Prosper My City, MELAKA - VISIT MELAKA TODAY
More than half of the world’s people live in Asia and Melaka
was an early kingdom to serve a major point for barter trade between the east
and the west.
Early Malaya, there were oaks, teak, sandalwood, laurel,
bamboos and palms in the jungles and rubber planting started in Melaka by a man
whose home still stand in Heeren Street today. He planted rubber tree from
seeds given by his friend in Singapore. I guess he knew The Life of a Tree better
probably covering from bio-eco to money making.
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| Getting very close to The People by Pakatan Harapan |
Plant trees and trees are protecting you for trees may be
the oldest living things on earth and for all you know the gigantic sequoias of
the Pacific coast were perhaps full-grown when Christ was born.
Near to a special settlement founded in 1930 for the
Portuguese, instead of lazing on a Sunday morning, we rub shoulders to get
focus to keep the area clean and green. Gotong-royong*7 !
The Banda Hilir Constituency cooperated with the MBMB [ Majlis
Bandaraya Melaka Bersejarah ] the Town Hall and with the support from the
Hatten Group and Mamee, this morning.
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| Planting by Hatten Hotels Worldwide |
Martin Theseira has the support of the diversifying
communities with a major portion of the people from other parts of Melaka joining
hands to pour in a common hope [ Harapan in Malay Language ] for a better tomorrow.
To this keyword, A Better Tomorrow*2, the beautiful and impressive T-shirts of
the Hatten Group catches me by first sight.
Today, the community in the vicinity of the popular Portuguese
Settlement continued to preserve their own dialect [ Kristang ] though their
settlement was numbering only about five hundred some 27 years before Merdeka.
Needless to repeat, you would know how Malaysians from the
north of the peninsular and not limited to the south but to as far as
Singapore, queued towards inland north on Admiral Zheng He Road, towards the
coastal south on Meeting Field Road [ Jalan Padang Temu ] a week before and a
week after, to get into this settlement. Watch YB Datuk Tey Kok Kiew*5 as commoner as the common people in the settlement,
Young and old from all walks of life never get bored about
this settlement and I guess it is going to be more beautiful when the area we
make to prosper my city this morning join in the merriness of Christmas and New
Year. The Settlement in Melaka, is a stronger ICON in Asia beside Macau and China and is an important heritage to Kota Melaka in particular and Malaysia. YB Khoo Poay Tiong continue to care for this settlement and he does not neglect Martin's*4 community when I see Khoo's attentiveness in this photograph*3
You may have missed the chance to get into this settlement in
the past and would you miss the chance again this year? Expose you kids to gain
knowledge from the living museum of the Portuguese community, the colorful
settlement by night and exotic Portuguese cuisine, BOOK your hotel rooms early
! You can prosper my city*1, thank you.
Nearest Walking Distance Hotels are :
Nearest Bird Eyes View Hotels are :
Hatten Place [ Watch ]
Reminiscence
A homen mais velho* smiled
once, as I walked from the stage front to the audience seats after a short
video shoot; he smiled again as we walked past next, and beside a clown, we begin
to recall. [ *homen mais velho is a Portuguese word for Elder Man ]
His name is Morris. He
impressed me and was impressed by me when both of us attended a talk, My Story by Martin Theseira in the
History & Ethnography Museum two weeks ago. Though we didn’t have a chance
to talk, God’s Willing, we did this morning.
We talked about the
drum, guitar and the song Martin and Morris sang, Jingli Nona
Someone we don’t joined
the chat. That young Malay teenager is interested too in Morris and my
experiences.
During the 1960s and
1970s, Morris would go from door to door, to cheer up the Chinese with his
Jingli Nona. Doors away, neighborhood and my mum not least, would rush to grab
a red packet for Morris and his partner.
The young Malay
teenager is head over heel surprise when we told him that 10 cent, 20 cent or
sometime 50 cent coin is used for the red packet then. You see? Melaka is unique. Get your kids to Melaka today !
Note
*1 Prosper My City is Sejahterakan BandarayaKu [ Malay Language ]
*2 A Better Tomorrow
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| Worn by Edwin |
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| Hatten Group |
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| Edwin from Hatten Group [ 2nd from L ] |
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| Edwin greening the community |
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| Edwin planting Pokok Kedah Bungor 'Jack' |
*3 YB Khoo Poay Tiong
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| YB Khoo Poay Tiong, isn't he attentive? |
*4 Martin Theseira
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| Martin in deep thought |
*5 YB Datuk Tey Kok Kiew
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| Tey repeating his hopes for the people |
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| Greening with Neighborhood Gardening |
*6 YBhg. Tn. Hj. Mansor Bin Sudin, The City Mayor
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| The Mayor cares for the city and the people of Melaka and by this photograph he encourages the people to care of fitness and health |
*7 Gotong-royong is a Malay Language for the word, Working Cooperation. Ban Zen Motor is here to lend a helping hand in Clean, one of the mission of Smart-Green-Clean.
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| L-R Rohana Razak, Khadijah Tawil, Jacqueline, Teh, Hafizah and Zuriadah |
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