Old Buildings

The built environment is the history of man. Each of these old buildings have their own story lines. Thus, the life of man in the past, its values in the present and directions for the future are embellished on these old heritage buildings. Therefore to save " heritage buildings" and recommend heritage promotion of the buildings through Perak Tourism Board is what one should embark, demolition is not the solution.

Y's Men's Club Ipoh

This club has a lot of planning and gathering. I joined them to " pray for peace". I was told to become the future Hon. Secretary of the club. Position is not important to me, hope to be committed to the core and cause. I appeal to God to guide, for one thing I know..... " Do your best and GOD will do the rest. Hm..........................!

Trigger free council workers.

These days one can read in the papers of how the council workers like to shoot dogs. One such case was they shot a dog in the street. The dog ran back into its house compound, the workers entered the compound , looped the injured animal and dragged it onto the road.

The workers then shot the dog a second time and killed it. The workers were from Central Johor Baru Municipal Council. The workers acts reflects how inhumane they were towards this mongrel.

Wesak Day -2011.

During the early 20th century, a number of ancient sculptures were unearthed in Kinta, mainly in the course of tin mining. One such archaeological evidence was the discovery of a 18 meters bronze Buddha statue in a tin mine in Tanjung Rambutan in 1900.

The Tanjung Rambutan Buddha statue is now believed to being in the possession of Alma Baker's family of New Zealand.

This reflects that Buddhism was introduced in our country a few centuries ago. Buddhism has found its base here long before some other religion set in into this country. That's why one can find Lembah Bujang, Kedah and Gangga Negara (Bruas) was once a base of Buddhism kingdom.

Thus today, we have quite a large number of Buddist in this country. Wesak is celebrated to commemorate the birth, enlightment and death of Lord Buddha because according to Buddhists, all the three events took place on the same lunar date. Happy Wesak Day!

UNESCO Heritage Status

To obtain UNESCO Heritage Status Ipoh will be assessed on 3 outstanding universal values:-

i). multicultural trading town
ii). testimony of multicultural tangible and intangible heritage
iii). melting pot multicultural architecture and township.

Perak State Government and the Ipoh City Council should firstly set up a Heritage Council
and invite people of knowledge in heritage matters to be part of the council. Then slowly but
surely work toward obtaining the status like Penang and Melaka. Can we do it?

Concubine Lane

When u walk along Chulia Street in Penang, off a the street u will find a lane named Love Lane, likewise in Ipoh we have Concubine Lane in Old Town. One of the place that I love to walk through is Concubine Lane (Yi Lai Hong). It's so charming,as I walk through these empty houses, I sometimes pee through the windows. I am just transported to the visions of opium dens, gambling pai kow and of course all those Chinese pretty girls. It reminds me of a mini Shanghai in the middle of Ipoh Old Town.

4giveness

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if forgiveness is missing. So my prayer for the day is " Om, Ganesha, make me an instrument
of your peace, where there is hatred let me sow love". - sundra.