A walk through old Kuala Lumpur

These days I try as much as possible not to go into the city as I find my intolerance to traffic jams and inconsiderate drivers - the so-called KL-drivers - has steadily increased since I haven't had the need to drive through those roads!

However, I did recently drive into KL for one last yee sang treat for the family, before the end of the 15-day Chinese New Year celebration. There's a favourite vegetarian restaurant of ours that we try not to miss every year. And it's smack in the middle of the city!

It helped that we went on a Saturday as the city seemed quite deserted (this particular sector anyway) and it wasn't too bad.

I guess as they say, 'Absence does make the heart grow fonder', and I found I could better appreciate certain things about the city.

Here are some shots of a little section of old Kuala Lumpur that I passed and would like to share with you.

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This might make a marvellous painting with some character... if, someone wanted to paint it! Left in disrepair, but you can still make out the delicate carvings on the front and olden day style spindle-shaped balusters around the balcony. I couldn't make it out from the distance but they looked like those blue and white porcelain work! Wow!! If only...
The front windows have been replaced with modern ones whereas the old ones would have been wooden shutters
Many of these old shophouses are now either abandoned or left to migrant workers to live in, as this seems to be the case here. The fluorescent light is on, laundry drying on the balcony and even a dish for satellite TV! Or is it even working...? A pity, but many of these which should be restored to former glory are not maintained or even torn down to make way for modern structures such as the skyscrapers behind it

A black and white zoom-out shot

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Halfway down the street, turn your eyes to the right, and you'll see this view below...

Curious?
Walk closer...

This is 'The Kid with the Tiger Hat' (no. 3 on the location map) a piece from the TanahAirKu (My Homeland) series, a street art initiative by Petronas, the national petroleum company who also owns the Twin Towers

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Next to that huge street art, is the headquarters of a major local bank, with its unmistakable architecture

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Take yourself back to the street you were on before...

View from the corner, further down the street from the first shophouse

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Around the corner, along the next street was where the street art I had posted about last week, was being put up ~ seems to be scenes of the shophouses of old KL
See the shuttered windows I mentioned before...?
I really must go back to get a picture of the completed work!

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Near the end of my walk, on the way to my car, I pass by some graffiti - more 'street art' but of an unapproved kind!

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_{Captured with SONY Xperia M5}

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