Day 1: SEM3 SITE VISIT: IPOH TRIP 4 days 3 nights

In this semester, we went to Ipoh in Perak for site visit. Ipoh, capital in Perak , it was recognized as a city and developed a lot due to the booming tin mining industry.

7/2/2015 FIRST DAY

1st stop: Gopeng Heritage House

On the first day, the first stop we arrived is Heritage House Muzium Gopeng, a place which enable visitors quickly understand lives of Gopeng in previous years. For me, i think it is a mystery house which gives me a lot of surprise.

On the ground floor, we can found that there is a barber shop, living room, small open-air garden and a kopitiam. Upper floor, there is some middle-class family bedrooms.In this museum, i found that the interior arrangement is pretty COOL! Although the heritage house looks small and narrow from the outside but u definitely will get shocked of its design arrangement as its actually like other old house, they are long. One question,why old house is narrow and long? I got the answer during last site visit! yay! Its because during old times, people were ruled to pay government tax according to the width of its facade. Quite many hidden staircase made me confuse about the plan division, however it still amazed me with its numerous antiques, old furniture and old style decoration.

Living area with a grand lighting and some sketches post cards are selling there. 

Every corner is not wasted, space under staircase transformed into a barber shop!

Numerous antiques and old furniture. Old packing of ointment, iron, safe deposit box, fan, cake shaping tool and rectangular basin.

A basket with pulley which allows the transferring of items up and down with ease.

Such a cute kid who was posing for his grandma!

There is a kopitiam at the back of the house where we can have a cup of ipoh local coffee and tea.

Combination of steel and timber. Detailing of hidden staircase that amazed me!

Living quarter with bedrooms and living rooms. The patchwork blankets hand-made by the Hakkas.

Third floor, British style sofa from colonial era.

Best part of the museum, i found different pattern and size of old style fan which are still working well and i just love them!

2nd stop: Koperasi Industri Kampung, Tg. Bidara, Kg. Gajah

2nd stop of first day is Koperasi Industri Kampung where we learnt to make our own handmade pottery. Pottery is made by clay and  and tools needed in making process are a blade(to cut off extra irregular clay; shaping), sponge(smoothen and polish pottery surface；as a paste/glue to stick on extra clay), and some sharp tip tools (for decoration).  After that, u can just dry it under the sun and heat it.

A fun experience to apply arts on clay pottery!

These two naughty sitaupo (cantonese which i learnt in this trip they said it means tauke niang, boss) secretly used my phone to take their wefie! hahah epic face!

 Our lecturer, Ms Sharmila was trying her best to make a clay pottery with using pressing and pinch technique.

A group photo before leaving. We all had much fun:)

3rd Stop: Ipoh New Town

Ipoh street which has alot of chinese restaurants.

At night, we walked around the city and finally succeed in the exploration: We hit the biggest goal: FOOD!

 This mixed fruit ice was the main star at that night!! 

Barley dessert as a nice ending on my first day.

Day 2: SEM3 SITE VISIT: IPOH TRIP 4 days 3 nights


8/2/2015 SECOND DAY

First stop: Dim Sum 明阁香港点心

Having my first breakfast in this famous dim sum restaurant had just made my day!

Black sesame was my favorite.

2nd stop: Flea market

After breakfast, we went to Sunday flea market which located near to our hotel. It was a open-air street market and it was quite crowded. In this flea market, i found that most of the sellers are selling old stuffs. For example, books, stamp, kitchen ware and CDs. Between, iron which have works with charcoal  and tin mining filter plate which i found in flea market were really caught my eyes! Its definitely an ideal antique bargain place.

3rd Stop: Ipoh old town

In the second day,our plan basically is actually do group assignment. My group was assigned to do video shooting about history topic in ipoh old town. There are two group which assigned in this topic, so we actually discussed together about site division in the beginning in order to avoid the overlapping of content. The weather on that Sunday was terrible, sizzling hot. So, we decided to find a shady place, and eventually we found a new restaurant which just finished its renovation.

Doodles on the restaurant’s column and a drawing on wall caught my attention. Combination of black, red, yellow and white reminded me of my sem 1 favorite lecturer, mr redzwan.

There is a lot of british style building which can be found easily in Ipoh.

We found few short block and we got to pretend like a statue! XD

The next stop is birch tower, opposite ipoh mosque, still in good maintainance, From research, we found that there is actually original 44 statue on the wall,  howver one already taken off because of religion issue.

Ipoh town hall which functioned as post office, administration office during british colonial era, now served as a hall for public usage, example, wedding.

Some parts in railway station which was under construction.

Railing design.

After birch tower, we came to the most significant buildings in ipoh –Ipoh town hall and Railway station. They basically are total white in appearance, obviously in british style. During the journey to Railway station, we interviewed two local polices who were on duty in patrol. They gave us a big hand and we really appreciate it. From one of the police, we got that there was a hotel in railway station but unfortunately demolished in past few years.

Old shop lots which located beside ipoh sekeping Kong heng.

