Deepavali at the Malls

Last weekend, I had the chance to hit the town for a quick walk. It was the weekend after Deepavali and the decorations were still up. It had been a while since I had the chance to go out with my camera and explore.

I was lucky enough to be able to stop at both Suria KLCC and later Pavilion and I just could not resist the chance. It was just too good ....

The one at Suria featured a couple of giant peacocks in the middle of the main foyer. With their long tails and shimmering lights of the main atria, the colours were just great.

The decorations at Pavilion was slightly different. It was more traditional with large kolam filling up the main floor. The other day, they had a dance troupe doing their merry dance there. Quite a spectacle ...

I wished that I had time to explore Nu Sentral which is located right in the heart of Brickfields ....

Anita's New Light

Anita had been busy doing the balcony and in the last few days had bought some plants from Sungai Buloh filling the main balcony.

Next up would be the bedroom balcony which was a lot smaller. And I though the lights that she bought was a nice touch. Feeding on solar energy, charging its battery during the day, the lights were portable and we could just place then anywhere.

It looks like she would be looking for more of the lights tomorrow ...

Buih

It sure reminded me of Lush, a brand of alternative bath product in the UK. They sold it by weight and my favourite was called "Red Rooster", with it's tangy, zesty smell that would wake you up during the cold winter mornings.

They never made it big time in Malaysia although there were outlets selling them in Singapore.

During our walk at Riuh last weekend we came across a local company producing the same range of product called "Buih" which translates to "bubbles" in Malay - or similar at least. No "Red Rooster" unfortunately. Not many choices when it came to soaps so I just tried me that was available. They certainly got potential ... Maybe in the coming months they would come up with more products ...

Riuh Rendah

APW was only a kilometer away from where we stay. To be honest we could just walk there. Once a month they had this big flea market there called Riuh as well as the usual café offering. We missed the last two for one reason or the other.

We managed to get there this time around to explore what the fuss was about. And the theme for this one was Deepavali, while there were Halloween program for the children.

We started off looking for a drink.... and we found this ribena lychee lemonadeAnita got her drinks from this cool airstream ...Parking was a problem there. We decided to park at Lorong Kurau and took a 10 minute walk to the venue. It was a bright sinning Subang the event was in full swing when we got there just after 5 pm. First order of business was to get drinks and the lychee lemonade just did the trick. Anita had some pasembor from the store and we had that with some ice latte from a hip looking airstream. Nice!

Once we were filled up, we went to explore the pop-up stores and flea market. There was also some workshop with children activities at one of the landings. They had a Halloween costume competition there as well as some kid's fun activities, face painting etc.

A spot to eat and drink ...More lemonade ...Nachos? But the guy never convinced me of being Mexican at all ...Heading upstairs for the children worksop ...The pop-up stores sole crafts and clothes. The one which caught my eyes were a watch shop and a stall selling bathroom products a la "Lush". I bought a few to try. Anita had a look at some of the clothes and shoes Burnett didn't buy anything in the end. There were about to start with live music when we left. We wished that there were more variety of food there. As it was, we decoded t head over to Bangsar Village for dinner.

Off to the pop-up stores ....Purses ...Surprisingly, Anita didn't buy one of those ...Nice. But doesn't look comfortable though ....Topped things off with an Indian dance ...Riuh was an event worth having a look at especially when the weather was nice and you got a couple of hours to spare. I wouldn't mind just sitting down to have a drink. I wished that there were more spaces to sit around and more variety of food to try.

Pumpkin Invasion

You can tell that Halloween was around the corner when there pumpkins aplenty when you walk around Bangsar Village.

There had been around for the last couple of weeks and we were about 10 days away from the end of the month. Maybe they had extra stocks this year ...