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My New Starbucks Bottle

My New Starbucks Bottle – Recently, I have started to drink tea, Green Tea is my favourite at the moment and I find it very healthy and taste good. To allow me to bring some tea around, I bought a Starbucks bottle as I know it can withstand high temperature. My tea is just tea bag, so it’s OK to put into it. Picked the tall size and it costs me RM38 for it.

The design not bad right? Love my Starbucks bottle now and I just get to know that when you buy beverage from Starbucks with the bottle, you will get RM2 off, pretty cool.

August 30, 2012
Johor Premium Outlets

Johor Premium Outlets – I believe many of you have heard before the Johor Premium Oulets at Kulai, Johor which sells designer’s brand product at a discount rate everyday. I’ve finally visited the place few weeks ago and bought stuff too!

Well, it’s located at Kulai, Johor, very near to Singapore’s Second Link and Senai Airport, about 40 minutes from Johor Bahru City Centre. It’s pretty sub-urban, there’s nothing around the JPO. Surprisingly, I saw many cars and tour bus at there.

I was pretty excited when I see the brands at there. Brother told me that the Johor Premium Outlets is exactly the same with the one in the USA. Cool right? However, he said that the retail outlet size here is smaller. Nevertheless, it’s still a cool place to explore and shop.

Looking at the products, I’ve got to say most of them are old stock. The price, some (not all) are at great discount. I’ve bought a Ralph Lauren Polo there, the price was a lot cheaper than the standard retail in shopping malls. It’s pretty hard to tell you whether the stuffs there are good buy or not, you have to visit it on your own. It’s a worth visit, something different from shopping at the mall. =)

Johor Premium Outlets

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July 18, 2012
First Time To Paradigm Mall

First Time To Paradigm Mall – I believe many people in the Klang Valley knows about this new mall – Paradigm Mall at Kelana Jaya, PJ. It’s opened last week and there’s Kelly Chen, Justin, singers from Hong Kong to come and do the opening. One thing I’m very surprise is that upon it’s completion, 80% of the stores inside are open! The construction work is really fast. I passed by the place in last month and still doubting whether they will complete in a month or not.

I am a very kaypo person, I like to see new stuff, new place, so I went to check out with my friend from Penang – Arron and Carmen after class.

Heard that it’s very crowded during the weekends and a massive traffic jam around that area, but it’s weekday’s afternoon and it’s still good. I like the mall because it’s near to my place. Although Sunway Pyramid is nearer to me, I like Paradigm Mall more, because Golden Screen Cinema (GSC) will be opening soon! Hehehe, cheap movie tickets.

There’s quite a number of brands at there too. I found Fish & Co which has almost extinct in Malaysia at there. Cheap grocery shopping Tesco supermarket is opening soon too! The construction is not fully completed yet. The mall is kinda cool, it’s not super big like Mid Valley Megamall, but it’s has 7 floors and the interior is pretty clean and nice.

I kinda like the interior, the escalator placement is not consistent, sort of like zig zag, at least it’s not too formal or standard. Haha. One more thing, there’s many desserts shop! Ochado, Meet Fresh, Snowflakes, Chatime, Tong Pak Fu and more! It’s all under one place.

What do you think?

By the way, do you know about the viral screenshot going on around Facebook about Paradigm Mall? It’s about a the Facebook replies by Paradigm Mall and a troller on Facebook. The most epic reply by Paradim Mall was ‘You know MAGIC wor!’. See the screenshot for more info and get some laugh.

There’s no who’s right, one is noob customer service, another is trouble maker. Paradigm, the MAGIC mall.

June 1, 2012
Daiso RM5 Special Floor Wipe Tissue For Dust & Hair

Daiso RM5 Special Floor Wipe Tissue For Dust & Hair – This is not an advertisment, but a random post about my recent purchase. Hahaha. I went to the Japanese RM5 shop – Daiso lately and bought myself a sweeper which you can stick a piece of dust sticking tissue paper on it, and too the pack of ’tissue paper’ itself. Each item for RM5.

The ’tissue paper’ wiper sheet can stick hair and dust very well and this is a sweeper for lazy people like me who lives in a rented room. I am quite lazy to sweep the floor you know, you have to sweep and pour the dirty stuff away. With this, you just sweep, it stick on the sheet and you remove and throw. Easy! Do you use this?

May 16, 2012
MUJI Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) Opens Today 14th April 2012

MUJI Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) Opens Today 14th April 2012 – I was in the city yesterday for shopping, for assignments, for PC Fair and also to check out MUJI store (minimalist Japanese lifestyle shop) at Pavilion, unfortunately it was not open to public yet yesterday. So sad.

Anyway, it’s officially opens today, 14th April 2012. It’s located on the 4th floor, near the centre atrium. I’m gonna go visit it soon but not today cause I’m busy with assignments. Still remember I had MUJI’s stationery long ago during high school.

April 14, 2012
Typo At Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur & Bought iPad Sleeve

Typo At Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur & Bought iPad Sleeve – Do you know Typo? Typo is a stationery & decor shop by the Australian boutique company Cotton On. I now only know it’s located at 4th floor of Pavilion, beside Snowflakes. Two weeks ago, I was in Singapore and I went to look for Typo at there too, never know that Malaysia has an outlet too.

Typo is now one of my favourite stationery shop because of the hippy, cool stationery like notebooks, pen, planner, accessories and more with cool graphics and typography. I bought an PU iPad sleeve at there too! RM60 only, to protect my iPad from, especially the Smart Cover from getting dirty. =D One thing, I realised some stuff here is kinda expensive compare to Singapore’s.

Cool right? During my visit to Singapore, I bought some huge alphabet decor for my room:

Typo is cool! Looking forward for Muji’s opening in Malaysia by the way.

