Praise as good as cash, really

Apr 28 2008

Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Family Features

Want to go on a shopping splurge without paying even a single cent? You can try this: Print a copy of the Yahoo news page linked in this blog. Now, go to the mall, shop till you drop, and then go to the cashier. Tell the cashier, “You take my breath away with your beauty.” As the stunned cashier asks for your money or your credit card, show her instead the copy of the news page you printed. This is because the news in that page says that “paying people a compliment is as good as paying ...

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Wanna be happy? Grow old

Apr 19 2008

Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Family Features

You probably thought that babies are the happiest people on Earth because they’re innocent and have no sense yet of the many problems inherent in life. I thought so, too. Ah, those innocent angelic faces of babies. They must be the happiest people alive. It turns that this isn’t so. According to the latest research on the subject, the oldest people in society are the happiest of them all. Surprised? You thought that with all their wrinkles, arthritis and all other body pains they’re suffering from, the oldies will sulk their way to their own grave? "The good news is that with ...

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Who’s more forgetful? Who?

Apr 17 2008

Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Family Features

If you’re a guy and you can’t remember where you place your wallet, don’t worry, you’re just having a bout of anxiety perhaps or maybe getting older – no big deal. But if you’re a guy and you can’t remember your wife’s birthday, either you have a serious problem with your wife or with your own mind. So, you could either go to a marriage counselor or a doctor, as the case maybe. A new study showed that men are more likely than women to have problems with memory and other thinking skills, symptoms considered to be an early stage ...

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I Choose Sunshine!

Apr 06 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Family Features

I came across this blog post by Gadzooki colleague Jim and I was appalled at how our children are as wired as they are now. Barely in their teens, children now have Friendster accounts, and a myriad of other online accounts. They brandish high-end cellular phones, and for them, the Asus eeePC, or the OLPC, is just another toy. At age 3, my best friend’s niece had beat her computer game scores... And to think my best friend has the IQ of a genius! And yes, she creams me every time at Pinball (think a score of 5M to 1M). Imagine that! But what all this implies to me is something scary, even sinister.

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Extramarital traffic jams everywhere

Mar 29 2008

Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Family Features

Watching the news on TV or reading it from the papers in any given day, you would inevitably find a story about the extramarital affairs of this and that politician or celebrity. Extramarital affairs are like traffic on rush hours – you can’t escape not seeing or not being with people who are doing it. Indeed, faithful husbands and wives have become rarities. Their pictures and other mementoes could be displayed in a museum someday, with a caption that reads: “This is how mankind used to be.” The scientists say this is not really something outa-this-world. They say only 3 percent ...

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Our sizes nothwithstanding

Mar 28 2008

Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Family Features

Still on the subject of size, I read a recent article saying that short people, particularly men, are more prone to jealousy. And jealousy leads to all sorts of problems. Crimes of passion have mostly been committed due to jealousy. So this “shortness” issue deserves to be in the short list of problems that authorities should tackle since the list of its negative implications to society is not really short. According to the British weekly New Scientist, a study showed that “the more vertically challenged the man, the greater his feelings of jealousy.” But the study did not mention horizontally over-endowed ...

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Who Moved My Cheese: Don’t File That Divorce Just Yet!

Mar 06 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Family Features, Tricks of the Trade

I know that this stretch of Who Moved My Cheese “lessons” may well get to you, because I have FOUR posts dedicated to them, but I just had to make a disclaimer before I give you the Cliff’s Notes of its principles for next week. Cheese, in Who Moved My Cheese, is a metaphor for anything in life that gives security. The book is all about adapting to change. As applied to relationships, there is a danger for people to take it the wrong way. So before I give you the Cliff’s Notes of the Who Moved My Cheese parable, let me explain how its principles could be applied to Moldy Cheese Relationships.

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De-clutter your house now

Feb 01 2008

Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Family Features

If you want to live a happy, productive life, get all those pieces of rubbish out of your office or house! You don’t need a Feng Shui expert to tell you that keeping all sorts of trash in your house or office – like old clothes, magazines, toys, newspapers and other bric-a-brac – will do you no good, and in fact will drain you of your energy and health. And besides, wouldn’t your home look nicer without all those mess and clutter? With the Chinese New Year just a few days away, you better hurry up and get all those mess ...

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“Cleaning House” Through Forgiveness

Jan 30 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Family Life, Family Features

While Jay had talked about physical and ritual-based house-cleaning measures, I will talk of a basic, yet profound way to "clean house," so to speak..

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Reconciliations are the Way (To Get Rid of Anger)

Jan 30 2008

Posted by Lorie Therese as Family Life, Family Features

Reconciliations heal the soul. Strife and tension never was anyone’s cup of tea. I know that most people seem to be able to stand decades of their lifetimes bitter, angry, and unforgiving of the people who have hurt them, but I am of the belief that unforgiveness and anger should never be the hallmark of one’s existence. I had been an angry, irritable and impatient cat for most of my life. Just recently, I had to cough out a “hairball,” so to speak. I had a chip on my shoulder, and I never even realized it, till the day things escalated and led to my coughing out of that hairball.

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