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12 December, 2009

more chrismassy sights~

And there we went, along the stretch of Orchard from Paragon leading to Somerset 313. Yea man, that's the current place to see and be seen. Apparently... haha!

So, HS and me went to get our dinner from Paragon basement, so along the way, here's what I caught on camera.


interesting sculpture


Then we ate dinner, and afterwards we passed by the M1 shop in Paragon. Long queues siah! Probably all buying iPhone? When we moved back up to the streets, it was already dark.


nice?


dazzling, with reindeers circling the tree


Then beside the lights, there's this huge Santa that'll turn slowly. In fact, it's everywhere in Ocrhard.


somehow, 'ol santa looked kinda sinister here~!


What's Orchard without the crowds. Here's an image of the people and lights.


bustling with activities on a Friday night

Finally, came to Somerset 313. The building is just like a squarish box, nothing to shout about. But there's the lights that comes and goes at its outer wall surface. Kinda interesting. It's quite cute coz the lights runs somewhat fast and yours truly was clumsily trying to capture these on camera...


no lights


with lights


Orchard Central on the outer side has far more colourful lightings.


Orchard Central

Finally, Somerset 313. Our destination for the night.


shop shop shop!

Before you enter, look up and you'll be greeted by this:



Somerset 313 has arrived!

Of course, you need to watch where you're going also. We heard a loud clink, and apparently a man has his mouth/face knocked by the glass door. It sure felt painful. Beware shoppers! Look where you're heading and if you're pushing some glass door, do it gently... There're a lot of distractions inside the shop that might make you stop and look, so try not to do so in a too abrupt manner, and the people following behind, can observe the 5 secs rule? Keep ya distance, otherwise glaring incidents might occur and tempers may fly! Preachy, I know. But safety first.

That done, HS and me did spend from like 730pm till 11pm at Somerset 313. Lots of bargains 'coz of the shops opening. Uniqlo has alot of limited offer items, and equally as many shoppers.. should look at their cashiers.. all lined up and ready to take your $$$. Kaching!!

Happy Shopping!

09 December, 2009

KL Weekend Shopping Getaway Part III

Date: 7 December 2009

Last day in KL. Quite idylic.. had breakfast at the hotel. Quite good. They had an omelette station where the chef cooks your omelette on the spot. Didn't try that as I ate the scrambled eggs and sausages (it's fried sausages, not boiled! wooHoo!) And they serve you coffee at your table. How cool was that!

After breakfast, we checked out the swimming pool (miniature!) and then went back to the hotel. Our bus is at 2pm, and we've gotta check out at 1pm.



reading newspaper



sleepy still?


Then we utilized the last complimentary drinks at the lounge and proceeded to board the bus by 1.45pm. The bus started moving before 2pm. Seems like those people that came with our bus load didn't go back with us.

The bus drives direct to Yong Ping to make a pit stop. There're restrooms, and food stalls cum a minimart that sells local produce. The washrooms were scary. The cleaning lady was cleaning it, but we had to use it. Had the feeling that the cleaning lady would use her high jet spray and spray the cubicle that I was in! Haha!



pedestrian exempted



thanks for walking together


We concluded our short getaway trip with dinner at the Concorde Hotel food court.


polished


Ade, we'll see you next time!

08 December, 2009

KL Weekend Shopping Getaway Part II

Date: 6 December 2009

Missed breakfast, 'coz too busy lazing in bed...


view from my window




Decided to take a few pics of the room...




In the bathroom, there's this contraption:


vacumn cleaner? no... hair dryer

But the most important thing in the bathroom that's fully utilized by me....


this one

Window view gets better when the sun shines higher...





postcard like


Wah.. so late already, so cannot waste time! Chop chop we went out to look for lunch at Sungei Wang. Had noodles, but HS had a mishap at that shop. Not a very good start to the day.

The girls went to get their manicure and pedicure. So I hung around to kpo.


pampering in progress..



looking french there



nicely painted nail art


ta dah!


After the pampering and girly stuffs, we went on to Pavillion. It was just a short distance walk from Sungei Wang.



Pavillion



shop shop


christmas decor inside Pavillion, looks like some kind of an art installation


a big sleigh


Was feeling rather thirsty, so we sat down for coffee @ Oldtown.


hazelnut coffee


french fries


Pavillion has a lot of branded goods on the ground floor but the price seems to be a little higher than those found in SG. At the basement, there's a Food Republic. Food Republic! SG has invaded KL! Breadtalk la etc, all there!


found outside of Pavillion, the pot changes color every now and then


orange colored


red


blue, ok.. you get the drift!


on the way to taxi stand


After Pavillion, we headed to The Curve... which we were told, is the current hang-out place for KL ppl. So took a cab from Pavillion (metered cab) and it costs us around RM27 to get to the Curve.



domed ceiling for the Curve


so much space!


restaurants


the Curve signage



Christmas decor inside the building, with cherubic angels!


