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Visit To Setia City Mall

Visit To Setia City Mall – It was a random decision on visiting Setia City Mall at Setia Alam, Shah Alam with the dearest, Hueisean! It’s quite a very new mall, located in a very new suburb town of Setia Alam at Shah Alam. Initially, I have no idea where it is, I just though that it’s at Shah Alam.

Set on my favourite GPS – Waze then I followed the navigation. It took me about 30 minutes to reach there. Seems far, indeed. I actually neglected to follow the GPS as I thought I knew the way, ended up it took me longer to reach. DAMN.

Surprised to reach Setia Alam, a very new town in Shah Alam where you can see nothing much at there except trees, newly built residential area, plain ground waiting to be developed and there this Setia City Mall. I was like – ‘WALAO, THIS PLACE CAN HAS A MALL, GOT PEOPLE WANNA VISIT MEH?’

Parking is quite cheap. RM2/3 hours on the weekend and interesting to see there’s many car here. Once get into the mall, the perception about the area and the mall changed. It’s not very big, but then there’s the crowd and there’s quite many brand!

You can even find Uniqlo and soon-to-open H&M here! H&M just opens at Bukit Bintang Lot 10 by the way. Seems like this is a good place to shop. Not too crowded as Mid Valley, brand choices is OK-good and I bought cloth at there.

Will come back again when I feel really bored, or to getaway from the busy city to relax relax. =D

September 21, 2012
Bangkok: Shopping At MBK Center

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Bangkok Trip: Shopping At MBK Center (Day 2) – Bangkok is actually a shopping haven for girls or shopaholic as there’s many good bargain as well as big shopping malls. Many of their shopping malls are very quality and nice. There’s one famous shopping mall in the city centre of Bangkok that I’ve visited and that is the MBK Centre.

MBK Center, also known as Mahboonkrong, is very popular among tourists and the locals too. I went there after visited Chatuchak Weekend Market.

But before heading the MBK Centre, I went to eat pineapple fried rice and a bottle of Coke. Coke in a glass bottle feels so old-school. The pineapple fried rice was so-so only, so there’s nothing much to talk about the restaurant. Coke was awesome though. =D

Traveling to MBK from New Petchburi area takes about 10 minutes, we took a cab to reach there and it costs us 100Baht again. The taxi just didn’t want to turn on the taxi, so no choice man.

Some little facts about MBK is that it’s opened in 1985 and has more than 2000 stores, including 4-stody Tokyu departmental store, restaurants and entertainment. I saw many Thai youth were hanging around and shopping in the mall.

It’s like our Berjaya Times Square to us. Haha. Afterall, it was boring to me, mom and Hueisean bought some stuffs there though. =D

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February 11, 2012
Singapore Trip: Tampines

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Singapore Trip: Tampines – Tampines might not be a familiar attractions in Singapore to you, but then you will always notice about it when you are going to the Changi Airport on MRT and you will notice a the second last stop of the East West Line is Tampines.

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#3: A very well-organized town.

4: Lot’s of bicycle user here.

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Tampines was not really in the itinerary, it’s just a spontaneous decision after visiting a design fair at the Singapore Expo. What can you find at Tampines is lots of residential area, and of course the Tampines 1 and Tampines Mall shopping mall located right beside the MRT station.

Tampines Mall is a community shopping mall, a mall not for tourist but the residents in that area and there’s a higher end Tampines 1 Mall which I didn’t visit that day.

#6: Tampines Mall.

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Thank you for reading my post! =D Happy New Year’s Eve’s Eve.

December 30, 2011
Singapore Trip: Walk At Orchard Road

#1: People walking here and there.

Singapore Trip: Walk At Orchard Road – How can going to Singapore and not going to the famous shopping street, Orchard Road? Haha. Actually you can because it’s just shopping malls and I have been there for many times. On my week long trip to Singapore, brother and I were bored, no where to go and randomly went to Orchard Road.

Of course Orchard Road is nice, with many shopping malls, mid-end to high-end, no low-end, very organized, spacious pedestrian walkway, air-conditioned underpass, very straight and linear.

#2: People queing up for iPhone 4S since 12pm.

#3: More people in the iPhone 4S queue in front of Paragon.

Many people like to go to Orchard Road, but then it’s just like other typical shopping district in big city to me, e.g. Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, Kuala Lumpur’s Bukit Bintang and Shanghai’s Nanjing Road.

#4: The wet Orchard Road.

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#6: External escalator at OG.

#7: The special architecture of ION @ Orchard.

We started our walk from ION @ Orchard and hopping from mall to mall. As I walk further, it started to feel nothing, because that most of the shops are repeating from mall to mall. One fine example is that on this Orchard Road, you can find three UNIQLO outlet. WOW.

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#10: Toast box has good toast and mee siam.

