MCKK Life: MCKK Prep School

Google map of Kuala Kangsar

Kuala Kangsar is small town besides Perak River - a short drive north of Ipoh via North-South highway about 240km north of another Kuala, Lumpur. It's prominence in being the abodes of Perak royalty located southern-hilly part of the town, Bukit Chandan and of course the Malay College of it's namesake across acres of green fields only a few hundred meters away from town center.

Established more than a hundred years ago, MCKK was modeled after it's famous sister-college, Eton of Berkshire England. However Eton has been in existence for more than 575 years, and it has educated nineteen Prime Ministers for Britain, whereas MCKK has only a sole Prime Minister to show-off, albeit half of the period since 1905 was under colonial stewardship.

Sultan Idris of Perak offered the land to build this college in Kuala Kangsar within a short distance of soon-to-complete railway line between Penang and Johor, thus enabling a convenient transportation of students from the Malay states to college.

Kuala Lumpur was surely offered by Sultan Alauddin of Selangor as another consideration and it would be the more favorable location as being centrally located - had it not been for the long unrest of the Chinese communities to establish its Kapitan running decades earlier on that swayed the decision to build the college in Kuala Kangsar. Otherwise the famous abbreviation would be MCKL instead - that's outright preposterous ...!