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St. John's Fort (built late 18th century)
St. John's Fort was constructed by the Dutch in the third quarter of the 18th century to guard against attack from the landward side. At that time, restive Malay forces were staging raids against Melaka. However, some of the gunports did face toward the sea. The fort rests on St. John's hill, the site of an earlier chapel dedicated to John the Baptist. Even today the feast of St. John the Baptist is celebrated by Catholics on June 23rd with thousands of candles lit in homes throughout the city.
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Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
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是时候
该转身就走
从此放弃我们渴望的永久
不想承认
你还出现梦中
温暖安慰我
既使一秒钟也难承受
坚强不是我想要的解脱
假装能好好过
是时候就该放手
好好看着你走.........
“Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.”
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One ship sails east and another sails west
With the self-same winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sail and not the gale
Which determines the way they go.
As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate
As we voyage along through life,
Tis the act of the soul that determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Peranakan Chinese and Baba-Nyonya are terms used for the descendants of late 15th and 16th-century Chinese immigrants to the Indonesian archipelago of Nusantara during the Colonial era.
Members of this community in Melaka address themselves as "Nyonya Baba" instead of "Baba-Nyonya". Nyonya is the term for the ladies and Baba for the gentlemen. It applies especially to the ethnic Chinese populations of the British Straits Settlements of Malaya and the Dutch-controlled island of Java and other locations, who have adopted partially or in full Nusantara customs to be somewhat assimilated into the local communities.
They were the elites of Singapore, more loyal to the British than to China. Most have lived for generations along the straits of Malacca and not all intermarried with the local Native Indonesians and Malays. They were usually traders, the middleman of the British and the Chinese, or the Chinese and Malays, or vice versa because they were mostly English educated. Because of this, they almost always had the ability to speak two or more languages.
In later generations, some lost the ability to speak Chinese as they became assimilated to the Malay Peninsula's culture and started to speak Malay fluently as a first or second language.
(wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peranakan)
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