SS Quah's Anything Goes

It's an over-hyped story. This often referred story from the National Geographic recently about seeing five planets aligned in the mor...

Today being the fourth of January, there is just one month to go before the start of Li Chun (立春)  on 4 February 2016.  The significanc...

Every time I drink my kopi-o at this particular stall at the Kampong Baru market in Bukit Mertajam and I reach this level of coffee in my ...

Stepped out of the house this morning and happened to look upwards. An automatic reaction with me. And immediately noticed two of the brigh...

I was supposed to go down to Kuala Lumpur in September but had to cancel my trip owing to conjunctivitis. Then after me, it was my wife...

The E&O Hotel in Farquhar Street was the perfect colonial-type setting for the launch of Marcus Langdon's latest book -- Penang, th...

It was quite chilling this morning when I turned on the computer and the web browser loaded up the Google start page automatically. There, ...

It has been 13 days since I celebrated the 199th anniversary of our Alma Mater with some of my old schoolmates in Penang, Kuala Lumpur o...

About a week ago I had sent an appeal through the Old Frees' Association facebook group for more Old Frees to remember the founder o...

This picture that I saw in the archives room of the Penang Free School recently brought back some memories of my physical education (P.E...

As a run-up to the bicentenary celebrations of the Penang Free School, let's give the Press something to write about! Let's give ...

One thing that I had not mentioned before when I went to see the Opthalmologist at the Penang Hospital on the 20th of last month was that d...

It could have been due to the haze; it could have been due to dust; it could have been due to any other reason. But the fact was, I came do...

Ban Hin Lee Bank, oh, Ban Hin Lee Bank, where art thou today? You may no longer exist but to us, the former staff of this bank, we remember...

Finally, I managed to dig up one prized item while looking through the archives at the Penang Free School on Monday: a school register whic...

In case anyone asks who is Chen Ooi to me, let me say here that we grew up together in George Town, Penang. As a small kid, he was looked ...

About a month ago, I was given a copy of this delightful 22-page booklet, A Quick Guide To Butterworth . I say delightful because for the...

What a weekend it has been for us. Weeks ago, we learnt that we had been offered two complimentary tickets to attend the Saturday Night Fev...