It was a rainy day so the road was wet out there and luckily there’s no huge downpour. It’s just little drizzle all over the afternoon.

#11: Roof top of *SCAPE Park.

#12: Wish I can own one unit at one of these condominium, they are extremely expensive!

#13: A place at *SCAPE that allows you to CHAT! And relax, get a coffee, sit down, study or talk with others.

I found a very cool place call the *SCAPE Youth Park, it includes a mall and also a sheltered open space which allows stalls and event booths to be set up here. The whole place is dedicated to the youth, a place for them to gather, hang out, do their dance routine, sell at the flea market, play some card games and more. Retail outlets in there are mostly stuff for the youth. I think this is a good place to gather youth instead of them hanging out at the wrong places and with the wrong gangs.

#14: AKB48 official shop in Singapore, but too bad the group is not in Singapore. Do you know AKB48? It’s a girls group in Japan that has 48 girls!

#15: DBS Remix, a new banking experience made for the Youth. It’s like a playground in there because there’s many tablet for you to play and touchscreen for you to find banking service.

#16: Trying out the interactive info touchscreen.

#17: Alright, nickchan.net is here. =D

Didn’t really buy anything at there. It’s just walking for fun and taking photos here and there. Went to the bank to play with the LCD touch screen and drank Gongcha Bubble Tea. Haha. Orchard Road is pretty, not as pretty as Shanghai’s Nanjing Road East, but then it gets boring something, what do you think?

December 30, 2011
Brand New Island Plaza Coming In 2012

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Brand New Island Plaza Coming In 2012 – Seems like there’s many developments are going on around Penang, residential, commercial block and more! The once a glory Island Plaza has been through down time for several years and it’s under renovation to revamp into a brand new mall, opening in 2012.

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Woohoo! Means there will be more shopping malls to shop in Penang already and I believe the renovation is needed to compete the opening of Gurney Paragon in 2012! Looking forward or not?

December 5, 2011
Christmas Decoration At Pavilion Shopping Mall, Bukit Bintang

#1. My favourite shopping mall. I don’t really like Sunway Pyramid by the way. HAHA.

Christmas Decoration At Pavilion Shopping Mall, Bukit Bintang – Christmas is around the corner right now and it’s happening in less than a month time. This goes to Chinese New Year as well because the coming Chinese New Year is coming very early in January (normally February). I am so excited for both of the festival as they make me feel very relax and happy.

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I went to KL downtown few weeks back and went to walkaround the famous Pavilion shopping mall. Surprisingly the put up the Christmas decoration early in early November, The decoration is very beautiful with lots of Christmas trees placed around the main atrium.

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Big sweet cake and giant decorative bells and balls are among the decoration too.

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Now I am back to Penang, and I’m gonna go check out how’s the malls here are doing with the coming Christmas festival. Woohoo. Happy last month of 2011. If you still have leave, it’s time to clear it up and spend some time with you family and your loved one. Have a nice day!

December 2, 2011
Smurfs Figure At Gurney Plaza

I think Smurfs is a old school cartoon character because I did not know about just until recently which I have been seeing a lot of the upcoming’s Smurfs movie promo. It’s coming to the cinema in about 2 weeks time. I know that they are the cute little blue creature and they are coming into New York City (in the movie).

A buzz of Smurfs have been created with contest, t-shirts, figures and poster can be seen anywhere. A big marketing money have been throw into to make the movie a success. Eventually that I wanted to watch this movie too.

The Gurney Plaza mall in Penang is exhibiting many Smurfs character at the New Wing area and it’s allow people to take photos of them. It’s pretty cute and there’s really many many Smurfs, I assume there’s more than 100 of them!

I brought my camera, remove the lens cap, and start shooting around the cute little blue figures. =D

I saw many kids were posing there too for the camera of their papa and mama. Even adults take picture with them.

In conjunction with the movie, there’s a session where 3 huge Smurfs mascot come on stage and allow people to take photos with them. In order to pose with them, you have to present a receipt of spending of RM15 in the mall. People queue up with their receipts anxiously to take photos with them. Cute!

August 29, 2011
Hong Kong: Causeway Bay And Somewhere Around

Hello my friends, I will be writing quite a few posts about Hong Kong this few days because I realized that I still have quite many photos to share with you guys about my Hong Kong trip during Chinese New Year this year. Although it’s late, it’s still nice to share and bring back my memory when I was in Hong Kong. This makes me miss Hong Kong so much.

As you know, one of the famous place in Hong Kong is Causeway Bay 铜锣湾 which is a mid-high end shopping district and people like to go there to shopping and also number one hang out place for Hong Kees. =)

Everytime go to Hong Kong must go to this place because of the crowds and it’s the most happening place on the Hong Kong island, whereas on Kowloon side will be the Tsim Sha Tsui and Mongkok area.

