"Ceko" checking out ...

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In about 30 hours from now, "Ceko", the vegetables market under the long horizontal olive-colored roof will be vacated. The stall owners are second generation small traders from parents who together have served Kuching citizens for some 7 decades or so.

The thought touches and tugs on some heart strings. Many people have passed through there, passengers of the sampans seen in the picture. Many events have been woven by lives fabric that have bound and nurtured them. The present Tun Abdul Rahman Yaacub used the sampans; Tan Sri Abdul Taib mahmud, the present Chief Minister of Sarawak did, too, long ago!

Come Sunday 15th, in about 30 hours, the DBKU, Kuching North City Council, will move the traders to another place some 5 miles out of Kuching. To begin anew and forerun the next generation of traders.

I have a full 24 hours tomorrow to capture the rest of the scenes there. Yeah, maybe capture the night scenes of trading there, too!

It's Goodbye "Ceko"! You have been part of our lives. But some things need to pass on and I'm glad we were part of it!

This will replace the "Ceko", this, the sparkling New Sanctuary Hotel by the Kuching Waterfront.

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"Ceko" - Deafening silence

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A deafening silence seems to engulf the trading area under the olive-colored roof.

A glance at the soul in the left of the picture, one leg up, sitting on his heel, speaks chronicles best left unintruded. I shuffled away, did not ask, lest I make myself an ass, crass.

Give him his moments, while I sift through the shots I took the night before and today. Perhaps, among the jumble, one in time will save me nine!

...more streams in.