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Published: September 1st 2009
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Some Summary Notes from Malaysia Diaries / Travelogues
MALAYSIA -KUALA LUMPUR
Experimenting different styles of life ,with a given wings of freedom, I was ready for my new destination . The power to achieve anything frees you from any connecting chain .Never drawn into tiredness and fatigue after long trip .
Selamat Datang Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Having reached the airport and took a cab to Hotel named as Concorde sounds like a fast plane after the plane trip . The cab dirver Zeynel Abidin seems like a smart one to ask further payment of 90 RM , when 60 Rm has also been remited . Having left all belongings and taking a shower was a daily routine . Leaving Hotel at the speed of light ,then the whole city tour took about 2 and half hour including Menara KL Telekom Tower , skyscrappers, notably contemporary Petronas Twin Towers (currently are reputed to be the tallest buildings 450 metres in the world , designed by Argentinian Arhitect Cesar Pelli and been introduced to whole world via the movie "Entrapment" in 1998 (Sean Connery ,Catherine Zeta- Jones’), Kurda Tuzak in Turkish ), the magnificent Butter
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Cigdem Yorgancioglu Malaysia fly park ..Having enjoyed the Southeast Asian breeze.
07.Sept 2008
Kuala Lumpur
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The Miracles of Sri Mahamariamman Temple
The Miracles of Sri Mahamariamman Temple still, beside me. Sandal tree scented place , a kind of sacred text ,the hidden treasure unspoken hints, … Spiritual and mystical practices seemed quite close .How intuitive I was or the people around me was the first question came to my mind . I saw the common sentiment on priest eyes with good insight .No matter how shallow or deep the impacts shall reflect on my life ,having been aware of the spiritual , sentimental significance of a SMT , Stepping with the garlands of the scents and smells of jasmine flowers to the Sri Mahamariamman Temple.
Nothing was relevant with the organized religion, a new friendship seems to be flourised , all of a sudden I was drawn into wholeness with a simplicity , cool and sincere attention of new fellow . No egoist ,passionate greeddiness or fear-based emotional reactions to my queries. Seems we both chose to focus our attention on Wisdom on virtual reality rather than a hidden agenda on physical reality..
Sri Mahamariamman Temple known as the
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Cigdem Yorgancioglu Malaysia most outstanding feature with the impressive 5-tiered gopuram (tower) as the oldest Hindu temple in KL. It is situated at edge of Chinatown in Jalan Bandar . Built in the South Indian style, the temple.The 5-tiered tower is the tallest structure in the temple. The dramatic 22.9m high pyramid-shaped gate tower which decorated and ornamanted with the depictions of Hindu Gods sculpted by artists S. India. The chief sculptor known as Muniappa from Tamil Nadu and is credited for creating the 228 idols on the gopuram. Lord Ganesha is in the shrine on the left and his brother Lord Muruga, ,is on the right. Ganesha(Ganapathi) is also found at the entrance as he is the remover of obstacles. The 8 female figures adorning the pillars inside the temple are of my favorite Goddess Lakshmi devi (Goddess of Wealth).Mariamman is popularly worshipped by overseas Indians, especially Tamils because she is looked upon as their protector during their sojourn to foreign lands. Mariamman is a manifestation of the Goddess - Parvati, an incarnation embodying Mother Earth with all her thorrible forces. She is associated with the diseases and fever .And she know as ,she protects her devotees from unholy or demonic events.
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Hicran Cigdem Yorgancioglu Malaysia Watching the candles a kind of interview ,sounds , lights . A new odour surround the beauty of the Universe. A new gateway to the eternal awareness l .
I was really thankfull to my friend for all explanations about the history and represantation of Arts on temple based on Hindu legends and belief. The altitude of my spiritual mind was higher than Petronas Twins.
First Night at Kuala Lumpur
It was 8 o clock when Kanna and his family picked me up from the Hotel I stayed .The Twin (Petronas) Towers gift was so great . They took me to an Indian restaurant . We had a great time with all family and kids were so lovely . Singing like a bird with creative eyes ,the taste of Indian cuisine was so great . Sree shall have a test on Friday seems a big chalenge .The cousin Jai she is incredibly smart an talkative . The beloved Nit Yashri is the little girl of Kna and Vimala . Vimala is the mother and Raj Kumar is thier cousin .
