Visit to Soka Gakkai Malaysia : Dec-10

The very first stop after we crossed the second link was the Malacca kaikan. We almost gave up the idea of visiting this Malacca kaikan as we were told that this kaikan is located far from the city centre and to get there, we would have to pass a Malay kampung which is rather unsafe for a single Singaporean car!

However, after Victor turned his iPhone into the most sophisticated GPS system in the market and discovered how the Malacca kaikan was along our route to the city centre, that became our very first stop! (:

On our third day after we left Port Dickson, we told our very sophisticated GPS that we wanted to visit the KL kaikan. As the very sophisticated GPS system did not have the latest sophisticated map of KL, Victor had to search for a nearby point on his google map and tell his no-longer-sophisticated-in-KL GPS that we wanted to make our way there. Alas, Victor dropped his pin at a wrong location, and we had to re-educate our GPS on the actual location of our KL kaikan, as reflected on our letter from SSA-HQ. Whoa~ the KL city kaikan though prominent and about 10-storey high, has a pretty narrow and inconspicuous entrance. We missed the entrance along the busy one-way road, and had to route a long way to return to the kaikan..



At last, we successfully turned into the kaikan compound and found the basement carpark. To our surprise, we were told that the kaikan was closed for the renovation of the mentor & disciple centre, which would take up the top three levels. What a pity.. we were told by the Malacca kaikan staff that we could visit the mentor & disciple centre at the KL kaikan and were looking forward to it! Mr Leong, who spoke to us at the lift lobby gave us the directions to the KL culture centre.. which happened to be along our way to Sunway Lagoon. Hmm... we were running late.. should we?

Let's juz do it! So, a place where we thought we should reach by lunch time, we eventually made it only in the late afternoon. But WOW~ the culture centre is huge! They have a Soka Kindergarten there too!