SS Quah's Anything Goes

So glad to see a clear night sky at 10.52pm tonight. Moon had just attained its first quarter not more than 16 minutes earlier. And directly...

If not for the occasional party flags fluttering by the roadside, I would be hard put to remember that there is a nationwide general electio...

I am utterly devastated to learn of the death yesterday of Prof Dr Ghulam Sarwar Yousof, a respected figure in academia, a literary giant an...

After weeks of not seeing the moon due to immensely cloudy skies and rainy evenings, yesterday proved to be different. At about midnight, th...

From the Straits Echo of 27 August 1903, here is the fourth instalment of the newspaper's History of Penang. The first three parts of th...

I came across these old pictures from a contact print. Obviously taken in the late 1970s. I was at Gurney Drive with two of my ex-colleagues...

Every few years, I seem to come across some hilarious local instances of the English language being used awkwardly on business signboards. I...

From the Straits Echo of 25 August 1903, here is the third instalment of the newspaper's History of Penang. Click here for Part One and...

I built my present desktop computer from scratch about nine years ago when my eyesight was better. The motherboard is a Gigabyte Z87-D3HP bu...

Here are all the available games of the Malaysian players at the concluded Bangkok Chess Club open tournament in Chiangmai, Thailand. The ev...

I attended the opening ceremony of a commemorative exhibition on the life of Dr Wu Lien-Teh last week, and I duly went to the function hall ...