Tag: Penang
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Today I rummaged through the letters I’ve kept since childhood and found this really interesting piece of work. In July 1998 I was 12 and sitting for my Primary 6 national exams. I attended after-school classes at a certain teacher’s house, where there were also boys from other state schools. One in particular, J wrote…
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OPERASI MEMBAIKI MESIN TIK Project restore typewriter The Olympia Traveller de Luxe When I’m back in my hometown in Penang, I always have a list of things to do. They almost always involve local food, contact lenses and dental check-ups – all the goods and services that are unattainable and expensive abroad. Today is one…
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Besides the Temple of Fine Arts, we bring Sis’s coursemate from Melbourne, B, to these other tourist destinations in Penang. Wooden houses on stilts along Chew Jetty At the shore off Queensbay A traditional rickshaw at Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion Coloured planks along Chew Jetty
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Scenes from Georgetown, the capital of Penang, now a UNESCO Heritage Site along with Melaka. Georgetown is described on the UNESCO website as a “cultural townscape without parallel anywhere in East and Southeast Asia”. Photo credits to my sister. Pre-war houses from the 1920’s Floor tiles of a typical pre-war house Venetian blinds and grill…
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London circa 1967 Big sis in Butterworth circa 1980 Mum and Dad on honeymoon in Bangkok circa 1980 Penang circa 1970
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A Ferraniacolor photo slide of a relative’s wedding Clothes pegs along Chew Jetty Laminate rolls in old Georgetown A slow afternoon at the Gelugor house
Wan Phing Lim 