As a true blue Malaccan of Baba-Nyonya and Portuguese ancestory that goes back almost 500 years, it was certaintly a proud moment when the ancient port city was inscribed as World Heritage Site.
Growing up in a city steeped in history and heritage, I naturally developed a passion for man's past. Many may be familiar with Malacca's history dating back to the Malacca Sultanate Empire in 1400s, the coming of the Portuguese, Dutch and British prior to Independence in the mid 2oth Century.
However, not many know that the city continues to hold some of the most intriguing and unanswered mysterious found not in the pages of the standard school history books but in recorded annals of various writers over the ages who meticulously documented what they witnessed of Malacca.
The blog will take visitors on a journey covering Malacca's mysteries such as unexplained stone alignments and undeciphered stone carvings to strange objects, Freemasons including legends of gold and the possible fabled mines of King Solomon.
From works of Eredia, Sir Roland Braddel, J.V. Mills, Munshi Abdullah, oral accounts of credible local personalities such as Tan Sri Aziz Tapa including personal interviews and treks to various sites, the blog presents the facts as they are without conclusion but merely a personal opinion.
It is hoped that these postings over time would lead to a quest for a better understanding of the mysteries. The like minded are welcome to share their thoughts and to shed more light on the Malacca's past.
To none I wish ill but to all I wish peace and love.
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