Stories and Thoughts

December 12, 2008

Shop more to boost economy growth?

11 DEC 2008: It was a public holiday for Selangor to celebrate our Sultan's birthday. Therefore, I went to Mid Valley with family with the main purpose to exchange some SGD for my trip down to Singapore next weekend. We reached there at 11am and the parking spaces were almost full. I was in luck today that could get my car parked within 10 minutes.

The crowd was as expected since it was a holiday where long queue was seen everywhere from boutiques to restaurants. Looked at those shoppers with paper bags from branded boutiques, I was wondering how bad the economy could be nowadays. MNG was terribly packed with their "Up to 50%" sales (Hehe, my sisters went for it), G2000 was pretty quiet, ZARA has no sales going on...sales everywhere!!!

Anyway, I think Mid Valley has done a great job on Christmas decors that the Center Court was nicely decorated with some huge Christmas trees with a stage surrounded by artificial animals, which has became a popular spot for photograph. We were there for almost a whole day until 4pm. A tiring day it was.



After some noon-nap, I joined few close friends for dinner at Seri Petaling to discuss on preparation for the 12-hours walkathon. It's just 2 days to go and I'm a little bit nervous now. Really hope it'll be a fun and memorable experience.

19 comments:

Fable Frog said...

the kid seems amazed at the decorations~ :P

[SK] said...

wah so happy go shopping for whole day, did u buy me anything?? hehe.. and btw, WHAT are you nervous of about the walkaton?? ngiak ngiak ngiak :p

TZ said...

I told myself to avoid all the shopping mall for yesterday... Expected too crowded in all the shopping mall... :) Especially Midvalley & the Garden.

Dude, you really very lucky... 10 mins to get a parking.

KY said...

Fable Frog: Hopefully he wasn't peeping at somebody upstair. Hehe.

SK: I didn't even buy thing for myself. Was looking for wallet, but not much sales going on for it. Dissapointed!!! Walkathon? Kinda worry I couldn't finish the walk..hehe. Not worry of ur plan!!! :)

TZ: It wasn't so bad if you go earlier. But is was packed...

Danny said...

i was there passing by mid valley area....thanks to you.. i was stuck in the jam outside for 15 mins...
buy la buy la.. get something for me as well wo :P
yup, the circus themed xmas decor is one of my fav so far ...

KY said...

Danny: You were stucked out there while I was so happily shopping inside? Does this suppose to make me feel happier? You shall put the blame on all Selangorean lor. :) I'm kinda headache with those xmas gifts as well, don't think I'll buy any this year..blame it on bad economy.

Medie007 said...

hahaha
true true
i would have gone to mid valley at 10am if i wanted to shop there. :P have not have the chance to admire their deco this year. *note to self: must go soon!

and oooh! me wanna go sgpore too! :S blardy exams just one week before christmas. but on the bright side, it'd be soooo christmasy this year. weeeeeeeee!

must plan for a nice weekend out for christmas. afterall, monday the 29th's a holiday too! yay!

.:: Ant ::. said...

I thought you hated heavy traffic????

Happy "walking" this weekend!^_^

+Ant+

KY said...

Medie007: I think you should really go and take a look. The circus theme decor is pretty nice. Go spore during xmas would be very packed. Kind worry also even I'm going next week, don't really like it too crowded. Anyway, long x'mas holiday huh...enjoy. :)

Anton: I don't like heavy traffic, that was why I went there at 11am..just nice. :)

fufu said...

erm... the xmas decor this year also not doing well!!!! as compared the past xmas i had in msia

meglittlemeg said...

yup, it's people everywhere ya.. The eateries are full at any time of the day too!

The sales aren't that crazy anymore to me, yea, like u said, blame it on the bad economy. But maybe that affects me and you only? Coz everyone seems to be crazily shopping with two hands full.

ernloy said...

good luck for ur marathon then!!! :D

Twilight Man said...

KEENYEE - I should sell my SGD $$ to you since I brought so much back. Their rates are so HIGH now. Sales are everywhere along Orchard Road.

KY said...

Hi everyone, I'm back from Walkathon!!

lcfu: At least those shopping malls are still putting effort to work on the decors, considering the bad economy nowadays. :)

Meg: Most probably just affect 2 of us, the poor couple. Hehe. But we still afford to go for buffet last Sun wo...

ernloy: I'm back!!! Thanks a lot.

Twilight Zone: Yeah...so high!!! I exchanged for the rate of 2.41. You should have told me earlier about this. :)

Twilight Man said...

I got the rate at 2.42 lah. You lucky man!
Where did you change it? I had to go to the 3rd money changer before I got the Spore dollars as all others had finished!

KY said...

Twilight Zone: I've got it from Mid Valley last thursday. The money changer's worker was pretty friendly and gave me some cheeky smile though. :) Where did you get yours then? Bkt Bintang?

said...

1st time here in ur blog~ i think ikano has a better xmas decoration... u should go and have a look :)

KY said...

LeuMaS: Thanks a lot for dropping by. I heard of the decors at The Curve & Ikano from some of my friends though. Really shall go & pay a visit someday. Are you living nearby?

said...

nope~ i'm frm pandan jaya~ purposely go there for a movie~ the xmas tree at there blow out snow which make by soap~ a bit disgusting but very nice to view