We were supposed to get down to having coffee, something which we both kept postponing because of our respective schedules. And that coffee affair will never take place for that friend, Toni Kasim, is no longer in our midst.

Toni or Zaitun Kasim, a noted human rights activist, passed away on Wednesday (June 4) at 5am at her sister’s house at Taman Mesra, Batu Tiga in Shah Alam after a bout with duodenal cancer over the past few months. She was 41.