March 31, 2012
MUJI Is Coming To Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur

MUJI Is Coming To Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur – The minimalist design lifestyle Japanese shop – Muji has finally arrived in Malaysia after so many years. I am a fan of MUJI although the price is rather expensive, but the simplicity of the design is just awesome. I like the stationery the most, can’t wait to visit it in April 2012 at Pavilion to do some shoppings. Last time in high school, my pencil case was full of MUJI pens that I bought from MUJI Singapore + Bangkok.

March 26, 2012
Bangkok: Night Market Outside Central World

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Bangkok Trip: Night Market Outside Central World (Day 4) – Well, it almost comes to the last post and last day of my Bangkok trip. I still have one more post to share about. So after going to a day of Bangkok sightseeing trip to Wat Pho, Wat Arun and Grand Palace, I went back to hotel to take a rest to recharge my power. Later at night, it’s pretty free and no place of interest to go already.

Mom randomly suggested walking around the Central World shopping mall area as there’s a small night market right in front of the mall. We walked from our hotel and it took us about 20 minutes to reach there. It’s nice to walk at night because the weather get cooler and is away from the sunny sun.

At the night market outside Central World, you can find typical Thai’s night market stuff like clothing, beauty accessories, footwear, lots of street food, gift and more. Didn’t really buy anything there except a bottle of beverage and went to bought a notebook in Central World instead. Hehe, thanks dear Huei for getting me the notebook.

Since there’s nothing much to see at there, we went back to hotel for the last night. And so, my Bangkok trip has put a full-stop here. The last day, day 5 is just another going-to-airport-and-back day.

Shrine is everywhere!

Fried food look so yummy, but super duper unhealthy!

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February 23, 2012
Wednesday Farlim Pasar Malam (Night Market)

Wednesday Farlim Night Market – It’d been some times I didn’t go to night market in Penang, except to those in Bangkok. Haha. Bangkok’s night market and Penang’s is somehow different as we have got more food here and they have got more clothing at there.

Night market (pasar malam) is fun but then the items and food are repetitive so it gets bored after some times. However, going to the night market once in a blue moon is kinda fun, especially eating the yummy and unhealthy street food.

The plan was actually to search for a cheap RM10 mop for cleaning the floor but it failed because there wasn’t anyone selling at there. I recalled back and it’s actually the night market at Taman Connaught in Kuala Lumpur that sells the cheap mop, but not here in Penang.

At Farlim’s, the stalls are more about clothing, accessories and FOOD! Hueisean and I found no mop and we turned our sight to food instead. Was craving for oily deep fried unhealthy food which is very yummy and we bought ourselves fried dumpling and the unhealthy deep fried chicken skins. OMG.

The after-dinner “desserts” was pretty satisfying. In addition, I brought a packet of sugar cane and grass jelly to balance the oily unhealthy meal. Fried food at the night market rocks! Chicken skin is so awesome, why it must be so unhealthy?! Haha.

February 16, 2012
Bangkok: Talad Rot Fai – Retro Train Night Market

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Bangkok Trip: Talad Rot Fai – Retro Train Night Market – I believe many visitor to Bangkok does not aware of this night market that’s called Talad Rot Fai, included me until I found it on CNNGo website. Talad Rot Fai, also known as Talad Dek Naew or in English – the Train Market is a night market that features retro stuff, antiques, second hand clothing and also a hangout place for Thai’s retro hipster.

“Talad” means market and “Rot Fai” means train in Thai which reflects the venue which is actually an abandoned train warehouse and tracks.

It was kinda hard to communicate with the taxi driver about this place even I showed him a map of the location, many of the taxi drivers are not from Bangkok itself and not really familiar with all of the road in Bangkok. I told him about Kamphaeng Phet MRT Station, somewhere near there then he brought us there. Sucking blood, he charged 250Baht for the trip.

Anyway, forget about the cab driver, he brought us there safe and sound. I was pretty worried it didn’t open or not exist as I couldn’t find much info about it on the Internet. When I saw the light and sound of Thai, I became excited and found many people going in and out of the “Talad Rot Fai” train night market.

The Talad Rot Fai is actually located near to Kamphaeng Phet MRT Station, so it’s easier to take the MRT here and then you walk towards west of the station, which is also the way away from Chatuchak Weekend Market.

A little bit history about this train market is that it’s started off 2 years back in 2010. It was just an abandoned warehouse and railway track and Rod’s Antique rented the place to sell antique stuff. Rod’s Antique was actually located near to Chatuchak Weekend Market. Then Rod’s invited many vendors to sell stuff at here for free. When it was free, there’s not much stalls and vendors, but once they started collecting rental, more and more vendors come in. Funny right.

This train market sells a lot of 2nd hand retro stuff, clothing, antique and has many modified Volkswagen van which then turned into a mini vehicle bar playing retro music, offering beer and other beverage. You can find some cool artsy futsy printed tee here as well as some nice retro home decor.

Mom dislike second hand clothing, but those clothing looks as good as new. I find this place quite interesting because it’s a retro theme night market. Many youngster dress up in retro fashion too! What I like the most is the Volkswagen modified van which I feel it’s very cool.

Deep in the warehouse is outlets of different antique shops including Rod’s.

You may also grab a beer and sit at one of the outdoor bistro too. We walked for about 2 hours at there, explored, only then we headed back to the hotel.

Talad Rot Fai / Talak Dek Naew / Train Market is opens on Saturday and Sunday from 5pm. Get there as late as 8pm when all the stalls are out in full force.

To get to the Talad Rot Fai, take the MRT to Kampaeng Phet Station. Get out at exit 3 (Or Tor Gor Market) then cross the road and walk about 450 meters west on Kampaeng Phet Road, away from Chatujak Market. For a map (in Thai) click here.

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February 12, 2012

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