SS Quah's Anything Goes

As usual, sometimes you have to be at the right place at the right time. For me, everything fell into the right place today where food was c...

I wonder what this plant is but it's pushing up a mighty large flower. Saw this on Wednesday and I hope to be at the Bukit Mertajam hill...

Boy, has it been a very eventful week for me! Felt almost like working. Even until today, there seems no letting up on the things that are h...

I wonder what goes into car wax? What's it made of? How safe is car wax? Is it corrosive? I had always thought of car wax as only stuff ...

This is somewhere on the island, not far from George Town, a very tranquil place to spend an afternoon - or morning - amidst lush greenery a...

The orchid pots around the house have been quite barren lately so I was very glad to have this one shooting out five flowers. I hope they la...

I'd like to introduce you to an old chess friend. I first got to know him in the mid-1970s when we used to frequent the Royal Selangor ...

This album, Kojiki , marked my very first exposure to the music of Kitaro. Until about the early 1990s, I had been blissfully unaware of thi...

For quite some time now, I have been taking on-and-off peeks at the price of gold and have been noticing its upward trend since goodness kno...

I still can't believe that I spent 75 minutes on Sunday night watching this film, Morning Of The Earth , on the Australia Network. I ha...

Monkeys disturbed the latest sitting of the Penang State Assembly in George Town yesterday. Yes, that's right, you heard me correctly. M...

At the end of the day, reality struck home for millions of people. So You Think ran out of steam in the race that stopped Australia (and Ne...

This image was taken from the Weather Channel just a few moments ago. It shows the cloud cover over the northern peninsula. There is a cause...

Here are some useful bits of advice that I've just picked up from the Internet. They may sound like simple common sense and actually, th...

Oh, shit. Tomorrow is supposed to be a special day when Astro begins re-running the original episodes of Hawaii Five-O and here, I've ju...

I have just been watching the Mackinnon Stakes on Victoria Derby day and I'm blown away by how easily So You Think pulled away from the...

People know the Wat Chayamangkalaram Buddhist temple in Bangkok Lane, George Town, better for the Sleeping Buddha than the Loy Krathong fest...

Living in a small urbanised state like Penang means that I do not get to see rubber trees any more. But it so happened that on my way to Lun...

I came across this run-of-the-mill story of the chief cashier of a bank here in George Town who has been charged in court today for stealing...

Thanks to a little tweet from a friend in Kuala Lumpur at about 7.15pm yesterday, I was alerted to news that a certain aristocratic-like cep...