SS Quah's Anything Goes

I've been terribly busy this month and only now do I have time to write something about this year's Cheng Beng festival. My family h...

This year is going to be the year of re-unions for me. Come this third of May, some of my old friends from the PFS Class of 1970/72 will be ...

A lot of things happened in April. On the 15th, we attended a talk at the Straits Chinese Association on the nyonya kebaya , presented by Ke...

Thoroughly enjoyed the Patron's Night at The Old Frees' Association on the 17th of this month. The occasion was, of course, the offi...

Tomorrow, Monday, marks the exact 100th anniversary of The Old Frees' Association. We were founded on 17 April 1923. To mark this Centen...

How would you, as a lay person, distinguish a real monk from a bogus one if you were to meet a man in robes in a public space?  To me, there...

Well, it's time to get ready for the exBHLBankers' latest get-together or reunion in August! I can't quite remember how many tim...

Nope, this wall clock does not belong to me. I had just brought it back from the clock shop, Tat Seng, in Bukit Mertajam. They had donated t...

From the 17 September 1935 copy of the Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle , an old defunct newspaper from Penang, comes this story about t...

We never had our  bak chor mee in Singapore. That was my initial plan when we went down to Singapore in February but like all plans go, it ...

During my recent visit to Singapore, my group of travellers stayed at the very hip LYF One-North Hotel which was about a 15-minute walk to m...

I met a very special person yesterday: Dr Jemilah Mahmood, the gutsy founder of MERCY Malaysia, who was in Penang to receive the second Dr W...

It has been 10 days since I returned from a very short holiday in Singapore. How short was it, you may ask. Well, is a three-days, two-night...

I met up with my old school pal, Shaun, last night. Our friendship goes back more than five decades. We had known one another since our Form...

I am posting this message on behalf of Anwar Fazal who is the President of The Dr Wu Lien-Teh Society in Penang which celebrates its 10th an...

The Management Committee of The Old Frees' Association met with the Penang Free School headmaster, Syed Sultan, at his office two days a...

The committee members of Wu Lien-Teh Society had lunch today with their Honorary Advisor, Cheah Cheng Hye. From left to right, Ong Siou Woon...

I popped out of the house at about eight o'clock tonight and saw this thin crescent moon right beside Venus. I know that Jupiter is near...

I was at Penang Free School this morning for a meeting with the Headmaster, his Senior Assistants and several teachers. Thereafter, I reques...

With the PCA President on the left, our WP2W team comprised Poh Yu Tian, myself, Leonardo Alidani and Joshua Ng Shao Wen Here's more cat...