Had some activities at Jalan Bukit Bintang .Hanging around and and having a foot massage was 2
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Hicran Cigdem Yorgancioglu Malaysia major activities of night session. Wonder about wat were the fishes in the basin .
07.Sept 2008
KL ,Malaysia
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Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre
The Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre, or popularly referred to as the Elephant Orphanage Sanctuary, is located within the bio diversified-rich and protected Krau Game Reserve & was set up in 1989 under the DWNP Actually hop around the islands but seems to be postponed next time due to heavy rain on islands The cab driver picked me at 9:30 from the hotel and it took a about 90 minutes to reach Kuala Gandah .Having been picked up by Ayn , had a short trip around the place . The video show was an interesting one . The Map coincidence was an unexpected and remarkable . It was my serendipity , how would the Malaysia looks like an elephant . At the Sanctuary, there were mainly 3 session namely Ride the elephant , Feed the elephant ,Bath with elephant.All were great fun for me . Amazing and unique moments of my life . Feeding the elephants after Kenya and Thailand . I was not that much close before . This was my first
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Hicran Cigdem Yorgancioglu Malaysia experience to swim or bathe with the beloved elephants. The stories of translocation was very intersting and new for me . The primary role of the 'Translocation Team' at the Conversastion centre, is to capture wild elephants that are encroaching on plantations or population centres and to relocate them to national parks. When a wild elephant is found to be encroaching on farms or population centers, the Elephant Translocation Team is called out. Their first task is to track the wild elephant and tranquilize it, a job that can take long time sometimes weeks long . Once the elephant is tranquilized, the next challenge is to move a huge, groggy and generally uncooperative animal out of the jungle and onto a waiting truck. This is when the team relies on their two 50-year-old translocation elephants, Chek Mek and Mek Bunga, to lead the wild elephant out.Mentompian, a 26-year-old female from Burma, and Abot, a teenage female from Johor, are both being trained to replace the 2 aging elephants..So many stories told about well as the movies shown regarding this translocation. The elephant trunk skeletons were quite outstanding as well .
08.Sept 2008
The footsteps on Hindu Temples
On the way
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Hicran Cigdem Yorgancioglu Malaysia back had a chance to see Batu Cave which is erected only 3 years before . no attempt for climbing of 272 steps . The gold statue called Lord Murugan . The best time to visit must be the Thaipusam Festival here .
the power of speech in my soul seemed already covered all steps .Having had a tel con and Temple visit and met at Sitiviyanagar with Subra .The Eighteen Steps to the Path of Liberation at Shree Veera Hanuman Alayam at Brickfield Kuala Lumpur was impressive meanwhile also met with a main who is brother of Guru . A brief interview session with himself after some video snaps during the prays .
Dinner at Punjabi styled ,Jassal Tandouri Restaurant at Bricksfield hot and spicy flavors are named as butter chicken and jeera rice only .There was an intersting coincidence cause the birth of Jasal Tandoori Restaurant was Sept 07 and one day later we were there at aniversary .
Jalan Bukit Bintang
Monorail or LRT are two ptions of railway . Took a monorail to Jalan Bukit Bintang .Hanging around 08.Sept 2008
All Around
After the breakfast took a cab and meeting with Subra and his friend at
Sri Kandaswamy Temple which is located at No. 3, Lorong Scott (Scott Road) again at Bricksfield region and get feedbacks of fortune from the Temple we had been before . The guy told really awesome abstract.And the priest is not far beyond from a gay for me just oppsite the long been traditionally believed to be an Magician . Tricks are ready to those who are ready to be cheated.Curiosity kils the cat .
Hanging around the the heart of Little India at Jalan Masjid India seeing lots of Indian dresses (salwar kameez and lengas) which known as the greatest temptations there.
