Stamp Collecting: The King of Hobbies
By Lim Wan Phing
April 2025 FEATURE
THE SAYING GOES that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”—that’s how it began for Ng Wee Theng, the president of the Penang Philatelic Society. In his own words: “I started out as a rubbish collector, but now I’m an advanced collector.”As an 11-year-old, Ng helped a friend of his father cut stamps out from envelopes, soak them in water and meticulously arrange them in an album. Today, five decades on, the schoolteacher has a collection worth over six figures...
Lim Wan Phing
is a freelance writer based in Penang. She has a short story collection, Two Figures in a Car published by Penguin SEA.
