Week 12, 2020 - RMO edition

Whatever you're calling it, the country is effectively on restricted movement order (RMO) until the end of the month, where people are advised to stay home and not go out if they can help it unless you're working in essential industries or getting food and groceries. No mass gatherings, religious services, etc. Entertainment venues like cinemas, theatre spaces are closed. 

If nothing else, these two weeks are a great excuse as an introvert to stay home and do whatever. Can't say the same for the extroverts who must be getting bored out of their minds with cabin fever. 

This started on Wednesday (18th) after being announced with only a couple days' notice. It was chaos with out of town tertiery students getting kicked out of their dorms with no choice but to balik kampung and Malaysians with jobs in Singapore trying to get into Singapore before the lock down but would have no place to stay there. 

Good luck to them getting old peepur who already don't respect people's personal space to begin with to practice "social distancing". Old people breathing down the back of my neck while in line are the bane of my existence. 

Me, I was already under the weather with some URTI (I suspect the flu) since last weekend and wasn't already at work on Monday but had to go back Tuesday to wrap some things up before the RMO. First couple of days was kinda rough as the weather was hot as balls on top of getting over the URTI. But it's rained some the last couple of days, only making it mildly bearable. 

• RIP Kenny Rogers. 
• In NY a similar order is called "shelter in place" and in CA it's called "safer at home".
• Kinda interesting to see the late night hosts cope with having to stay home with their own families - few of them are making home editions of their shows. Some podcasts are still going because (presumably) they're recording from home studios or have banked episodes. 
• Quite a number of local standup comics also doing livestream erm, shows (for lack of better word) because of the RMO.
• Started watching FBI: Most Wanted and all caught up now, 8 episodes later, over a couple of days.
• Various services have offered up free use while people are confined to their domiciles - Scribd, Audible...