SS Quah's Anything Goes

Anak Krakatau has been much in the news over the past few days, erupting repeatedly since the fourth of September. The name itself is rather...

Aiyah ....just when I was not expecting it, the Tacoma tree outside the house has decided to flower profusely again. It will be another seve...

The story two days ago  about our  Datuk Kong experience at the Nandaka Vihara got me thinking—how did the Datuk Kong tradition even get s...

Oh, ferk ! I found another caterpillar on one of my plants! This one was a whopper, about three inches long. It was bright green and had bee...

I posted this picture on my facebook this morning. The neat arrangement of droppings from a large caterpillar. It was on its way to pupation...

Second day of Chinese New Year. Sunday, the 11th of February. We heard that the Bukit Mertajam forest park in Cherok Tokun had finally reope...

Photo by  Clayton Malquist  on  Unsplash It was a most terrifying experience for my wife and I yesterday when we were heading home across th...

17 Sep 2019 This clump of earth had stood outside the town of Bukit Mertajam since time immemorial. Although the 541-metre high hill is...

Two years ago on 4 Nov 2017, we wife and I were in Kuala Lumpur when we heard that a heavy rainfall in Penang had flooded several low-lying...

After waxing exuberance over my visit to Pulau Ubin last March, I promised my wife that I'd bring her to the island when we next visit...