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semalam pergi pasar malam kat kampung melayu di jb.
first time in many years i see one.banyak gerai2 makanan dan juga barang pasar.ni kira another face of people punya life yang i like to experience.
beli lauk2,price  murah jugak.bought ayam merah for rm 1.60 a piece,otak2 one for 30 sen,hati lembu ni very cheap dia cukup in satay stick 3 big chunk for rm 1.00...real worth it...mee siam and mee goreng 1 rm each..ayer katira pun sama 1 rm..
makan murtabak ayam and daging...ni my folks nak makan...so i belanja dorang.i suka murtabak makan ngan cucumber with tomato sauce...semalam dia kasi chilli sauce aje....aku testing sikit...not to my liking....my favourite still kat arab street..

deaf4ever

Originally posted by matz_rockz at 23-11-2004 11:43 AM:
semalam pergi pasar malam kat kampung melayu di jb.
first time in many years i see one.banyak gerai2 makanan dan juga barang pasar.ni kira another face of people punya life yang i like to experien ...

matz hari senin kat Century Garden pung ada pasar malam kot,

dulu2 kawan aku bawak...

Century Garden ni estet antara Pelangi ngan Holiday Plaza...

Originally posted by deaf4ever at 23-11-2004 12:54 PM:




matz hari senin kat Century Garden pung ada pasar malam kot,

dulu2 kawan aku bawak...

Century Garden ni estet antara Pelangi ngan Holiday Plaza...

ok next time aku survey....\

semalam kat pasar malam,

SATAY SATU STICK 30 posen....eh eh manyak murah.....

deaf4ever

2 keluarga Spura eksiden kat South Afrika.....



Exotic holiday splits family friends after 30 years
SIA engineer dies when van driven by close friend crashes in South Africa

By Tay Shi'an

THEY were friends for almost 30 years.
Both were aircraft maintenance engineers at SIA Engineering.

Each had three children.

And they went on holidays together with their families.

But on their last trip, in South Africa, tragedy struck. The van they were travelling in crashed and one of them died.

It would destroy the friendship the families had shared for so many years.

The families of Mr Lim Him Long and Mr Foo Wah Jek used to visit each other on occasions like Chinese New Year.

In December 2001, the two families went on an exotic 10-day holiday to South Africa.

They rented a passenger van, which came with a South African tour guide-cum-driver.

While travelling between two towns about 200km from Capetown, their guide, who was Muslim, told the families that he was tired and needed a break as he was fasting.

Mr Foo then took over the wheel. He was driving when the right rear tyre on their van burst.

The vehicle veered off the road, rolling over. Mr Lim, 46, was thrown out of the van and died instantly.

Three years on, neither family has been able to put the past behind them.

RELIVING TRAGEDY IN COURT

Mr Lim's widow, Madam Loh Luan Choo, 45, sued Mr Foo, 49, for negligence and causing her husband's death, and for the injuries her second son suffered - a dislocated hip and fractured collarbone.

Both families have been reliving the tragedy in the High Court over the past two years and are no longer on speaking terms.

Last month, the Court ruled that Mr Foo was not negligent and dismissed the case. (See report on facing page.)

Madam Loh has since filed an appeal.

And for Mr Foo, it was nothing but a hollow victory.

He was clearly upset and emotional during a short phone interview yesterday.

He said: 'We are not very happy in winning the case also... We were friends, but because of the accident, we ended up in such a case... I knew (Mr Lim) for almost 30 years, and now his family is after my blood.'

Mr Foo said the accident affected not just Madam Loh's family, but his as well.

He has two sons, aged 15 and 18, and a daughter, 19.

He said he was tired of the matter and wanted to put it behind him.

He said: 'I have gone through two, three years of this. We've gone through enough pain... Now that a judgement has been made, I just want to carry on.'

The New Paper also visited Madam Loh at her home yesterday.

Tears welled up in her eyes when she talked about her family's loss, and how the accident affected her three sons, now aged 22, 19 and 15.

CHILDREN STILL TRAUMATISED

She said her children were traumatised by the accident, and their grades had dropped.

So, she tried to shield them by not discussing details of the court case.

Her oldest and youngest sons still do not know that the case has been dismissed, and is currently under appeal.

Only her second son, who had to testify in court, knows.

Madam Loh requested that we not publish pictures or too many details about her family, as she did not want her children to be further affected.

But the scars remain.

'We were traumatised by flying for a while. The whole family has not travelled together since the accident,' she said.

She could not show us pictures of the South Africa trip as the digital photos had accidentally been deleted.

She also could not find the prints, and thinks she may have thrown them away.

Madam Loh still keeps a family picture in her wallet, taken five years ago when they were holidaying in Sydney.

