It has been a long week for me personally with stuff happening at work and home.  At the home front, I continue to pray everyday that my special son doesn’t get bored (and irritated) staying at home for the next 3 weeks. We usually have our routine of visiting my mum at my brother’s place during the weekends but that routine needs to stop for a while. He hasn’t said anything and I hope he continues not to. I’m sure everyone who has children is on the same boat as me. Just that as my has autism, his tolerance and...

Day 8 of MCO.Day 1 of 2nd week of MCO. Surprise! (is it really surprise?), Malaysians get an additional 14 days MCO.  Many of us was expecting this to come considering the increasing trend – it more than doubled from 673 to 1,796 cases in the past 7 days.When the announcement came out, my thoughts were with my colleagues who are far apart from their family. My teammate in particular left his family at his wife’s hometown in Muar for the school holidays. The day before MCO came into effect, he came back to KL to pickup and setup his...

Day 7 of Movement Control Order (MCO).Or was it Restricted Movement Order (RMO)? MCO or RMO, its the same – everyone is stuck in their homes. This morning, I went to start the engines of my car and scooter (which I only ride to the nearby shops and mosque – if the engine doesn’t get started within 2 days, the battery starts dying). While I was pulling the scooter’s throttle to heat up the engine, I took a glimpse outside the house gate and saw the usual white stray cat who typically spends her time hanging out at my porch.   She...

Short and simple today (actually pretty exhausted today – hahaha). To everyone who have been trying hard in controlling yourself from going out, enduring the pain of being apart from the things you love to do – congratulations to all of us, pat ourselves on the back. We can do this. Keep it up! On the authority of Abu `Amr — and he is also called Abu `Amrah — Sufyan bin Abdullah ath- Thaqafee (RA) who said:I said, “O Messenger of Allah, tell me something about al-Islam which I can ask of no one but you.” He (peace and blessings...

This is a long overdue post. When I started writing, I told myself that this would be among the few headlines I would write about first.But then came COVID-19, it started becoming bad, really bad. Everyone’s attention (including mine) was directed to its development and how best to stay safe (rightfully so). Today, I decided to dedicate time to write this piece out, to give tribute to the amazing work done by amazing people. Also as a breather to the realities of today (to keep my mind off), so that we can look forward to days when this period is over....