I can't remember the name of this place and my chinese is really bad but I think its some kind of friendship garden? C'mon Kuching people help me out here. This is the best looking suburban park I've ever seen and Unker Ho used to live here.
The park is modelled on traditional chinese architectures and there's even a man-made lake over which the buildings sit over. The main building is a restaurant but we didn't eat there coz we were full. We're here just to play tourists. Not funny, we saw tourist buses actually taking tourists to visit this park in the middle of a residential suburb!
There's pavilions and criss-crossing walk paths over the water like in the old martial art movies where you can go pahtoring and sing song with your girlfriend or fight with swords against your enemies depending on what you fancy!
Personally I'm just happy watching the fish and boy are there lots and lots of them! Thousands of koi live happily without a care in the world while they get fed everyday by silly people who find it therapeutic feeding them.
On the other side of the garden there's a statute of Admiral Cheng Ho looking all mighty and big. He's the guy responsible for all the chinese who are here in Malaysia now so blame him or credit him whichever you think is appropriate. Did you know he was an eunuch?
Kuching is actually 'cat' in malay and there are cat statutes all over the city. They named the city after them maybe because giant cats used to inhabit the land before humans came and wipe them out. Some say these statutes come to life and eat humans!
I was skeptical about the story of the human eating giant cats until the king cat 'pawed' me and gave me a good lesson to take with me. Never mess with the cats unless you're asking to get pwned!
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I never been to that place :), probably bcoz i don't know any unka ho :)
It's called "Taman Sahabat" or Friendship Park. Malaysia-China Friendship Park.
There you go, kiddo!
Unker Ho ;)
Wow, looks fun leh, umm good place to go...
Aiyoo you looked so cute la... like a kitten being pat by a big mama cat! hahaha
OMG !! thats a HUGE cat pawing u !!!
Haven't been there for a while. Really a lot of fish.
Admiral Cheng Ho, I might stress is not responsible for the chinese imigrants, he's just a great explorer that went out of China to circumnavigate the world and founded the America's or so they claim...
the biggest person to blame for the chinese Imigrants are the British Rajah's and Colonialist who invited this Chinese over, or in the Foochow's of Sarawak's case, we can blame Mr. Wong Nai Siong :P
Haha...
The photo of you with the cat is so cute!
:)
(Those long "hairs" poking out of the cat looks a bit weird though...)
The cats don't eat the fish?
bengbeng: u dun need unker ho to take u there, just ask around where friendship park is..
fh2o: thank you unker ho!
soohk: u should come for a visit sometimes!
che-cheh: aiyo u make me blush liao! hehe
robin: it probably thot i was a giant rat!
irene: then its about time u went again.
SA: yes, cats r evil creatures..just look at those lions & cheetahs!
QV: thankz for the lesson 101!
j: who's cuter? the cat or me?! :)
neo: stupid cats can't swim!
Neo - Kuching is possibly named Kuching after the Indian word for Port. [Cochin] There was never a large amount of domestic cats in the area, but they have found Indian relics [thus giving evidence to the possible naming from the Indian word].
The 'cat' angle was played up by politicians to increase tourism. :-)
So, highly unlikely the cats can have a large effect on the fish population. :-)
[I only know this as my friend Lillian lives in Cat City. Yes, I like to call it cat city rather than Indian Port. It's so much cuter!] :-)
Wuching - Watch out, Cat behind you!!!! Oh no too late! Already off to the hospital with concussion! :-)
dabido: too late..i'm snappy tom!
You just called me silly people :(
hijackqueen: nolah..wasn't talking about u lah!
http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=12848 it is about the nite we were in R&R and how things were the way they were...and now things are getting a little out of hand...but no intention to write post about it ..best to play safe haha
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