Kuching History - You should know it..

Again.. I'm so sorry I coordinated the pictures wrongly.. Haiz.. It's anticlockwise order.. =.= Anyway, I learnt a lot from Wen Xue Yin and it's indeed a fun camp.. I know friends from SMK Jalan Arang and SMK Pending.. 5 schools joined this camp and it's really big.. My brother joined me together in this camp.. Especially this year we're having the tour to go around the Kuching's town city and learnt about things that we hadn't been ever exposed to.. I did not take any pictures during the camp becasue we're strictly not allowed to use camera or handphone during the camp.. The organizing committee planned a lot of games and activites and invited some experienced people to come to give talk about Chines Literature..

This is the theatre.. where people perform to thank their god and goddess (for temple used only..) opposite Hong Sang Si Temple.. This is Ewe Hai Street.. very old street but inside You can discover lots of historical stuff..

Bishopgate.. the history is stated on the plat above. Before that, when you walk through this gate, there was a small hill behind..

the other group members and the tauke from the coffee shophouse came out to explain to us the history.. near the gate there were three peppermint trees.. You just have to pluck the leaves the rubbed on your hand and smell it.. It's very sweet and a bit of mint flavour..

This is "Jiao Di Di" Barber house.. Due to the limited time, we didn't have the chance to interview the "tauke neo".. It's quite cheap over here, according to other group's presentation..

The view of the street..

One of the Chinese Medical Shop.. We interviewed the tauke here.. He has around 40 plus years of doing business experience and he inherits this business from his father..

The nearly-finish Dewan Mesyuarat across the Sarawak River..

The British symbol found on the wall on one of the shophouses.. I still don't understand the meaning behind it.. Lol..

A lorong.. very antique, isin't it? Looks like the old China street..

Some of the building still has the European style window.. Most of the shop owner has renovated and they had taken away the window and changed to something modern.. It's good that some didn't do anything about it so that people can continue to see the historical marks left behind by the British..

You might thought that this is a kampung.. but it's actually a very old shop..

The outside view of a temple.. Along the streets and around the centre of the town, there are at least 4 temples that can be found..

This is a very unique shop.. especially for someone who loves to collect old coins and stamps like me, this shop gave me a very deep impression.. One of our members bought one set of stamp consisting the very early Mickey Mouse and other Disney cartoon characters..

Old coins and paper money..

Money money money.. Give me money..

This is the thing when something happen, especially emergency or on the date of the birthday of a god or goddess, the person-in-charge of the temple will knock this anchor thingy to tell people in the street about it.. It's quite unique actually..

Shang Ti Miao..

Another temple along Carpenter Street..

Look at the ceiling.. It's almost the perfect ancient roof that you still can find in Kuching!! Well, according to our tour guide.. ^^

Rubbing the medicine into powder form.. a very ancient and typical way of producing medicine..

Look at this and you can imagine how old is the coffee shop already..

One of the European style window again.. patched with different colours of glasses..

This is the place where the British used to menternak the horse.. After that the location is change to near SJK Chung Hua No.3.. That's why near there, there used to be a school called SMK Lumba Kuda.. but now the school's name is changed again into SMK Padungan..

A very significant Arch.. It's called the Harmony Arch..

Si Bang Lau (Hokkien).. It means clinic to old people..

General Post Office..

Looks like a tower.. When the British was here before, the soldiers lived in here.. Looks like a fairy tale tower to me.. love the flowers down there.. Lol..

Busy street during daytime..

Can you believe that this is actually built by the Japanese?? It's really outstanding, very impressive architecture..

This is a fountain.. and To calculate the distance, we start counting from here.. Like you go to 7th mile, we count the distance from here.. So, this is much like a starting point.. Before that around 2003, there used to have a big tree here but sadly it tumbled down..

The Court House.. Another European style of architecture..

I found out that outside the Court House, there is a dragon carving on the staircase.. So, it's actually a Chinese and British culture combination??

This is the front view of the Court House.. there a clock there.. and built in 1883..

(Oh dear.. I accidentally deleted one Chinese warrior photo.. ==) Anyway, these warriors are from different races in Sarawak and they fought to take back our land..)

Charles Brooke who served Sarawak for almost 46 years..

If you walk along the Waterfront, you'll definitely walk past this Main Bazaar street..

Our Kuching Square Tower is in renovation..

China Street..

Bishop gate..If you want to find souvenirs, walk down this street instead of turning to Bishopgate Street..

Unique? Hung on the wall and you have to look up to see it..

Sailing.. haha..

Lotsa souvenirs.. and pasu or we call it tembikar is one of the famous souvenirs that tourists usually brought back to their home..

This is a temple theatre where people perform some ancient drama to thank God.. However, nowadays it became a karaoke cmpetition.. as long as it is entertainment..

The first temple that we visited..

People wrote their wishes and hung onto the roof.. isn't it pretty and symbolises luck (ang ang.. means red in Hokkien) haha..

Legend has it said that the water in this well will not dry up.. never ever.. even it is drought.. But 'm not sure how deep it is.. Looks quite shallow inside..

This is to ask the god about their opinion.. We need to bow our head before we take photograph as a sign of respect.. On the left side means good and the god agrees, while on the right side it means not really good or he wasn't satisfied..

Paper money burnt to give to god..

These money is well-liked because in Chines, we call it "Chang Qian".. so that we can "Chang Chang Jiu Jiu", "Chang Fa Da Cai" etc..

Instrument.. something like a sword..

We burn these candles because it brings us luck.. in Kantonese or Hokkien, we call pineapple as "ong lai".. In Hokkien, Ong means luck, Lai means come..

The inside view of the tower..

Our team.. ^^ purple!!

My group got the overall Champion during the camp.. We had a lot of fun and it was meaningful.. Even though we don't have sufficient time to really go through every single street in the town.. but still, ok lah.. My brother even said that he wanted to join next year.. Hopefully lor..^^