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The Laksamana Melaka

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The Laksamana Laksamana is a Malay word for The Admiral. A crown or a seal, a keris or some other royal regalia is among the symbols of a ruler for the King of Melaka. The ruler was not alone, the Bendahara, the Laksamana, the Temenggung, and the Syahbandar were with him. The Laksamana then is equal to the present admiral of a fleet. When Melaka wasn't strong enough to face an attack from Siam,an embassy so happened arrived from China. Laksamana Cheng Ho's expeditions has made Melaka as one of the stops of The Silk Road. The beautiful whites of this cafe makes my head turns, whenever I packed packets of Nasi Lemak from a Malay girl. She would close her stall after the Yok Bin Secondary School closes the gates. Jalan Air Leleh is a road I uses frequently and that road was known to be full of the Melaka Trees. Weeks ago, I discovered this cafe on when their Facebook Page pop up. I clicked LIKE and keyed in my planner. 01:39 PM today I was th

Sharing Plates on weekends

Rosti is potato pancakes, I learn from Danielle as my wife shared her Smoked Salmon Poached Eggs with Rosti with me. She forked a portion of the Rosti, a piece of layered Smoked Salmon, a slice of Poached Eggs after which I added a leaf of salads before my first try of Rosti. You ask me, “ How is the Rosti ? ” I would tell you, “ You have got to try ! ” The Crabmeat Pasta is something new to me, and I kind of like the unique fragrant and the chewy bites. Seated by the glass-walled, I am able to watches the cycles of stops and go managing the traffic flow and branching them onto Jalan Munshi Abdullah, and Jalan Bendahara. The English Breakfast is great enough to satisfy my thirst of warm tea for more than three refills and roaming within the café, I watches a full-house of guests. Foldable Tables are stacked leaning to a structural aged pillar of an old shophouse to accommodate outdoor seatings.

馬中國际風箏交流會 Melaka Kites Festival 2019

Kites are built in different shapes and sizes by a group of senior kite-flyers from China and they assembled on the sands of Pulau Melaka before sunset. Colorful kites are shown to the public last Saturday in the night sky when, the Kota Melaka parliamentarian, YB Khoo Poay Tiong visited these kite-flyers after the maghrib prayer. There are miniature kites less than a foot in length and giant kites almost ten or more feet long and these kites-flyers are interested in kites simply for the fun of flying them, though some kites are designed to serve a purpose, for example to make arts alive.  The 30 meters long dragon is one example of crafting arts for the sky when it was flown last Sunday. Have you ever wonder what keeps a kite up in the air? Kite is light and spread out wide. It has a large surface for the air to hold up and air above the earth is always moving thus forcing kites to float. The kite-flyers are skillful and they could judge the wind flow so th

CGC Powering Malaysian SMEs & Sharing With KoPRESTIJ

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Program Bersama CGC & KoPRESTIJ Taklimat Usahawan Koperasi Prestij Melaka Berhad (KoPRESTIJ) di Novotel Melaka pada Sabtu 28 September 2019 dari 2.30 petang hingga 4.30 petang. CGC & KoPRESTIJ

Rain has come

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Rain Has Come Rainfall is great where there are high mountains to trap the moisture borne by the winds from the South China Seas and from the Straits of Melaka. “ Dryness  ”  is the key word in understanding Arabia, the desserts but not for Melaka. Since May 1, 2019 rain measured is only marginal. If heavy rainfall continues, which is expected to do so until November, not only flash floods would replace people homes but the soil would lose most of its fertility. When rain falls in Melaka, there is usually far more than enough to wet the surface or to soak into the soil and the surplus runs off, and eventually works its way to the Straits of Melaka. More importantly, rain falls in Melaka has to cover the Durian Tunggal Dam to which I have visited on May 29 with a kid from Machap Baru. Lotuses everywhere got me fascinated but this kid alerted me that their colonies has shrink due to the receding water level. A Story For The Long-Waited Rain in Melaka Ra

DUN Banda Hilir Mid-Autumn Lantern Walk

Lanterns are being carried from Japerun Banda Hilir onto to an inner road which is alongside a museum before emerging on the busy Jalan Merdeka. Chinese, Indian, Malay, Portuguese and those I can’t identify, is carrying the lanterns now at Japerun Banda Hilir and they are ready to make the first Mid-Autumn Festival Walk within the State Legislative Assembly Constituency of Banda Hilir. Days before now, the evening of twenty-five lunar day of the eight lunar month, or 23 Sep 2019, a great number of men and women, old and young, Chinese, Indian, Malay or Portuguese have been crafting impressive lanterns expressive of their communities. These men and women are members of the Communities Management Councils or in the Malay language, Majlis Pengurusan Komuniti Kampung ( # MPKK )  Friendly, kind, helpful, lovely and warm members of the MBMB , Majlis Bandaraya Melaka Bersejarah, members of the SWC and members of the public joined this walk not just to preserve herita

LOCAHOUZ, dine and enjoy in one of Melaka's preserved shophouses

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In medium and small size Malaysian towns, Chinese shophouses combine both for commercial and residential uses, they do businesses on the ground floor and lives on the upper floors. A love for close social proximity, good uses of living space, and tolerable to circumstances, the Chinese have formulated both the cultural and economic factors through the close association between commercial and residential uses of space. Melaka is lucky because the Chinese have contributed their architectural styles by introducing fine craftsmanship, and decoration and is evidenced at Locahouz, 8 Jalan Bukit Cina, 75100 Melaka and other Chinese dwellings in Melaka even today. In Locahouz, you can see fine carved details in wood and stone, with gilt, lacquer and porcelain displayed while you enjoy your bites of great food amidst chatting and laughing with your loved ones. Very few such shophouses remained, the Chinese architectural traditions at Locahouz have always been involved with