SS Quah's Anything Goes

Well, it has been a fortnight since my trip to Taiping and Kuala Kurau with Saw See and Wong Hiong Wah. Mana eh chai , the day after our roa...

These old  angpow long harks back to a time when red packets were simpler and less pretentious. And you could still stuff a RM50 note into ...

Amidst the second surge of the Covid-19 (or third surge if you believe the government authorities). a scaled-down commemorative service for ...

Had a terrific storm in Bukit Mertajam yesterday morning. The gusts of howling wind blew open my partially-closed window and there was rainw...

Since the movement control order was imposed in mid-March this year, my wife and I haven't been anywhere outside of Penang. Not since th...

Yesterday was the 15th day of the Chinese lunar month. Traditionally on this day, we would celebrate the Mid-Autumn Mooncake Festival. There...

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I still remember how, occasionally when the weather was fine, I used to walk from the Menara BHL Bank to the ferry terminal in Weld Quay aft...

I was at the AEON shopping mall in Bukit Mertajam this afternoon. Was getting to walk back to the car when I strolled past a restaurant. Not...

Ever since we've been using this new Android television set, our main preoccupation is watching movies and TV series on Netflix. Present...

This is my wife's laptop. Bought five years ago to enable her to work from home. At that time, it could boast of an Intel i5 chip and a ...

I never realised that I owned six versions of Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony in E Minor until I was looking through my compact disc and...

This is Seang Tek Road. Looking down from the Dato Kramat Road end. My old neighbourhood. Had been staying on this street until 1980. If you...

Today happens to be the 25th anniversary of the Rockwills International Group, the leading private estate planning company in the country. R...

It is a pity that my Penang Swee Cheok Tong Seh Quah Kongsi had lost most of our pre-war records, that is, prior to the bleak period of the ...

So after the ice cream, house router, the Kongsi's caretaker and the car battery, what other event of significance could still await me...

So I've talked about the ice cream, the breakdown of the house router and the discovery of the whereabouts of my Kongsi's erstwhile...

I'm very glad that July is over. I've had enough excitement in a month - too many things that happened to me and my household - and...

Made a return to the old school yesterday after months of self-imposed semi-quarantine due to the Movement Control Order. Was at the school...

Somewhere in China, even wall murals are faked.