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PROFILE
~Me, myself and I ~
Kelly KVL
Queen's University Belfast
Taylor's University College
31/3/1990
Full time K-popping student
chinese, Malaysian
not short but not tall either
i love my food ...
Goes senile if it wasn't for broadband, good music and media...
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damn
Saturday, January 31, 2009 ( 3:17 PM )
damn...all the imageshack host of all the pics have died..gues i shud've hosted em myself huh..lol..owh well..back to classic templates fer now..at least sooey can access the cbox ow..haha..XD
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dang
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 ( 5:33 PM )
i showed tme this blog just now...practically shuved it up her....haha... i even opened the comments box for her...then i had to run off ot chem extra class..tot tat'd be something to see here...but in the end she didn't leave anyting....sigh...=.=...
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( 3:07 PM )
firefox's gay..... not oni does the tag link not work..hence the shoutbox can't appear and sooey and all other firefox users not be able to access it... even the "links" word won't appear when u hover over the paper clips.. it's shud appear like how the "blog" and "profile" words appear wehn u hover over the respectives images.... =.= ....
edit: ok..the links thing's showing now...oni thing left crapped's the tags and shoutbox...tat still make sfirefox slightly gay...haha...XD
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2009: day no 18
Sunday, January 18, 2009 ( 11:29 AM )
sooey can't see the cbox...well it's not oni her.. i cant too when i use firefox..apprently the tag link just won't redirect..owh well..i'll try to fix it tomorrow or something..meanwhile... there's always the comments link to leave any messages or my other blog.. :)
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WOOOHOOO!!!!
Friday, January 16, 2009 ( 4:45 PM )
yesh!! y esh!! yeshh~!!!! i did it!!! all by myself!!!! muahahahaahhahah.... i did it ALL....
- got the comments link working
- got the entry titels to show up
...ALL BY MYSELF!!!
hahahahahha!! i rule!!!
well the fonts and stuff aren't so good..but heck! it's working!!! muahahahahahahahhahhahahahaahah!!!!!!!!!!!!
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great..........damn........
Thursday, January 15, 2009 ( 6:38 PM )
GREAT! i got the comments links to show up! .. NO thanks to laifun....
now i just gotta figure out how to actually link it to the comments page..haha...XD ..it's actually useless... the TYPICAL msian..the non me will say... "can see cannot use" ...XD
also gotta fugure out how to get the title to show...
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kellie's castle..
( 5:40 PM )
^The moorish styled building still stands not a bit scratched from the day it was left abandoned in 1926
Screams from a newborn baby echoed through the corridors of a small farmhouse, one spring day in the year 1870. A healthy baby boy was born into the Easter Kellas estate to the Smith family and was christened William Smith. The golden years of the Victorian Era was at its peak. The British empire was secured spanning from the New World to India and into South East Asia.
William Smith grew up in a little farm close to Dallas on the Moray Firth in Scotland. As the Victoria era blossomed for a new class of elite, spearheaded by innovative technology and inventions - the working class were pushed harder into poverty and frustrations. Perhaps it was the drive to escape from the droll of intense poverty that sent William Smith to far off lands looking for opportunities.
Young William Smith who later called himself William Kellie Smith, (Kellie being his mother's maiden name) left his homefarm in Dallas in search of the rich life he dreamt. It is not known when Smith arrived in Malaya nor do we know why he chose to explore opportunites in Malaya. However, the young, amicable man of 6ft 3ins in height was accepted into the community with ease.
^An old bridge suspended over the Kinta River where William Kellie Smith would have driven his many imported automobiles through into the driveway, and up to the house
In a small working communty of planters, miners and entrepreuners, Smith found business opportunities readily available. Having bounced around on a few successful and unsuccessful ventures, he finally had a great windfall working with a rubber planter named Alma Baker. Alma Baker had obtained a few government contracts to make roads in South Perak. William Smith snapped up his invitation to work together and made a huge profit from these projects. With the money, he purchased 900acres of land just south of Ipoh and cleared the jungle for his rubber plantation and homely estate. He named this estate, Kinta Kellas - Kellas in memory of his family farm back in Scotland and Kinta being the area of the large basin in where the estate is situated
With his empire falling into place as planned, William Kellie Smith formed a London-based company. He was then appointed manager of the estate and was paid a handsome salary by the London Board. Rubber being in demand in the early years , he made a fortune. Running in parallel with the demands of raw materials to fuel the new industrial boom, he further amassed more wealth as larger dividends were paid out to him by his London based company.
In 1909/1910 he built a Moorish styled manor for himself, his wife Agnes Smith and their first child, Helen Agnes. The manor sat on a little knoll just by the bend of Sungai Kinta or the Kinta River, commanding a clear, unobstructed view of the Kinta Valley. Its grounds were groomed into pockets of lush gardens, open spaces, lawns and a lake - added to complete the estate ambience. In Britain during the Victorian era, many young, rich, enterprising men took to buying old manor houses, castles and estates to accentuate their stature in the social circles and for a long period, such activities were well accepted.
Perhaps it was this influence, perhaps it was the birth of his son that niggled him into building a larger more stately home. Construction of the new manor began somewhere after the birth of his son Anthony in 1915. Not much of the first home is left today, apart from the covered walkway, an open courtyard and part of a crumbling wall. The 'new' section of the stately home was to be an extension to the existing home, hence there isn't a kitchen nor a servants' quarters to be found. Many estate homes in the early years were designed so that the servants' quarters, utility rooms and kitchens were housed in an annexe and connected only by a covered walkpath to ensure no disturbances.
