Times
Sumiko at 61: Volunteering in retirement offers health benefits; 5 ways to get started
Volunteering offers a natural way to build and maintain social ties. ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO If the Covid-19 pandemic taught me anything about myself, it's that cooking's not my thing. When lockdown hit in 2020, I threw myself into full novice cook mode. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Straits Times
18-05-2025
- General
- Straits Times
My bittersweet feelings about selling our first home
A home is beyond a place with a name on the deed but simply wherever we are together with the ones we love, says the writer. ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO About 10 months ago, strangers made their way into my flat while I was not at home. Then, in November, I signed over my home to them. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Straits Times
13-05-2025
- Business
- Straits Times
Meet your new colleague, the office influencer
Office influencers are not setting out to promote their organisations. They are just sharing their work life on their personal accounts and their content goes viral. ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO The rise of workplace content on TikTok is hard to ignore. Affectionately dubbed 'WorkTok', hashtags like #WorkLife, #WorkTok and #CorporateTikTok have amassed billions of views, and turned the platform into a kind of digital water cooler – a place where creators chronicle everything from petty office politics to career tips. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Straits Times
11-05-2025
- General
- Straits Times
Spare a thought for X – the ‘forgotten' generation
Gen X-ers can play 'peacemakers' because of their ability to connect with Millennials and Boomers. ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO What to make of generational labels? While essentially broad-brush, they can be catchy tags that offer glimpses into the challenges and achievements that shape the attitudes and behaviour of people born during different eras. The silent generation, born between 1928 and 1945 (the actual years vary with different definitions, but the general timeframe is consistent), bore the horrors of World War II with grace and grit. Resilient and disciplined, they were known for their strong sense of duty, which probably explains their reluctance to rock the boat – unlike their successors. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Straits Times
11-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Straits Times
Teetotally tuned: The painful pleasure of moderation
Maybe moderation isn't just a lifestyle but a wider philosophy. A changed way of seeing the world as middle age binds and alters us. ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO My friend with beautiful, smiling eyes is having injections in them. A sheet with a hole is tugged over her face, her eye is clamped, a needle slid into the inner corner. It hurts just to write this. Imagine her. She is 55, curly-haired, spontaneous, has never met a type of alcohol she doesn't like and recently discovered she has a serious eye condition. And so now, even before her doctor could counsel caution, she's embraced that most hideous of words which is familiar to people in their 50s and 60s. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
