Outing to The Curve

160630 The Curve under the dome - Spherical Image - RICOH THETA

We had a long day today with the school ferry and Idlan's extra class that we postponed our groceries run until afetr berbuka. I had to go to the bank anyway and we decided to have a look at what was going on at The Curve.

Nothing fancy in terms of decorations but they certainly had plenty of stalls there. Expensive on the whole, and we ended up not buying anything. 

By the time the groceries were done, most of the restaurants had stopped taking orders. Which was a shame since I was starving ....

Friday Night Outing

Irfan had one of his classmate staying over for a sleep-over. On Friday the 13th of May! It just can't get any spookier than that.

They had been all excited all afternoon as his friend came along straight from school. We took them out for dinner at Bubba Gump at The Curve and the trip ended up with them picking up a bunch of junk food as they planned to stay up all night playing games.

After running around for a bit .... I could hear them snoring away at 10.30 am! And they woke up early the next morning wondering what happened the night before. I guess all the excitement has used up their energy .....

Xi Yang Yang Fishing Village

The Chinese New Year decorations at The Curve this year was an interesting one. The central foyer was again turned into a bazaar, and typical of yesteryears, they also had a small stage for performances. This time around the central area was completely transformed. Into a fishing village!

The concept was an old Chinese fishing village which you typically see in Kuala Selangor or other, complete with pools, boats and wooden platform. Rather neat, and I could see that management put in plenty of effort to make this happen.

This way for ticketsNice soothing live traditional musicA real sampanWhen we were they, there was a music performance going on. The pool contained live koi fish - not something you'd expect to find in sea water villages! But cool none the less.

As usual, there were bazaars around the foyer - some on the platform themselves.

A spot of coffee? Not Starbucks obviously!

We topped off the night out with dinner. Irfan decided to stay in, so it was only Anita, Idlan and me who went out that night.

That was Early

Ramadan was due to start on Sunday, a good couple of days from today. As usual, being Friday evening, we went out for dinner. A quick check on Waze showed that the city centre was packed tonight. Therefore, we decided to go to The Curve.

Took us a good 45 minutes to get there with multiple crawl along NKVE and getting into the car park.

After dinner, we walked towards the lobby and we were surprised that all the stalls were already up. Everything was geared up for Eid. A month early.

I remembered in the years past, the decor usually went up during the first week of Ramadan. We were not expecting the stalls to go up. The shops mainly sold wears for Eid. Clothing and accessories.

Rather more expensive than I thought.

The boys had already got their clothes sorted out. Anita already got hers. I was the only one left out, so we went for a quick look for mine. Nothing caught my fancy though. The colours we wanted were out of stock. One of the shop owner promised to call Anita when the new stock arrives.

It was a pleasant walk in the end. Now, we just reached home and Irfan was in a rather bad mood. He was tired maybe. They had just finished their exams for the Quran class today. ‎

Xmas at The Curve

Friday evening outing resumed last weekend and we descended to the usual place, The Curve and had dinner at Marche.

This time around there was a steak promotion - Black Angus from Australia and they were almost as succulent as wagyu beef. But I didn't mind. They tasted just as nice.

We then checked out the decorations at the main lobby. For the duration of Xmas, it looked like the bazaar that were usually set up during weekends would be opened every night. It gave the appearance of a night market. The main foyer also had a stage erected with stalls and shops. Nothing special, but it was better than nothing.

We spent the whole evening just looking around after that. Clearly felt festive.