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Trust Andrew Ooi aka Gilachess to do a search on me with Perplexity AI. But mind you, it's artificial intelligence, okay? Susceptible to...

The Merdeka rapid chess open team tournament ended yesterday, and while our two Old Frees Association teams didn’t win anything, we were sti...

Today would have been the 98th birthday of my old headmaster, Tan Boon Lin. Instead, we marked his passing just five days earlier on the sev...

By this time tomorrow, I’ll be at KL Gateway Mall with my chess friends from The Old Frees’ Association, ready to take part in the 20th Mala...

 Sad to hear of the demise of Tan Boon Lin, my first Headmaster in secondary school. He was the first Asian appointed as Headmaster of Penan...

Continuing with the documentation of our holiday in Japan last year, the 17th of November marked our fifth day in Kyoto. The day before, we ...

After months of waiting and wondering, I finally hear that the Nandaka Vihara meditation society in Bukit Mertajam has decided to go ahead w...

Last week, I wrote here about the fake Facebook friend requests that land in our notifications with regularity. This week it’s the turn of a...

Saw See and I missed the last  talk-cock  gathering of ex-BHLBank cronies in June because we were away on a semi-pilgrimage holiday in Nepal...

This morning as I broke open a twa pau to show its juicy contents to friends on my Whatsapp chat group, I thought back to the tiam sim  I u...

My old blog, It’s All In the Planning , is gone forever. I let it lapse on the 19th of last month. For years, I had toyed with shutting it d...

How much can Facebook be trusted nowadays? On a regular basis, I keep receiving friend requests from people I already know to have a Faceboo...

On the way down from Kinabalu Park, we pulled over briefly at Kampong Sinalapak where a row of roadside stalls stood ready to tempt travelle...

Today’s the last day of our holiday in Sabah. We came with our daughter and her friend, spending two nights up in Kundasang and another two ...