Halloween at BSC

It was that time of the year again and certainly around Bangsar, there were plenty of expats family playing along with the celebration.

It was all in great fun although there were parties who took themselves too seriously at times and went on to ben this kind of thing. It was up to them, but certainly quite interesting to browse around at BSC ….

Checkers at BSC

Bangsar Shopping Centre had always been grand in their decorations during festivities. Their themes were always best appreciated from the upper floors looking down. There was the Xmas dinner table decorations from before, and continuing along on the same vein, the theme for this year’s Chinese New Year decorations were Chinese checkers. I mean the board game.

The lanterns came as standard of course. The main foyer was turned into a bazaar, selling some pretty high end antiques and clothing. Too expensive for my taste I was afraid.

Expensive Furry Stuff

Anita had always been a fan of furry things. When I go abroad, she always ordered for furry handbags. She would rather have then furry from unknown brands, to expansive ones. Which was good, except that often it wasn't that easy to find one. In those situations, a Burburry would be fine - she never complained when I got her one of those so far ....... And before you guys got started, no I'm not furry ......

So, last night when we were at BSC, we cane across this furry stool at one of the interior designer shops. She lived it. The only snag was, the damn thing cost RM1600. That was rediculous! RM1600!

I could've got a lot if thongs with that amount of money!

Cuti Raya Day-5

Not yet officially on leave bit with the completion of my last on call for Ramadan and this morning's clinic, I felt that the Raya break was just around the corner, and there was a need to get the preparations going. It would all start with some cleaning up and recovering from the last call.

The boys actually helped out with the cleaning up earlier today, and I managed to catch up with some sleep this afternoon. Feeling refreshed, I took the family out to Bangsar Shopping Centre after berbuka as Anita had some shopping to sort out. Mainly some Raya cookies which she had been eyeing for.

While we were there, we also had some snack at La Bodega while watching the Saturday evening crowd pass by. We also did some take-out for sahur, plus some groceries.

We planned to leave the apartment for Gombak tomorrow afternoon. But at the rate we were going, I didn't think anybody was in the mood to leave yet. We have yet to start packing. And the boys really loved their rooms and were already planning what to fill them with. But not this month, as the bulk of the budget went to Raya preparations.

So, some more relaxing tonight as I could see that tomorrow would be a long day .....

BSC Raya Bazaar

This was definitely bot for the faint-hearted. Since we were spending time at the apartment, we decided to go for some groceries. And while we were there at Bangsar Shopping Center, the main foyer at the new wing was filled up with a bazaar. But the prices of the stuff on display was just ..... unbelievable. I couldn't offord any of them. They were just rediculously expensive.

There were clothes, hampers and carpets mainly. And the clothes were really nice especially the ones for children. The pattern this year happened to be checkered, almost the same as what the boys like to wear. Cute stuff. The lace and samping for adults was a different story. A songket samping for RM3000? You got to be joking. No wonder some resorted to slicing people's thumbs off as means of getting cash!

But the bazaar itself really lived up to the billing. They even had live musician playing there when we visited. The ambiance was great although it could be crowded as the stalks were bunched closely together and the corridor in between were quite narrow.

If you were looking to impress others with hampers and gifts, for clients of loved ones, this was definitely one of the place to consider. But prepare to pay through your noses!

After lingering around for a good 20 minutes, we finally left the place without buying anything. Groceries next.