SS Quah's Anything Goes

These 10 information wall plaques were originally devised by my good friend, Lim Siang Jin, and I in 2011. During that year, we had approach...

The past few months have been particularly bad for moon photography in my part of the country and it is not because of any haze. No, the wea...

 Read a joke today. Can't resist not repeating it here or else it will be forgotten tomorrow.... Two sisters, one blonde and one brunett...

Heard this nursery rhyme before? It's called The Grand Old Duke of York, and it goes like this: The Grand Old Duke of York, He had 10,00...

These were two chess books for beginners that I put out in the 1990s. Not to say that I was particularly proud of the quality. In the days w...

I've come to the end of that Netflix mini-series, The Queen's Gambit; watched all the seven episodes and also come to the conclusion...

I have seen more artefacts from my old Ban Hin Lee Bank days in the last one month than I've ever cared for previously: items ranging fr...

(Image: Netflix) I'm being reminded of my youth; my own obsession with the game of chess. I've been watching that Netflix original s...

Actually, I have a good Covid-19 Halloween tale to tell but I was too lazy to write about it yesterday. But here I am today, all ready to pu...

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...