The Sunday City Excursion at the Berjaya Time Square, Kuala Lumpur

For a long time, I have to forgo my Sundays of fun and relaxation for classes, but this weekend, I have it to my own and city excursion has been quite fun. Right before I left home, a friend from college messaged me to have lunch, well; sure!

And we had lunch at a new rennovated shopping mall, that have it upgraded to middle-class status. I had the paprik fried rice, and over meals, we talked about how it all gonna end soon, how the businesses surrounding the area has to changed focus, i.e. from being theme-based to generic. My thought is that the area is a transit location. People transit there on their way back home from office, transit upon arrival from other cities; thus, general taste and preferences rule out, although some have captured the travellers' market. And we also had some thoughts on future, that it is now the best time to cut expenses because of uncertainty in the coming future. We then changed subject on our career and what would we be doing after graduation.

I then made my move to the newly opened mall, the Berjaya Time Square. The monorail ride from Bukit Bintang to the Imbi station at RM1.20 was a totally new experience. Too bad there were just too many people in it to have it as an exciting first ride. The area has certainly changed in many ways. Finally, after about a minute, I got down from the train for a first visit to the new 'big and large' mall. I guess for retail business, it is not race to the bottom, but race to be the biggest, and the largest. And it was full with mostly families with children at this first weekend opening.

There are in all 10 floors. And its fifth and seventh floor are where all the thrills and funs for kids and adults to enjoy. I think that kids in Malaysia generally could just forget the Hong Kong's Disney, although they probably offer different experiences, this one has got a lot to offer, plus Hong Kong is too expensive. There are variety of rides at the Cosmo's World theme park, and I am sort of dissapointed at the lack of creativity around the ideas of park. The cosmo theme didn't stand out.

Probably chasing for early opening, and for the PM to officiate it before retirement, I think the launching date was too early for few exciting tenants and businesses to open up. The 9 screen cinemas are soon to be opened, the 3D IMAX theatres are yet to start their operation, and so do the Debenhams department store, the Shasta Shopping Mall, the food court, and the bowling arena. Nevertheless, there are already two Starbucks cafe here, one at the ground floor and the other one on the third floor. Wi-fi anyone?

As I didn't have any urge to shop for anything, I left the place, heading for the tech marketplace. And I got to try out the new T|3 and the T|E. The Palm T|3 sliding version was an exciting first Palm model with Virtual Graffitti. Ony drawback is that there aren't that many programs supporting it. And the T|E is surprising priced at RM788 here. It's a one great competitive pricing for this model that has got a feel like Palm Vx, only that it is so shiny with it's metal casing that trap too much fingerprint marks. Hmm ... let's just wait for Brando to come out with solution to this and capture the market for anti fingerprints marks on PDAs.

I stop for now to enjoy some great my evening coffee at any nearby Starbucks around here. I can't wait for a productive week ahead starting tomorrow!

Comments

[calvin leong]

I am long stay guest with berjaya times square. was very dissapoited to the Debenhams department store for buying goods. Today 12 Jun 2005 11.36am, buying birthday gifts at toys section, surprisingly the promoter told me IM SO SORRY I DONT KNOW... with all question that i ask, and she turn back on what she is doing. NO one bother me at all while looking for something speacial as birthday gifts. about 10 mins later i approached the sales promoter again and i told her i want this product called lumi pad it cost me RM 398.90 and question her can i try and she jus ignore me keep quiet and just turn around to look for charger for me to try the product and i was so impatient then i told her i wan to buy this and where should i pay she just pointing the particular areas and turn back for her owned work. as the cashier told me she is new and proceed to 2nd floor for the battery but unfortunately the 2nd floor supervisor was no idea what battery should this LUMI PAD used and hold me for 15 mins by the time im actually rushing for flight to spore and i did told him but no anwser was provide to me ...... surprise was i asked for screw driver and he just dump it on the table and turn off. afterall i unscrew the LUMI PAD battery compartment and ask him now do you know wat battery should i used, the anwser was IM SO SORRY SIR WE DO NOT SELL THIS BATTERY. It was so upsad to buy things from the debenhams department store.

[Nizam Zakaria]

I went to Berjaya Times Square. Was very dissapointed with the place. It's an overglorified IOI Mall, so I might as well stick to IOI Mall.

I think I'll only head there to watch the Imax shows. I love Imax... when I was an A-level student in Singapore, I've never missed the shows shown in the Singapore Science Centre :)