We are family yeh! yeh! yeh!

Listening closely: An electronics shop worker watching Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob address the nation on Aug 22, 2021. Malaysia’s ninth Prime Minister spoke about the ‘Malaysian Family’ while calling for unity to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. — AP

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

Intrigued, I called him and this was his query: Why did I name the papaya as the country’s national fruit?