SS Quah's Anything Goes

Poor Susanto Megaranto. I don’t think he has ever been put through anything quite as mentally punishing as what unfolded at the recently con...

On this Christmas Day, I find myself writing not about celebrating a festivity but about a piece of sober news. Earlier this month, another ...

Every year, Lì Chūn   (立春) , or Jip Chūn  (also known as the Entering of Spring, one of many other descriptions) as it is called in Penang H...

I spent this morning down at the Swee Cheok Tong, offering worship to our Kongsi deities in observance of Tang Chik (冬至), the Winter Solstic...

The problem with most overseas travel is the unearthly hour at which one has to wake up, and our recent Nepal–India trip was no exception. W...

Congratulations to our men’s and women’s rapid chess pairs at the 33rd SEA Games in Thailand. In the men’s FIDE rapid doubles event, GM Yeoh...

Normally, I am not too bothered about the goings-on of the entertainment world such as Hollywood, but to me, the obscure name Rob Reiner sud...

I have to admit that I had been taken in by the bold claim at least a year ago, having even bought it myself, but this has to be one of the ...

It’s not often that I see Penang’s up-and-coming International Master Poh Yu Tian lose to another local player, but that’s exactly what happ...

While I was away on holiday, the updated  The Beatles Anthology Collection was released by Apple Corps Ltd. It now includes a brand-new vol...

We came home just in time to join our former bank colleagues for a meal last Tuesday. Our final regular meal meet-ups on the mainland are ge...

So finally, we’ve returned home from a 17-day jaunt through Nepal and northern India. It was a journey that carried us along the Buddhist pi...

Casto Abundo was one of those people whose presence in chess felt so constant that one somehow assumed he would always be there, quietly kee...

From schooldays, we were taught the familiar picture: the planets revolve around a stationary Sun, following orbits that are technically ell...

Today marks three months since Saw See took the plunge to ordain as a temporary sayalay at the Nandaka Vihara meditation society. I’m immen...