Yasmin Ahmad (1958-2009)

When a Muslim is told that someone he/she knows has died, this is what we say in Arabic:
From God we came, and unto Him shall we return.

I had never spoken to her and had never met her.
But she was ever-present every year in my living room just ahead of Hari Raya, Chinese New Year or Deepavali with TV commercials that tugged at my heart, celebrating family and multiracial living in Malaysia.

(PICTURE from her Facebook account).