Yesterday, the country received news that there were positive cases of COVID-19 recorded from attendees of a tabligh gathering held between 28 February to 1 March 2020. It was estimated around 10,000 people attended (12,000 according to the vice president of the mosque in a news article) with participants from various countries – approximately from 25 countries.  The case started receiving headlines the moment Brunei recorded its first case, which was linked to the event. The cases in the country went up to 10 in just 1 day after they found the first case.Today, Singapore announced that it will temporarily close...

Started off the day dragging myself out of bed and craving for energy as my body’s battery drained from another long night trying to get my beloved son (who is a 12 year old special child on the autism spectrum for those who haven’t noticed) to sleep. He is without a doubt, a handful especially on days he randomly spirals out of control. But I know for a fact that there is a lot going on in his mind, and to be fair to him, most times it’s beyond his control. Don’t believe me? See it for yourself. So come nighttime...

It’s been a long day – after a long haul the night before comforting my one and only special son, followed by continuation of public worry on COVID-19, which is at the verge of being declared a pandemic, and last but not least, back to back meetings – I’m low on fuel.  But: the health panic, which actually represents everyone’s worry of unprepared death (which is never certain in the first place),the forecasted economic crisis expected to be just around the corner with market crashes and actual impact on people (sudden salary cuts involving three airlines) already happening, the busyness of...

The past few days have been unsettling for Malaysians following the sudden increase of COVID-19 cases. It significantly jumped from a base of 25 cases to above 100 within 9 days. Days ahead are uncertain as the numbers keeps on increasing with no sign of this global calamity slowing down.  In Malaysia particularly, the COVID-19 ‘panic-demic’ (as it is yet to be declared pandemic despite over hundred thousand cases infected worldwide – higher than SARS, MERS or Ebola in the recent years) was against a backdrop of a political ‘turnover’ that caught everyone by surprise, which have brought to where...