.meanwhile the respectfull sincerity , with distace ,flows like a tidal wave between Subra and Myself Sharing the sensible secrets session while tasting the exotic Indian flavors at a Hotel restaurant which do not accept credit card . deep and spontaneous sharing of such secrets seems a base for friendship . Drawing a Picture of a faithful husband with a smiling faces . Master Chin at the first flor Central Market whom appeared on Malaysian Tvs like TV3 ARTM was wellknown resident fortuneteller. I did try face , hand palmistry tarot version plus numerology . Cute Fish Spa
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Cigdem Yorgancioglu was a kind of entertainment form e rather than a health session 5 RM for 10 min and toothless DOCTOR fishes were expected to remove the deadcells on feet via micromassage. Wayang kulit (shadow puppets), traditional costumes,batik was wall-to-wall throughout the market
Batik ..,colored designs on textiles, which can be either cotton or silk, are produced by applying wax to the parts that are left uncolored. This traditional method is practiced in various forms throughout the Malay Archipelago, with Terengganu batik as a particular favorite with tourists. Its elegant print stand out as evening wear, and can be found as art pieces on bags and cushion covers.
Muzium Telekom was not a magic in the sense of early days to the cellular phones of the hi-tech global networks of today.However giving some ideas about the milestone in the nation's telecommunications history.
After leaving Subra and his friend , end up in Indian resturant nearby Arabian street . met with 2 Indian guys there . They show me a sincere hospitality . Then I took my way to a internet cafe to lose all datas on memory card . Tim was the suprise of night , even his attempts to help
by providing a connecting cable from his Hotel Istana was useless . it was 2:25 AM when I left Internet cafe . Plus trying to keep cool while convincing philipine girl not to get sad and stressfull . Maybe she was only acting in order to escape for penalties and pains. How would i know . In such cases , where the human life is not under any threat , Though Im skeptic in nature . I always choose to believe the sincerity of person attitudes rather than unbelieving,rather than exploring the reality behind . Anyhow memory card issue was an hopeless case at 2:30 AM .better to postpone for the next day .
The dance performances were quite intersting well as the traditional dresses.
10.09.2008
Hectic moments at internet cafee. Memory card issue was abit ache and finally resulted with happy end with the retrieval of datas .good businessman with a wrong Philipine staff was a good summary . Philipinese girl with careless attitude ,seems being cretaed to send her surrondings to a lunatic asylum .The rest of the day was a bit relexed .
10.09.2008 .
I prayed form my beloved dady . and Meet with Subra
and his friend around 2 PM . First of all we proceed to National Museum . Then hanged around all less than what we expect to see. The car plate shall be remembered as S’s birthday . Orangi Asli will be a new reason for re-visiting . Its known that when Ice Age came, temperatures in Europe and Eurasia were quite cold for the northern route. Early humans have no choice but to trail coastal Arab, India, Burma and finally settle d down in warmer Malay peninsula it was one of the thesis of researches recently . Recalling my memory ,Today there are 100,000 Orang Asli. Just over half of them live in the jungle; the others are coastal people and often fishmongers. They speak different languages and many of them are animists, who believe that humans and spirits share the universe and that the human soul has 2 distinctive lives, namely one before death and the other one is after death .Those animals, plants, and celestial bodies also have spirits. They feel strongly connected with those spirits of their ancestors and attach much value to sacred beings and items and sacred places for worshipping purpose . The Medicine men
act as a medium to communicate with the invisible powers. The first display in the museum is a huge map of Malaysia, which shows where the 18 ethnic groups of Orang Asli live. Then you pass a portrait gallery. I liked this very much, as the pictures showed their different features and characteristics.It was easy to recognise the Negritos who have lived in Malaysia for more than 8000 years and who may be considered as the first inhabitants.I took some videos there. They are mostly dark-skinned and frizzy-haired. Orangi Aslis are seems as nomads and pride themselves on their mobility. They have few possessions, as this would be a hindrance to their lifestyle. Although some have left the tribe and live Kuala Lumpur or other cities comforted by TV ,CD , DVD players, computers, and mobile cellulophones and all electronic equipments .. On the basis of researches the history of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia is known as providing many crucial clues to the peopling of Southeast Asia as a whole based on analyse reports of mitochondrial DNA control-region and coding-region markers in 447 mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) from the region, including 260 Orang Asli, representative of each of the
traditional groupings, the Semang, the Senoi and the Aboriginal Malays,. Such results led to test hypotheses about their origins. All of the Orang Asli groups have undergone high levels of genetic drift, but phylogeographic traces nevertheless remain of the ancestry of their maternal lineages. The Semang have a deep ancestry within the Malay Peninsula, dating to the initial settlement from Africa 50,thousand years ago. The Senoi appear to be a composite group, with approximately half of the maternal lineages tracing back to the ancestors of the Semang, and about half to Indochina. So descendants of early Austroasiatic speaking agriculturalists, who brought both their language and their technology to the southern part of the peninsula 4000 years ago, & coalesced with the indigenous population. The Aboriginal Malays are more diverse, & although they show some connections with island Southeast Asia, as expected, they also harbor haplogroups that are either novel or rare elsewhere. Contrary to expectations, complete mtDNA genome sequences from one of these, R9b, suggest an ancestry in Indochina around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, followed by an early-Holocene dispersal through the Malay Peninsula into island Southeast Asia.
