Good morning !
My walk begins by nine and the sun was shining cheerfully. 300 feet away from my starting point, I saw the uncle who has been walking at least an hour a day for almost 50 years. He fell ill a year or two ago, went into an old folk home but is back to walk again.
I0,000 steps a day towards good health is recommended by the Health Ministry and good health is what every person wanted, we seek.
Thereafter, I crossed the road and soon reached the Banda Hilir rumah awam area, where I saw the galvanized iron railing on both sides of a big drainage. The railing is a safety item to prevent kids and old persons from falling into the drainage but not well done as there is a missing of one or two sets here and there. In work, we seek diligent.
After the Pay Fong School 2, the skyline over the left, near to the vanished Garden City, has become beautiful with Double Tree by Hilton and Hatten Place coloring the sky day or night. The view of Melaka from the skydeck@HATTENCITY must be nice. Getting excited about the new attractions and waiting for their openings, and a few steps ahead, Rosa Melaka is prominently charming me to dwell within its creative design. In rest, we seek joy.
A beautiful girl in full suit, with the familiar yellow logo of the Hatten Place on the jacket, prompted me that Hatten Place is opening soon. She is waiting for her friend to pick her to work, I guess.
The thought was interrupted by the next attraction of a 200 years old temple. The deity Tee Hoo Ong Yah built his home on 195 Parameswara Road in the year 1818 A.D. When you enter the temple to discover more, make sure you check out his face. His face is an evident of the effect of the poison in the water he drank. To save the people of Tong’an and to convince them not to drink water from the poisoned river, he drank and died. The Jade Emperor bestowed him a Ong Yah on his good deed he did. In the walk, heritage is unfold, and as such I wish good luck to this temple’s effort in the application to UNESCO to declare Yong Chuan Tian as a listed site.
On the opposite of The Court of Perfect Bravery, the Saturday Ice Café is packed and I remember, once Ella of the Taiwanese singing group, SHE order the Cockle Rice Noodle. Her husband must have introduced this street food to her.
The next few rows of plank houses is an area supplying the most bean sprout for Melaka once. A bigger drainage separate these houses with Convent Holy Infant Jesus. I find that walking along the stretch for a distance same as the fencing for this girl school unsafe. Tourist would like to walk along this stretch from Hotel Equatorial to Saint John’s Hill and to Portuguese Settlement but there is no walking space except on the road itself. Once awhile, I have to slide in on seeing an oncoming bus to avoid any risk.
For the future generations, the piece of land occupy by Equatorial Hotel was formerly a Road Transport Department office where my driving was tested in 1977. A bakery sat on the second shop on the other side of the Koon Cheng Road that divide the hotel and the bakery shop. That road lead you to Malacca High School.
A police officer watched the area under a canopy tent and the Dataran Megamall is about to open at 10. The Majlis Perbandaran Bersejarah Melaka’s parking lots on the street were empty and is shaded from direct sunlight from the surrounding buildings.
Saint Francis Institution, Banda Hilir English and Sacred Heart Convent; three every old schools remain unchanged. Next to them is the Independence Memorial (formerly occupied by The Malacca Club), a spot every Malaysian must see to remind self of the hard work put in by the past leaders who had struggled for their country. Come August 31, 2017 Malaysians celebrate their Independence Day but how many know the past sacrifices?
Every year, since 2012, I witnessed the independence parade and put parts of it with YouTube so that the younger Malaysians can replay those videos as references. Next month, Thursday 31, I will try to make several short Live videos. If you are interested, please click on the word Live and standby to watch.
The A’Famosa Fort is a world’s heritage. The remaining structure is a proof for anyone to talk about the history in the era when Admiral Zheng He visited Melaka and when the colonial masters governed Melaka. Check out A’Famosa via the StreetView
The only Merdeka Parade that marched passes many historical buildings is in Melaka when you checked it out yourself on Jalan Kota.
The Chinese people seemed to be nonstop coming in to Melaka and they come in big groups. They are here, there … everywhere. This walk takes me to Flor de la Mar and they are there too with their guides carrying an identification of their travel companies to lead their ways through busy areas on both banks of the Melaka’s river. As the days goes by, I see more and more Chinese citizen in Melaka on weekends.
School goings children from Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina Jalan Davidson moved two by two and halted on a corner of the Tan Kim Seng Bridge. The school teachers told them that the Melaka River was once a very busy river where junks keep sailing in from the Straits of Melaka.
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| Teachers and pupils [2 buses] from SRJKC Jln Davidson exploring Melaka's history Photograph Of About Blog |
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| Teachers and pupils [2 buses] from SRJKC Jln Davidson exploring Melaka's history Photograph Of About Blog |
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| Teachers and pupils [2 buses] from SRJKC Jln Davidson exploring Melaka's history Photograph Of About Blog |
The teachers told me that this is their second trip to Melaka.