SS Quah's Anything Goes

Every few years, I seem to come across some hilarious local instances of the English language being used awkwardly on business signboards. I...

To commemorate Singapore's National Day today, I am reproducing an updated poem by Andrew Sia, former journalist from The Star newspaper...

 Read a joke today. Can't resist not repeating it here or else it will be forgotten tomorrow.... Two sisters, one blonde and one brunett...

Money laundering /ˈmʌni ˈlɔːndərɪŋ/ noun The process of washing your loose change, comprising the notes and coin in your pocke...

I saw this joke being circulated through social media. It comes from The Telegraph, one of the national dailies in the United Kingdom. Th...

I first got to know of the newspaper called The Malay Mail in 1969 or so. My father bought his first copy from the newsstand and told me t...

The former Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in an election rally at Putrajaya last night, used the Tamil word Podah on the caretaker P...

I read this commentary in the online version of the UK's The Guardian newspaper. It was about the Wimbledon dress code whereby all pl...

MEP David Coburn of the UK's UKIP party is a bit of a controversial loony, in my opinion. During an interview which he once gave last...

Despite what it may look like, Donald Trump is NOT an Old Free. And we didn't give him a Free School tie.  :-)

It's true; there is a building in Dixon, Illinois that looks like a penis when viewed from heaven, and it belongs to the Christian Scie...

Farewell, Robin Williams (1951-2014), we shall miss your humour very much. Orson: The report, Mork. Mork: This week I discovered a t...

I've heard this joke before and I know, I know, it is a bit off colour. But it's only a joke, okay, and it's best that I post i...

If there was anything that surprised me over the past weekend, it was to discover that when politics do not interfere with film-making,  ...

Okay okay, I have heard this joke before but I've also forgotten about it. However, my memory has just been jolted by someone posting t...

Not often that I am tickled pink long enough to reproduce a joke on my blog, but this one did! Do enjoy it: The Psychiatrist and the Proc...

I came across this picture from facebook. The man on the right should be a familiar sight to most of all. I can't imagine this situati...

When words are best left unexpressed, when expressions are best left unworded....

I must remember to write 2013 in my chequebook I must remember to write 2013 in my chequebook I must remember to write 2013 in my cheque...