SS Quah's Anything Goes

As the United Kingdom stands on the brink of remaining or leaving the European Union, I am reminded of this excerpt from the Yes Minister...

My wife and I took off on a weekend holiday to Hat Yai with some friends last week. This trip had been in the planning since the beginning ...

The imposing gate at the entrance into Penang Free School was built only in the 1970s and was never part of the original building plans...

So I've been visiting the school again during the school holidays. Nothing stirred except for the odd staff going about their jobs arou...

It has been announced that Viktor Korchnoi had died at the age of 85. Korchnoi was possibly the strongest grandmaster during the post-Bobby...

Am I taking my English language too seriously? In the last few days, I had been bothered about the use of full stops in abbreviated words a...

Will the Penang Free School Bicentenary Committee or the Penang Free School Foundation be doing anything to refute this outrageous clai...

It's been about six weeks since Saw See and I took a short holiday to de-stress after I had completed about 90 percent of the manuscrip...

An old memory just came to my mind. Remember the rhyming childhood ditty that one used to recite, " abok-abok, pang sai boh cheh bok ...

The tecoma tree outside my house is blooming again and for the second time this year, the ground is coated with a layer of pink flowers. It...

I suppose it is time for me to put some closure to my writing of the long history of the Penang Free School. I have spent something like ...

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions...

I was reading the 1975 edition of the Penang Free School Magazine and came across this lengthy interview which the Editorial Board had carr...

When the name of Roberto Carlos is mentioned, the one thing that comes to mind is his notorious free kick in the Brazil versus France game ...

My latest interest is, of course, taking photographs of Jupiter with my camera. I'm fascinated by the orbits of the four visible Galile...

It's an over-hyped story. This often referred story from the National Geographic recently about seeing five planets aligned in the mor...

Today being the fourth of January, there is just one month to go before the start of Li Chun (立春)  on 4 February 2016.  The significanc...

Every time I drink my kopi-o at this particular stall at the Kampong Baru market in Bukit Mertajam and I reach this level of coffee in my ...

Stepped out of the house this morning and happened to look upwards. An automatic reaction with me. And immediately noticed two of the brigh...