SS Quah's Anything Goes

When I stepped out of the house to take in the full moon at about 11.15pm yesterday, I couldn't help but be drawn to a brilliant whitish...

A heart-warming story I discovered through social media this Christmas. It is a bit long, but worth your while to read the first few paragra...

November and December are not exactly the best months for sky gazing at night because of the weather. If it is not raining, then it would be...

I couldn't post this image in the blog yesterday, nor wish anyone Happy Tang Chik, because I had lost my Internet connection in the hous...

This is normally what I do every year on the third or fourth day of February: filling my rice bucket to the brim with a big packet of rice. ...

Yes, this New Straits Times front page says it exactly. The last day that the Penang ferry service will operate will be 31 Dec 2020. After t...

If you want to torment someone you don't like, send him a package through this "excellent" delivery service from a wannabe cou...

It's not like I haven't tried to take a picture of Saturn in the night sky before. But the problem was, you see, this planet is so f...

Would you support those hawkers who ripped off their clientele when times were good but are now suffering when there's no business durin...

Today, I shall put on display the covers of the 10 digital brochures of the Street of Harmony which my friend, Siang Jin, and I had produced...

Two days ago, I had written about the digital brochures and wall plaques which my friend, Siang Jin, and I had prepared for the George Town ...

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...