Today is sunday, a beautiful day of the week (coz off from work,haha)...early plan for this day is to continue building my model kit at first, but later change the plan,since it has been a long time i didn't go out to take pictures...kellie's castle flash in mind, and it is my long plan place to go for some photography activity...packed with my camera with kit lense and 50 mm lense (but talk to my self,will be using the kit lense all the way,malas mau tukar2 lense, hahaa), the journey start in the morning and it took for 20 minutes from ipoh to kellie's castle....the weather was not clear, cloudy and thought may be raining soon,so i drove to batu gajah town,a few minutes from the castle only, just to waste my time and to bring back my memories during my childhood day (yea, i was raised in batu gajah also during my secondary years) and, woweee, it changes a lot, never see again hidden-post office, but a new big building of post office, a big and new local authority office constructed over my best fren house (woi mior,umah ko da kna jajah da,xnmpak da umah ko,haha), even my neighbour house,from single and half (yea,the roof is modified to be another storey for the boys room) storey to double storey house....bring back a lot of my memories during those time while driving around...
ok, the sun later came out from those hiding cloud, heading back to the castle for the snapping time,hehe....brief history of kellie's castle, it was constructed on 1915 by scottish planter named William Kellie Smith, during his day here...the designed concept of this building was influenced by Moorish architecture...the construction was stopped on 1926, after the labourer was infected by mysterious disease and also the death of the Kellie himself due to the pneumonia. the castle has a few secret rooms and secret tunnels and also plan to have an elevator and was said to be the first elevator in malaya (Malaysia at that time)...it also was said that the kellie has a connection with the indian here and due to this, he has build a few temple for them and one of the temple has a figure that potray him as a god by the indian labourer.
kellie's castle from Kinta River bank
First house of Kellas
Alter of the castle
Mysterious corridor, claimed to see the spirit of William Kellie wondering around
First Elevator to be in Malaya
Escape/emergency steps
more pics at my Flickr
