Heritage Walk

Phew, what a tiring day. The weather was hotter than usual. Things are getting better and better because it's almost the end of the 21 days-of-bad-luck curse. Seems like Xiang Yenn and I are getting along. Danicia didn't come to school because she is sick, very sick now. Actually me too, best friends always face the same things at the same time.

Heritage walk, ya right. The bus dropped us in front of the Town Hall of Penang, right in front of Padang Kota Lama. The school hired two tour guides to explain how wonderful it is about our Heritage of Penang, achieved by 7th July, 2008, certifited by UNESCO.

We walked pass Dewan Sri Pinang. The tour guide said that the small water fountain outside Dewan Sri Pinang is a historical artifact. It's a gifted monument to Francis Light by the 1st Kapitan of the Chinese, most coming from Fujian and Guangdong, China. Sorry that I didn't have the photos for today's journey because I can't bring camera to school due to I didn't ask for permission. The next monument is just right in front of the Session Court of Penang. It's a monument for Sir Richardson (? I forgot the full name) from the citizens. It's a very artistic monument with the God or Goddess of Greek. Till now the historians are still finding out whether the damages to the monument is mankind destroyment or the God or Goddess of Greek is alike with the monument made long ago. Aren't you curious?

Next it's the historical High Court. Nothing much but just the government built a new section for the High Court. The original one now stood there, silently, with pride and embraces.

After that, we visited the first Catholic Church in Penang. There is a shelter in front of the church. That is a monument built for the lost of Francis Light from his father. The church is in white to represent purity.

Straight away we walked to Kuan Yin Teng which is built by the Fujians and Guangdongs. There is a big well inside the temple. Supposely, it was a well for the public to take some water there in the early ages, but now it is a storeroom. ==

Not to mention that we visited the only shop in Malaysia which produce handmade joysticks! If anyone has Astro, you might know about it. It was shown before on discovery channel.

Walked around the corner and we were out, outside Kuan Yin Teng. Across a little road, there are 6 shops selling flowers. 2 shops on the left are run by Indian-Muslims, another 4 shops are run by Indians. You can see the difference between what type of flowers they use to pray to their Gods.

Everything just passed by. The Indian-Muslim mosque, Khoo Kongsi, SriMariaman Kuil and lastly a place for us to rest. Haha! Some of my friends have the Indian 'red dot' on their foreheads. And the two tour guides meet at a stop to give us a revision about today's heritage walk and a slide plus activity.

After all this tiring walks, it's time for us to go back to school. We eat some junk foods on the bus. So fun~ Our gang everybody is snatching for it. Haha! When we reached school left 10 minutes to school dismissal. We slowly walked into the school and hide somewhere so that we won't get caught by the teachers around. ^^

This day just ended like that. Even thought it was a tiring journey, but I learnt a lot from the tour. I got to speak to foreigners from Germany, Holand and my favourite, Japan~ I found out that Penang is truely a multi-cultural place. I'm proud that we got certified by UNESCO. We should achieved it, actually. Everything is so unique around here. I hope that we, as the citizens can protect and continue the culture our ancestors left for us.