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Once upon a time in KL, there was a mansion in Jalan Ampang belongs to a wealthy man whose daughter was so deep in love with a less wealthy man - a bicylce trader. Obviously, the love affairs is not being approved by the girl's family and the marriage proposal from the bicycle trader was rejected and she was later married to someone else.
Heart broken, the bicycle trader worked hard to prove that the girl's family was wrong in rejecting him. He worked really really hard to prove himself, hard enough until he managed to build and own another mansion just accross the street from the mansion where the girl's family live.
The mansion is still standing until today and known to the locals as "The Bok House". Though it is no longer occupied and has been dwarfed by other skycrapers around it, it is still standing as prove of a man's undying love to a woman eventhough the other mansion accross the street has since been demolished.
Take a peek at the mansion from its outside if you happened to be in KL. Located just about 100 meter from the Petronas Towers, it is probably the closest answer that KL has for the Taj Mahal.
Update : The Bok house has since been demolished on 15/12/2006. What a pity and a big lost to KL. Leave a Comment
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One of the school that still stands tall in the city St John's Institution, located on Bukit Nanas and surrounded by Kuala Lumpur's skyscrapers. St John's celebrating its centenial annivesary this year (1904-2004).
The school is famous for its main block building - a red-brick building with Grecian-Spanish influences - which has been classified as a heritage building. It is the most elaborate school building in the city.
St John's was started when the federal capital's Catholic mission's efforts to set up a school for catholic boys came to fruition. Prior to that, Catholic boys attended either the Bukit Nanas Convent or the Victoria Institution (a rival school to St John's till this day), which was set up in 1893. Older boys attended the Victoria Institution, a Protestant school, much to the distress of Father Renard of the Catholic mission in Kuala Lumpur. He eventually collected enough money to build a school. On Jan 18, 1904, St John's had its first school day. Forty boys attended and the number grew to 100 within six months.
In the last 100 years, thousands of boys and girls - girls were admitted for Form 6 - from all walks of life were schooled at St John's. Royalty, children of prime ministers, politicians, merchants and civil servants went to school together. The school produced students who went on to make names for themselves in various fields. Indeed, the old-boys roll reads like a Who's Who of Malaysia. Leave a Comment Website: www.sji.edu.my
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Pretty cool guy and love to laugh really.. and i learn something new about him is that he loves to take candid pix... so beware hehehe... and oh i forgotten this is my laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallinggggggggg!!! hahaha yeah right
VTer - masonwong Leave a Comment Website: %L[http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/69b66/]Click Here to Mason's Homepage%L*
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ALrighty this girl i tell ya another active member... she's so petite and lovable really... pretty amazing to hang around her .. she creates the ambience ... and very very easy going... very opinionated as well hehehe so watch out!
Vter- Mizzzthanggg Leave a Comment Website: %L[http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/88307/]Click Here to Mizzie's Homepage%L*
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Very active traveller and also my best friend... and she's pretty helpful and very easy going ... nice to hang around with ... one fact u need to know about Jen is that she can DANCE! and when i said that i mean for few looooooooooong hours really...
Vter- Jenniferchin Leave a Comment Website: %L[http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/25e15/]Click Here To Jennifer's Homepage%L*
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Alrighty here we are chilling out with some junk foods and also vodka and wine and some coke and also sprite woohoooo amazing isnt it oh dang i forgotten to say fruits! ...
anyway her we are (and no we aint doing anything errrr need i to say it) :P at the 21st floor of the new Hilton KL... amazing sight from up here really ... a friend of ours that guy in the pix Raymond just in town for two weeks from France so he asked if we would like to hang out with him at his hotels room.. and we agreed to it... and of coz being a VTers Jen, mizzie and I we had to bring our camera along lol...
p.s: nobody got drunk! Leave a Comment
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