pix taken with my mobileThis happened just on the next street from where we live. (see link below to story in the local paper today)
Someone i met last week asked me where I lived and when I told her she said "wah- you live in a happening place"- but what she really meant was our area boasts of one of the most famous local food streets (Jalan Ah Lor) in KL, shopping malls (ranging from the swanky and exclusive to the "cheap and everything sold here" establishments), eateries and the business district. But yesterday's incident was another aspect of "happening" that we've seen since moving here in the last 6 months.
A couple of months ago just a street down from yesterday's happening, a nasty fire razed a coffee shop and adjacent provision store and several low cost apartments above. Apparently the fire was started by a short circuit in non-regulated re-wiring done for the makeshift provision store. It seems like building regulations and construction standards are somewhat ignored and neglected here, something we are quite familiar with in our previous country of residence. Every now and then we read in the local paper of buildings collapsing and landslides that take buildings with them. This has left us with Chicken Little's fears. Now we prefer to go for the al fresco dining alternatives
We were frequent patrons of this particular coffee shop for char kwey teow (fried noodles)which apparently is quite well known in this area. Recently they changed hands, I think and its been renovated. The "new look" didn't quite appeal to us (probably more due to the fact that we missed the old food stalls) so we haven't been there since. For no particular reason yesterday P and I decided to have lunch there. Luckily for us we missed the big happening which occurred hours after we were there. I saw the collapsed building on my way back from a visit to see Fa at the vet's and of course had to stick around and join the neighbourhood busybodies too!
And here's the story in the paper:
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