SS Quah's Anything Goes

Three fellas that I met at The Banker's Draught last August when I was down in Kuala Lumpur for the Malaysia Chess Festival: The fi...

About two weeks ago, I did mention that if I was in the right mood, I might wish to revisit one or two of the games that I had played in th...

I was given this old record by a former colleague from my banking days when I was down in Parit Buntar last month. Obviously, he doesn'...

The late Leong Yee Fong - he passed away in 2015 - used to teach History at the Penang Free School when I was studying there, although he ...

Two views of the same record, one that I bought during my recent trip to Kuala Lumpur. I had gone to a shop at the Ampang Park shopping ...

Together with four other friends, all Old Frees, I've been spending the whole of Saturday and Sunday at Penang Free School where w...

It is so easy to get an international chess rating nowadays. A real FIDE chess rating, not one that's calculated by a national chess fe...

Good morning! I woke up suddenly to find our very familiar celestial neighbour, still very full and round, shining directly at me through ...

I had an interesting afternoon yesterday. At the last moment, I decided to attend the flagging off of David Wu's two-year cycling...

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, we remember the greatest love story in Chinese mythology: the cowherd and his fairy princ...

Fancy that. In the eastern London Borough of Tower Hamlets, there is a short, quiet road that is named after Penang. Our little island is r...

I'm a firm believer of using the uninterruptible power supplies to connect up the sensitive computer equipment and electronic devices i...

The Kalama Sutra, as taught by the Buddha. Over a period of about three weeks, I had been posting these messages every few days on my f...

Eight years ago, I tried to uncover some information about the notorious Abdulla 37 and got no-where. All that I ever achieved was some no...

The Swee Cheok Tong (瑞鵲堂) was invited to attend the 25th anniversary dinner of the Youth Section of the Chay Yeong Tong Sin Quah Chuah Chon...

I thought calamity had struck me a very long time ago when I managed to spoil one of my prized 45rpm records. Due to some mishap - I have...

I read this commentary in the online version of the UK's The Guardian newspaper. It was about the Wimbledon dress code whereby all pl...

Hopefully, this will be the start of something fresh at the Swee Cheok Tong (Quah Kongsi): an annual fun get-together for the members apart...