SS Quah's Anything Goes

Last Friday was the first full moon of 2023. It was also the final full moon of the Chinese lunar calendar. Thus, there's no need to be ...

I was invited to join some friends from the PFS Class of 1971 for dinner last night on the island. Had a whale of a time renewing my acquain...

 

I began cultivating some interest in orchids sometime in the early part of the last decade when I stopped writing my chess articles for The ...

The promoters from US Potatoes were back in Penang last week and in a jam-packed afternoon session at 218 Macalister, they brought along a d...

So much have happened to my wife and I in the last two and a half weeks or so. I'm actually having some difficulty deciding how to begin...

It's not mentioned in the above image, but the celebration of the Penang Chess Association's golden anniversary will be held this Mo...

The night sky was heavily covered by clouds last night and I was unable to sight the moon. However, i was awakened this morning at about fiv...

The last time that the PFS student leadership workshop was held was some two years and 10 months ago. Even then, it was only half a workshop...

So glad to see a clear night sky at 10.52pm tonight. Moon had just attained its first quarter not more than 16 minutes earlier. And directly...

If not for the occasional party flags fluttering by the roadside, I would be hard put to remember that there is a nationwide general electio...

I am utterly devastated to learn of the death yesterday of Prof Dr Ghulam Sarwar Yousof, a respected figure in academia, a literary giant an...

After weeks of not seeing the moon due to immensely cloudy skies and rainy evenings, yesterday proved to be different. At about midnight, th...

From the Straits Echo of 27 August 1903, here is the fourth instalment of the newspaper's History of Penang. The first three parts of th...