Archive for November, 2009
Yuk Choy’s Rakan Muda
SMJK Yuk Choy Ipoh, with the collaboration of the Perak Chinese Recreation Club, organised a Rakan Muda Kecergasan programme to teach basic skills in football at their school’s football field recently. According to Mr. Sit Wai Yin, the Co-curriculum Senior Assistant of SMJK Yuk Choy, the program will instil discipline and promote healthy activities [...]
Locomotive
The latest night spot to find favour with our local trendies is Locomotive which opened for business in August of this year. Located conveniently on Medan Ipoh Bistari, that new hub of dining, wining and now dancing, opposite Tesco, Locomotive boasts a uniquely designed brick bar counter, pool table and livebands on Thursdays and weekends. [...]
Birch Memorial Clock Tower
The Birch Memorial Clock Tower standing in front of the Ipoh State Mosque was unveiled in 1909. The square tower has a clock on each face. The clock tower has one mother bell, 6 ft 6 in diameter weighing 1,000 pounds and four smaller bells weighing together 1,000 pounds and was designed to strike the [...]
Ipoh GH Speeds UP
For the past few years I have been going to Ipoh General Hospital regularly for eye checkups and usually the appointment is at 8.00 a.m. and by the time I see the doctor and collect the medicine it would be around noon. A span of four hours. However, lately there has been a change [...]
Free Medical Clinic
The 2010 Budget announced by the PM recently mentioned the setting up of 1Malaysia community clinics in urban areas to enable the local community to seek basic health treatments for fever, cough and flu. What is not known is that there are already several of these community clinics set up by non-governmental bodies and [...]
Perak Oral History Project
The Committee on Perak Oral History Project, a joint initiative by the Perak Heritage Society and Perak Academy, was launched on 15th October, 2009, at Perak Academy. The committee oversees the recording of oral history as narrated by laymen based on their experiences. For a start, the concentration is on the Japanese Occupation (1942 [...]
MBI Does it Part
In our September 1 issue Ipoh Echo highlighted the plight of the Merdeka Garden residents who constantly feared that the Pari River would overflow its banks each time a heavy downpour occurred. Echo also reported the actions that MBI and the Drainage and Irrigation Department would take to alleviate the problem before the end [...]
Riverfront Park – A Sorry Sight
Buntong State Assemblyman Sivasubramaniam highlighted late October the neglected state of the children’s playground, Taman Persisiran Sungai Kinta, formerly known as Peoples Park, located at Jalan Iskandar Shah (Hugh Low Street) immediately after the bridge. It was rebuilt and upgraded approximately 4 years ago at a cost of RM4 million through an allocation from the [...]
Art Déco buildings?
Does Ipoh have Art Décor buildings? Most certainly. The architectural style that is the Lido and Cathay cinemas along Cockman Street are fine examples; the others being the Ruby theatre on Anderson Road and the Odeon cinema along Brewster Road. Then there is the huge ‘complex’ that was the Grand Cinema owned by Shaw Brothers [...]
Affirmative Action Needed to Prevent Loss of Life
The collapse of the suspension pedestrian bridge across Sungai Kampar at Kuala Dipang recently has started yet another round of inquires on the cause of the tragedy. As usual, it takes a tragedy or a serious incident for those in the relevant agencies and departments to talk about safety, mainly as to what should [...]