I REMEMBER when I had my very first car, it was a banged-up second-hand seven-year old Opel Kadett 1100CC, and I had bought it with my first few months’ salary, with Mum and Dad having chipped in to top up the balance.
It was $1,200 and the year was 1970 – I urgently needed it for my first job at
CHIANG MAI (ANN/THE STAR) – In a matter of days, I visited the Rajah Brooke’s Museum in Kuching, Sarawak and then travelled to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. The museum provides a wonderful background on members of the Brooke Family, who ruled over Sarawak from 1841 to 1946 as the White Rajahs. The family’s legacy […]
ON the evening of June 23, 2023, I had my last dram of a single-malt whisky during a casual friends’ dinner in Kuching.
Due to a chain of unforeseen events, I was hospitalised the very next day for eight days and the medical prognosis after that was a personal moment of decision for me – give up