{"id":2234,"date":"2021-11-25T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2021-12-15T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T08:29:57","slug":"he-never-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/he-never-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u4ed6\u4e0d\u653e\u5f03"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Muzium Gopeng\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0OUM6SxmW98?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">by Foong Pek Yee<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">13 Dec, 2021<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">HIS garden is a sight to behold.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is a symbol of love and hope.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">At 82, Phang See Kong has been planting perilla plants at the backyard of Gopeng Museum since a few months ago.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Are they (leaves) pretty?\u00a0 They come in 10 different colours and shades,&#8221; says Phang who tends\u00a0 to his plants daily.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He has a few hundred pots of the plants,\u00a0 and he hopes to sell them to raise funds to maintain the\u00a0 museum.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2615\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853.jpg?resize=500%2C443&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?resize=500%2C443&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C908&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C681&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1361&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1815&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?resize=14%2C12&amp;ssl=1 14w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C1064&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C532&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevillagemyhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20211214_205853-scaled.jpg?w=2520&amp;ssl=1 2520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Labour of love:\u00a0 The Perilla Garden\u00a0 at the backyard of Gopeng Museum<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The museum which offers free admission\u00a0 has been shut down due to the pandemic.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is set to re-open in January 2022<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Phang who is the museum&#8217;s curator\u00a0 has been at wits end to raise funds to maintain the museum he co-founded in 2009 with three others\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Bernard Yaw, Wong Kuan Cheong and Tan Yoke Chun.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Wong had passed away while Yaw has migrated a few years ago.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Only Tan and Phang continue to stay in Gopeng, about 18km from Ipoh city centre.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Phang was a teacher and headmaster in Gopeng where he spent his entire working life.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He went on to serve in Gopeng as special assistant to then Gopeng Member of Parliament and Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Dr Ting Chew Peh between 1991 and 2008.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Phang is also a writer.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0His book\u00a0 \u00a0&#8221; A Meander down Memory Lane (1850-2000) &#8221;\u00a0 documenting Chinese pioneers in Gopeng &#8211; a famous tin mining area until the collapse of the world tin market in the 1980s- was published in 2016.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A pot of the perilla plant is priced between RM18 and RM12.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Phang can be contacted at 016-5421287.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Foong Pek Yee 13 Dec, 2021 HIS garden is a sight to behold. It is a symbol of love and hope. At 82, Phang See Kong has been planting perilla plants at the backyard of Gopeng Museum since a few months ago. &#8220;Are they (leaves) pretty?\u00a0 They come in 10 different colours and shades,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/he-never-give-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He never give up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[90,92,94,83,95,91,89],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle-health","tag-charity","tag-chinese","tag-funds","tag-gopeng","tag-housing","tag-minister","tag-perilla"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}