Always a Bride

Obviously marriage keeps a girl young! I was just reading about the 107-year-old Malaysian woman who says she is ready to marry for the 23rd time because she fears her current drug addict husband might leave her for a younger woman.

Wook Kundor made headlines four years ago when she married 37 year old Muhammad Noor Che Musa. But Wook is now looking for new love as she fears that Muhammad, who is undergoing voluntary drug rehabilitation treatment in Kuala Lumpur, will leave her once the programme ends.

She is quoted as saying: "Lately, there is this kind of insecurity in me. I realise that I am an aged woman. I don't have the body nor am I a young woman who can attract anyone. My intention to remarry is to fill my forlornness and nothing more than that," she said, adding that she felt lonely without her husband by her side to celebrate the festival of id al-Fitr next week.

It occurred to me that 23 husbands mean 23 mothers-in-law. She’s either very brave or very thick-skinned…