Heavy Security Presence

Pavilion was located just opposite JW Marriott and during the weekend, President Obama was in town attending the ASEAN Summit Meeting. There was certainly heavy security, Police and Military presence in town, especially after what happened in Paris 10 days back.

Luckily the traffic interruption was more organised than I thought. Flow was actually pretty decent and I was able to get in and out of Pavilion without too much hassle. There was always traffic police pointing the way and there was hardly any queue. Timing was certainly of the essence and it was best to avoid the start and the end of the summit programme as those were the time when road-blocks were set up.

I was out there for a spot of dinner with Anita while enjoying the Xmas decorations. There were certainly plenty of security by the fountain, but that just added to the buzz of the place .....

KLFW

Not really a fan of fashion but the buzz created around Pavilion during the event was palpable. And since I was passing there, I got curious.

I didn't hang around too long though as I had some stuff to sort out at the bank and some documents to sort out for GST payment. But the glitz was definitely there. And this was in the afternoon. I would imagine the glamour factor would be amped up later in the evening ....

Friday Outing

The boys were finally done with their assessment and from Friday, they would be off for two and a half weeks. Easter break of sorts. Some of their friends were going abroad. The boys had to make do with a trip to Kedah next week, providing the MPV - currently at the workshop with gearbox issues - was sorted.

As soon as they arrives at the apartment on Friday, they decided to stay in, play with their Lego and video games. Anita wanted to go out for dinner but both of them didn't want to follow.

That would mean a date night for Anita and I.

Looks like some serious filming is going on here ....

We went over for a walk around Pavilion as Anita had to buy some gifts for a birthday party the next day. I took the time to walk around to take some street photos. Weather was overcast. Had a nice walk around, although there were not much to snap at.

I decided to only bring my GR along and ninja around for a bit.

Dinner was at Tony Roma's. But we left early as they boys were at the apartment only with the maid. ‎

This Weekend's Walk

I was on call last Friday, which usually meant that my whole weekend would be occupied. I was somewhat lucky this time around that even though there were many admissions, things settled down pretty well by this morning.

I ended up discharging half of my workload on the Sunday morning.

That meant that I could have a relatively quiet afternoon, catch up with some some sleep, or maybe walk around.

I decided to head to Low Yat Plaza. The missions was to have a look at the soon-to-be-released Galaxy S6 Edge. Great phone, but shame about the the skin which Samsung put on on top of the Android standard OS. Minimal this time but noticeable.

Fantastic screen. Much smaller than I thought - after all, I was carrying the iPhone 6 Plus in my pocket.

But it rained while I was browsing and I spend a good half an hour at Starbucks waiting for it to subside. And then, the sun came out unexpectedly, allowing me to take a few more snaps.

Not much else was going on after that. I was thinking about watching a movie but the timings were a bit off.

Back home then for some afternoon tea with the boys and Anita.

Xmas at Pavilion

Believe it or not, Malaysia has 4 of the top 15 biggest shopping mall in the World. And they were all around KL. Pavilion is not one of them, but it is the one I frequent most. Not sure it is a fact Malaysian should be proud about though ….

Anyhow, I plan to blog about Xmas decorations here, so bear with me.

The decorations for Pavilion is up. But again it was a bit of a let down compared to the number they pulled a few years back - the one with the fake snow by the main entrance. That was just enthralling. Maybe the economic downturn had hit them and they decided to scale down.

The obligatory Santa was there, sat under a huge Xmas tree. The main attractions was however was his helper - the elves mainly. Cute animatronic, a ferris wheel, and that was about it.

Can we trust this?

They have to start getting more original, not necessarily grand. So, I would be keen to see if Sunway Pyramid and 1Utama can top this one out …..