SS Quah's Anything Goes

The last significant heritage site our group visited in Jogjakarta was the  Prambanan Temple compounds . We arrived there in the afternoon o...

Old Free FIDE Master Dr Ronnie Lim, the Malaysian National Chess Champion in 2001, scored a clean sweep of 27 games at the first simultaneou...

In the morning of our second full day in Jogjakarta, we visited Mount Merapi. Our expectations were simple: to see one of Indonesia’s most f...

There was a huge charity event at Penang Free School yesterday and, much as I would have liked to be there, I had to give it a regrettable m...

I felt like listening to a bit of classical music today and pulled an old Deutsche Grammophon LP from the shelf: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 ...

Before I move on, perhaps I should say something more about Borobudur. I happened to pick up a brochure at the entrance into the archaeologi...

After our four days in Jakarta, our group from Nandaka Vihara flew to J ogjakarta for the next leg of our journey. Travel day aside, we had...