The famous Times Square shopping mall also situated at there but I tell you it’s quite boring inside, looking old and dull even it features some international brand at there. I don’t really like walking inside.

One cool thing about this place is that if you comes at night at 1am, there’s still people hanging around, it’s like a place that does not sleep at night. Very happenings.

I don’t know why Hong Kong has so many happenings place. Unlike Malaysia, Penang or KL. KL has the Bukit Bintang area and that’s all, and Penang, I can’t think of any happenings place, perhaps Gurney Drive? But on the weekend only. I like to go out and join the fun.

One thing that you must do at Causeway Bay, Times Square area is that go to the street food stall opposite of Times Square and grab some local street food like curry fish ball, mixed beef organs, sausages and more. They are real awesome and my dad love it very much.

It’s a trend that people either stand by the roadside to eat, or grab and eat and shop at the same time. It’s really an Hong Kong culture, that you probably can’t find it here in Malaysia.

Causeway Bay is a real shopping district, given you want to find cheap stuff at Jardine’s Crescent, or some young stuff and mid-end fashion at Sogo and Island Bevely Shopping Arcade, if you want high-end, go to Times Square. =D

Brother and I were actually walking pointlessly, and almost lost the way of going back to Times Square. Haha, but we didn’t went back there, we went to somewhere else we didn’t know where it was. We keep walking and walking to explore the place around.

And we found World Trade Centre. A office place revamped into a shopping mall too and I found Muji, my favourite Japanese minimalism item store. I wonder when Muji will come to Penang or Malaysia.

There’s plenty street food corner in Hong Kong, you can find them at almost any corner, so no worry of being hungry in Hong Kong because you can get food easily.

We also found the famous in TVB series, 打小人 hit small people, which literally means hitting the paper man with the name of the person you hate or want to curse. It’s kinda famous and lame, but still there’s people visiting these grandmas.

=D D24 Durian at Hong Kong’s Hui Lao Shan.

July 4, 2011
Cadbury Pop It Or Drop It Ground Event At Pavilion

[ADV] Hello people. Last week, I went to Pavilion at Bukit Bintang to check out the Cadbury Choclairs Pop It Or Drop It Ground Event! Yes, you are right, it’s the ground event, not the Internet Facebook game that I introduced few weeks back.

It’s the real thing where people play the real game instead of playing on the keyboard. Damn cool you know. The event started at about 12pm and ended at around 4.30pm. I was around there to join the fun, see what were the contestants doing and having fun. The whole event was pretty interesting.

It was not really a sunny day, drizzled a little bit in the afternoon but luckily the drizzle did not stop the game from going on. However, the cloudy day made it a nice day to spend some times outdoor. I see people were having fun at the Cadbury Choclairs Pop It Or Drop It game. They were just playing hard to win the grand prize which is a ticket for 4 to Gold Coast, Australia!

The game goes like this actually which two participants have to race to the end, the fastest duo wins away the prizes. There’s different part of the game. The first part is the Bungee Dash is like tug of war. The player has to ran against the pulling to get hold of the big Cadbury Choclairs.

Then he need to bounce up the to the top at the next station, then slide down. It’s bounce, or jump, not climb. =D Then he has to slide down and find 10 mini balls.

After that, he will need to pop the balloons with only using the ass which sounds funny and fun.

After successfully popping the balloon, he will then need to climb up a spiderweb where chocolate milk is pouring from top as a chocolate rain. He will bath in chocolate, and he then reaches the final check point and TIME! Sounds interesting right? I actually like the chocolate rain part where people really can taste the chocolate with just an open of the mouth! I wanted to play so badly, just however that I did not bring any extra clothing to change. Aduh.

Besides the big game, there’s also small games like popping Choclairs on a big screen and treasure hunt on Choclairs which leaded to a handphone prize! It’s like a mini games and prizes carnival set up by Cadbury. Very fun.

Besides that, I was not so lucky to win the lucky draw which the prizes were handphone and cash!

And lastly, there’s the prize giving ceremony and want to congrats the winner for winning the ticket to Australia! OMG. I want it so badly. Haha.

ONE MORE THING, remember to check out Choclairs Malaysia’s Facebook Page for more and more about the event and some upcoming cool stuff by them. It’s really very awesome, go LIKE the page, enjoy and HAVE FUN! Choco BOOM!

June 28, 2011
The Gardens and Domo-kun and Ugly Dolls

Some random sharing to spice up my blog a bit after a long pause. I went to The Gardens, Mid Valley during Merdeka holiday. KTV, shopping and walkaround. =D

Ugly Dolls. Really very ugly.

Super big Domo-kun. Kawaii!

Do you like The Gardens?

September 13, 2010

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