There were also several pictures of Mr Lim and the family displayed in the living room.

Madam Loh said: 'I'm sad and disappointed with the outcome. I want to move forward, but I don't have closure.'



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Judge: He did what he thought was the right thing

JUSTICE Judith Prakash found that Mr Foo Wah Jek had not been negligent.

'He was frightened for the safety of his family and friends and did what he thought was the right thing, on the basis of his previous experience, to keep them safe,' said Justice Prakash.

The case centred around whether Mr Foo had acted reasonably to keep the van in control after the tyre burst.

In her suit, Madam Loh Luan Choo noted that Mr Foo had applied the brakes twice - once lightly and then much harder. It was the hard braking that had caused the van to veer and crash.

But Mr Foo was caught in a sudden, dangerous situation and had only seconds to react, the High Court found.

Justice Prakash also noted Mr Foo was still guilt-ridden. She said:

'Having seen him in the witness box, I know that the defendant will be haunted for a long time to come, if not for the rest of his life.

'No matter how much (he) may privately castigate himself for his actions on that day, such regrets do not make him responsible... for the sad outcome of something that was done with the best of intentions for all concerned and with the exercise of ordinary care and skill.'

Madam Loh's case was that it was not reasonable for Mr Foo to brake hard as the car was travelling along a straight road with no other vehicles in sight.

Her lawyers submitted that in all probability, the vehicle would have travelled in a straight path if the brakes had not been applied the second time.

The prudent course, they argued, would be for the driver to hold the steering wheel tight, release the accelerator and allow the vehicle to slow down and stop, or wait till the vehicle had slowed down before applying the brakes again, gently.

Mr Foo's defence was that he did not cause the car to go off the road with his driving and braking.

Defence witness Johannes Jacobus Heese, a senior mechanical engineering lecturer from South Africa's University of Stellenbosch, noted that the reaction of the vehicle to the application of the brakes after the tyre burst 'was not normal'.

Mr Heese believed that the two front brakes were probably not equally effective. If one was more effective than the other, the car would swing to one side, thus causing the accident.

The judge noted that Mr Foo had once encountered a similar incident while driving in Malaysia and he had braked to stop his car, without any problem.

Although the same method was not suitable for the van that he was driving, 'he... was not afforded the luxury of the time needed to logically process the consequences of the first braking action'.

Mr Foo also could not be faulted for his driving. Before the crash, the judge noted, Madam Loh had not raised any complaint about his driving.

'In fact, she felt safe during the journey,' the judge said.

me kalo ka holiday,i rather be a passenger...

i just sit down,relax....and enjoy the view...

no stress no hassle........

me suka makan kueh pau yang dorang jual kat road side.
dulu i went to malacca,sedap betul dia punya pau curry daging...
very nice and ada power....

chicsee

Originally posted by matz_rockz at 27-11-2004 09:33 PM:
me kalo ka holiday,i rather be a passenger...

i just sit down,relax....and enjoy the view...

no stress no hassle........

Chic pun sama...I know some pple get really high strung when going for holidays...

deaf4ever

Originally posted by chicsee at 30-11-2004 02:03 PM:


Chic pun sama...I know some pple get really high strung when going for holidays...

holiday sepatutnye fun...and relaks

tapi aku dengar ceta yang ada holiday trips pegi ngan group slalu bukan fun tapi kelam kabut dan penat...

nak2 kalo tour iteneary ( sorry tak tahu speell) dia berlambak...

cam 8.30am breakfast
9am on the bus
10am zoo
12pm lunch
1pm bird park

abis dah tak fun.......

dilah21

Originally posted by deaf4ever at 30-11-2004 08:02 PM:




holiday sepatutnye fun...and relaks

tapi aku dengar ceta yang ada holiday trips pegi ngan group slalu bukan fun tapi kelam kabut dan penat...

nak2 kalo tour iteneary ( sorry tak tahu  ...

:ah: tol tu.. kalo too many programmes macam so rushing.. den kadang2 dengan macam the tour guide takleh negotiate sikit pun.. selalu very strict.. ya la understood dat they haf to adhere to the schedule but still kesian jgk ah sometimes..

deaf4ever

Originally posted by dilah21 at 30-11-2004 08:05 PM:

:ah: tol tu.. kalo too many programmes macam so rushing.. den kadang2 dengan macam the tour guide takleh negotiate sikit pun.. selalu very strict.. ya la understood dat they haf to adhere to the  ...

tapi kalo kita pegi tempat2 yang kita tak paham , tak kenal,

kita still kena pegi as a tour la eh? tu la problem dia....


tapi kalo berani , pegi sendiri.......then boleh jalan2 at our own pace, dan kita boleh pilih tempat2 yang kita suka aje....


