When I was going home from work this afternoon, the crowd in KLCC shopping centre was pack! Then I remember it was salary time. I haven't receive mine because the company i work for only pay our salary on the last day of the month.
I could see so many families hanging out with their children, school children from different schools were visiting Aquaria KLCC. I wonder do they have to pay RM25 per entry? Or there's a student's price I don't know about...
Isetan was always pack with people and business has been good since they moved the supermarket to concourse floor. Japanese food items, groceries and fruits business blossom. Even their dessert and bakery sections were doing well too.
Isetan draws a different type of consumers. Mostly working professionals and high flyers. I shop there because the food is fresher. Meat and vegetables are fresh compare to other hypermarket like Giant. Another reason I shop there is, you don't have people picking through the veges or fruits and press every items. I really hate it! Price is rather more expensive but if you're buying for small family or single, it's still ok.
Every eating outlets are full of people in KLCC. With the global economic looking gloomy, Malaysia in general is still OK and we can still enjoy our life and have some entertainment and eating out. I hope we appreciate what we have.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Good Shopping Malls in Kuala Lumpur
When you are visiting Kuala Lumpur or KL in short, there are a few shopping malls that you should visit. If you stay around Bukit Bintang area, there are quite a few shopping malls around the area and it's in walking distance.
Recommended Shopping Malls are:
Sungai Wang
This place a lot of retail and really cheap for visitors visiting from Europe, USA or Australia. Before you buy a new fashionable bag or shirt, be sure to ask if you can get a discount. Normal discount is between 10%-15%. There are frequent sales in most retails so you can get a good bargain.
There are quite a few gadgets outlets in Sungai Wang or BB Plaza. Before you buy, please check the prices for all the shops. You can come back again to buy the best offered camera.
For food, there's a great local style food court on the 4 floor. It's a bit warm but they have big fans so it's ok. Mostly serve Chinese food but I heard there are Halal store too.
BB Plaza
This place is offer local product and keepsakes. There are relatively cheap and reasonable price items. There is one camera shop at the ground floor that offers camera at a good price. Be sure to bargain or freebies.
Pavilion Shopping Mall
This is the high end shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur. All the branded stuff you love is here. From Gucci to LV, from watches to jewelries, if this fancy you, get something for yourself.
There are a lot of great food outlets here that you must try. For local food, go to the food court at lower ground floor. Most of the stores serve good food. If you're not sure which one you like, just follow the crowd. Besides the food court, there are quite a few great restaurants on the top floor. I recommend that you go for Chinese restaurants or Asian restaurant. Middle East restaurants are not at par.
You must try the fish spa next to the cinema. It's either you love it or hate it. OK, you won't hate it but you can't get pass that weird feeling the tiny fishes nibble at your feet. For first timers, you will feel ticklish for a few minutes, after that you'll like it. For RM38, you'll get a clean, soft feet after 30 minutes fish spa.
Suria KLCC Shopping Mall
One of the crowded shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur. Come as early as 8.30am to queue for an entrance ticket to the sky bridge. It's free but they only allow limited numbers of visitors a day. You can get your breakfast at 4th floor or 2nd floor food court. If you fancy eating at a restaurant for lunch, all the restaurants located at 4th floor are good but a bit pricey.
This place offer branded goods too. If you are looking for reasonable price items, you can visit Parkson or Isetan. There are a number of local brand stores too for those who are looking for quality bargain. There's a Mark & Spencer but I'm not sure of the price compare to overseas. Watches, spa, jewelries are all here.
If you want to visit these place by walking, I recommend you stay at 3 or 4 stars hotel at Bukit Bintang area.
Recommended Shopping Malls are:
Sungai Wang
This place a lot of retail and really cheap for visitors visiting from Europe, USA or Australia. Before you buy a new fashionable bag or shirt, be sure to ask if you can get a discount. Normal discount is between 10%-15%. There are frequent sales in most retails so you can get a good bargain.
There are quite a few gadgets outlets in Sungai Wang or BB Plaza. Before you buy, please check the prices for all the shops. You can come back again to buy the best offered camera.
For food, there's a great local style food court on the 4 floor. It's a bit warm but they have big fans so it's ok. Mostly serve Chinese food but I heard there are Halal store too.
BB Plaza
This place is offer local product and keepsakes. There are relatively cheap and reasonable price items. There is one camera shop at the ground floor that offers camera at a good price. Be sure to bargain or freebies.
