My Hometown - Batu Pahat

0 comments | Monday, January 8, 2007

Originally, I was come from Batu Pahat, Johor. I have been staying in Malacca almost 5 years due to furthering my studies in Multimedia University (MMU) and now working in National Semiconductor, Malacca as well. :p Thus, I should be considering as half of Malaccan, hahaha..

Today, I want to share with you all about my hometown in detail. Actually, Batu Pahat is just a small town but there are some foods which very nice and the taste is hardly find in Malacca such as rojak, honeydew-milk juice, baked fish and sea food cooking. Thus, every time I’ll not be back to Malacca before taking those favorites foods with my both sisters.

Beside the food, my village “Kampung Segenting” is well-known for blessing in prosperity and usually referred as betting in numbers. This Kampung Segenting is a fishing village in Batu Pahat and can be accessible via a not-so-good condition hill route. This temple known as “崇龙宫 (chong long gong)” in Chinese. Plus, this temple has a number of unique crafted statues and decorations which hardly find in other places.

"Ma Zu" which facing to the Straits of Malacca

For your information, most of the local residents in Kampung Segenting is earning their living from the sea which mainly the fishermen. Thus, this model portraying妈祖 (Ma-Zu), directly facing to the Straits of Malacca aims to bless the fishers with well-safety on the sea.

In this temple, there are about 9 Great Arapaima and the largest one would be around up to 6.5Ft. People believed that, Great Arapaima will bring good luck and prosperity to them and you might win first prize in betting numbers if you are able to touch Arapaima’s head. Hahahaa Nevertheless, you might need some braving if you never touch it before and most probably you will be frightened by its large body. From what I know, that Arapaima are tame and it doesn’t bite anyone’s head and even your hand was on his mouth, it also doesn’t act aggressively action and I believed that it should be fed with vegetarian approaches.

In this village, there is one bridge so called “Loving Bridge” and many people believed a couple who come and walk together this bridge will stay happy together. Thus, especially during weekend there are a lot of couples would come here and hope can to get a good bless from it.