My First Ever Not-So-Pro "Movie Review"

Told cha I'm from the video shooting town

Warning: Randomness and senselessness to the maximum.

Ignore and skip the parts below if you think I'm crapping :p I just love to give commentary.

Not going to elaborate more on the story. It just seems funny to me personally that they are actually touring around KKB instead of heading to the police station straight :p (which is totally not wrong since it's just a video).

First they are heading to the dam (the direction people leaving for Pahang from KKB). Perhaps for a relaxing trip first to the dam with breathtaking scenery before going to the Scotland yard?

Then they head back to the town pulak passing by the new village, which has my dad as the federal government's head of village. :p

Ohhhh they really don't know the way, but I thought the son is a local studying at those samseng schools like SMDHK or SMK Ampang Pecah :p (definitely not my school since my school's chinese are too few, and more notably, too guai (obedient and disciplined) :p , to be daring enough to challenge and beat up the Malays). But eh it seems the "local" is also pointing them the wrong way wor :p By the way, the "local" in red T-shirt is my dad's assistant head of village. And that's really his workshop/bengkel.

They have another round in KKB town first, passing by the Telekom building, instead of going straight to the police station.

Finally our police station!!!

KKB aka TVC Shooting Town

Perhaps not many of you have known before, KKB, particular older areas of Jalan Mat Kilau, formerly known as Stonor Street, is a favourite destination of TVC (TV Commercials), as well as TV shows and movies shooting crews. This is mainly due to the well-preserved and well-kept old shophouses (which are one of the 50 significant buildings of Selangor) and town areas, thanks partially to the fact that we're the first planned town in Malaysia in 1923, and also to the taxes from Genting Highlands (yes, about 1/3 of Genting Highlands is situated in Hulu Selangor, not just Pahang). KKB was featured in 5 or more TVCs, the first I can recall being Summit USJ's more than 10 years ago, at the indian traditional hairsaloon, where I cut my hair when I was young, to Petronas's (Merdeka TVCs if I recall correctly) at the now Yebeng shoes shop, opposite to Post Office, kids milk powder's at Sun Sun Man Cheong, the old Hainanese Kopitiam, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs', at one of the "supermarkets" to the latest I can recall, Old Town White Coffee around the town areas. No, neither it was shot in Ipoh, nor it mentioned it was shot there.

To those who've been here before see if you can recognize any scene familiar :p

TV3 comedy show, Ah-Ha, starring Afdlin Shauki and Harith Iskandar, also featured a shop which appeared in the above video. Movie-wise, there's this relatively old malay movie called Mimpi Moon (2000), which featured 1 part of the town, as Batu Berendam, Langkawi (obviously cheating, at least to me). And also 1 old Andy Lau's movie.

It is a shame I couldn't provide more videos which I mentioned, hope this little facts do enlighten you more, about my lovely town, especially to those who are coming in the future :)

Ohh we do have an eco-guesthouse ya...

Found this while i was browsing for more information about my town to help guiding two upcoming Unimates tours.

http://greenselipar.com/2008/12/15/the-flying-rhino-a-heritage-eco-guesthouse-on-the-foot-of-fraser-hill/

Interesting.... I didn't even know bout this even though it's opened more than half a year ago. One of the reasons i enjoy bringing people around my hometown is that it allows me to learn and re-discover more things and facts of my beloved hometown. I do strongly agree with the article i read about 5 years ago, that to cultivate younger generations' interests in Geography and History, we should start exposing them to the local ones.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Kuala_Kubu_Baru#

Most parts of the article are not written by me, but I'll try adding in more details to it if I have the time and mood :p