Avoiding COVID-19

What an eventful first quarter of the year. We had an elected Prime Minister then he became an interim Prime Minister (may or may not be caused by the failed political coup) then the King interviewed potential PMs before appointing a new one. For commodity front, oil price tanked, hovering at the twenties dollar per barrel and of course, the biggest news would be Covid-19 which has been declared as a pandemic by WHO. Ripple effects of the latter are felt by many if not all, from Asia to Europe to North America and the rest of the world.

Here, for us at the home ground of RM250b economic stimulus package (about 15.5% of our GDP), we are well into the 2nd week of Restriction of Movement Order (RMO) and we are to stay at home till April 14th to help flatten the curve of infection. Basically,  if you have food supplies and the necessities, justbloodystayathome!

Looking at the bright side, with the RMO fully enforced, I realised that I can do a lot less of few things and a lot more of other things such as;

• Super minimal -ve talkings, aiming to make it none at all
• Perform Dhuha
• Qada solat (did you know this is one of the debts or the only debt that ONLY you can settle it? nobody can help you with this once you are 6 feet under - unlike zakat or hajj where someone can pay on your behalf)
• Reciting quran or listening to one all day long, the feeling is just ......or crying out of the blue while imagining what hell is like?
• Wudhu before hitting the ZzZzz button
• Control what I consume (I'm on diet remember? Lost 4kgs so far!!)
• Learn something new or revisiting old ones - my pinyin or candlesticks

People say you can create new habits in 21 days, we have 4 weeks to fully indulge ourselves. Let's do this!