It is now day eight of quarantine in Sydney with my two boys.
The MAS flight carried only 28 passengers due to border capacity limits. While I was never a fan of flying, the cabin crew reminded me of this feeling I had whenever I flew with MAS and experienced warm Malaysian hospitality. I do not miss flying, but I do miss what flying on MAS represented—the excitement of going somewhere new, the feeling of national pride, and that lingering last familiar taste of home before embarking on to the unknown.
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Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah
Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah is an honorary fellow at Macfarlane Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and an alum of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She is active in science communication and infectious disease biomedical research. She was the first female Asian champion of FameLab, the world’s longest running science communication competition, in 2018. The writer’s views are her own.
