Kuching City, Sarawak, has two territories - Kuching City North and Kuching City South, administered by two institutions, Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (DBKU) and Majlis Perbandaran Kuching Selatan (MBKS). And of course, we have 2 mayors! Ain't two heads better than one?
The City's day population now is roughly some 600,000 - 750,000, more like less than 750,000. But already, cars are in heavy road jams. With petrol prices shooting the sky, there won't be much "roti" for the "jam"!
The North and the South are cut roughly half by the Sungai Sarawak into North Bank, Tebing Seberang (Utara), (Petra Jaya), and the South Bank, Kuching Central.
Why the North and South Banks don't quite tally in the popularly known areas as Petra Jaya and Kuching Central, is anybody's guess. That might explain why Borneo have lost a lot of "orang hutans" and who could have turned into urban Kuching cowboys. I have some guesses but perhaps it's because in Kuching Central there is a part of DBKU. That doesn't adequately explain why the North (Utara) is also in the South, which really is Kuching Central. No, I'm not "nyanyuk" yet! My best guess is (here's inspiration), there is Little Lebanon, located right smack in Kuching Central and which is supposed to be in Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara, which is in the North but located in the South Bank which is Kuching Central. No, the Hezbollah people are not here in Kuching but Kuching is a Boleh! Malaysian City - urbanity personified but an old town named after a "kucing" (cat) or the fruit, "mata kucing", 'the cat's eyes'!
Great! Either way, it's got something to do with cats. Cats stray but you won't. I promise you won't get lost in Kuching!
Our New Mayor
Image by imageshak.us
As interesting or as confusing as Kuching is as I've tried painting it for you, MBKS (South) just had it's new Mayor installed yesterday. He's James KS Chan. The Mayor "who had to be helped when walking around yesterday", comes on with experience promising many potential credits to Kuching North, I'm sure! He's an accountant by profession. As long as you know where the debits and the credits are, the "sheet" will balance and won't smell. Trust a book-keeper for that!
He's also not superstitious and avoids moving into the ex-Mayor's Office. We lost the previous Mayor in Office as he suffered from terminal cancer.
Some wild "cat" in Kuching groaned whether Kuching will be the City of Hamelyn where the Piper took the children away. That won't happen. The new Mayor ain't supertitious! And as the picture shows on the page, he's well endowed, heavily built - and appears so, particularly below the shoulders and above the hips.
Kuching City Map
Little Lebanon
Kuching Statues
Kuching Waterfront
1 comment:
Kuching sure is a beautiful city, very clean too. I am impressed!
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