Benefit concert to aid Ooi Eow Jin Last month, Jimmy Yeoh, one of my facebook friends, wrote a long passage about a fellow Old Free, Ooi Eow Jin. People my age may recogn...

Penang hawker food update 2018 My, how fast has three years flown by. I last updated the information on this story on 3rd March 2015 and today is already inching towards ...

Travel between KLIA and KLIA2 With the opening of the KLIA2 budget terminal on 2 May 2014, the simplest and most direct connection between the KLIA main terminal buildin...

Li Chun (立春), 2015 I was flipping through the calendar in the kitchen this morning and realised that today is the first day of the Chinese 10th lunar month, w...

Delay is the deadliest form of denial Have you heard of Prof C Northcote Parkinson? He was a British naval historian and the Raffles Professor of History at the University of Mal...

Trespassers will be converted Yes, this is an Ajahn Brahm original. He confirmed it earlier this week. It seemed that when the Bodhinyana Monastery was being built in S...

Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia or Firefly? Or Berjaya Air? I wrote this story way back in Year 2009. That's four years ago. And I know that a lot of people still read this story to find out the m...

Li Chun (立春), 2016 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...

Stony stare Every time I visit the Khoo Kongsi in George Town, I never fail to marvel at the pair of stone statues of Bengali guards which stand silent...