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Vector undangan hijau.png4/7/2024 “We wanted to record some of the area’s background and history for the younger generation in a more relaxed way. He employed a team to research and recreate Batu Lanchang’s history in drawings, and a new book titled Batu Lancang in the Olden Days was created. Realising that not only the physical remnants of the area’s traditional life were fading but also the people who lived in that era were rapidly advancing in age, Ong initiated a project to document the constituency’s history in a unique way - through comics illustrations. “All the farming areas along with the farm ponds and streams that were our ‘playground’ are no more here,” he said. “The Batu Lanchang of today is 100% different from when I was young,” said Batu Lanchang assemblyman Ong Ah Teong, who grew up in the Perak Road area in the 1970s. Now a modernised suburb with high-rises and landed properties for the upper-middle class, traces of its origins as a major agricultural quarter are quickly disappearing from memory. Located in the central upper part of Penang island, the state constituency is often known as the middle ground or thoroughfare between George Town – the state capital – and the bustling factory sector of the Free Industrial Zone in Bayan Lepas. ABUNDANT with lush vegetable fields, traditional taukua “workshops” and a public market that sold everything from live fish and chicks to every ingredient needed to make your weekly Friday bowl of laksa, the Batu Lanchang of half-a-century ago stands in stark contrast to that of today.
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