​​​​​​​WE have met our first “Karen” in Malaysia. That’s not her real name, but she became famous (or should I say infamous) a week ago when a video of her kicking up a big fuss at a luxury boutique in a KL shopping mall after she was prevented from entering the shop without a face mask went viral. She also refused to check in with the MySejahtera app.

These two amazing but completely different Netflix Korean dramas show the worst and best of humanity. But why did the former become the massively runaway hit?

TODAY I am revisiting a concern which I wrote about two years ago: elderly drivers becoming road menaces.

MY son has bought a manbag. No, I’m not talking about the classic leather briefcases guys carry for work. It’s also not the hard case that middle-aged blokes like his father attach to their belts to carry their handphones.

WHAT would you say if I told you aliens – as in extraterrestrials (ETs) – tried to warn us against destroying our environment 27 years ago?

A COUPLE of weeks ago, someone from the Agriculture Department contacted The Star asking to speak to me.

That’s what e-commerce allows us to do as millions of housebound folk have discovered this pandemic.

At their first gathering after seven months, our MPs couldn’t wait to draw blood.

Even in these worst of times, we can trust some of our politicians to bring us comic relief.

There can be meaning and joy in doing the little things amidst the gloom and doom of the pandemic.

Despite the pandemic fuelling anti-China sentiment, the nation’s soft power is proving hard to resist.

WELCOME to my month. Can you believe half the year has gone, seemingly at lightning speed?