COMMENT | It was the first day of the not-a-lockdown movement control order and my wife Sheril A Bustaman and I realised we had to do the groceries for the week.

The day before was surreal because we saw instances in the news and also the not-news, aka social media, of Malaysians panic-buying and all the supermarkets were either packed with people or had empty shelves.

But we went anyway ...