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Tasik Titiwangsa in Mild HDR
This lake, the Tasik (Lake) Titiwangsa is located right in the city of KL. From this angle, you can see the Petronas Twin Towers in the distance and on the right is Istana Budaya. Istana Budaya or The Palace of Culture is a venue for all types performing art just like the Sydney Opera House is for Australia.
Klang Valley is the basin where the city of Kuala Lumpur is situated. In the past few centuries, long before the establishment of a township which today we call it Kuala Lumpur, people had already started to flock the valley for its soils were rich in tin mineral (Chemical formula for tin is Sn, for Stannum). The buried treasures of tin ore came in abundance with millions of tonnes waiting to be unearthed. So to speak, everywhere in the area, tin could be found underneath its belly, of which I’d satirically put it; they could even get a handful or two by just digging using a hoe in the backyard of their homes.
During the dawn of the 20th century, the craze in finding this precious silvery commodity saw a dramatic turn when the colossal dredging machines with latest technology of its time were introduced. Those gigantic dredgers started to gnaw the earth at the speed one had never imagined before. And to yield the harvest with the amount that one never thought possible in the earlier decades. Perhaps if there were no such regulations imposed, they would have had chewed the whole Klang Valley and turned into a lake as big as Lake Erie in North America. Hence, Kuala Lumpur would then cease to exist and I have a feeling that my place of origin, MELOR, would now be the capital city of Malaysia instead. (Now it makes sense to you why my flickr URL is melor)
It turned out to be blessing in disguise for the mining activities in the pasts that the residues are the disused mines we today call it as lakes with pleasant after-effects to the city and her dwellers. Those lakes are there to grace the reckless exterior of the concrete jungle by providing handsome views; it’s cooling and picturesque too – and conceivably became a popular place for lovers to exercise their killer lines – while some lonely dudes would take pleasure in "skodeng" excursions.(Sorry, Sorry, I have no further explanation on what "skodeng" is, maybe next time)
Until then....
Happy Friday!
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!
Tasik Titiwangsa in Mild HDR
This lake, the Tasik (Lake) Titiwangsa is located right in the city of KL. From this angle, you can see the Petronas Twin Towers in the distance and on the right is Istana Budaya. Istana Budaya or The Palace of Culture is a venue for all types performing art just like the Sydney Opera House is for Australia.
Klang Valley is the basin where the city of Kuala Lumpur is situated. In the past few centuries, long before the establishment of a township which today we call it Kuala Lumpur, people had already started to flock the valley for its soils were rich in tin mineral (Chemical formula for tin is Sn, for Stannum). The buried treasures of tin ore came in abundance with millions of tonnes waiting to be unearthed. So to speak, everywhere in the area, tin could be found underneath its belly, of which I’d satirically put it; they could even get a handful or two by just digging using a hoe in the backyard of their homes.
During the dawn of the 20th century, the craze in finding this precious silvery commodity saw a dramatic turn when the colossal dredging machines with latest technology of its time were introduced. Those gigantic dredgers started to gnaw the earth at the speed one had never imagined before. And to yield the harvest with the amount that one never thought possible in the earlier decades. Perhaps if there were no such regulations imposed, they would have had chewed the whole Klang Valley and turned into a lake as big as Lake Erie in North America. Hence, Kuala Lumpur would then cease to exist and I have a feeling that my place of origin, MELOR, would now be the capital city of Malaysia instead. (Now it makes sense to you why my flickr URL is melor)
It turned out to be blessing in disguise for the mining activities in the pasts that the residues are the disused mines we today call it as lakes with pleasant after-effects to the city and her dwellers. Those lakes are there to grace the reckless exterior of the concrete jungle by providing handsome views; it’s cooling and picturesque too – and conceivably became a popular place for lovers to exercise their killer lines – while some lonely dudes would take pleasure in "skodeng" excursions.(Sorry, Sorry, I have no further explanation on what "skodeng" is, maybe next time)
Until then....
Happy Friday!
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!