Jan 2017 – A visit to Manju Saigal’s home
In January MCG Explorers’ visited Manju Saigal’s home, where she taught us about Hindu traditions and Indian cooking. In Hindu tradition having guests in your house is considered an honor and all guests are to be treated as if they were gods. As soon as we stepped inside Manju’s doors we felt more than welcome […]
Nov 2016 – Pot luck lunch
Matty Collette very kindly opened her lovely house to the Explorers group for our November pot luck lunch, and ten of us arrived bearing various delicious dishes. I’m always amazed at the variety and wonder why we don’t end up with ten pasta salads, or ten desserts! It was a really lovely informal gathering […]
Sep 2016 – Visit to Century Old Chinese Hakka Village
On September 19, Rakan Mantin welcomed our Explorers group in Kg Hakka, Mantin, Negeri Sembilan. A wooden sign in the middle of the road in the town of Mantin, gave us the indication that we had arrived at Kg Hakka. The graffiti words behind the wooden sign urging to: “Don’t break down the Kg”, drove […]
Jun 2016 – Hulu Langat Orchard Farm
Members of Explorers come from many different countries and backgrounds. This month Kyoko and Ainon have both contributed to the writeup. When we were so looking forward to spending the day outdoors on an Orchard Farm, the sight of rain first thing in the morning made us a little nervous. Some of us quickly went to a shop […]
May 2016 – Rimbun Dahan, Private Arts Centre
Rimbun Dahan is the home of architect Hijjas Kasturi and Angela Hijjas, in the village of Kuang near Sungai Buloh. It comprises a private arts centre on a 14-acre site. This includes the main house, basement gallery, dance studio and artists’ studios and apartments. The house and gallery are the centre of the artists’ residency […]
March 2016 Ampang Shopping complex
There are two pressing reasons why EXPLORERS should be visiting Ampang Park now: built in 1973 it was the first shopping mall in Malaysia and has an interesting architectural pedigree and it is under threat of demolition to make way for the MRT2 project Ampang Park was designed by Design Partnership (DP), […]
Feb 2016 – Orang Asli Village
The Explorers’ trip to the Orang Asli village in Gombak was a quite special event for all of us. Living in the city, we read and learn about the native tribes of Malaysia, but don’t often come into contact with them, or get the chance to experience aspects of their way of life. “It was […]
Sep 2015 – Yusof Ghani, far more than a gallery tour! – Shah Alam
Though the TAPAK Gallery in Shah Alam is easy to find, none of us had been there before. A surprisingly light-filled and modern, almost futuristic building which forms the perfect background for not only the artworks of Yusof Ghani, one of the leading Malaysian artists in Abstract Expressionism, but also for the artworks of […]
Aug 2015 – Explorers Outing to Sunway Resort City
Seven Explorers met in the only Starbucks in Malaysia that sits underneath a 28 high metre Lion Headed Sphinx at the entrance to a massive (over 4 million square feet) Egyptian-style pyramid shaped mall. The Sunway Pyramid Mall built in 1997 is the first themed mall in Malaysia. It is the home of Malaysia’s […]
Apr 2015 – Temple of Fine Arts – Brickfields
The Explorers’ April outing took the group to the Temple of Fine Arts (TFA), Brickfields, on the day of Tamilian (Southern Indian) New Year. Our morning commenced with festively dressed TFA Volunteers welcoming the group by adorning each member with fragrant jasmine garlands and placing vermillion and sandalwood paste Tika dots on our foreheads – […]