KOYLI photos History, Remembrance
This is a game ——— Try and get the 100 apples in the bucket ha ha
Click on the ‘Apple, Then put your curser over the bucket, Keep the left mouse button down, and move the bucket with your curser, to catch the apples as they drop’
KUALA TERENGGANU: When Che Ku Rosalina Che Ku Rani was growing up in Kampung Kepong near here, ubi kayu nagasari was a popular dish among locals.
The 34-year-old housewife, who still lives in the neighbourhood, said the steamed sweetened grated tapioca wrapped around peeled bananas could hardly be found any more, except when she decided to prepare some for her family.
“It’s one of the many forgotten traditional dishes and I guess that is because tapioca is not that easy to find these days,” said Che Ku Roslina, who entered her favourite dessert in a traditional cooking contest at Primula Beach Resort in Batu Buruk on Sunday.
Her effort paid off when she and her cooking partner, Tengku Zayah Tengku Awang, 55, were announced runners-up in the competition for non-professional cooks organised by the resort, in cooperation with Federal Agriculture Marketing Authority and Nestle.
First place went to Padang Midin resident Rosmawati Othman, 45, and her 18-year-old daughter, Shazmin Mohd Afandi, who impressed the judges with their creation of kampung chicken curry and kuih buah nangka.
“Ours are also traditional dishes but fortunately, they are not about to disappear yet as they are widely available from roadside stalls to fancy restaurants,” said the electrical store owner, adding that the recipe for her kuih buah nangka had come from her great-grandmother.
Another tapioca dessert prepared by Safiah Mohamad, 49, and Fatimah Ismail, 43, of Kampung Durian Guling in Marang, also made the honour list by finishing third.
They said their ubi kayu puli was rare these days as the steamed grated tapioca mixed with coconut and brown sugar could hardly be found on sale.
The resort’s general manager, Mazuki Husin, said the contest would become an annual event as it was a good way of promoting the traditional cuisine of Terengganu.
“We have to keep tradition alive and it is important for the new generation to know how to cook traditional food like ubi kayu nagasari, ubi kayu puli, sira labu (pumpkin coated with melted sugar), keli salai (smoked catfish), ayam percik (grilled chicken glazed with coconut milk based sauce) and others.”
The global swine flu outbreak has worsened as US authorities said hundreds of students at a New York school have fallen ill – and officials admitted they expected to see US deaths from the virus.
Mexico has put its pyramids and all other archaeological sites off limits nationwide and closed restaurants in the capital for all but takeaway food in an aggressive bid to stop groups from gathering and spreading the infection.
The outbreak is suspected to have caused 159 deaths and 2,498 cases of illness in Mexico, and a cluster of illnesses in New York City suggest that the new flu strain has the capacity to continue spreading between humans around the world.
The United States stepped up checks of people entering the country and warned Americans to avoid non-essential travel to Mexico. Canada, Israel and France issued similar travel advisories. Meanwhile Cuba has suspended flights to and from Mexico, becoming the first country to impose an outright ban on travel to the epicentre of the epidemic.
Argentina soon followed with its own ban, and ordered 60,000 visitors who arrived from Canada, Mexico and the US in the past 20 days to contact the health ministry.
Experts on epidemics said these kinds of government interventions are ineffective, since this flu – a never-before-seen blend of genetic material from pigs, birds and humans to which people have no natural immunity – is already showing up in too many places for containment efforts to make a difference.
Outside Mexico, confirmed cases were reported for the first time as far away as New Zealand and Israel, joining the United States, Canada, Britain and Spain.
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the US has 66 confirmed cases in five states, with 45 in New York, one in Ohio, one in Indiana, two in Kansas, six in Texas and 13 in California.
US officials stressed there is no need for panic, noting that flu outbreaks are quite common every year. The CDC estimates about 36,000 people in the US alone died of flu-related causes each year, on average, in the 1990s.
However, without a solid understanding of where the outbreak began or even how fast it is spreading in Mexico, authorities have been focused on preventing people from gathering in groups where mass contagion could result.
A SENIOR MOMENT – I HOPE I HAVE THEM LIKE THIS
A 98 year old woman in the UK wrote this to her bank.
The bank manager thought it sufficiently amusing have it published in the Times.
Lets hope he also did the right thing by his customer.
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for bouncing my cheque with which I endeavoured to pay my plumber last month. By my calculations, three ‘nanoseconds’ must have elapsed between his presenting the cheque and the arrival in my account of the funds needed to honour it. I refer, of course, to the automatic monthly deposit of my Pension, an arrangement, which, I admit, has been in place for only thirty eight years. You are to be commended for seizing that brief window of opportunity, and also for debiting my account £30 by way of penalty for the inconvenience caused to your bank.
My thankfulness springs from the manner in which this incident has caused me to rethink my errant financial ways. I noticed that whereas I personally attend to your telephone calls and letters, when I try to contact you, I am confronted by the impersonal, overcharging, pre-recorded, faceless entity which your bank has become. From now on, I, like you, choose only to deal with a flesh-and-blood person.
My mortgage and loan payments will therefore and hereafter no longer be automatic, but will arrive at your bank by cheque, addressed personally and confidentially to an employee at your bank whom you must nominate. Be aware that it is an offence under the Postal Act for any other person to open such an envelope. Please find attached an Application Contact Status which I require your chosen employee to complete. I am sorry it runs to eight pages, but in order that I know as much about him or her as your bank knows about me, there is no alternative. Please note that all copies of his or her medical history must be countersigned by a Solicitor, and the mandatory details of his/her financial situation (income, debts, assets and liabilities) must be accompanied by documented proof.
