Tickets for the Smurfs

Bloated from yesterday, I missed breakfast. We spent the morning in front of the television and cleaning the room. Most of our friends and relatives were still in their kampung, so we decided just to have lunch outside while having a look at how deserted KL had been.

We were quite surprised that when we approached Mid Valley, all the carpark indicated red, meaning full. We were lucky that the parking tickets were still issued as I desperately needed to get to Gardens today. The reason, tickets for tomorrow's show of the Smurf! We settled for a parking bay on level B4, right at the bottom.

There were still plenty of tickets available for the afternoon show tomorrow. After the tickets were sorted out, there was a small matter of lunch. As usual, the boys wanted pizza, and we landed at Alexis.

Settling down for lunchMy cod. Looked dry, but was actually rather nice.The salad and pizzaThe place was full, but we managed to get the sofa seats still. A pleasant lunch as the boys were treated to a nice pizza - we had to order two since they finished both. I had some cod for a change, and it was not that bad. My rocket salad was a bit dry today, the leafs were rather too bitter and hard.

Irfan's chamomile teaEmpty-looking Mid Valley GardensWe sat down for tea - Irfan had his dose of chamomile, hence he was pretty chilled after that. Headed over at Isetan, where Anita bought a dress, before heading back home in an almost empty Federal Highway.

Looking forward for the Smurfs tomorrow ….

Mid Valley Gardens Decor

Gardens at Mid Valley has always portrayed itself as an upmarket outlet. When it comes to decorations for festivities, they were always classy and understated. For this year's Raya, they concentrated more on details, and left the more elaborate decor to its sister mall next door, the Mid Valley Megamall.

The central gallery, where the main boutique outlets were located, were filled with small decorations and there were also some lightings hanging down, with more Aidilfitri motifs. One thing I have noticed, they have taken away some of the seatings at the main walkways, which make stopping for a breather especially while fasting a bit of a nag.

I was glad that the walkways and foyers were left empty rather than filled up by tacky stalls selling clothes and cookies. They obviously remained consistent in concentrating on the small things.

Spent the day looking through my flickr feed

090627 Urbanscapes 9 - Yes .... smoking is bad for you!, originally uploaded by Haris Abdul Rahman.

I can't believe my eyes when at 10am, when my push email kicks in, there were 20 plus messages. Mind you, it is Sunday. A lot of people were giving comments on my Urbanscapes picture page on flickr and they are being pushed straight through. Fun stuff! Currently my stats were looking really good.

After doing some chores, I took the family out to Gardens for lunch. I didn't realise that it was the KL Marathon going on this morning. A few of my friends, Sargunan and Rafidah to name a few actually participated. My wife asked me why didn't I? ..... Note to self, to kick-start my mid-life crisis, do the marathon next year ....

The trip to Gardens was pleasant enough. We had lunch at Alexis. The boys enjoyed the Pizza as usual. They then headed for the Transformers stalls over at Robinson and start picking them up .... Bad news!

Spent the rest of the afternoon going through some research papers, then off to have dinner at the in-laws. My brother -in-law, Razak is off to Turkmenistan tomorrow for a couple of weeks. We may have to stay with the in-laws during that time to keep them company. Idlan also needed some practice with the piano as he has a concert this coming Friday.