A Village on Fire: Over 100 wooden houses turned into clouds of dust
Today is a history and a great lesson in most of our lives. Virus calamity, bankruptcies, and decline in revenues are crashing down the country’s GDP, unemployment rate reported an all-time high in over 30 years, pushed more Malaysian into poverty, and rising suicides cases in our country. Despite the fact that many of us are strike by the pandemic and economic downturn, it has changed all aspects of our lives, from panic buying and stockpiling foods to a frenzy of toilet-paper buying. We have learned and discovered that this pandemic has boosted our usage of the internet to work, play, and connecting our social circle. However, we cannot deny the fact that all of these activities taking place at our most comfortable position – at home. The question that arises from the recent catastrophic and devastating house on fire put us emotionally stress, especially in times of economic recession. This has put a question mark personally as what would we have done differently to prevent it, espec...