SS Quah's Anything Goes

I came down from the Bukit Mertajam hill at Cherok Tokun this afternoon with my mind still undecided whether or not to go out to the city fo...

No, these are not our regular once-a-year Chinese New Year visitors. In fact, they come a-visiting many times in a year, so we are quite ...

I just thought that I'd feature an old photograph unearthed recently from my visit to the Penang Free School's archives in Decemb...

I took my wife and son to the Immigration Department yesterday morning. The main reason was to apply for a passport for my son but we notice...

Actually, we had a lot of fun at the Puzzling World in Wanaka. The indoor exhibits were enough to occupy the whole morning without having to...

Had a jolly good time with my old schoolmates from Penang Free School and Westlands Primary School at the BeerBQ Bistro watering hole at the...

For a change, we had chempedak for our reunion dessert two days ago. The chempedak champion , as the vendor assured me, will be as sweet a...

Although we do all sit down for dinner many times in a year, I'm still thankful that the whole family is around for the ooi lor reunio...

I had been hearing some stories about the poor upkeep of the new water lily ponds at the Penang Botanic Garden; that the Victoria amazonica...

The day we left Wanaka for Dunedin marked the mid-point of our holidays in New Zealand's South Island. It was time for the long drive...

Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 0...

I had known about the impending crash of the failed Russian space probe, Phobos-Grunt, since about two weeks ago after reading about it on...

I was woken up in the middle of the night. Well, not exactly in the middle of the night but it was at about five o'clock this morning. M...

For a change, my wife and I decided to go up to the Bellevue Hotel at Penang Hill to usher in the new year. Thanks, of course, to my very ol...

It is funny how small inconsequential items can suddenly trigger off memories of your youth. There I was, last week, accompanying my wife an...

As we close out the year, it is appropriate that I shall attempt to give a first report on my progress in the Old Frees' Association cof...

Let us indulge in a bit of nostalgia. Let it sweep right over us as we re-visit the grounds of the Penang Free School. I took these pictures...