IF you are afraid of flying, your fear quotient must have shot up after the recent incidents of severe turbulence hitting two flights – Singapore Airlines SQ321 on May 21 and Qatar Airways QR017 on May 26 – resulting in one fatality and many injuries, some critical.

That’s why there is an urgent need to prevent them from becoming lethal agents of destruction.

That’s why the contributions and reasons for naming a road after somebody should be kept alive and relevant.

I HAD forgotten much.

EVERY morning, I take five pills for my health. One is for my blood pressure, the rest are supplements I have been taking for years for my joints, eyes and energy.

WHAT’s up with PAS? Has it developed a Jekyll and Hyde personality? I ask because the party’s actions of late have been rather contradictory.

There are good reasons why the smallest nation in the region is the top dog.

MY staircase is getting “booked” again. This time, I’ve taken space on all the steps where I have stacked bundled books that I am giving up for good.

THE dragon hasn’t roared in yet, but the nation has been set aflame by the Federal Territories Pardons Board’s decision to cut former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s jail time by half to six years and give a super generous 78% discount on his fine from RM210mil to RM50mil.

Dr Mahathir has been injecting too much hate and poison into the body politic.

IT’S my mother’s birthday; she turns 90 today.

I AM writing this on Christmas Day. It’s late afternoon and due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases again, we haven’t invited anyone over. So it’s been a quiet day and I like it.