This new wing was to take 10years to build. Smith had employed an Indian taskforce to work on the construction. However, in the early 1920's, an epidemic of 'Spanish Flu' broke out and many of his estate workers including those working on the construction died after a short period of illness. The heads of his workforce requested that they build a temple for the deity Mariamman to ask forgiveness and protection for the people living on the estate. Smith agreed and had all his people feverishly working on the temple which was completed in a short time. The temple was built some 1500m from Smith's home. Today, the local community still pays homage to their gods at the temple. A little statuette of Kellie Smith stands alongside the deities on the roof of the temple probably watching over his little estate and the descendants of those that have worked and looked after him in the years when he was Sahib of the Kinta Estate.
After the completion of the temple, everything returned to its normal state of affairs and work was diverted back to the construction of the manor house. In 1926, together with his daughter, William Kellie Smith made a trip home to Britain.The reasons for his trip is unclear but it is believed that they were to return to England for a short reunion with his wife and son. It is believed that Anthony was sent home to continue his education and Agnes had accompanied him. Back in Europe,William Kellie Smith was believed to have made a detour trip to Lisbon, Portugal to collect a lift (elevator) which he had ordered for the manor. Unfortunately, Smith never made it back to Malaya. In December 1926, Smith succumbed to a bout of pneumonia and passed away in Lisbon. He was buried at the British Cemetery.Agnes sold her interest in the Kellas Estate and Smith's distrought family never returned to Malaya.
Anthony Kellie Smith was killed in World War II and Helen never returned.
^The open courtyard and the remains of the pasageways indicates the foundations of the old wing. The Museum of Antiquities took on the project to refurbish parts of the Castle especially the old wing by replastering the walls and laying floor tiles.
A company has taken over the management of the castle and has converted it into a tourist attraction. In June 2003, during a road widening exercise at the 6th Kilometre stretch of the Gopeng-Batu Gajah road, road construction workers accidentally unearthed a section of a tunnel which is believed to lead from the castle to the Hindu temple nearby. This 1.5km high by 1m wide passageway was discovered when an excavator broke through the timber structure. The Museum Department has not concluded if the tunnel is directly linked to the castle but are 'looking into it'.
The mysteries and folklore that shroud Kellie's Castle and its creators still remains. The beautiful part of an epic lovestory such as this, is that there isn't an answer to everything. It leaves a part for us to fantasise, a dream that never ends and an ending that is undefined....
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sucks!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 ( 2:39 PM )
laifun sucks..she doesn't wanna help me with the comments tag....now i just noticed something..the titles to my post aren't showing either! craps!!!!!!!
sooooey....wanna help me? XD
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new layout!! XD
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 ( 6:17 PM )
got meself a new layout...YAY!! ... i've come to realise..i've been MEGA lazy i restricted myseld to a lot of stuff i can do with me blog...haha..maybe i shud take some time and remodel my other blog too..haha...tho the fristrating thing still...is i can't make the comments to show alongside the labels..maybe it's cos i haven't beeen googling for a solution..laifun help already..................haha...gonna add a favicon now..and some falling stuff if ui've got time...
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damn it..
Friday, January 9, 2009 ( 5:41 PM )
just realised i can't see da comments on the blog anymore..i searched the html codes as much as my patience allowed..and i still can't find it..anyone wanna help me?tell me roughly where it SHUD be..i know it's somewhere at the body part..but i just CAN'T find it..
if the labels can appear..why not the commments?? this sucks...
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yay!
Thursday, January 8, 2009 ( 6:08 PM )
yay! i got the blogger toolbar to show up!! yipeee!!! now i just need to figure out which pic is the expired one giving the irritating "x" on the left sides of each post..lol...XD
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new layout!
( 5:56 PM )
my patience is reaching it's limit..but managed to get a lazy classic html template up...i'll tweak it up later if i have time...the sucky thing now is tat with tat blogger bar gone at the top..it's soo much more of a hassle to edit stuff...i dun like tat part..anyone wanna gimme the codes to put it back there?
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college restarts!!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 ( 8:03 PM )
damn college commences tomorro..and on top of tat.. IELTS speaking test!.. tat i'm too worried abt..just gotta go there and talk..just gotta remembr to slow it down..
amos finally started SAM!! after a year of being MIA...finally he's showing up and actually going to college..tat lucky guy (shud i say lucky? lol..) ... taking one year off just cos he was in batch 2 of national service..now after a year of absence..he's soooo phsyced abt everything to do with college...i's like..where'd the enthusiasm come frm??!... lol...
owh yes.. new chem lecturer...her name's ms kwek!..lol.. jayvin's sooo gonna have fun with tat name..haha...XD .. i have noooo idea who she is ...how good she is and all..but ms chan said she's not a new teacher..so she can't be any worse than the newbie of a crap lecturer i got for the past 2 sems...
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bloggie no 2!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 ( 6:52 PM )
well technically it's my second blog.... if u don't count my previous "misadventures" with me xanga ones..haha...
well.. i created this right now just so the blog domain won't get stolen..haha... since i wanted KKVL but it's already been stolen in 2006 ...lol...
i primarily got this one to test out scripts and stuff..among other purposes.. i'll get on it later..lol...got some "rubbish to finish first..............
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