Singaporean veteran lawyer Peter Low is a very busy man.
Right up till Christmas Eve, the 69-year-old was fully occupied with a court trial, and is currently in the thick of the Parti Liyani disciplinary tribunal convened to investigate her complaints about the handling of her case by two state prosecutors.
Despite his busyness, though, Low will look on the end of this year with a bittersweet gratefulness as the world continues to grapple with an unprecedented pandemic, he will have marked three and a half years in remission from prostate cancer.
It s the same cancer Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was diagnosed with in February 2015 the second of two rounds of cancer he has survived now but for Low, as with anyone who is first diagnosed with Singapore s number one killer, things didn t sound anywhere near as optimistic.