Outside Hivefest,some of us squeezed in some excursions. I don’t know how we get the energy for it but it looks like we all kinda did. Even for me who typically doesn’t like to move too much and preferred a chill, laid back trip, I was in for some adventure.

If you’ve been following most of my journey, I love history and visiting museums. One of my memorable experiences was visiting the Thai National Museum and this time, another country, another museum. While I have been here before, I barely visited any places and this time, I was able to check out Museum Negara and even KLCC during the evening.

The main building and collection of the museum is quite small compared to national museums I’ve been to. However, it was very well curated and has enough information for any foreigners wanting to understand the country’s past and progression, even its culture.

Since I went with some others like Hive account@akumagai, Hive account@littlenewthings Hive account@yunnie Hive account@demotruk, Hive account@aswita, Hive account@viviehardika . The walk inside became a lot more fun. We found the first bitcoin, bitcoin miner and even smartphone 😂 hive and all the alts are somewhere in the coinage display haha

One of the interesting collections that I found is basically the fossils of Java man. It’s such an interesting discovery because it helped us study evolution. While in Indonesia we had a museum exclusively dedicated to it, I’ve never been there and this is my first time seeing it displayed in a museum.

As we headed to a more modern gallery, I saw similar cultural displays as in Indonesia, especially with the peranakan culture (malay chinese/indo chinese) one. It’s something that to me feels “same-same but different”. And the fact that Melaka was first started by one of Srivijaya’s princes from Indonesia added to the vibe.

So, did you know that the Melaka kingdom was first founded by a prince from Indonesia?

It was interesting to learn such deep ties that even today many of our cultures are similar in a way too. Anyway, after that zone , I was running out of energy. I felt like I needed to get some coffee, sit down in a nice place and that was when the group split up.

I spent more time with Hive account@littlenewthings and we visited Chagee with Hive account@walterjay. Then, Walter and I walked through Chinatown and he’s the one taking pictures of this one! So, all credit goes to him 😀

It’s a funny story, I thought I charged my phone inside Chagee but apparently it wasn’t charged the whole time as we were there for about 30 mins and that should be enough to have my phone fully charged.

chagee

Chagee has been quite a craze in South East Asia. It’s basically a premium tea shop. It’s got my approval because their tea was really good and that changed the way I see tea 😄compared to the previous one I tried, Sanca, Chagee is way better and I loved it more.

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KLCC

On that day, I squeezed in like 2 places too during the evening. Some of us joined Hive account@gtg to see the KLCC tower during the evening. I don’t have that many pictures around but I only have these. Whenever I see these buildings and around, it’s like the entire city is built by people who love playing minecraft and lego. It’s almost like a square, box and uniquely different from most megapolitan cities in South East Asia.

Oh and I don’t think I’ve seen that many “Kampong” anymore which are like the traditional Malay houses. While it’s not entirely wood, it’s built with bricks and has some interesting ornament to it. I saw one 8 years ago, squeezed among skyscrapers and I guess now they don’t exist anymore? But it was really interesting to see the contrast and almost like a cyberpunk city type of thing. This time around, I don’t get the same feeling I had maybe because I was just too immersed in it that unlike before when I distanced myself, I was a part of it, living and existing rather than being an observer.