Whee! And so far... I must say that I have had an awesome start stepping into 2009. Beginning the year on a high note sure gives one a sense of euphoria.
New Year's Day was greeted in a super-non-boisterous way... away from being in a crowd. Essentially, I was just sitting in front of my PC chatting away with like-minded friends over MSN. After the stroke of midnight... it was all about watching the Miss Universe 2008 pageant on NTV7. The added sense of fun came in via the discussion that I was having with 'the Hun' during advertisements as the pageant progressed on... nyahaha... madness!
In the afternoon... it was off to Kay-el for my once a year mega-shopping spree! Upon arrival, a girl on the same bus asked if I knew how to get to the KTM commuter station and I was like, "Hey! Just follow me! I'm going there too!". Along the way, I advised the girl to make sure that she notices the name plate placed at the windshield of the arriving train... or she could end up heading to the wrong location. One good deed completed on the 1st day of 2009... not bad at all!
Towards the end of New Year's Day... the Hun apparently sent out a (mass?) message to make us think about how time flies and it's almost the 2nd day of 2009 *le gasp!* - pure evil that one!
Day 2 of 2009, Shopping Day 1: Joy! My brother is not working for the day and he told me I could take the car. So off I drove to Sunway Pyramid firstly for lunch and then yup... it's time to shop, shop, shop! Oh... and it was kinda weird... the new wing in SP still had a Christmas display/stage while the old wing had a CNY-themed one all done up. Luckily I had a camera with me to take some shots of those displays. Probably I'll put them up on FB at a later time... if I don't conveniently forget about it first.
Day 3 of 2009, Shopping Day 2: Hitched a ride with my bro to Mid Valley in the morning and made the mistake of going into MPH a little too early into my shopping spree there. I should remember never to buy books at the early part of a shopping spree... that is a lot of weight to carry. Darn...
Anyway, the funniest thing that happened was getting a call from Kalamari when I was... in the fitting room. I bet the sales girl was probably cursing me for hogging the room a little longer that she would have preferred while I spent a little extra time to have a chat on the cellphone while separating the pieces of clothing that I wanted from the ones I didn't want. Talk about multi-tasking... it was actually quite hard to do all of that in one small space... lol ^_*
Eventually... it was time to meet up with Bowie for lunch and to past to her my copy of the Kite Runner. Oh... and of course... her partner was around too since both of them just finished their session in the gym. We checked out the food court in The Gardens and found that the food there is pretty good and the pricing is not that bad by KL shopping mall standards.
After lunch, we all browsed around and continued window shopping after I had dropped of my now rather-heavy-to-lug-around bag of purchases to my bro who's working in one of the shops in The Gardens. That was the best idea of all from Bowie... thank you!
 | Sure feels good to walk without the weights of my purchase... literally... lol. Anyway, we eventually went to the Body Shop where I purchased my all new favorite scent - Japanese Cherry Blossoms EDT. Bowie said it kinda reminds her of lychees... the ones that you can get from the tin. Eventually, it was time to part ways as Bowie had to go collect her car from the service center and well... that's enough shopping for me for one day. |
Ahh... and the one thing that was a definite confidence booster? Seriously, I don't remember the last time a random rather cute and charming person hit on me... but it did happen as I was about to leave the place I was having dinner at on this particular day. It really did make me feel super-elated.
Day 4 of 2009: All good things must come to an end... it was time to go home. I had my last encounter with Astro and my bro's nice new Mac computer in the KL house... packed my stuff up... and got on the mid-afternoon bus home to Penang within exactly the scheduled 4.5 hours ride. That's rather amazing considering the fact that it was raining along some stretches of the journey.
Ah well... it's back to work tomorrow... first day back at work... and I am already all psyched up to face the traffic... it's going to be bad considering that it's also the first day of school for 2009... but who cares... bring it on!
