SS Quah's Anything Goes

I lost a schoolmate, known him since we were in Standard Two together, at the beginning of this year to glioblastoma. Now, I’ve just heard f...

I first came across the totsu-totsu dance several years ago quite by chance when I attended a workshop organised by Dr Cecilia Chan at the B...

I've achieved another small milestone in my chess journey: for the first time, I've been published by the world-renowned ChessBase w...

All good things must come to an end, and it’s with a heavy heart that I say the student leadership workshops my friends and I have been cond...

CONGRATULATIONS  to Grandmaster-elect YEOH LI TIAN He shall be Malaysia's first chess grandmaster. A dream of the late Dato' Tan Chi...

(Image from the MCF website) Malaysia's 26-year-old international master, Yeoh Li Tian, holds his fate in his hands this morning as he f...

My mother’s side of the family was a lot more complicated than my father’s. There were simply a lot more people to keep track of. For a star...

It would be a rare family indeed that doesn’t have extended relatives. Come to think of it, while I was an only child for much of my childho...

Back in 1995, I found myself stumbling upon a fascinating new world of online chess. It was still the early days of Malaysia’s Internet conn...

For the first time during our Nepal trip, our Nandaka Vihara group was left to our own devices after lunch. Bhante Dhammasubho had decided t...

It all began quietly in 1983. In a lab at Universiti Malaya, Dr Mohamed Awang-Lah, then head of the university’s computer centre, was alread...

Image from The Star online portal Huge crowds turned up last night for the annual Novena and Feast at St Anne’s Church, now formally recogni...

Poh Yu Tian is spending time in Europe playing in back-to-back tournaments in Spain and Switzerland, and now heads on to a third event in Hu...