Old Ways Is Not Fading in Heeren Street, a street next to Jonker Walk

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Today we have bigger houses and smaller families within the e-cities but the old ways is not fading in the heritage zones of old cities all over.

Within the old streets, though the streets presentations or decorations have been fortified and shall continue to escalate further in its make-ups enhancements to please the viewers, the rigid-narrow but long houses are ageing and they are gaining values each single day because of its originality.

Their ageing parts and pieces are not being replaced then and now and most likely not getting a replacement ever in centuries to come. Their ageing parts and pieces are just being maintained and maintenances accrued every costs, efforts and time to make preservation and restoration truly works. A very good example of these heritage parts and pieces that are still joining together today are revealing in the old ho-lan-kuai (a Fujian dialect of China 中国) or the Millionaires Row. The Heeren Street.

At both ends of the street

Sign-plates bear the name

Of an illustrious son.

His only son, too, every Baba knows,

Deserves a token somewhere,

And in their memory.

In this very street

In the lavish study

Of the most famous house

Were made and sealed

A people's fortunes,

And their fate.

Ee Tiang Hong

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In mega-cities, there are more and more conveniences creeping up each day and many are using them but less time is reserved to be enticed by the oldness and the slowness of the heritage minority surrounding us till this moment.

Knowledge is appearing at the speed of light and more knowledges reaches us in many splits of a second, every seconds, in the form of;

• a digital screen in our palms.
• a wide LED screen in our streets.
• a plasma screen at our homes.
• a silver screen in our theatres.
• a page in our newspapers.
• a plaque in our vicinity of our dwelling places.
• a show in our public stages.
• a tweet in our twitters.
• a post in our facebooks.

Information is constantly flowing and channelled to us but less judgement is in the making and the old ways are on the verge of extinction. If 'A Picture Tell A Thousand Words' still haunt us, then we've got to be at heritage places to photographed ourselves with the real.

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We are using 'Lol' (laugh out loudly) very often digitally yet we find we are actually laughing too little. Men have conquered outer space but not inner self. We've got to make it a point to laugh heartily with the preciousness of the past and as well as the fun of the present in a real atmosphere. Travel to these places and indulge in the slowness and oldness of life. Practically such vacations would rejuvenate the inner space after a prolong period of driving too fast along free-ways. Or getting angry quickly in the rat-race. Pamper self in the once 'sleepy hollow' of the ruins of the Melaka Empire while feasting and staying in antiques hotels, riverbank hotels or seafront hotels that guards the ancient sea port. READ ABOUT ZHENG HE 'S TREASURE BOAT examine yourself at the Klebang Theme Park

Read too little is no longer a problem. Travel guides are today certified to speak your language in Melaka. No place is spared with multiplied possession and reduced values but to progress while retaining the old ways is unchanging in this heritage city. Men has return from the moon but unable to cross over to the neighbour to invest love and attention and have split atom but not prejudice. In this heritage city, cross-marriages happened. The entrepot is an important stop in the Straits of Melaka and there was moment of rush and there was of wait for the past 750 years. Spend time with your families and enjoy the favourites food and places in this heritage city. 'One of these days.' Maybe Someday.' Remove these words.

The ruins of St. Paul's Church in the early 1830s has been waiting for 182 years for you. The only surviving Land Gate of 1669 has been waiting for 343 years for you. The only kampung in a city, Kampung Morten keep remaining traditional defiant to the tick of time. The typical 1908 Melakan bungalow in Klebang is eye-catching when you queue for your tropical coconut-shake. A club that still render a resort that uses attap leaves roofing at Tanjung Kling is an amazing site. The folks used to call the junks which means the undesired things that can be found in Jonker Street those days. Sailing vessels of Chinese origin are also called the junks. The junks are the treasure fleets.

EVENTS in MELAKA FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2012.

Make your reservations early to witness the cultural event of 1 decade, the Wesak, this May 5, 2012. The once a decade rejoice is collecting momentum.

Rekindle love with mothers this May 13, 2012.

Ella Chen of the Taiwanese all-girl singing group S.H.E is marrying Alvin Lai this May 19, 2012.