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Published: October 23rd 2009
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The place is MEANT TO breathe the fresh (air-conditioned) air of ……….shopping malls! I dislike shopping malls in India. Cuz shopping malls in India= painful parking tickets + painfully noisy over sized families walking around + painfully slow cashiers + painfully over artificial sales staff + NO VARIETY.
I feel sheer agony just thinking of the no of times I’ve walked out empty handed as I couldn’t get items in my size/ color / type. Sheer waste of time, walking around aimlessly paying monies for the disorganised parking lots. So much of pain for NOTHING. ZILCH. ZERO.
But the malls at KL are sheer joy! (So heres describing my shallow, materialistic side). Be it the streets of Bukit Bintang, Sungei Wang, Low Yat Plaza, BB Plaza, Suria KLConvention Center, the Mid-Valley mega mall,
or simply the string of dukaans at the famous KL international airport- they’re each a remarkable treat!
They instantly turned me - an avid mall-hater to an avid mall-fanatic! And how!
1. Friendly staff (& yes, despite their accent you DO understand what they say)
2. Sanitation- cleannnnn public washrooms
3. Variety- I’ve bought the 1st
thing I’d tried on (in clothes)- no problem with size/ color/ style. In the end
of the day you feel what you bought was WORTH the credit card swipe!
4. All brands of the world… you name it.
5. Layout- extremely organized. Once you get in, you know how to get out. It aint labyrinthine like phoenix mills/ nirmal lifestyle etc wherein sometimes you feel you’re trapped solving a horribly irritating and banal version of da vinci code!
6. Money changers - sprawled all across- to help you spend more… and more… and more! Nothing should stop u!
So what did I buy? Clothes! Shoes! Electronic items! Gadgets! Cosmetics! (eh! That’s all??)
Alright, putting aside my over- zealousness of justifying my credit card expenditure (imagine, one card stopped working cuz they tot it was probably being misused!!)-
Genting Highlands…… the Las Vegas of Malaysia! Imagine a day in a theme-park with the following- Casino, snow world, indoor theme park, outdoor theme park, water park, with a few family and kiddie rides and most exciting thrill rides (Intense, not for faint-hearted!!) such as the flying dragon, Pirates ship, Cyclone, Flying coaster (I call it
the spiderman ride). The best being “space shot” which is a Space Shot is a rapid vertical ascent and descent amusement ride which goes up 185’ at the speed of 67 kmph!
We did skip Sky venture, Sky-way Cable ride, Ripley’s believe it or not museum and a few rides, but were so much in awe with the rest that it didn’t matter!
The Petronas Twin Towers- we needed to get there by 8 am- to get the passes (free!!!) to go to the skybridge. And the ooops of not getting a cab made us witness a morning in the lives of busy office go-ers, we traveled by the sky-mono rail, the subway rail, and managed to be late only by 1 hr, and we DID go up to the skybridge!
Kuala Lumpur Communications towers (the fifth tallest tower in the world)- we went up some 300 m by lift to catch a 360 degree view of KL. Each window was numbered, & each person was given a self-help walkman-thingie with headphones- so we could hear & see the recorded version of “what we
can see from which window”
Eye on Malaysia- The newest
attraction. A slow giant wheel- from where you could take a look at KL
(like the London Eye)
China Market- doesn’t require excellent bargaining skills to get the rates down to 25-50%! (MISSING)Great for bags/T-shirts/DVDs.
Misc around the city- Kings palace, beautiful Chinese temples, Cocoa Boutique
Night life- Did manage to go to Hard Rock Café at Bukit Nanas … unlike Mumbai, the volume wasn’t
booming (whatta pity) cuz that it seems is the appropriate level for dinner time… We were physically too exhausted to wait around till 11-11.30 for the live band (so that’s the result of a whole day of walking till u felt yr feet would break into pieces!)
General public- I don’t know if it was cuz of my holiday mode, but on the overall basis I got a feel of
people being happy/ easy going/ with few or none hassles in the world. Even on the roads, there were traffic jams but seldom any one honked or drove in frenzy.
Things I didn’t do- 1. Experiment with FOOD (very unlike ME)… I was busy munching away hot dogs … sheesh, I look down upon myself. Although we
did have good sushi
2. Go to nearby places like Lankawi—but we were bound with the SOTC package of 5 days at KL tour… well, anyways.
3. Skipped the Lake Gardens- would’ve loved to spend time there 4. Skipped Sunway Lagoon… but didn’t regret that at all after GENTING!
What I brought back for people-
The collection of some 400 snaps I clicked!
Weather- like Mumbai. Hot, humid, although it does rain every few days which cools down the place overall.
Public trpt- AC cabs, Subway Train & the Sky- Mono rail--- way too easy and comfortable as compared to the aggressive jungle-rule local trains in Mumbai (I remember fumbling with the local train routes in the early days in Mumbai- trying to mug ‘em up like a school girl!)
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