Finally, Malacca the historical city got its own legalized brothel

February 4, 2008

I didn’t know Malacca has a newly declared red light district. Horny men, don’t get too excited. This is the red light district in Malacca without the chicken. Yes, you heard me right. Red light district, without the brothels. This is not Geylang. Not Amsterdam. Not Patpong. But sometimes it might send the wrong messages to foreigners where prostitution is legal in their country.

Do you think something like this might send the wrong messages to you? But the spot lights of this area is not that bad because the buildings were already painted in red by default. Houses at Tun Tan Cheng Lock looked more like brothel compared to the buildings at Jalan Laksamana.

It is nice walking around the neighborhood at this hour. Even the ahpeks enjoy cycling around this area. The roads are not jam packed with cars but it may get spooky at times when the place gets too quiet for its own good.

Being Malaysian, we are too lazy to walk even 50 meters so we decided drive our car to Stadhuys. Feel like playing Need For Speed : The Red light district paranoia?

I can’t remember what they do in this building because I hardly drive at this area during day time due to the insane traffic jam. Since the road is so narrow and all, some times it felt like you are getting constipated and the cars would normally refuses to bulge.

I stopped my car for a while because I saw a group of people are gathering at Stadhuys. No, they are not protesting against the fugliness of the red lights deployed along the streets. They are not HINDRAF protesters either. Like me, they became curious when they saw a group of people preparing for the shooting set. Once again, they are not shooting pigeons. By shooting I mean film shooting.

Wow this is cool, filming a pek yau (slashing) scene at Stadhuys. Don’t have to worry about the spurting blood gushing out from eye sockets that might taint Stadhuys because its already painted in red. Ok, seriously I think they are filming a scene for a local indian drama and no, you wouldn’t call this “Crushing HINDRAF, Wielding Parangs With Triads”.

Filming the localized version of Sivaji da boss is more lucrative. The reason you don’t see any indian actors in the pictures yet because they are the good guys. The non indians holding the fake parangs are obviously the bad guys.

Next time if gerak khas wants to film gun battles with beca (trishaws), they can just choose Stadhuys for convenience sake. They are free to use the cannons when their ammo is running low. The cannon balls are sold separately though.

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