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Went to AEON Jusco Seberang Prai City

Written by Nicholas Chan on January 15, 2010 – 12:09 am -

AEON Jusco Seberang Prai City  is actually a shopping mall on the mainland of Penang. I think it’s pretty new, like opened few years back only and it’s big. Always wanted to go check it out but didn’t really get a chance, dad always forgotten to bring us go so this time I went with Alvin, Arron, Chien Chern and Tee Jin while we were at Butterworth during the holidays.

I actually accompanied them to check out a job interview. Then after the job thing, we got no where to go, so we hop on one of the Rapid Penang bus which took us to the AEON Jusco Seberang Prai City mall.

I’ve forgotten to note the bus number but it’s pretty easy to get on. At the Penang Sentral, also the bus terminal on the mainland, just check out bus that has place list with Jusco and that’s it. Get on for almost a 45 minutes trip to reach there.

Nice building. What’s that?

Not near, it’s pretty far, but I believe you can reach faster if you drive there. Consult Google Maps on how-to. That’s what I always do. While on the bus, we passed a lot of kampungs, small padi fields, a lot of trees and many unknown sub-urban place.

We saw the AEON mall in sight and press for bell to alight. The mall is almost the same like the one that I’ve visited in Johor Bahru, the AEON Jusco Tebrau City.

It’s long inside, shop lots are big, they keep on saying it’s like Queensbay Mall and there’s only 3 floors with quite many standard shops too.

LOLs.

The place is not bad, quite standard but something very scary is that it’s so quiet when we were there. It’s like one of the weekday in December and there’s only little little people. This place is built in a very ulu (suburban) place and nobody comes on weekday. Deserted a bit already.

After having afternoon tea slash lunch at there, we went out to find bus and go back to the ferry terminal. There’s food outlet there, but all expensive expensive and we were budget eater, so forced to eat at their food court, just same like the other Jusco food court like at Queensbay Mall.

Took the ferry back to Penang island. Island sweet island. ^^

Tags: butterword, Friends, holiday, Lifelog, mainland, Penang, shopping mall
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I Like Bukit Bintang and Pavilion Shopping Mall

Written by Nicholas Chan on December 29, 2009 – 10:39 pm -

I went to Pavilion shopping mall on the second day and also the last day of my very short and fast Kuala Lumpur trip 2 weeks ago. After checking out from the hotel, had enough of shopping at 1Utama, dad brought us to Bukit Bintang.

Look at the LED electronic road sign. LOL

It’s still the same, jamming everywhere in Kuala Lumpur, guess that’s the uniqueness. He dropped us then he went to visit an exhibition in KLCC.

The trip was not really planned, it’s a shopping trip but we only went to two shopping mall, 1Utama and Pavilion which were pretty enough for us to shop and buy stuff for new year. In Western countries, they do Christmas shopping, as for us, we do Chinese New Year shopping, 6 weeks before Chinese New Year. =D

Police inspecting or buying?

Bukit Bintang is a very fun place in Kuala Lumpur, with so many shopping malls at this area like Lot 10, Sungai Wang Plaza, Lowyat Plaza, Berjaya Times Square and Pavilion. Where in Penang can find place like this?

Malaysia rocks!

Fakes.

But somehow, I have to said that Bukit Bintang still can’t fight with Singapore’s Orchard Rd and never will because Orchard Road is so well-planned, everyone like to walk on Orchard Road and all the shopping malls are beautiful, not like here’s, bad maintain and selling fake imitation stuff by the road side of Bukit Bintang. That’s bad. I don’t like this.

Pavilion is the best shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, beautifully design, many brands, many shops, spacious and bright. Although not as rocking as ION @ Orchard, still it’s nice. I like it.

Some Australian wearing like Scottish.

If Penang has such a mall, I pray for many people will go to it. The shopping demand in Penang is very low and people here tend to stay at home then go walking out on the street which made Penang not very happenings, there’s no street full of people, if it’s weekday, the shopping malls here are pretty quiet, it’s only get crowded on the weekends.

