Nostalgia
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Nostalgia: One Man’s Rubbish is Another Man’s Collectable
By Ian Anderson The British first arrived in India in 1758, as the British East India Company. In 1858, the…
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Nostalgia: “Schooling Doesn’t Assure Employment, but Skill Does”
By Ian Anderson “Schooling Doesn’t Assure Employment, but Skill Does,” so said Amit Kalantri, author, magician and mentalist, recently, and…
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Nostalgia: Old Time Entertainment – Kampar Style
By Ian Anderson Kampar Town, founded by the Mandailings who came up the river from Kampar Regency, Rau Province Sumatra,…
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Nostalgia: Clubs and Clubbing – The Early Days
As the saying goes, “Wherever there are British, there’s a club”. Sure enough, when the Brits came to Perak, there…
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Nostalgia: Necessity is the Mother of Invention
By Ian Anderson The bicycle was invented by a Scotsman, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, as long ago as 1839. He was a…
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Nostalgia: Remembering New Pasir Puteh
By Ian Anderson Three of ipohWorld’s staunch supporters Mano, LMS and SK, lived in New Pasir Puteh in the late…
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Nostalgia: Mobile Hawkers, Accessible and Affordable
By Ian Anderson Ipoh has an abundance of restaurants – “too many”, some citizens would say, but restaurants are a…
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Nostalgia: Kledang Hill In The 1950s
By Ian Anderson Kledang Hill has been in the news lately because of the dramatic clearing of its trees and…
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Nostalgia: LAU EK CHING – Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
By Ian Anderson Lau Ek Ching, born in 1880 in Fuzhou, Fujian province, to Cantonese parents, was one of the…
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Nostalgia: Some Famous Ipoh Indians
Perhaps the very first of these was Shaik Adam, founder of the Mohammedan Mosque by the Padang. He started his…
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