THE marble yard is stained with rain, but it has not fallen into ruin. Weeds have not seeded the roof nor cracked flowered tiles grandfather brought, shining in crates from China.… Someone has saved the old house….
Author Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s words from Monsoon History could well have been referring to The Majestic Malacca. Constructed in 1929, the gracious old building had very nearly fallen to bulldozers beating on its front door.
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