We reached this old shop lots when it was around 3pm, and we surprisingly discovered a very COOL café which fully transform the old elements of the building into its unique style. I like this café, it totally amazed me with all its recycle stuffs. Its lighting were pretty unique, some of them used colourful plastic, some of them used coconut core and some of them used gauze and fabric. Other than that, transformation of door and window planks into tables was interesting.   Besides, one more reason which made me fall in love with this café, it just made me feel free!

 a MODANNA  STREET art in old shop lots.

Aound five, we all gathered again and finally back to hotel after whole day of walking. Tiring but a great experience!! Video shooting was fun with technology nowadays, timelapse slow-mo and normal.

One beautiful window dispay found in ipoh new town street.

4th Stop: Kinta River

Two silly girls, Yuuki and me were trying to conquered one bike together. XD

Last stop, Ipoh Kinta river.  Lightings just made kinta river be alive! First try on this special bike. Yolo!

The second day was pretty fun and cool, i just feel like nice persons were everywhere on that day.

Awesome coursemates in my sitevisit .

SEM3 SITE VISIT: IPOH TRIP 4 days 3 nights

9/2/2015 THIRD DAY

So, yeah its the third day of our trip and its deserved for Lost World of Tambun. This was my first time to come here and it was actually impressed me with its surrounding scenery. Lost world of Tambun is surrounded by mountains and hills, and this space allows me to get closer to nature and in the having fun time, i felt like im immersed in jungle and nature! Overall, it was absolutely a great feeling!

We had alot of fun time in this day and we also got the chance to get closer with our cousemate.

Two of my favourite friends-- Balqis and Nana.

There is a Ipoh themed food court area in the theme park. I have tried out its Curry mee, it was so delicious!

Flo and i were trying to pose like a boss:P

Group photo is always a MUST! Great peeps:)

Day 4: SEM3 SITE VISIT: IPOH TRIP 4 days 3 nights

10/2/2015

hey last day of Ipoh trip, here we come!! In the last day, we have been to few places and it was definitely exhausted but in fact i think we explored most of the thing that day!


1st stop: Old town
In the early morning, we managed to walk around town and tried out the most famous and delicious coffee and roasted bread.

Walking around the town and played with amazing street art! Besides, we also noticed there is an umbrella backlane,

2nd stop: Sekeping Kong Heng Ipoh,75,Jalan Panglima,Ipoh Perak

This is a very famous boutique hotel in Ipoh and obviously, it design is great, probably the place which inspired and impressed me the most!
I really love the way how it blends, old building with greens but it doesn't show much horrible feeling but more to peaceful and comfortable feeling. I think its because plants are well cared so that they are so comfortable to stay with.

Vintage buildings with greens

One of the coolest thing is this!! a rooftop swimming pool! Oh yeah~ It was on first floor and surprisingly this place is quite peaceful( i think its because of the plant). Besides, we also found out one thing, the fence beside swimming pool area is quite low,and i think its quite dangerous and inappropriate as its considered a public space.

Kong heng using this kind of material as a sound insulator and recycled wood panel as wall. They hide all the wire in this kind of wall. On top, they put clear acrylic instead of glass to let in the sunshines(there were few people who in-charged in installation that time, they said its because cheaper and lighter.)

Rope as railing, what a great idea!

this is cool;)

Sekeping style hotel. White bed sheet, white curtain , yellowish lighting with red bricks. I like the idea to put a reading area in this space,

so close to plants

Hahaha, i found that Kong heng's toilet is quite inspiring! Sekeping's round water tape is a must, modern toilet bowl brings modern to the space, holes on the wall work for ventilation, curtain set up between toilet and outside. 

Sem 3 group photo

Left to right, Jimmy, chee keat, Joseph, kah wen(me), balqis, miss seri（our design mama!), tahsin, en ru, dia, sexy mona, vevi, naqiyah

3rd stop: Kellie's castle

Next destination is Haunted Kellie's Castle! This unfinished, ruined mansion, was built by William Kellie Smith, according to differing accounts, it was either a gift for his wife. 

This place is filled with so many memories with interior architecture family, We explored every floor and took tons of photos here.

From the gallery, i have learnt that because of his fascination with the Hindu religion and the Indian culture,Smith's plan was for this house to share similar architecture to those of Madras, with all its bricks and tiles imported from India. Besides, he employed a big group of Indian laborers to build this house. In fact, Kellie's castle has an elevator (first in Malaysia） which connects right up to the top floor, and the existence of two tunnels that run under the river nearby. One of these tunnels connects to the Hindu temple some distance away from the main house.

Favourite picture with two of my favourite poeple.(ishhh, actually im taller than nano! XD)

4th stop: Tin mining Museum

Tin mining is the last destination in the trip. This place is quite big and you can find out alot of  useful information about tin mining from here

This trip actually provides us a precious chance to get close with each other, Thanks to this journey, i have learnt alot of architecture and cultural knowledge in Ipoh. But the most important thing is, Great memories with who are worth to be with. Interior architecture, we are not friends, we are one big family!