SS Quah's Anything Goes

I had meant to write this appreciation note about two weeks back but the coronavirus situation in the country simply overwhelmed everything...

What with both the City Councils on the island and mainland wanting to raise their assessment rates in the near foreseeable future, my fe...

One of my old friends took a flight out from Penang to Kuala Lumpur this afternoon, enroute to England with his family. I know him very, v...

As the United Kingdom stands on the brink of remaining or leaving the European Union, I am reminded of this excerpt from the Yes Minister...

In June 2013, I had written something about the bullock cart express . Yes, that's right, I'm was referring to the Malaysian postal...

No one disputes the fact that the mamaks also have a right to use the Speaker's Corner at the Esplanade in Penang for their anti-anti-s...

This is the quality of the English language as practiced by the Malaysian society today. In my opinion, the English language here has gone ...

I have been reading today that there are scores of Malay Malaysians protesting - sometimes violently and threateningly - outside McDona...

All those holier-than-thou politicians who have expressed outrage over a few people traipsing in the buff on some secluded beaches in Telok...

I had a rather disturbed sleep last night and I woke up this morning feeling glum and mighty sad. I've never felt so sad over something...

Ah, but this is Malaysia, not Norway, not Ireland, not anywhere else in this world. This is Malaysia where all free-loading government empl...

Every time that I need to renew my road tax at either the Road Transport Department or the Post Office, I am filled with a sense of trepida...

It wasn't the first time that I had made a complaint to the Province Wellesley Municipal Council (MPSP) about the uncleared drains alon...

For quite some time now, I've had the #BetterPenang app installed on my iPad2. This is an application that's also available to And...

I'm totally appalled. I could not believe my eyes reading the news items in online news portals like The Malay Mail Online and The Ma...

While driving to dinner last night with my wife, she was relating to me a story about the old guard at her office. Their daytime guard is c...

Just a few days ago, I was so filled with a warm glow after experiencing how the service centre of one political party was going out of th...

Still carrying on from my post yesterday, I had unearthed a little obscure news report in The Straits Times of 25 Nov 1960. I'm sure ma...

I am feeling very annoyed and indignant today because there is this stupid kosong kepala of a federal government minister who said that ...

The people of Malaysia are now paying the price for the wanton spendings of a reckless federal government. Not just of this Najib regime al...