Malacca Reminiscences

Published by Partridge/Penguin

Dec 2015

Author: Andrew Loh

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Chapters                                                                  Pages

1                                  JONKER STREET                                          3

2                                  BORN & BRED HERE                                  11

3                                  TAMPIN                                                         19

4                                  KUBU                                                             23

5                                  AYER KEROH                                               29

6                                  CHAN KOON CHENG                                  36

7                                  MALACCA BRIDGES                                   45

8                                  CHINA HILL                                                  51

9                                  MALACCA MILLIONAIRES                        55

10                                MALACCA FOODS                                       61

11                                MEDICAL SERVICES                                   71

12                                MALACCA POLITICIANS                            78

13                                TRISHAWS & CARS                                      82

14                                PEOPLE OF MALACCA                                89

15                                MY TRAVELS                                                 92

16                                MY FAMILY                                                    97

17                                MEMORABLE TRIPS                                   104

18                                MALACCA BUCCANEERS                         109

19                                PEOPLE WHO STOOD OUT                        110

20                                SMALL TRADES MALACCA                      119

21                                MALACCA DIASPORA                                124

22                                MALACCA PROFESSIONALS                     128

23                                MALACCA LEGENDS                                  131

24                                MALACCA PHILANTHROPISTS                 133

25                                MALACCA FOREIGN WORKERS               136

26                                MALACCA CHURCHES                               140

27                                MALACCA DURIANS                                  147

28                                MALACCA HOTELS                                     150

29                                MALACCA SUBURBS                                  152

30                                SUPERMARTS & SHOPS                             154

31                                BOOKS AND I                                                157

32                                BABIES, OLDIES & FATTIES                      162

Prologue Cambridge Seven

Christian Law Association USA

Since 1969, CLA has been providing free legal assistance to Bible-believing churches and Christians who are experiencing difficulty in practicing their religious faith because of governmental regulation, intrusion, or prohibition in one form or another.

The Christian Law Association exists to preserve Christian liberty for your children and grandchildren.

CLA received in excess of 100,000 phone calls annually, not counting the thousands of pieces of correspondence from those who are in some way facing legal difficulties for doing what the Bible commands. These cases involve Christians arrested for witnessing to others in public, public school students being told they do not have the right to read their Bibles at school, churches being excluded from communities, Christians being fired for sharing their faith at work, and thousands of other shocking assaults on our precious religious freedoms. CLA provides free legal services based in part on the generosity of God's people. Your contribution to CLA is 501(c)(3) tax deductible.

More than 40 years ago, the ministry of the Christian Law Association effectively began with a phone call from a pastor in Ohio.

As a young attorney, David C. Gibbs, Jr. could hardly believe his ears as the pastor relayed how his church was being sued by the state for operating its ministry. As he reviewed the legal documents, Dr. Gibbs was astonished that such a thing could happen in modern America. From that very first case through the present day, God has blessed Dr. Gibbs' commitment to legally help churches, pastors, and Christians free of charge. The ministry has grown substantially through God's blessing over the last 40 years as attorneys, legal assistants, and other ministry workers have joined our team of "legal missionaries." 

Accents of English Language

East End of London

Starbucks in Finland at last

The second Starbucks coffee shop is opening soon in Helsinki center, Finland.

After McDonald's,  H&M and Ikea, Starbucks is finally 

opening a café in the city center of Finland's capital. First 

café of the brand from Seattle opened in spring 2012 at the 

international Helsinki-Vantaa airport.

 This second shop will open in autumn 2013, and is located in the Stockmann bookshop Akateeminen at the crossing of the Pohjois-Esplanadi and Keskuskatu where previously the magazines were sold. The American coffee shop will bring some international atmosphere in the building designed by the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto in 1969. At the second floor of the largest bookshop of Scandinavia is established the café Aalto. The manager told that he does not think that the café will suffer the new competitor under the same roof.

Atheist Police Detective finds Christ

Kevin Kwan's Rich Rich World

In this book by ex-Singaporean American author Kevin Kwan, only the rich elite and their families, fashions, couture, cuisine, businesses, properties, etc.....matter. And these are people from China, Hong Kong and Singapore. It is their world as they jet from city to city, have their meals in the poshest restaurants, stay in the exclusive hotels for the very wealthy.

They are cocooned in oases of luxury, away from the mundane grind of daily life. They attend gala events where the women compete to show off the latest in clothes and fashions and flashy jewellery. They live on gossip, praising one another on the latest acquisitions of things, while whispering juicy bad takes once backs are turned. It is a one-dimensional world free from wars, daily grind, traffic jams and average to low life of the rest of us.

The plot is paper thin as the characters flit from city to city. A film is being hatched out of the novel. Social climbers and those who are voyeurs on the lives of the rich may pick up the things of the world of fashion from Kwan, who used to study such high-class stuff for glamour magazines.

Sexual Sadism madness

A badly written novel depicting sexual sadism/ masochism has taken the world by storm. It has become the world's bestseller toppling JR Rowling's novels. And it has been made into a film, as has been a lot of written sewerage.

This is a sign that that the world has gone bonkers; moral standards are zero and anything parading sexual abuse in its worst forms is sought after.

Fifty Shades of Grey has topped best-seller lists around the world, selling over 125 million copies worldwide by June 2015. It has been translated into 52 languages, and set a record in the United Kingdom as the fastest-selling paperback of all time. Critical reception of the book, however, has tended toward the negative, with the quality of its prose generally seen as poor. Universal Pictures and Focus Features produced a film adaptation, which was released on 13 February 2015 which also received generally unfavourable reviews.

 Sir Salman Rushdie said about the book: "I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made Twilight look like War and Peace."^] Maureen Dowd described the book in The New York Times as being written "like a Bronte devoid of talent," and said it was "dull and poorly written." Jesse Kornbluth of The Huffington Post said: "As a reading experience, Fifty Shades ... is a sad joke, puny of plot".

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