SS Quah's Anything Goes

As late as the 1980s, cinema goers in the country were never as lucky as the cinema goers of today. Only very rarely did we have the chance ...

We arrived at the Christchurch international airport at about 11pm. Considering the number of passengers on board the AirAsia X flight from ...

I plan to visit the Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary in Taiping one of these days. Located in the foothills of Maxwell Hill (or Bukit Larut a...

So finally I'm back in Penang after eight days away from home. Had been spending time at the Malaysia Chess Festival. For the second yea...

I could have easily titled this post as "that deaf, dumb and blind boy" and get away with it. Truth be told, when I was 14 or 15 y...

This is an appeal which has just appeared on facebook. It warrants reproducing it in full on my blog so that non-facebook readers can be awa...

I had little idea, when I was writing my story on Tuesday for this week's chess column in The Star , that the Chinese woman grandmaster,...

Just the other day, I happened to see a very familiar picture on Jimmy Liew's blog . He was revelling in some old memories and had repro...

Our flight from the low-cost carrier terminal at the Kuala Lumpur international airport was routinely boring, like all flights ultimately tu...

Nowadays, I buy quite some stuff through the Internet: compact disks, books and lately, records. Why do I turn to the Internet to get them? ...

For the past 11 days, I've been going to this place, a Taoist temple along Jalan Kampung Besar which is a narrow and busy road that conn...

This is what I call pushing his luck too far with me. There I was, minding my own business, when I received an email from a total stranger...

So there I was in April, faced with the big task of planning our self-drive holidays in New Zealand's South Island. Effectively, there w...

There are some people who claim that they do not find it as romantic as before. Yet there are also people who say that they enjoy the new ru...

It's been quite a while since I ever wrote anything about my Ban Hin Lee Bank days. Maybe I should say something about some of the mo...

It's already the end of the month. I know it's already a little too late for me to give my impressions of this year's George Tow...

I've just turned to reading this book, Groucho and Me, written by Julius Henry Marx. I'm now on page 62 and there are still about t...