On the morning of 13 June 2010, Linda promised to take us on a heritage walking tour to see he alma mater, the Peranakan Mansion, the clan jetties, culminating in a Nyonya Lunch.
We gathered at E&O Hotel
Waiting for Linda who had a late night after party after the party
the opulent lobby of the E&O, so different from the G Hotel
This doctor came in walking boots (btw he is an avid photographer and bird watcher)
Here's Linda!!!
starting the walk!! My first time on a heritage walking tour! Free some more! With free tour guide!
This is her school: Convent Light Street
It is a great school, it produces outgoing and vivacious people like her
Look!!! It's my grandfather's road!!!
I felt all touristy and posed everywhere
you don't get this on Kuala Lumpur streets: Never! Even if you did, you cannot stop to pose for photos. You'll be knocked down by cars and you wouldn't know what hit you.
Like Italy!
Old world Hotel.
then we reached the Nyonya Mansion
looks insignificant from the outside but damn big inside
imposing facade
this door belies the activities inside...
all bustling and crowded
you have to take photo here
because you are reflected to infinity and beyond
do you know what this bed is for? So beautifully inlaid with mother of pearl and marble
opium smoking!
It is an opium bed!
Those are doctors high on opiate addiction!
(pretending, hahaha!!!)
That doctor(him!) is high, the teacher(me!) is not.
I do not know what they are looking at!
cupboard full of nyonya beaded shoes
Ancestral altar!!! It had an annexe all to itself. With hell on one side of the wall, heaven on the other.
Cooking at the well stocked kitchen
Everything you need is within reach!
even has its own medical shop! Reminds me of my father's medical hall!!!
My brother used to have this foot grinder....until it got stolen when stored outside the shop! Imagine! How much it must have weighed! Solid brass or iron or whatever it is made of. (The grinder has to hold on to a rope from the roof and use his legs gripping the top of the wooden handles to grind the medicinal herbs!!) I used to watch my workers do that when I was young!
Unforgiveable sin:
to put an incongruous, ugly drink dispenser slot machine right smack in the middle of an antiquated courtyard.
A group shot for remembrance. We could not join them for lunch as we had to check out by 12. Also the clan jetty tour was put off indefinitely.
But we will be back. Linda will take us out again!
3 comments:
The grinder... use legs on the handle or use feet? I cant imagine the former
the grinder (a person!) puts his feet on the two handles of the round thing, holds on a a rope strung from the ceiling and swings his body back on forth on the "boat" grinding the twigs and dried pods of herbal medicine. Do you remember the attic in the kitchen of Jalan Mohd Akil? That was where the rope was strung from!
I dont remember the attic. Ur new description makes more sense than the one in the post... its clearer =)
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