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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

225kg WW11 bomb blown up in Puchong/Eight injured in Puchong bomb explosion

When Ian Tong was in Puchong, he and some of us who were at home, heard a very loud explosion. The cause of the loud sound was actually a bomb being detonated!!!!

Pangsapuri Enggang and Taman Damai Utama is actually very near to where we we live.

Pangsapuri Enggang

Taman Damai Utama

Hope there are no more bombs lurking underground somewhere!!!!

UPDATE:

MONDAY 27 JUNE 2016



BOMB BLAST IN MOVIDA, IOI BOULEVARD, PUCHONG, Police are investigating an explosion - believed to have been caused by a hand grenade - outside the Movida nightclub in Puchong Jaya, witnesses say. At least eight people have been injured .
The incident happened at around 3 a.m. local time on Tuesday when an explosion occurred outside the Movida nightclub, which is located on IOI Boulevard in Puchong Jaya. The town is southwest of the capital Kuala Lumpur. The explosion occurred while people were gathered at the nightclub to watch the Euro 2016 match between England and Iceland. The surrounding area is also home to other entertainment venues as well as the RHB Bank. Witnesses had said a bomb appeared to have exploded at the venue, and a police official later confirmed that Tuesday's blast had been caused by a hand grenade. Photos from the scene showed a number of injured people on a sidewalk and police said that 8 people had been injured. Other details, including the conditions of those injured and who may have been responsible for the attack, were not immediately available. The street in front of the nightclub was cordoned off on early Tuesday morning as police carried out an investigation at the scene.

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016/06/28/eight-injured-in-puchong-explosion/

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Last Friday when everybody was parked in front of the TV anticipating the Royal Wedding, I was in Subang Jaya at the District Office of Petaling to collect an important document. Now that school closes at 3, I have only Fridays to run my own errands.

This is the office that I went last trip, but I forgot an original document so, I had to come again. BUT....the office had MOVED!!!!! What a waste of my time!! It has relocated to Sungai Buloh!

As I went to the car park, I saw this new shooping complex. I had read about it but I did not know where it was , so I had never gone there.

Leaving my car at the government office, I walked over to Empire.

I remembered my nephew is training here so I decided to check him out. I went to the top floor....

and saw the Lex Side......touted to be longest tube slide in Asia

newspaper photo

as the stomach turns...............SCARY!! I wouldn't dare to take this slide, pregnant or not

I found this Japanese restaurant instead, then feeling tired, I used the ready checker at the directory to check...wow!

canggih technology! with a touch, I found what I wanted: Italiannies

Droool!!!!! Drool inducing cakes........

I peeped but my nephew was no where in sight.........my surprise spring on him had to be aborted.

He was having his 2-4 break at Teh Tarik

with his co-trainees

lunch at mamak....RM8.90, too filling for me and messes up my diet, so I had hotdog crepe

only RM3.90!!!

New land office at a god-forsaken location.

While going home, I took Glenmarie and saw: "Sungai Buloh" so I went to the new land office. It was VERY VERY VERY FAR!!!!! It was really in Sungai Buloh! By the time I reached there, the collection section for payment was closed. I switched on my pleading charms just short of turning on the taps(!) saying I had driven from 12.35 to 4pm to reach Sungai Buloh, and the main, important person-in-charge gave the document to me!!! Phew...what a relief, however, on coming back I was caught in the Federal Highway jam probably because of the Ipad 2 launch at MidValley. (see post on iPad 2).

William and Kate's Lunch Reception

I was waiting for a long time for the bride and groom to go to the balcony and I learnt they were hosting a lunch reception and that only strictly English ingredients were used:

2:40 p.m.
About 650 people are in Buckingham Palace for a lunchtime reception in honor of the bride and groom. Hopefully they came hungry.
Guests will be munching on a wide variety of canapes, including quail eggs and miniature Yorkshire puddings. And the royal family proudly announced that the chefs are using ingredients from all over Britain.
Here are some of the ingredients mentioned. (The celery salt goes on the quail eggs.)
• Gressingham duck
• English goat cheese from Paxton and Whitfield
• English asparagus
• Welsh organic celery salt
• Langoustines from the northwest coast of Scotland
• Pork from the Cotswolds
• English crayfish
• Windsor Estate lamb
• Smoked haddock from the east coast of Scotland
• Beef from the Castle of Mey Selections in the North Highlands of Scotland

• English rhubarb

(More pictures see below)

Here is the menu:

The Lunchtime Reception
29th April 2011

The Queen is giving a lunchtime Reception at Buckingham Palace for
around 650 guests drawn from the Wedding Service congregation,
representing the Couple’s official and private lives.

Guests will be served a selection of canapés, including:

•Cornish Crab Salad on Lemon Blini
•Pressed Duck Terrine with Fruit Chutney
•Roulade of Goats Cheese with Caramelised Walnuts
•Assortment of Palmiers and Cheese Straws
•Scottish Smoked Salmon Rose on Beetroot Blini
•Miniature Watercress and Asparagus Tart
•Poached Asparagus spears with Hollandaise Sauce for Dipping
•Quails Eggs with Celery Salt
• Scottish Langoustines with Lemon Mayonnaise Pressed Confit of Pork
Belly with Crayfish and Crackling
•Wild Mushroom and Celeriac Chausson
•Bubble and Squeak with Confit Shoulder of Lamb
•Grain Mustard and honey-glazed Chipolatas
•Smoked Haddock Fishcake with Pea Guacamole
•Miniature Yorkshire Pudding with Roast Fillet of Beef and Horseradish
Mousse
• Gateau Opera
•Blood Orange Pate de Fruit
•Raspberry Financier
•Rhubarb Crème Brulee Tartlet
•Passion Fruit Praline
•White Chocolate Ganache Truffle
•Milk Chocolate Praline with Nuts
•Dark Chocolate Ganache Truffle
Guests will be served Pol Roger NV Brut Réserve Champagne with a
selection of other soft and alcoholic drinks.

The wedding cake and a chocolate biscuit cake will also be served at
the Reception. The wedding cake, designed by Fiona Cairns, is made
from 17 individual fruit cakes (12 of which form the base) and has
eight tiers. The cake has been decorated with cream and white icing
using the Joseph Lambeth technique. There are up to 900 individually
iced flowers and leaves of 17 different varieties decorated on the
cake. A garland design around the middle of the cake matches the
architectural garlands decorated around the top of the Picture Gallery
in Buckingham Palace, the room in which the cake will be displayed.
The chocolate biscuit cake was created by Mcvitie’s Cake Company using
a Royal Family recipe at the special request of Prince William.

During the course of the Reception, Governors-General and Prime
Ministers of Realm Countries will be presented to The Queen and The
Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall and
the Bridal Couple. The Reception will include the cutting of the
wedding cake and some speeches.

Guests at the reception will be entertained by Claire Jones, the
official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales.

Pictures of ingredients used in the menu.......

Gressingham duck

( a cross breed of Mallard and Peckin)

Paxton & Whitfield Cheese

Paxton & Whitfield’s cheese of the month for April is the French goat’s cheese Mothais Sur Feuille made from unpasteurised goat’s milk using traditional rennet.
This tangy goat’s cheese is made in the Poitou-Charentes region located in Western France, by cheesemaker Paul Georgelet.

fresh English asparagus

Langoustines from the northwest coast of Scotland

English crayfish

haddock from Scotland

More Wedding Gowns of Non Royals

When I have managed to find my stash of wedding photos, I will air them, but meanwhile, here are more of my kith and kin and friend's fabulous wedding gowns.....