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The initial TheStarOnline.tv report

The landmark Jaya Supermarket building in Section 14 in Petaling Jaya collapsed after demolition operations went awry Thursday afternoon

PETALING JAYA: 28th May 09

The abandoned Jaya Supermarket in Section 14 here collapsed after demolition operations went awry on Thursday evening.

Part of the four-storey building, a landmark of the city, collapsed at about 4:45pm, trapping nine Indonesian construction workers. Others working at the site managed to escape.

The Fire and Rescue Department received a distress call at 5:08pm and about 50 firemen immediately rushed to the scene.

My Phone camera captured these pics (below) from my moving car as we slowly going through the street in sadness: 14th June 2009

This was the place where I found "THE FAITHFUL" posted on the 1st January 2008...

We started patronizing this super"market" since the 1980's after returning from a-four-year "normadic life" in the UK.

Most times we were there for various obvious reasons:

• to get our grocery supplies, a few times a week
  
• to visit our "panel doctor" - the then Dr.Ruby Majeed and Syed Mahmud Clinic at the far end of the corridor on the second floor, each time the children fell ill
  
• to get our daily "quick lunch" at Dave's Deli, McD, Kentucky FC (for me and the kids as their school was not far off)
  
• to browse for favorite books and to look for stationery from the Popular Book Store
• to try and buy outfits for work from the Thiara Boutique, before it closed down
  
• to get shoes from the BATA Shop and Scholls from the Scholl outlet
  
• to try and buy clothes for me and my children from the most frequented "Reject Shop"
• to repair and buy watches and pens from "The City Chain"
• I would never forget The Cold Storage guys who were familiar with us that we were allowed to open mandarin boxes and choose the fresh ones for our purchase...This happened only occasionally when the Chinese New Year festival season came.
• and there were more list of tenanted retailers and office dwellers

NOW I feel so nostalgic about this place... I almost couldn't go on with "25 years of memories" to list down... Anyway, when the building was standing strong and beautiful I never thought about capturing it from my cam.

A FEW MORE TO SHARE AS I WAS PASSING BY...

A couple more shots uploaded for my gracious blog visitors.

The National Palace of Malaysia (Istana Negara)...(click English and National Palace in the portal page) is where the Kings and Queens live and hold official royal functions, such as Celebration of the Coronation, King's Birthday, receiving Foreign Dignitaries and other government official appointments.

By the year 2007 this Monorail Track was officially used.  It was a brainchild of one well known business lady who had put up the proposal ten years before the project was finally off the ground with a staggering cost.  She had passed a legacy of an idea for the public to access places at higher speed, she started the ground work, she negotiated and finally she passed on and succumbed to her cancer in the year 1996.

 

A monorail on its test run in one part of the city

The National Museum situated on the opposite side of the Le Maridian Kuala Lumpur.

Country's first Hanging Bridge ever built.
 


That marked our day was coming to almost an end and I shall shut the shutters of my little hand cam now.

 

To the faithful driver aka Hafiz, my third son, I shall say thank you for a safe drive and for taking me along to yur City Campus.  If I might add, the red and white sticker on the top left hand corner of the screen was Hafiz's  'Pdriving  licence '.  The day the "P" was matured, one year old, he wrote an sms to me:

"Mummy, you can remove my "P" today...I passed the test alredy!"

Mummy boleh buang dah P tu

"If I remove it, where could you find another "P" to write in your assignments?"

Kalu Mummy buang, Hafiz nak cari P kat mana bila nak tulis?

"Oh, there are plenty elsewhere that I could find"

O, carilah mana-mana! 

Hahahahahahahahhahaha...that was my son.

OPS!  There goes..little Amir Harith is awake now....

FROM THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION

On our way home an hour later:

This is the House of Denmark from another direction as we maneuvered our route gradually into the city center towards the north. The newly constructed bridge must have been completed and well utilized by now.

The Safuan Tower, finally completed and utilised. But the one on far right is the Industrial Bank Limited. Pictures taken as we drove through the city.

The Safuan Tower and part of House of Denmark.



A closer shot of KL Tower

The prominent House of Denmark from different angel.

The former PETRONAS office building (Daya Bumi-bottom) with its current more prominent and prestigious Twin Tower.

The Le Meridian, one of the latest hotels completed in the year 2006

On our way home, I managed to freeze these images...This post took so long to be published.

Date photos were shot : June 2006.

Thinking of uploading into this blog: Since Monday 15th September 2008.

Uploading pictures: since Monday 16th - Tuesday 16th September.