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.

Reach me via email or whatsapp as per my bio data.

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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