Pavilion Shopping Mall
This is the high end shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur. All the branded stuff you love is here. From Gucci to LV, from watches to jewelries, if this fancy you, get something for yourself.
There are a lot of great food outlets here that you must try. For local food, go to the food court at lower ground floor. Most of the stores serve good food. If you're not sure which one you like, just follow the crowd. Besides the food court, there are quite a few great restaurants on the top floor. I recommend that you go for Chinese restaurants or Asian restaurant. Middle East restaurants are not at par.
You must try the fish spa next to the cinema. It's either you love it or hate it. OK, you won't hate it but you can't get pass that weird feeling the tiny fishes nibble at your feet. For first timers, you will feel ticklish for a few minutes, after that you'll like it. For RM38, you'll get a clean, soft feet after 30 minutes fish spa.
Suria KLCC Shopping Mall
One of the crowded shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur. Come as early as 8.30am to queue for an entrance ticket to the sky bridge. It's free but they only allow limited numbers of visitors a day. You can get your breakfast at 4th floor or 2nd floor food court. If you fancy eating at a restaurant for lunch, all the restaurants located at 4th floor are good but a bit pricey.
This place offer branded goods too. If you are looking for reasonable price items, you can visit Parkson or Isetan. There are a number of local brand stores too for those who are looking for quality bargain. There's a Mark & Spencer but I'm not sure of the price compare to overseas. Watches, spa, jewelries are all here.
If you want to visit these place by walking, I recommend you stay at 3 or 4 stars hotel at Bukit Bintang area.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Travel Tips: Taking a Taxi in Kuala Lumpur
Travel tips if you are visiting Kuala Lumpur.The first one is about taxi drivers.
Everyday when I passed by KLCC, I would see a group of taxi drivers queuing at the taxi station on both side of the exits. One in front of Maxis entrance or exit from the LRT and the other in front of Suria KLCC. Beware of the taxi drivers there because they don't use meters. Although some tourists insisted on using the meters, be careful not to be conned by them. Their meters have been tempered and it goes up really, really fast.
My advice is don't take taxi at the KLCC taxi station. If you need to go a bit further away place, walk through the tunnel towards the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center and out of it. There is a street and you can just wait by the street side and hail a taxi.
Another option (I prefer this one best) is take the LRT to KL Sentral station. Go to the taxi counter on the first floor. The counter is near the information counter near the exit to Hilton Hotel. There, the taxi fare is by coupon. You can take a taxi there to wherever you want to go. Just mention your destination clearly to the counter personal and pay the fare to get the coupon. Pass the coupon to the taxi driver and you don't need to pay anything extra. Don't pay even when the taxi driver says it's peak hours. If the driver insisted, you can write down the taxi number (begin with something like HW....) and pass it to the KL Sentral taxi counter.
Remember, there are 3 taxi counters at KL Sentral. There's one near the exit to Sooka building or the KL Express train. That counter is for premier taxi - by coupon too. If you are traveling with a family more than 2, it's recommended to use the premier van. It can sit up to 4-6 people.
The 3rd taxi counter is at the lower ground, where the buses to Air Asia's Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) airport. That one is different price and sometimes taxi drivers take advantages.
Most of the places of interests in Kuala Lumpur can be reach by LRT. The main terminal hub is at KL Sentral too. Here is the all the LRT routes, including the Monorail that goes around the main cities routes.
In a nutshell, KL Sentral is the transport hub that is useful in getting you to the place you want to visit without being ripped off. Always ask the information counter located on the first floor. Although most personals speak English, it's better that you speak slowly so they can understand. Sometimes, the accents is quite difficult to understand by Malaysians.
If you are always here for a business trip, it's good to get a honest taxi driver's contact number so you can call him to pick you or send you around Kuala Lumpur. If you're a tourist and needed my recommendation, you can leave a comment and I will recommend for you. Good Luck and I hope you will enjoy the wonderful experience Kuala Lumpur can offers you.
Oh, if you want to stay at KL Sentral area so it's convenient for you to go sightseeing, I recommend Hotel Sentral and My Hotel. Both are clean and reasonable price and walking distance to KL Sentral. There are plenty of Indian food and Chinese food around the hotels too.
Everyday when I passed by KLCC, I would see a group of taxi drivers queuing at the taxi station on both side of the exits. One in front of Maxis entrance or exit from the LRT and the other in front of Suria KLCC. Beware of the taxi drivers there because they don't use meters. Although some tourists insisted on using the meters, be careful not to be conned by them. Their meters have been tempered and it goes up really, really fast.
