It was an unusual moment during the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial when a chemist had the court in stitches with her witty answers.

While the focus on this morning’s trial is on Nor Aidora Saedon’s revelation that her former director-general, N Hithiya Jeeva, had instructed and assigned her to wait for the samples from a “big and high profile” case, her quick-witted answers and comments in answer to counsel Ram Karpal Singh provided the light moment.