ada positif dan negatif la ye...

dilah21

Originally posted by deaf4ever at 30-11-2004 08:07 PM:




tapi kalo kita pegi tempat2 yang kita tak paham , tak kenal,

kita still kena pegi as a tour la eh? tu la problem dia....


tapi kalo berani , pegi sendiri.......then boleh jalan2 at o ...

aah la .. kdng2 takder choice.. a lil bit of both ah :nerd:

Originally posted by dilah21 at 30-11-2004 08:13 PM:

aah la .. kdng2 takder choice.. a lil bit of both ah :nerd:

kena buat homework sikit on the net,kalo trip near by...ok lah, ko boleh try to go on your own,dah sampai kat hotel,you still can do your tour booking at front desk.
kalo kat indonesia,thailand,malaysia...not much of a problem getting around.aku confident sikit.

seafoamgreen

ni request dari matz, nak tau pasal Miri Town, Sarawak.. pasal aku slalu turun Miri, aku bagi info skit ok..

aku ni tinggal dekat2 ngan border Miri tu, so kalu nak pegi tu senang jek. especially skang ni dah ader toll bridge kat kuala Baram tu. Before this kena guna ferry...which is a hassle, pasal kadang2 queue panjang.. tu yg boring tu.. skang ni laju jer.. ni kalo via land la..

aper ader kat sana? slalu nya aku gi sana nak shopping jek.. so benda2 cam ni jer aku expert ekeke kat sana ader several big shopping malls like Parkson.. emm fast food restaurants, hotel suma ader.. maybe u all sangka Miri ni cam kampung kot.. tapi tak ah, quite modern oso.. aku baca kat paper ari tu, Miri is going to be considered as a city by next yr.. pasal facilities yg diorang ader qualifies a city..

parents aku kalo kat Miri ni suka beli cam buah2 & other food stuffs like cili & telor.. very the murah kat dia punyer markets.. penah dengar beras bario tak? kat sini banyak jual beras2 local cam ni..

benda2 lain tak tau banyak sangat.. tapi kat sana ader jugak national parks macam Mulu & Niah caves.. ni aku tak penah pegi lagik

org brunei kenkadang takut nak turun Miri.. pasal banyak crimes committed kat org2 brunei.. skang ni hottest keta four wheel banyak kena curik kat sana.. banyak dah kes family syok2 shopping, abis tu tengok keta hilang.. kes org kena rompak pon banyak jugak.. nasib baik tak penah jadik kat aku:pray:..

deaf4ever

Originally posted by seafoamgreen at 3-12-2004 10:00 PM:
ni request dari matz, nak tau pasal Miri Town, Sarawak.. pasal aku slalu turun Miri, aku bagi info skit ok..

aku ni tinggal dekat2 ngan border Miri tu, so kalu nak pegi tu senang jek. especially ...

seapom ko ada digital kamera kan?

nanti ko snap2 la pemandangan bandar miri ni.......bangunan2 dia....jalan2 dia...

kasi atmosphere sikit

seafoamgreen

Originally posted by deaf4ever at 3-12-2004 10:04 PM:


seapom ko ada digital kamera kan?

nanti ko snap2 la pemandangan bandar miri ni.......bangunan2 dia....jalan2 dia...

kasi atmosphere sikit

next time aku turun ah.. kalu nak gambo perampok bole jugak

deaf4ever

Originally posted by seafoamgreen at 3-12-2004 10:07 PM:


next time aku turun ah.. kalu nak gambo perampok bole jugak

perampok tu apa seapom?

seafoamgreen

Originally posted by deaf4ever at 3-12-2004 10:07 PM:




perampok tu apa seapom?

perampok tu perompak ah dep..

deaf4ever

Originally posted by seafoamgreen at 3-12-2004 10:08 PM:


perampok tu perompak ah dep..

eh seapom , tak mau lupa ambik gambar brigde tooll skali tau...

Originally posted by seafoamgreen at 3-12-2004 10:00 PM:
ni request dari matz, nak tau pasal Miri Town, Sarawak.. pasal aku slalu turun Miri, aku bagi info skit ok..

aku ni tinggal dekat2 ngan border Miri tu, so kalu nak pegi tu senang jek. especially ...

terima kasih for your help....ada flight to miri from jb.....

nanti kalo me ka sana......i will update you......

seafoamgreen

Originally posted by deaf4ever at 3-12-2004 10:12 PM:




eh seapom , tak mau lupa ambik gambar brigde tooll skali tau...

toll bridge tu pon ko nak tengok ker.. bole bole.. gambo tukang bagi tiket toll tu pon aku bole bagi