Coming To Terms With Aging.

A while back I bumped into a former uni mate. He had gained quite a bit around the middle, and his hair was thinning. My first thought was, wow, we're getting old. I don't feel like I look very old yet, but I do have some gray hairs, and wrinkles around my eyes. I've also noticed that it takes cuts and scrapes (and mosquito bites) longer to heal than it used to. Are you comfortable with growing older or are you doing something to preserve your youth?

Is organic food really organic?

Most of us assume that organic food is the healthier choice with all the hype and things you read. But do you really know what organic means? A growing number of people are willing to pay premium price to eat what they consider to be superior products, especially when it comes to providing healthier alternatives for their babies. But take a closer look at the ingredients of a bottle of baby food in an organic store and you’ll be surprised to find even those contain preservatives and additives that are clearly known to have negative long-term effects on our body. So how much healthier are organics foods really are for you? And how many percent of it really is so called organic?

Age Appropriate Dressing…Boring?

Just because you are getting older does not mean that you have to dress in drab and boring clothing. But, you are getting older and it is no longer appropriate to dress in the same clothes as students in high school. You can still be fashion forward while dressing age appropriate. What are you comfortable dressing in at your age?

Saying ‘No’ Is Great!

Great organisations are defined by what they say no to. The same is true for great individual careers. A great career is one where the individual made the type of contribution he or she believed was the optimal use of his or her talents, passions, and values and generated the types of desired outcomes that he or she wanted. In other words, the person generated both the desired input and output. Manifesting such a career requires saying yes to a few key opportunities and saying no to a huge number of good, and possibly great, opportunities. What are your thoughts on the matter?

Does your ring tone really reflect your professionalism?

You’re in a meeting with the big shots of a corporate company. Then suddenly someone’s hand phone starts to ring. What’s worse about having to put up with an annoying ringing hand phone, is having to put up with an annoying ringing hand phone that has a Doraemon/ Akon’s I Wanna Love You OR Smack That song blasting out from its speakers. Would you say that hand phone ring tones reflect your professional value?

Danger On The Escalator

A young relative of mine had his left foot caught in an escalator last Saturday. He’s only three but had to endure excruciating pain for an entire 40 minutes before paramedics managed to release his foot. This happened at Centerpoint in Bandar Utama as his mother held his hand, ascending the escalator. His tiny foot had stood too close to the back of the escalator wall, that it was pulled ankle-first into and crushed in between the horizontal and diagonal surface of the mechanics. He was rushed in an ambulance to the Damansara Specialist Hospital where doctors performed surgery to stitch skin and flesh, and align his foot back into place. Three bones had been broken. Young and feisty Abdullah was lucky no tendon was damaged. Doctors say he will walk again in three to four weeks. What could have caused the accident and what could have prevented it? Do we ban young children on escalators or do we review the shoe model to see if the fabric had indeed caused the accident to happen? Hundreds of cases of have been reported in the US and Japan about young children experiencing escalator mishaps. And they all had one thing in common: they were wearing the same shoe brand. Reason to question style and brand name over safety and regulations? It’s about time.