The Stories of Petaling Street

What swirling in your mind when it comes to "Petaling Street （茨厂街)"? Is about: Foreign workers/ traders, cheap products, China Town...? I was not born in KL to witness its glorious moments on many many years ago, but I still can trace its beauty through these photographs taken (on 11 March 09):

1) Typical commercial buildings that appeared in the Shaw's Brother (Black and White) movies.

2) I saw many tatto shops in Sg. Wang Plaza, much more modern compared to this one. I wonder where will the youngster go for tatto sevice nowadays?

















3) Beef noodle, Char Siew Pau... some aunties and uncles still relish a meal and drink here.

4) Petaling Street has beem refurbished, an outdoor electronic digital board aimed to invite advertisers.

5) Found an interesting shop (refer to the color photo) near to the ex-location of Mentor bookstore. This cane shop not only selling cane-made products, also some items for a Traditional Chinese Wedding Ceremony. You can find colourful handmade crafts from Thailand, Philipine, China, but the pricing is much more higher than the respective countries. I bought a set of wooden made Chinese Chess, which cost me less than RM5.00, the same set is sell at RM18.00 from Pasar Seni:)

The Rule of 90/10 (Stephen Covy)

What is the principle?

10% of life is made up of what happens to us. 90% of life is decided by how we react.We have no control over this 10%, but we can determine the other 90% by control our reaction. Don't let people fool us.

Very buddhistic teaching indeed, to keep it simple: I guess Stephen Covy is trying to say, be equanimous all the time! We would be steady in going through all the life challenges.