In due course, I will issue your employee with PIN number which he/she must quote in dealings with me. I regret that it cannot be shorter than 28 digits but, again, I have modelled it on the number of button presses required of me to access my account balance on your phone bank service. As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Let me level the playing field even further. When you call me, press buttons as follows:
1 – To make an appointment to see me.
2 – To query a missing payment.
3 – To transfer the call to my living room in case I am there.
4 – To transfer the call to my bedroom in case I am sleeping.
5 – To transfer the call to my toilet in case I am attending to nature.
6 – To transfer the call to my mobile phone if I am not at home.
7 – To leave a message on my computer (a password to access my computer is required. A password will be communicated to you at a later date to the Authorized Contact.)
8 – To return to the main menu and to listen to options 1 through to 8.
9 – To make a general complaint or inquiry, the contact will then be put on hold, pending the attention of my automated answering service. While this may, on occasion, involve a lengthy wait, uplifting music will play for the duration of the call.
Regrettably, but again following your example, I must also levy an establishment fee to cover the setting up of this new arrangement.
May I wish you a happy, if ever so slightly less prosperous, New Year.
Your Humble Client
(Remember: This was written by a 98 year old woman;
DOESN’T SHE MAKE YOU PROUD!)
Governments worry as swine flu claims more lives and spreads across the globe. See more in pictures
The number of suspected swine flu cases in Mexico has risen to 1,614 – a total that includes 103 deaths.
Mexico’s health secretary Jose Angel Cordova said authorities were still trying to confirm how many were caused by the new virus strain.
The strain has since shown up in as many as seven other countries and has caused the US to declare a health emergency.
Canada became the third country to confirm human cases of swine flu as global health officials considered whether to raise the global pandemic alert level.
Nations from New Zealand to Spain also reported suspected cases, and some warned citizens against travel to North America while others planned quarantines, tightened rules on pork imports and tested airline passengers for fevers.
The six Canadian cases in Nova Scotia and British Columbia all had links to people who had travelled to Mexico, and all are the same swine flu strain.
Meanwhile, in New York City cleaning crews spent the day scrubbing down every desk, chair and classroom at a high school where eight students were confirmed as having been infected after spending a week in Cancun for spring break. All of the cases were mild.
Swine flu has been confirmed in at least 20 people in the US, with other cases in Kansas, California, Texas and Ohio. Many of the victims had recently visited Mexico.
The World Health Organisation’s emergency committee is set to meet for a second time on Tuesday to examine the spread of the virus before deciding whether to increase the alert for a possible pandemic, or global epidemic.
Governments including China, Russia and Taiwan have begun planning to put anyone with symptoms under quarantine.
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Les:
This song was loved by so many people, That it was constantly in the Top Slot, the lead singer thought it was strange he thought it was TOO strange —
I love it
Les :
In Malaya – You Kill — ‘YOU DIE’
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KUALA LUMPUR: His wife is dead. Now he is to be hanged for murdering her.
Their 10-year-old son will not have the care and love of his parents, all because Herman Aliseman, 32, could not control his temper. The boy is now in the care of his grandmother in Sarawak.
Yesterday, despatch rider Herman was sentenced to death by the High Court for murdering his wife, Noor Azura Abdul Aziz, 24, at the staircase leading to his mother-in-law’s house in Taman Pusat Kepong, Jinjang, Sentul between 10.30pm and 11.15pm on June 12, 2005.
The couple had been separated for two months prior to the incident and Noor Azura had asked for a divorce but Herman did not agree to it.
A total of 21 prosecution witnesses testified at the trial and Herman took the stand under oath for his defence.
Noor Azura, who worked at a shopping complex in the city, had 14 stab wounds — three of which were fatal.
One penetrated the heart, another the kidney and the third, the neck.
Herman looked nervous before the decision was delivered by judge Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah.
Zabidin said the defence had failed to raise reasonable doubts and Herman was guilty of murder. “Herman Aliseman, you will be hanged until you die.”
Counsel Maj (R) Ghazali Nik Taib said he would appeal the decision.
LES :
This is justice, Malay style, I bet that Rotan hurts ?
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He did so while his wife was away at work and after giving the girl’s younger siblings some money to leave the house to buy sweets.
He barged into the girl’s locked room. The stepdaughter tried to kick him and escape.
However, she was overpowered, hit on the head and raped for 20 to 25 minutes.
Yesterday, at the Sessions Court here, the man, 47, pleaded guilty to committing incest against the girl at their home in July 2006.
He was sentenced to 10 years’ jail and six strokes of the rotan.
According to the facts, the girl, who is now 17, only broke her silence five months ago by telling about the incident in a letter to her elder sister.
Her sister immediately informed their mother, who lodged a police report on the same day at Nov 27 last year.
The man was arrested near Medan Kidd the following day and was charged a week later.
He initially claimed trial but changed his plea on April 1.
At yesterday’s proceedings before judge Tan Hooi Leng, the man reaffirmed his guilty plea and asked for a lighter sentence.
He claimed that he had to take care of his mother as his father had died six months ago.
He also claimed that his son was missing from home.
Deputy public prosecutor Natrah Mohd Yusof asked for a deterrent sentence, pointing out that he was the only father figure that the victim knew, as her biological father had died before she was born.
“He should have been the one to care and protect her, but he abused his position and chose to gratify his lust on his young, vulnerable step-daughter,” she said.
