SS Quah's Anything Goes

I suppose it is time for me to put some closure to my writing of the long history of the Penang Free School. I have spent something like ...

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions...

I was reading the 1975 edition of the Penang Free School Magazine and came across this lengthy interview which the Editorial Board had carr...

When the name of Roberto Carlos is mentioned, the one thing that comes to mind is his notorious free kick in the Brazil versus France game ...

My latest interest is, of course, taking photographs of Jupiter with my camera. I'm fascinated by the orbits of the four visible Galile...

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...