And, we saw Santa.... on stilts... ha ha!


santa

For dinner, we went to eat at the Asian Courtyard. The Curve has these restaurants located at courtyards. There's one for western, asian, and forgot what else. Anyway, we went to Penang Little Cafe or something like that.



curry mee


rojak


forgot what's the name of this dish, but it has soy sauce chicken


chendol

The 八宝凉茶 tasted like it has pepper in it. Weird.


Second day ended, with a cab ride back to our hotel (no meter, RM30), and we're comfortably in bed by 1030pm.



twin tower at night

KL Weekend Shopping Getaway Part I

Date: 5 December 2009
From: Concorde Hotel
To: Kuala Lumpur
Via: Luxury Tour and Travels (3D2N Free&Easy)


What? I cannot be tourist in my own country isit? Haha, yalar.. me ulu. KL is not my turf.. seriously!

So, on a Saturday, we started the journey from the Concorde Hotel (prev known as Le Meridien). The bus took off at 8am. So early!


inside the bus

The immigration was quite busy with bus loads of people, mostly fron tour operators. Otherwise, the journey was quite smooth. The only event that happened was someone's husband was still in the washroom when the bus started to continue its journey.

Reached KL around 2pm and wanted to check in to the hotel, but alas.... it was not to be... The recept told us that the rooms are not ready and need to wait an hour. Never encountered such a situation before, so bo bian.. waited. Gave us one complimentary drink. They said they'll come look for us at the lounge area once they're done.


Cherlyn + HS, with complimentary drinks


and we waited....



the hotel feels like it has a museum decor


snapped somemore pics

and yet, the room still not ready after 1 hour! And no one came to update us on the status...


getting bored


So, trooped down towards the recept and enquired the status of our rooms. The guy checked the computer a bit, and said, well, 1 room is ready now. 1 room?! What happened to the other room? We need 2 rooms you know? "Sorry, but the other room is still being cleaned." Wah.. what kind of dirty room it is that needs a few hours to clean?! According to my sis, who had a short stint working as a chambermaid in the hotel before.. room cleaning at most will only take half hour. Tsk tsk! Maybe this hotel's chambermaids only haf 2 person to clean all floors.. poor thing!

Anyway, we took the only available room and made sure that the other room is reserved, and proceeded to put our things before setting off to Mid-Valley. Hadn't had lunch yet you know, and it was 3pm when we reached Mid-Valley Megamall. Cab fare (metered) to Mid-Valley from KL (Jln Raja Chulan) was about RM20.


lunch at Madam Kwan's


Was feeling quite famished. Ordered their nasi lemak (RM14.90++), and char kway teow (RM15.40++)to share because we have a dinner date with Waishe.


nasi lemak


char kway teow


After lunch, it's shopping time! Well, for the girls. I needed to walk walk to burn off some fats. Muahahaa!


christmas stage



hello, princesses.. waiting for prince charming?


Of course, after we walked n shopped for a while, it's time for a break. So, it's ice cream time!


baskin robbins - what flavour? I forgot! Ooh, something with coffee...


inside has almond bits as well...



it is true! ice cream does make people happy! Haha!


After the break, it was back to more shopping! Nose, Vincci, Adidas, Nike.. watch out, here we come!

Very soon, it was almost 7pm. Had made arrangements with Waishe for dinner around 8pm, so decided to have tea break at Steven's Tea Garden. Sounds class hor, tea garden... but its just an ordinary mamak joint that has teh tarik! At quite a high price too. We had 3 drinks (teh tarik and lime juice!) and it costs like RM15? Faints....



interesting mascot


Waishe asked us to wait for her at The Gardens Hotel entrance, so we walked towards that area which is just nearby.


eagerly waiting for Zouk Cafe & Bar to open!


Dinner was at this coffee shop, somewhere far far away... Had butter crabs, salted egg crabs, fried man-tous, fried vege and fried sotong. The crabs had hard shells and firm meat. Really must use the mini hammer to bang onto the shell to crack it open!


butter crab


After dinner, it was off to the night life! Happening siah! We went to Asian Heritage Row to club. Their website is here.


poison of choice



club dancer


dancing on table top



waishe and lily


merv





After that, its back to hotel to sleep... Thanks Waishe, Merv, Lily for a havoc night out!