11.09.2008
This Moorish mosque around the Area of Klang and
Gombak Rivers, dates from 1908, is the oldest in the city. And designer is Arthur Benison Hubbock, definitely a prof of inspiration from the Moghul architecture of India.
The game Congkak wheer i have seen many represantation in Museum , is a kind of game and mostly played by womenfolk in ancient times .The holes in the earth and tamarind seeds and . Todayseemed that , it has been refined to a oblong board game. It consists of a wooden board with 2 rows of 5,7,9 holes and 2 large holes at both ends called "home". Congkak, played with shells, pebbles or tamarind seeds, requires two players. Most widespread are boards with 2x7 playing pits. In addition, there is at either end a large store hole, called lubang rumah ("house") for the captured counters. Each player owns the store to his left. Each of the small pits contains at the beginning of the game as many counters (usually cowrie shells or tamarind seeds called anak-anak buah in Malaysia) as each row counts small pits. The object of the game is to capture most stones
Walking by Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin, suddenly faced with Heritage Station Hotel , which is designed
by A.B. Hubback and operational since 1 August 1910.The hotel is located at the old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station and very impressivein historic conotation .However no care and attention has been devoted . Sounds like the Pera Palace Hotel İstanbul .
Having had dinner at Gem Restaurant at Jalan Tun Sambanthan,, Brickfields ,which is opposite KL Central station and seemed the most pleasant ambience i have ever enjoyed at ındian restaurants at KL since the first day . . .wit a marvelous spicy flavors of South Indian cooking Briyani mutton steamed rice and varuval .then moved to musical performance and ceremony of Shree Veera Hanuman Alayam at Jalan Scott Brickfield Kuala Lumpur was really impressive one . temple was founded at 1942 .
the night markets or pasar malam and flea markets were very intersting .even had some shopping and surely Caught Wonderful captures at Nite market
Had a long nite conversation with Subra which was full of exchange of experiences and jokes . Dharmas refer to rules, standards and laws imposed by society to guide material life..Spiritually we both were far beyond of all rules and dharmas at that moment under the black sky .
11Sept 08
Bollywood-inspired
Meeting at Central market around 11 and thanking fort he changed plan of the day . Leaving all belongings at Hotel room and a bit relaxed . The movie search for a while and really wonder about the actress of the movie in order to see such similarty mentioned almost by all DVD seller s . Again seeing many indications about Hari Raya Aidil Fitri at the market
Black henna application on dry hair while keeping the most spirited one near to myself
after a moment of thought how 10- 8 .....18 was prevailing in most of the things like 18 steps 2565 and aboriginal people of Malay The Orang Asli are further divided into 18 sub-ethnic group according to their different languages and customs.after main division Semang (negrito), Senoi, and Proto-Malay (Aboriginal Malay). 272 steps of 18.. Mr Chin was 80 yrs life span for me which makes ten and eight
Having passed Shri Sai Baba little shop style temple . Had early diner and hangaround for the videos as well videos . Time to say goodbye .
12 Sept 09
Hilton Meridien
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