THE United States is off my travel bucket list. I used to love visiting the country but I now put it on the same level as Yemen and Afghanistan. It’s too dangerous.

JUST two weeks ago, I was feeling fine. If you caught my last column, I said I was in a celebratory mood. Well, my feel-good mood has evaporated. Instead, I feel vexed, anxious and unsettled over so many things.

Two Malaysians are basking in the limelight, one with a critically acclaimed movie, the other with a sellout tour in North America.

IF only she had a dashcam installed in her car. That way, Sam Ke Ting would have been able to prove her innocence in the terrible accident that happened in Johor Baru at 3.20am on Feb 18, 2017.

The distance was short but the planning was long and arduous.

Even when it’s no longer mandatory, it will remain an essential accessory for me.

Every other Malaysian adult is overweight and if we don’t act, this could be a worse health crisis than Covid-19.

Our overindulgence in this petroleum by-product comes with a planet-size price tag; we really need to cut down on single-use plastic and ban the bottle!

IF ever there are awards for government departments for the most trustworthy, most efficient and most friendly, my vote for all three will go to... drum roll, please... the Employees’ Provident Fund.

ENDEMIC. That’s the state the world is longing for, signalling the end of the Covid-19 pandemic and the truce with SARS-CoV-2 that would allow the virus and humankind to live with each other.

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.