Kellie's Castle, meet readers. Readers, Kellie's Castle. So here's the story. This dude--this Scottish dude, had a nice house in the middle of his rubber tree plantation. He also had a wife and kids. So he's thinking, "Man, I should definitely build a super expensive mansion (in Scottish, castle, I'm told), and then...NOT finish it.
Instead, Kellie decides to die. Of Pneumonia. Very suddenly. On a trip to bring the first elevator to Malaysia.
Luckily, in dying with his castle unfinished, he creates one of Ipoh's major destinations--the other two are the Chinese caves (see post) and the local hot springs (not posted, as the hot springs were turned into the atrocity "Lost World Of Tambun," which is like The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2, in that they both suck and ruin something once very cool.
I gather that, from this sign, Kellie's Castle also shares something in common with every Denny's bathroom in American, in that people feel the immense urge to fornicate in both (I chose to walk the ruins and imagine Kellie and his wife, because I have morals). Note: I almost disobeyed the sign by brushing up against one of Kellie Castle's many secret dark staircases.
What was mysterious about this corridor sign was this: In Kellie's Castle, most signs in vaguely different barren rooms said things like, "If this castle had been finished, this would have been the den." Etc, etc. for kitchen, guest quarters, and all other rooms. And so it was indeed mysterious that this sign and this sign alone did not reference the unfinished nature of the castle. Ooooooh, spoooooky.
Oh, and for all of you people who keep saying, "Wow, you don't have ANY Malaysia friends. Seriously?" You may now eat your ungrateful hats. Because I have LOTS of Malaysia friends.
