SS Quah's Anything Goes

At our son's wedding dinner on Sunday, we had cousin Amy, cousin Peggy, dear wifey and sister Judy surprising everyone, including themse...

I have always been interested in the early history of the three old English schools in the former Straits Settlements, namely, Penang Free S...

Let me begin with some irrelevance. I was just thinking that, since the oldest participant in our Penang Free School heritage walk last Satu...

I mentioned in my last story that I had gone exploring the old civic precinct in the George Town heritage core zone last July and August, bu...

The past few weeks have been rather surreal for me. Looking back, quite a lot has happened in a relatively short space of time, and I am sti...

Earlier this month, I attended this meeting at the Penang Town Hall as the representative of the Swee Cheok Tong (Seh Quah Kongsi). Called b...

It seems quite appropriate for me to say something about the Francis Light statue at Fort Cornwallis as I have written quite a bit about thi...

On the 240th anniversary of the landing at Penaggar Point to found Penang as a British settlement by Captain Francis Light, I'm reproduc...