Bought a couple of shirts at there and walked around a lot. Love the people, love the shops.

Too many branded stuff, too expensive, I wish I am very rich, but if I am very rich, my demand will go higher already. So better stay what I am then earn a little bit of extra cash, so do support my sponsors on the right of the screen. Without sponsors, I wouldn’t be sharing so many already. =)

That night got stars from the movie of Bodyguard and Assassin, but I went home by evening, so didn’t get the chance to meet the star.

Do you like Pavilion? Where do you like to go for shopping in Kuala Lumpur?

Tags: Cool Stuff, fun, kl trip dec 09, kuala lumpur, Malaysia, Shopping, shopping mall, Travel, trip
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Sunglasses Photo

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 14, 2009 – 11:47 pm -

Jing Min, Hock Sheng and Shaun.

Cool! Hahahaha. We were bored at the shopping mall, so went to the optical shop to look for spectacles.

Tags: Boring, Cool Stuff, Friends, Funny, shopping mall
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A weekend in town, Prangin Mall and Jing Si

Written by Nicholas Chan on September 9, 2009 – 12:55 am -

I went to town last Sunday as early as 10.30am, parked the car at Beach Street and met up with Alvin at the Rapid Penang bus terminal at Jetty to take the bus to Prangin Mall.

The reason that we don’t want to park our cars at Prangin Mall because the parking rate at the mall is blood sucking, it was once I got sucked up RM5 for only a 2 hours movie and I don’t want to park there anymore unless I am forced to, else I would be taking the bus to town.

Since it’s Sunday, parking at Beach Street was free and the whole thing was going to Jing Si’s Books and Cafe to read up some book but since it’s early, so we went to Prangin Mall to look for food first.

It has been a long time since I had boarded the bus at this terminal, the Rapid Penang bus company revamped the terminal and gave it a better look then before. Still remember the last time I always get on the bus was 2 years back when I was a frequent visitor to Jing Si’s as that time I was having PMR examination.

We’ve waited for the free CAT (Central Area Transit) bus for a long time but it didn’t show up at the time we wanted it to be, so we were forced to hopped on the lousy old bus to get to KOMTAR.

Well, we walked around and had lunch there. Saw that Maxis Broadband was having a roadshow there and I went to played some Facebook’s typing game and got a free goodies bag for myself. I love free stuff. It was just just quite simple, just play the game and free goodies bag I got.

Back to the bus station, we successfully hopped on the CAT bus this time and saved up RM1.40 to go back to Beach Street.

Since I didn’t really know where to stop, I suggested to stop at Pitt Street then take a walk as exercise after lunch to Beach Street.

It’s only about 1km away and I was leading the way because Alvin doesn’t really know the way around in town.

It’s lovely to find the Peranakan Mansion along the way which I have never been in before but now I can tell people that I’ve passed by this place before. Hehe.

I then spent my whole afternoon sitting at Jing Si’s Books and Cafe, for tea and also revision for the trial exam that is happening right now. I ordered a very weird tea, the Lavender Tea and it smells like soap. Not guarantee that I will never order it again but for now, I’ll prefer not to order it again. Hehe.

Tags: books, cafe, Friends, fun, georgetown, jing si, komtar, Lifelog, Malaysia, Penang, roadshow, shopping mall, Study, tea, town
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Went to Tesco last Saturday

Written by Nicholas Chan on September 9, 2009 – 12:31 am -

I’ve actually planned for either going for a movie or stayed at home to do my revision, but it turned up nothing same as my plan. Mom wanted to go to Tesco and she don’t want to go there alone so asked for my company, since I want to be a good son, I went along with her. I grabbed my camera with me and hope I can capture something but it’s just some very random shots that I took in the supermarket.

That day’s weather was not so good, it’s not sunny and it was like cloudy all day long.