My advice is don't take taxi at the KLCC taxi station. If you need to go a bit further away place, walk through the tunnel towards the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center and out of it. There is a street and you can just wait by the street side and hail a taxi.
Another option (I prefer this one best) is take the LRT to KL Sentral station. Go to the taxi counter on the first floor. The counter is near the information counter near the exit to Hilton Hotel. There, the taxi fare is by coupon. You can take a taxi there to wherever you want to go. Just mention your destination clearly to the counter personal and pay the fare to get the coupon. Pass the coupon to the taxi driver and you don't need to pay anything extra. Don't pay even when the taxi driver says it's peak hours. If the driver insisted, you can write down the taxi number (begin with something like HW....) and pass it to the KL Sentral taxi counter.
Remember, there are 3 taxi counters at KL Sentral. There's one near the exit to Sooka building or the KL Express train. That counter is for premier taxi - by coupon too. If you are traveling with a family more than 2, it's recommended to use the premier van. It can sit up to 4-6 people.
The 3rd taxi counter is at the lower ground, where the buses to Air Asia's Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) airport. That one is different price and sometimes taxi drivers take advantages.
Most of the places of interests in Kuala Lumpur can be reach by LRT. The main terminal hub is at KL Sentral too. Here is the all the LRT routes, including the Monorail that goes around the main cities routes.
In a nutshell, KL Sentral is the transport hub that is useful in getting you to the place you want to visit without being ripped off. Always ask the information counter located on the first floor. Although most personals speak English, it's better that you speak slowly so they can understand. Sometimes, the accents is quite difficult to understand by Malaysians.
If you are always here for a business trip, it's good to get a honest taxi driver's contact number so you can call him to pick you or send you around Kuala Lumpur. If you're a tourist and needed my recommendation, you can leave a comment and I will recommend for you. Good Luck and I hope you will enjoy the wonderful experience Kuala Lumpur can offers you.
Oh, if you want to stay at KL Sentral area so it's convenient for you to go sightseeing, I recommend Hotel Sentral and My Hotel. Both are clean and reasonable price and walking distance to KL Sentral. There are plenty of Indian food and Chinese food around the hotels too.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Has Malaysia Crimes Reduce?
Recently my house was broken into and until today, there was no news from the police. When I asked around, everyone gave me the same feedback. Malaysian police can't be rely on. Don't you think it's sad to hear 10 out of 10 people told me the same thing? Mind you, it seems that almost everyone had that kind of experience with Malaysia's police.
When my house was broken into, our security guards weren't aware of it until I came home finding my kitchen window is wide opened! Yup, you guess it right. My place has 24 hours security guards and I have to pay a few hundreds ringgits of maintenance fees every month. And this is the result.
Our building management, well, the council people tried to do something but, honestly there's no follow up. They did sent a warning letter to the security company and that's it. I asked a few times on the status and there's none.
The police sargent who took my case, told me it could be an insiders job and there were already a few units been broken into before. OK, so what's the actions taken? None. He told me that day there were more than 10 cases, blah blah blah. One of the 'pecah rumah' cases was someone with a high ranking so they had to spend more time at his place. So we commoners are not important? I waited till 1pm for them to arrived. I told them the thief used my cards and his face was in the cctv, his car but he said, burn a copy send the evidences to his office. I'm not sure if we are really short of police that night, but if they act promptly, there's a chance they can catch up with the thief.
Oh I want to let everyone know the thief is a chinese guy ya. This is because we, Malaysians are still very racist. We always... immediately assumed is the other races! Criminals are race-less. They are just criminals, come from all sizes and races. There is no one race that don't have bad eggs. So please stop judging races.
Honestly, Malaysia is still far from being a safe country to live in. You may be angry with my statement but it the sad truth. Dare you walk out at night at a dark alley or quiet street? Snatch thieves, robbers into your house, these are daily news in Malaysia. If a garden or condo or apartment has a case, I guarantee you it's not just one case. It's a continuous cases. If your community has money and unity, they hire security guards for night shifts. If you live in a neighborhood where everyone doesn't care for the others, then you'll see houses grilled their home like a maximum security prison!
There is no suburb or garden that is safe to live. It really depend on the neighborhood. There are still a few safer neighborhoods in Klang Valley if you can find it.
Lastly you may think if it's not safe in Malaysia why do I still live here? Because this is my home, my country.
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