Buka Puasa with the Police and Bomba personnel

To establish a closer rapport with our neighborhood Police and Bomba, the MDMC invited the Segambut police personnel as well as members of the Bomba to a buka puasa at the MD Community Hall on 17 August. About 40 people were there for the event. The food was specially prepared by Asiah and everyone was full of praises for her mouth-watering, better-than-restaurant home-cooked dishes. Some of the gluttons among us had several helpings of everything! 

Now that we have "made friends" with the police and Bomba, MD will definitely be a safer place for everyone to live in! :-) Of course, we are NOT suggesting that MD is not safe.... but in the event that  we encounter any security problem which is beyond the control of our own security personnel, we will have our buddies the police to fall back on....and just holler when you suspect a fire, big or small, and our Bomba friends will surely and promptly come to your rescue!  

Thanks to Simon, Asiah and everyone else who have helped to organise this wonderful event. Syabas! 

What we learnt from "Shocking" talk

Posted by Mabel Gong Siew Choo

Session was very enlightening.

There were approx 17 pax for a temperate day. lots of questions thrown and humourously answered with some.

Malaysia has the highest lightning strikes per year. Menara Duta in order of lightning strikes, 153, 155 and 151.

This particular lightning service people offers the faraday cage system/MOV system for the common areas to protect the CCTV, boom gate, lifts, electronic system in the main common area. This excludes owner individual units. There was a brief suggestion on the various points of protection for individual condo units to ensure the electronic contents within the unit is protected.

We learnt about lightning "SURGES" as opposed to the direct lightning strike itself. That even though main common area may be protected, the secondary effects MAY affect individual units depending on the angle of strike.

Also learnt that it is NOT safe to take shelter at busstops as they do not have any surge dissipating elements. (Safer to be in swimming pool than an open field or golf course, all not advisable....) And the interesting thing is should there be a lightning strike, to safeguard yourself from a secondary surge/flashover as they call it, stand on one leg or try keep your legs together!!!! The wider you have your legs opened, the more susceptible you are.

Need any explanatory details please ask Jeff/Carlo. I rather do as chap say. Next thunderstorm, you will recognise today's 17 MD residents instantly. They walk with closed legs! We call it the MD shuffle.