Friday, April 27, 2012

Kuala Lumpur Blues

....Sekali lagi puak-puak ketegar tuh nak buat himpunan Bersih. Walapun sudah dilarang, nak buat jugak.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Kuala Lumpur Blues 4 - Cina jual durian kat restoran

...Pagi tadi aku, isteri dan anak lelaki aku pergi bersarapan pagi di sebuah restoran berhampiran Ampang Point. Kami ingin mencuba bersarapan di situ, nak ubah seleralah katakan. Selalu makan roti canai atau nasi lemak setiap pagi jemulah jugak. Restoran yang kami kunjungi ini agak menarik juga kerana mempunyai banyak aneka pilihan makanan rakyat tempatan. Aku pesan roti bakar dan lempeng. Agak lama jugak tak makan lempeng. Sedap jugak.Sedang asyik makan, tiba-tiba datang seorang Cina membawa durian untuk dijual. Dia jual dari meja ke meja. Aku lihat ada seorang rakan beliau sedang menunggu dalam van yang penuh dengan buah durian. Pelik juga aku lihat keadaan ini. Dalam hati tertanya adakah ini cara baru mereka berniaga? Sebelum ini aku pernah melihat peniaga Cia yang menjual DVD/CD dari meja ke meja di Restoran Tom Yam. Fenomena yang jarang berlaku. Adakah mereka berlumba-lumba mengaut untung seberapa banyak yang boleh. Orang kita apa buat?

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Kuala Lumpur 3 - Burger kaw- kaw

Kuala Lumpur (The Star/ANN) - Would you wait three hours just to buy a burger from a roadside stall?

Many customers are willing to take a number and queue that long just to get a taste of the famous grilled burgers offered at the Kaw Kaw Burger Bakar roadside stall in Wangsa Maju.

Loyal customers do not mind waiting for the chicken and beef burgers.

¿We start taking orders at 7.45pm and customers are given queue numbers," stated a sign in front of the stall.

However, it can take up to three hours to get your burger.

The stall is owned by two young entrepreneurs, Mohd Faizul Baharudin or Zul, 26, and Nini Haznita Muhammad or Nita, 25.

Zul attributed the popularity of the burgers to the fresh meat and grilling technique used.

¿People like something new. They want to know what a burger bakar tastes like.

¿Furthermore our prices are good for such huge portions," he told mStar Online.

The stall gets an average of 250 orders a day. Nita said their prices range from 7.50 ringgit (US$2.50) to 18.50 ringgit ($6) but the cost can vary.

¿We have sold a burger known as the Tower 20' which had 20 meat patties. The price was about 150 ringgit ($49)," she said.

Nita said KPI for each order is one minute and 25 seconds.

¿About 50 orders can be completed in an hour," she added.

According to Nita, they only prepared 100 burger patties a day when they moved here last December.

¿However, this has increased to 1,000 patties a day after three months due to the encouraging response," she said.

The stall operates from 7.45pm until 2am everyday except Mondays.

Gempa bumi di ACEH terbaru!!!!!!

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday, sending residents around the region dashing out of their homes and offices in fear.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said a tsunami watch was in effect for the entire Indian Ocean and individual countries, including Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India, issued tsunami warnings.

People near the coast in six Thai provinces were ordered to higher ground.

The quake struck 308 miles (500 km) southwest of the city of Banda Aceh, on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra island, at a depth of 20.5 miles (33 km), the U.S. Geological survey said.

Indonesia's disaster management agency said power was down in Aceh province and people were gathering on high ground as sirens warned of the danger.

"The electricity is down, there are traffic jams to access higher ground. Sirens and Koran recitals from mosques are everywhere," said Sutopo, spokesman for the agency.

The quake was felt as far away as the Thai capital, Bangkok, and in southern India, residents said.

Hundreds of office workers in the Indian city of Bangalore left their buildings while the Indian port of Chennai closed down because of the danger of a tsunami, the port said.

The quake was in roughly in the same area as a December 26, 2004, quake of 9.1 magnitude, which sent huge tsunami waves crashing into Sumatra, where 170,000 people were killed, and across the Indian Ocean.

In all, the 2004 tsunami killed about 230,000 people in 13 Indian Ocean countries, including Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.

The 2004 quake was at a depth of 18 miles (30 km) along a fault line running under the Indian Ocean, off western Indonesia and up into the Bay of Bengal.

One expert told the BBC the Wednesday quake as a "strike-slip" fault, meaning a more horizontal shift of the ground under the sea as opposed to a sudden vertical shift, and less risk of a large displacement of water triggering a tsunami.

The quake was also felt in Sri Lanka, where office workers in the capital, Colombo, fled their offices, and the southern Thai holiday island of Phuket, both of which were hit hard by the 2004 tsunami.

In Bangladesh, where two tremors were felt, authorities said there appeared to be no threat of a tsunami. Australia also said there was no threat of a tsunami there.

(Reporting by Jakarta, Bangalore and Bangkok bureaus; Writing by Robert Birsel; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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