by Alan John Posted on December 26, 2023December 26, 2023 Vindaloo War: A Christmas story full of family history, love and loathing. It’s all fiction, I swear Read More
by Alan John Posted on November 9, 2023November 10, 2023 My Grandfather’s Notebook 5: Makan time in Taiping and then, surprise, a diary Michael Bastian John filled just before he died Read More
by Alan John Posted on October 30, 2023November 9, 2023 My Grandfather’s Notebook 4: Moving on from profound loss, Michael and Isabella’s children loved and fought, shared great meals and sang ‘Let bygones be bygones forever…’ Read More
by Alan John Posted on October 27, 2023October 27, 2023 My Grandfather’s Notebook 3: Michael and Isabella never saw Trivandrum or Travancore again. They gave their children a new hometown, Kuala Lumpur, and a new country, Malaya Read More
by Alan John Posted on October 12, 2023October 26, 2023 My Grandfather’s Story 2: Isabella Rozario, my grandfather’s bride Read More
by Alan John Posted on September 23, 2023October 27, 2023 My Grandfather’s Story 1: Pages from a small notebook provide traces of a little-known family history Read More
by Alan John Posted on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Living through a pandemic. Nobody asked me, so I’ll just ask and answer the questions myself. Read More
by Alan John Posted on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 What happened to 2020? The photos in my iPhone record a year like none other, ever. Read More
by Alan John Posted on June 20, 2020 That day when my friend Kim asked his mum how to make her Nyonya achar, and got me hooked for life Read More
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