Images of Ipoh: The Flying Cleaner

Monday, January 28, 2013

The Flying Cleaner

Ipoh has limited number of high rise building, yet many of them are not well maintained of its exterior. We often see dirty windows, mottled walls that probably being cleaned or painted after many years. This morning an unusual scene appears at Bougainvillea Building. A worker is cleaning the exterior wall of this building but no suspended platform is used to carry the man. He is just directly tied on steel cable hanging in the air to complete his cleaning job. I am pretty sure he is not feeling good with such setup, not to mention this would last for hours.

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Ipoh, the capital city of Perak State, Malaysia, is the city that tin built. Located at the famous tin mining area, Kinta Valley, it used to be the world's largest tin mine since 19th century. Not only of its tin mine, but Ipoh also famous of its delicious food, beautiful mountain ranges, mysterious lime stone caves, attractive history & friendly citizen. Being the second in Malaysia that gain the status of city in year 1988 after Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh is one of the major cities in Malaysia with the population around 700,000. Began as a small village in 1870's, tin mine industry had brought in Chinese and Indian that boosted the town development since 1890's. The rapid growing town later upgraded to be the capital of Perak during the Japanese occupation at World War II. The rich tin resource had brought prosperity to many Ipoh miners that even make it once known as the City of Millionaires. Today, Ipoh has grown to cover a large area including the neighboring township such as Bercham, Tasek, Jelapang, Menglembu, Pengkalan, Simpang Pulai & Chemor. The city is still developing continuously while maintains its beauty of nature and harmony.