COLLECTOR ITEM THAT CARVED HISTORY

The house was just not only a home but an expression of art, reflection of the owner family descendant, and a proud heritage of a society dating a decade ago.

My home and my birthplace, a Malacca designed house has through time rewarded a safe place for several past families after in existence for more than 111 years.

Located in Kampong Bharu, at a crossroad between Jalan Mahmud and Jalan Hamzah, a simple yet appealing in design, the house made up of entirely from wood will now has to be brought down to make way for a more contemporary and common design, still to function to house a living soul.

Constraint by weather over the years and depleting wood craftsman or carpenter, the house bear a humble physical conditions but from afar still possess that magical charm.

Unique features of a Malacca house is the veranda which carry lots of creative motif and serves as functional air passageway.

The graphical images of the house from various view are as below:

We are calling those ardent admirer of Malay Tradtional Malacca house to acquire the different portion of the house or simply preserve this artistic component of the house which may be vanished in the near future. Just see the adorable motifs associated with the veranda’s window frame.

This house is a 12 pillars structured and almost all is made up of Cengal hardwood. It was reported via a study from Architecture Faculty of Uitm University, the wood came in logs after which it was chiselled into a pillars. The hardness of the wood is so apparent that no nails can pry through.

We are schedule to bring down the house anytime this month and for those interested in acquiring the house various adorable component or the hardwood pillars please free to contact me via whatsapp at 0123820782 or email at aminjoe62@gmail.com. We shall entertained interested collector buying on first come first serve basis.

YOUR CHILD DESERVE THE BEST

Success and failure can only be apparent over time. However, there are no hard and fast  rule to run your life. There are also no magic formula that will ensure road to success.

In any society, there are rules of thumb pass down through generation. It’s rather scant or general but as you pass several phases in life, then will you understand better and the details starts to surface. Then you begin to see crystal clear where your life path has taken you.

During your younger days, equip with fresh knowledge from tertiary education, with high spirit and endurance, you are too absorb in creating your self-image to proof your existence in the adult world or the career world.

As a result, as young lad with hunger to succeed, you tend to overlook things you should have committed at young age which will give you the edge when you are nearing your retirement age or when your physical being no longer run at optimum level.

So as loving and concerned parent, you can start correcting this life choice for your child so that they are well look after once you are gone.

During this early stage of your teenage son or daughter life, hence it is the best time for you to initiate the first move to get them protected under a suitable insurance coverage. The premium is cheap yet they are better benefit and coverage. One fine day, they will certainly thank you for this thoughtful effort.

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FOOD IN KAMPONG BARU DURING 60S

During the late 60s in kampong Baru, pedlars and hawkers usually market their food along the streets as there are limited number of food outlet at that particular time. As I can recall, food outlet operated by local, can be found in Pasar Minggu (Sunday Market), in front of Masjid Jamek beside the now Kampong Baru Medical Centre, opposite UniKL/DBKL, opposite HKL towards now bulatan Pahang and Chow Kit Road.

Those pedlars have distinct identification either from their own sound producing gadget or simply their shouting, which more or less likened to a jingles.

Notable among those pedlars are:

1.    Rojak Mamak, pedlars on foot.

2.    Mee Goreng and Mee Rebus, using tricycle.

3.    Roti using bicycle.

4.    Ice Cream using bicycle – with fortune wheel.

5.    Kacang Putih  (beans of various type) on foot.

6.    Stone Candy (cut using chisel) on bicycle.

7.    Soft Candy on bicycle (using special gadget attached to the bicycle pedal to act as wheels to produce the candy).

Whenever we are being ask by our parent to stop this pedlars, those selling rojak or mee, we often bring our own plate, hence it was an unwritten rule that the pedlars would give us more since they do not need to use their paper for packaging. On some occasion, we simply request the food pedlars to exclude the eggs or the veggies as we have our own to add. (cost saving in today’s term).

The ice cream pedlars were cunning with their wheels of fortune, where whenever you buy, you have an opportunity to spin to gain more than one ice cream. There was even a prize for six ice cream but on closer look, the stopper is closely planted and as such rather impossible to win. But on one particulars instance, I and my naughty colleague manage to fool the pedlars. When I spin the wheel, one of my friend distract the pedlar, and I have cheated to place the pointer on the magical six, and four of us share the reward.

Today I hardly see this pedlars or hawker anymore except for the ice cream seller. As time passed by, we now experience different mode of business model. Now every fast food outlet have personal delivery on bike. You no longer wait to hear their sound or jingles by the roadside to stop to buy the food but everything is just a call away.

THINGS ARE SIMPLE THEN

Going back 40 years ago, I could still recall how life is simple without the complexity now. Recalling those years, I was born and raised in Kampong Baru, life was so much straight forward.

How I remember, mosque or surau do not actually employ Imam or Bilal. Somehow this guys just volunteer themselves for the post, or perhaps through the urge from the Qariah (surrounding community). As to appreciate their services, the community association will normally apportioned certain token from donation collected.

In this respect, we the teenager will be assisting the Imam or Bilal for religious occasion, especially during the month of Ramadhan (fasting month), where at every end session of the “Tarawih”, prayer only done during the month, we will be there preparing food for serving as well as cleaning up.

