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Kuala Ibai Kuala Terengganu

From Kuala Berang, Musa walked to the coastal area, headed to Kuala Terengganu. The town was a fishermen's port expanded vastly during the occupation of British. It was later became the state's capital of Terengganu in place of Kuala Berang.

It took about 10 days for Musa to arrive at Kuala Terengganu. He  passed by  places like Ajil, Wakaf Tapai and Bukit Payong on the way to Kuala Terengganu. He rested for 2 days in Bukit Payong before continued his journey.

He arrived at Kuala Terengganu on the last day of the year 1893. He had been wandering around the town searching for landed property to be bought. He found out that the properties in the town were expensive.

So, Musa walked to the south of the town and arrived at a place called Kuala Ibai. He tried to buy a piece of land facing the sea, but no body agreed to sell the land to him. He was told that there were some landed properties for sale in Kampung Kolam Kuala Ibai. The place was just less than 1 km away from the sea shore.

It was a perfect place for a new settlement for Musa. Even though the place was surrounded by a swamp area, Musa still satisfied with location and proceeded with the purchase of the land. The land he purchased was about 5 acres and about 40% of the same were swamp area. But the price was cheap and Musa was happy to have the land.

So, on the first day of the year 1894, Musa had a landed property in Terengganu.

The name of Kampung Kolam was originated from the meaning of the place itself. 'Kolam' in Malay language means pool, pond or swamp in English. Since the village was surrounded largely with swamp area, the founder of the place named it Kampung Kolam or Swamp Village.

Musa constructed a small wooden house by himself using timbers from the land itself. The house was a typical Malay wooden house with pillars strengthening the floors and the roof.  The roof was made from a kind of palm trees leaves locally called "nipah" and the wall was made from bamboos plus that nipah leaves fixed horizontally to the wall. The floor was made from bamboo timber which grew strongly on the land. 

It took 1 month plus for Musa to complete the construction of the house. In the mean time, he was allowed by the head of the village to stay temporarily at the village's Mosque pending completion of the house. He also started clearing the surrounding area of the house and planted coconut trees and other fruit trees such as mangoes, banana and jack fruit.

Meanwhile, Musa's arrival in the village and his quick settlement had attracted attention of many people resided around the area and became a hot topic of their daily conversation in the coffee shops. They thought Musa was a very rich man and they knew he was a bachelor.

So, suddenly Musa had been  targeted as a dreamed husband for girls in the village...

He will be married again...for a second time in his life. But, those local people did not know he had been married before in Kelantan.

New episode in his life will begin...soon.