WELCOME to 2022. This is my first column for the new year and if you are expecting me to rage against the nasty and horribly depressing issues and controversies that continue to plague us – the latest involving the MACC chief commissioner – I will disappoint you.

SO much for my plan to write a perky last column for 2021 in the hope of spreading a little festive cheer amid the year-long overcast of gloom and doom.

I CONSIDER myself a good and responsible citizen. I heeded what my government and the experts said about Covid-19 and dutifully stayed home, observed all the standard operating procedures (SOPs) and, yes, got vaccinated.

LAST month, Malaysians were left with a sour taste in our mouths when we learned that scandal-tainted former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had asked the Cabinet for land and a house said to be valued at RM100mil.