Uncovering Kuala Lumpur’s hidden histories

Name: Uncovering Kuala Lumpur’s hidden histories
Uploaded: 2023-10-31T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 3 min 16 s
Channel: Free Malaysia Today

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In conjunction with World Cities Day, theKULthings’ Amirul Ruslan shows FMT Lifestyle some of KL’s unsolved mysteries.

Story by: Alena Nadia
Shot by: Fauzi Yunus
Presented by: Theevya Ragu
Edited by: Daniel Chung

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00:00 There's more to our capital city than meets the eye.

00:11 Video journalist Amirul Ruslan has documented the unsolved mysteries of Kuala Lumpur under

00:17 his online handle, The Cool Things.

00:21 The Cool Things is a short video content platform that I use to tell stories about KL that I

00:27 feel are under-told because KL is a huge city with over 10 million people and it sprawls

00:34 out so much yet I've always been frustrated that this city is often told only by the stories

00:41 of the main districts or the popular trendy places.

00:47 Always looking for clues, the sleuth puts on his journalistic hat and relies on archives,

00:52 libraries and local knowledge to piece together his jigsaw puzzle du jour.

00:59 In conjunction with World Cities Day, FMT Lifestyle joins Amirul as he explores his

01:04 first KL mystery, street signs belonging to cities in France mysteriously hung up in a

01:10 Chowkit back alley.

01:13 One is Rue des Rivoli in Paris and Rue Asali in Nice.

01:18 I've done my investigation into it.

01:20 These signs have been here since at least 1989, which means they've been here longer

01:25 than I've been alive.

01:26 So for 34 years, someone planted them for some mystery purpose that we still don't

01:31 know about and in that time, it's just been forgotten.

01:36 The mystery even drew the attention of the French Embassy and the Alliance Francaise

01:40 with one theory linking the signs to a cultural program.

01:44 On the same street lies another French-themed mystery, an art deco-style mural of Café

01:51 Le Glace, one of Denmark's oldest patisseries, with a Parisian address, 32 Avenue de l'Opéra.

01:58 While there is no immediate connection between the two, 32 Avenue de l'Opéra is an 8-minute

02:04 walk away from the very real Rue des Rivoli in Paris.

02:09 This brings us to Amirul's next mystery, near the Bank Negara KTM station, the now

02:15 forgotten Residency Station.

02:18 Set to have been the first railway station in Kuala Lumpur, it was constructed on the

02:23 line to Batu Junction, passing through the grounds of the British Residency and was for

02:28 private use.

02:30 Amirul came across a 1903 Selangor State document which declared the closure of Residency Station.

02:38 Other records indicated it was converted to quarters for railway staff, while a 1925 article

02:44 refers to a meeting of the Engineering Association of Malaya at Residency Station.

02:51 Could it have been demolished by 1917 when the KL Railway Station was completed?

02:56 So far, nobody knows for sure.

02:59 Go there now and all you will see are KTM trains whizzing along the curved tracks, the

03:04 only remnant of Residency Station's forgotten past.

03:09 Divya Raghu and Alina Nadia, FMT Lifestyle.

03:12 (upbeat music)

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Uncovering Kuala Lumpur’s hidden histories

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