Quantum of Solace

Life in 2020 was something that we never imagined before – the Government asked us to stay at home in order to flatten the curve or in other words to contain the spread of COVID-19.  Never in my life would I’ve thought that we could be heroes by just staying at home. No need to wear cape or have super power, just slip into your PJs, minding our own business at home and making sure to have very minimal physical contact with the outside world. Well, I guess this is every introvert’s dream 😆 But then again, what we thought to be a short-term stint, turnout to be much longer than what we had anticipated earlier on. The PKP or MCO had started since the mid of March and was supposed to be until the end of the abovementioned month. Little did we know that based on the assessment of the situation by the Ministry of Health and the National Security Council, the restriction order was extended to another fortnight, then another…. and it continued to be extended on for a good 56 days i...

How it started On top of the national political turmoil, the happenings on the second quarter of 2020 was something that we never imagined of except in the movie.  Who would have thought that the whole world would be shaken and stood almost completely still because of a virus! Yep, the Coronaviruses (65–125 nm in diameter) had cause nothing but chaos since the first outbreak was reported sometime in December last year. The case was first discovered in Wuhan, China (well at least it was what the scientists believed to be) and within a short period of time, it has become a major outbreak.   Despite of it becoming a pandemic, the virus itself was not entirely new. The earliest reported case was in the late 1920s and human coronaviruses were discovered in the 1960s. It was interesting to know that the scientists named it ‘Corona’ which is Latin for crown because of its spiky surface.   When we first heard about the case, we said to ourselves, “Wow, that’s bad”....