I haven’t been to Tesco for quite sometimes and to me, I got nothing to buy. I don’t really buy things on an unexpected visit to the supermarket. I prefer making a list in my mind so that buying and finding stuff make easy.

I will not shop for electric appliances in Tesco.

Hungry Ghost Festival is over and the Mid Autumn Festival is coming. Sweet. Conserve the Chinese tradition, don’t buy electric toy lantern, it’s so uncool.

Cheap snacks for sale, as low as RM1.69. I don’t like it.

My favourite fresh milk. ^^

The Not-Halal Pork department separated from everything.

Tesco’s packaged coffee, will you get it?

Brandless local rice. Will you, too?

Bring your own bag (on every Monday’s non-plastic bag day).

Mom. ^^

Well, I did buy something there, a pack of DVD-R, a pack of 80gms A4 paper for printing usage and fresh milks. =D

Tags: groceries, Lifelog, mom, Penang, Shopping, shopping mall, Supermarket, tesco
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I was home alone last weekend

Written by Nicholas Chan on August 31, 2009 – 11:19 pm -

I, myself do feel uncomfortable for not updating the blog but it’s the tiredness, lazyness and busyness that cause so. In less than 72 hours, I’m going to be crazy for 3 freaking long week for the SPM trial exam. I hate exam and I am feeling the stress on it.

The 1 week Merdeka holiday had just finished, it’s like just a blink of eyes, the school is back. I spent my week going to tuition, watching the TV, go for driving test and reading a lot, but somehow a lot didn’t go in my mind and even it did, it went out again. I probably don’t know the correct reading technique or I was just not in the reading mood, but I was and am forced to read.

Saturday was awesome because I drove out the car out and went to watch Orphan with a bunch of friends, Alvin, Valen, Ziwei, Yilin, Pricilia and her sister. The movie was nice and I like it a lot, so far I’ll say it’s the most enjoyable movie in this month. Not saying that other movie was not good, but this one is the most enjoyable.

I met my ex school mate, Alvin Chong who is also the finalist of the Astro Star Quest at Prangin Mall. He was too shy for photo and this is what I got. So surprised to see him there because I thought he would be sitting in the recording studio working on music.

I met Mr KK Jian there too. He was my Civic Ed teacher and he drove all the way from Ipoh to Penang, for shopping, to meet friends and movies. That’s so far, he told me that he does this almost everyweek. Perhaps Penang is fun. Haha, yes it is.

I did not go home after movie but I went to somewhere else for tea. It’s somewhere quiet, nice interior looking, with soft music playing in the background and lots of high schooler, the Tzu Chi’s Jing Si Books and Cafe. The last time I was there was 2 years ago in Form 3, it had been so long that I didn’t go there already. It’s still the same quiet and nice cafe with all the tea selling at RM3. Nice! Spent 3 hours at there.

Best part of all, I need not to pay the parking because the machine was spoilt. ^^

The weather had been raining over the weekends. I do like rains but it’s too frequent already, it just bring down my mood sometimes and make me feeling more lazy.

Sunday was different, the Sun came out a while and I was back to the old fashion way, which is taking the public transport. Mom didn’t allow me to drive out today, no why. But it’s still fun, I surfed the net all the way on the bus to KOMTAR.

I had lunch with Chaiwei and Pricillia while waiting Alvin to come and go to Penang Times Square together.

There’s the Youth Jam Merdeka Youth Celebration happened at Penang Times Square and I was there with Alvin to snap some photographs. Walk and talk and photos, we got free goodies bag and drinks. Pretty!

Alvin did not want to go home that early so I suggested him to go to Jing Si Books and Cafe for a sit. =) I treated him tea and he fetched me home. Not bad right, win-win.

Bought the Malay’s chicken rice from the Ramadhan Market home for dinner, it taste absolutely different, I like the rice but not the chicken.

I was then home counting down for Merdeka and I saw no fireworks from my window this year. Guess there’s no celebration at Esplanade?

Tags: Friends, fun, holiday, Lifelog, movies, shopping mall, Study, weekend
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