SS Quah's Anything Goes

 

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen Buddhist monk from Vietnam. This story is taken from his book, A Pebble for Your Pocket  (ISBN 1-888375-05-1), publ...

Spent yesterday morning at the eye clinic of the Penang general hospital. Was there for my regular eye check-up which comes round approximat...

When I was writing about the Tang Chek festival a few days ago, my mind was on what comes next. What Chinese festival would we would be cele...

 

It's the Winter Solstice. Do have some koay ee to celebrate Tang Chek today!  

At the end of 1970, I sat for the Malaysian Certificate of Education (MCE) public examination. After that, of course, it was about three mon...

Reality check for the politicians and little napoleons. When you start meddling in the lives of the local population, it is time for them to...

I was awakened this morning just before 5.30am. Despite the drawn curtains, the bedroom was unusually brighter than normal, unlike previous ...

At four o'clock in the afternoon on this date 80 years ago (19 December 1941), the first Japanese troops landed on Penang island. This w...

Eighty years ago, the Japanese military invaded Malaya and bombed Penang. This is the fourth instalment of my five-part stories to commemora...

We are down to the final 17 days of 2021. With so many social activities curtailed due to the coronavirus, this is a largely forgettable yea...

In March this year, I wrote a story here about my prized collection of books by the Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn...

Still on the topic of the Japanese Occupation, today (13 December 1941) marks the 80th anniversary of yet another significant event. Eighty ...

Finally, the world chess championship match between the defending champion, Magnus Carlsen, and his official challenger, Ian Nepomniachtchi,...

Previously, I had related how, in the morning of 08 December 1941, George Town awoke to the first sounds of Japanese enemy aircraft flying o...

Today marks the 80th anniversary of a very significant event in Malaysia's history. At 00:30 (that is, 30 minutes past midnight) on the ...

I'm so detached from chess nowadays that it's become rather easy for me to forget that a world chess championship match is being pla...