Imagine if you be brought being called ALOR. From the time you are a baby, till you start walking then when you reached school where everyone that came in contact with you called you nothing but ALOR. Then some wise person decided that ALOR was not a right name for you and decided to call you KEJORA.
Suddenly people started calling you Kejora but couldn’t relate to you because they only knew you as ALOR. Thats exactly what happened to one of Kuala Lumpur’s most popular hawker hotspots. Im surprised that even famous landmarks like Jalan Alor can get a name change without of its biggest stakeholders, the hawkers!
Even thoug the name of Jalan Alor is still placed before the new Jalan Kejora in a small white space, i feel that its not appropriate! Where is the heritage, what happens to the identity, what happens to history?? I guess…its HISTORY all right!
Do you know of any other roads that have been changed because someone felt that its better off to be known as something else??
Shocking!
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