16/05/2025
Here, I’m starting a series of posts that feature snaps from our first trip abroad. Beginning with the snaps from the last destination from our trip. And all photos are shot on iPhone14, you might occasionally see a couple of snaps from a Samsung S23 as well.
Here’s Thean Hou Temple, located a few kilometres away from Kuala Lumpur. Wiki says this is a temple of the Chinese sea goddess Mazu, whom I know nothing about. I’d like to read these pictures here as stops from a psytrip ordered in a sequence, where you get to see colourful, yet bizarre entities before the breakthrough or the Nirvana which here is epitomised by the image of the ever calm and composed Buddha. But you realise it is the image of the fierce and compassionate mother protecting her kid from the beast that’s more awakening than Buddha and his blessings. The trip to this temple was on the Mother’s Day, is yet another interesting fact to fathom. Beyond snapping these pictures, I like most people that come there, chanced to ritualistically pick a card out of random. These cards contain messages for your future. The one that I took contained all positive messages that guaranteed me bright days ahead. Even though such stuffs seldom capture my heart, I like all of us want that message to be true. Oh, and here, I also got to cluelessly glimpse at certain elaborate prayer sessions, and some newlyweds. Our tour coordinator did say this was a landmark wedding site. Indeed, the sea goddess temple is quite the grand place to wed. However, since this is a sea goddess, and for weddings to be more poetic it would’ve been nicer if the temple was on a seashore and not a mountain.
Chinese temple, iphonephotography, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Art, Travel