The smell of something burning lingers in the air, and you can no longer see the Menara twin towers from our bukit. Yes, the haze that enveloped Singapore and South Malaysia prior to the weekend has now made it to our part of the world. Mind you, we'd already encountered it in Melaka on Saturday so we were sort of expecting our escape from it to be short-lived.
Lots of folk at The Curve shopping centre wearing surgical masks in the late afternoon. The first time I ever saw this sort of thing - during the SARS scare a few years back - I thought the masks looked both comic and disturbing. Now they seem quite normal. (A lot of the inhabitants of Beijing don them as a matter of course as I discovered a year or so ago.) A sign of the comically disturbed times, I suppose - not that there's much comical about a PSI of over 700 as was recorded in Muar yesterday.
Noi was complaining a bit about her eyes being irritated earlier. I seem to be itching a lot, the kind of itching that usually goes along with an attack of hives. There's nothing like a health scare to breed some less-than-healthy hypochondria!
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