Though we are not explicitly taught about volunteerism or neither are there volunteer campaign to recruit volunteers, we just did on our own accord just as hearing from friends and neighbour.

For Kampong Baru folks, it was quite a normal phenomenon to celebrate either “Äidil Fitri” or “AdildilAdha”, in Kampong Baru itself on the first 3 days. Regardless, where their hometown is, nobody will leave Kampong Baru until they celebrate the occasion in Kampong Baru.

As kids then, we are not really particular on dress or shoes for the celebration so long that it was new. Most of the time, when our parent bring us along for shopping, a week before the celebration, the choice is more based on our parent, we just follow their instruction.

Prior to “Aidil Fitri”, during the fasting month, almost all the houses will be decorating their house compound with lighting (kerosene based), either using the used milk can or the bamboo. The sights was so happening during the night and the container either metal can or bamboo is prepared by us with the help of our parents.

During the first 3 days of the celebration, every houses are open for anyone that wish to visit. Every guess that came, they are being given a warm hospitality.

One aspect that I can summarise during those time is, though money was hard to come by, it does not stop us from being happy and relationship as a community was based more on honesty rather than a person position or his wealth. 

JUST FOR YOU

Kindergarten owner and school headmaster, when you can save while getting the best graduation robe, why not you enquire? Do not worry if you do not have volume to bargain for good price, we have anticipate that and we have prepared for a good affordable price.

We do graduation robe as low as RM 80 and starting from a minimum quantity of 20 pieces. Further our price is inclusive of the hats or mortarboard. Certainly value for your money. So if you are on a shoestring budget, do not be in despair. Your misery is almost resolved. What you need is just that one simple motivation, an email to me with your contact details so that I can see you with our physical samples and amazed you with our price.

With good price, you would be able to save a lot whilst at the same time build up your wardrobe of rentable graduation robe while earning when you sell outright to your pupil or student. It will be quite easy for you to sell outright because they price is fairly reasonable if you place a moderate margin for each piece.

One other aspect which lessen your headache is our design of a practical mortarboard that can easily be folded that enable easy storage.

Send your email early to me so that you can be eligible for price reduction of more than 30% when you place your order between the month January to May.

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SERVE WITH HONOUR AND CARE

Having been admitted to hospital on critical illness 3 times within a span of less than one year and duration on each hospitalization not less than one week makes me fully aware of the duties of a nurse. Since during those period I was hospitalized in the intensive care units, the job as nurse was so much felt.

In a life threatening situation, any hospital patient will be highly dependent on the nurse. Well as for me, it was more apparent since I was highly sedated for 4 days upon my emergency admission.

Recalling those scary moment, I was shocked to find out soon after regaining my consciousness, I was talking nonsense since I was still high on morphine. My wife told me on her visits that the nurses had diligently attend to me without any hesitation.

As much as they (the nurses), care for me like a baby from cleaning me up to feeding me, they also perform needful duties like utilizing the apparatus to vacuum my thick phlegm from my throat to clear my breathing passage way. It was needless to say awfully painful during the process, but they did it with confident. Apart from caring for me, they (the nurse) indeed have a strong heart to complete their task even though when it seems unbearable. During such occasion, my wife would normally leave me with the nurses as she could not bear watching me going through the excruciating  process.

In another instance, one other patient whom was emotionally disturbed, have to be subdued by the nurses despite they being verbally and physically abuse. They finally able to calm the patient without the assistance from a security guard or a doctor.

There’s one other patient that refuses to eat and practically become unmotivated to recover from a heart bypass, but the nurses were consistently giving her encouraging words where she finally able to overcome her psychological negativity.

All in all, I have high respect for this ladies for their unwavering dedication in their work which has been a significant factors in most patient recovery apart from the doctors and the medicine.

Your noble contribution to the industry and society will never be forgotten. Nurses, wherever you are, my deepest appreciation and salute to you.

BE CLEAR ON YOUR CHOICE

Often time, we have been misguided by insurance agent whom are looking for quick profit.

The deliberation on features between personal accident insurance and medical-card insurance are made to confuse would be insured. No differentiation is made explicitly between both. The hook is the offer on cheaper premium, equating personal accident with medical-card insurance is worth an investment because both almost bear similar medical benefits. Highlights would be the compensation paid on death which seems higher for personal accident.

As consumer, do not be taken by this simplistic explanation. There are great difference between personal accident insurance and medical-card insurance. The former is only claimable when the hospitalization arises out of accident whilst the later when insured is hospitalized for his/her illness.

Resulting from this, insurer on medical-card insurance made it a compulsory requirement for full medical check-up for its applicant for which approval is in the hand of the insurance company. As the age goes up the premium will correspondingly be higher. There are instances where applicant are rejected notably because applicant has serious illness and have hospitalization history.

Depending on package offers from the insurer on medical-card insurance, there are terms you need to be wary of, and i.e. annual limits, deductible, lifetime limits, extend of critical illness and so on.

Personal accident insurance should not be taken in replace of medical-card insurance but complimenting medical-card insurance.

Indifferent from life insurance coverage, personal accident and medical-card insurance expired yearly, renewable every year subject to insurer prerogative.

The rule of thumb is to get the medical-card coverage at an early age as the premium is relative to age factors.

For suitable insurance coverage insist on our personal assistance by providing your details via my email at aminjoe62@gmail.com