SS Quah's Anything Goes

I came across these pictures of old Bukit Mertajam on Facebook. Old in the sense that they could have been taken in the 1960s or 1970s, or e...

I've been back from Kuala Lumpur for several days now and while trying to settle back into my normal routine, I bumped into an old YouTu...

Since I had already written about the origins of the Penang Bazaar building some time ago, I thought it was time for me to turn my sights o...

The past few weeks have been rather surreal for me. Looking back, quite a lot has happened in a relatively short space of time, and I am sti...

I was going through my record collection again the other day when I came across two Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young records which, at first...

Just going to the Dewan Sri Pinang last Monday brought back memories of my long association with this grand old hall. It was not the first t...

I must have been seven, eight or perhaps nine years old when my father brought home these two Chipmunks records from Wing Hing Records, his ...

Ever since I wrote about old Gladstone Road several days ago, I have been thinking that perhaps a story about the schools, cinemas and amuse...

Some time ago, while browsing through a stack of records in my collection, I realised that I had two albums that, in their own very differen...

Gladstone Road was one of the roads that disappeared during the massive urban redevelopment that created KOMTAR in the 1970s and early 1980...

Over the years, I’ve accumulated what many people would probably describe as a fairly decent record collection. Once in a while, someone wou...