New Bedsheets!

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Short Talk:
Having Holidays now... one week... ah...relaxation... WAIT! I have not touched my Taxation yet! arrggh! Back to books again... bleh!
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Ha....Ha.... He ...He... Ho... Ho.... I got new bed sheet and new pillowcase~ I am so happy! Well to be more precise, this is the first time ever I shopped for my own bedsheets. I don't know why I had the sudden urge to buy new bed sheets.

So the urge brought me into Aussino. Initially I was aiming at buying standard bed sheets which cost around RM69.90 but the thing is that I am using a single bed and for single bed package it comes with only one pillow case and the dang thing is that if I get the RM 69.90 bedsheets with patterns on it, it will be very hard to for me to find an extra pillow case to go with it! Yes! I am greedy I sleep with TWO pillows... I need one for hugging you know.

So, when I visited Aussino the second time. The store manager or assistant told me they are having offers now and its 50% of for one section of the bedsheets. As I browse through the choices I decided to settle down for the 100% pure cotton bedsheets with 260 thread counts. The original price of the bed sheet is RM 115.00 so after discount it is only RM 52.50!! Yahoo!!! I was overjoyed so I stared choosing the colour that I wanted which is Khaki. But dang! the Aussino branch in Spring did not have singles for the 100% cotton... sad... sad.... but fear not because they have another branch in Tun Jugah so the kind manager/ assistant called up the other branch and asked if they have it and lady luck seems to be with me that day because they still have a few left in the Tun Jugah branch.

Aussino @ Spring

So, after class I send my car for servicing and ask David to save me from boredom and we went down town to Tun Jugah. Alas, when we arrive in Aussino I straight away asked the sales assistant and she brought me to the shelf where they keep the 100% cotton single bed sheets. I also found out that they have more choices for pillow case in this branch so I took extra pillow cases with the same material as the bed sheet that I am getting and guess what! There is a 50% discount for the pillow case too!

My new bed sheet and pillow case... *loves*

Just in case, you guys are wondering why am I so picky with the colours is because I like my stuff to match and to look nice and also comfy! ha... ha!

Oh I was overjoyed so I took the items and paid it at the cashier and the total cost was RM85.00. So it wasn't that bad at all.

Now, I can't wait to use the new bed sheet! ha! ha!

So there goes, dwinz first time buying bed sheets for himself ... ha ha

P/s: Angel the bed sheet is for me NOT you la! Lol...you got the wrong idea about your birthday present! Lolx!

Boulevard Shopping Mall

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Short Talk:
Sigh...what a way to start of with a new year.... being sick... like really sick....cough, headache, flu and fever... all in one package.
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Kuching is definitely not a shopping haven. If you say shopping, the first few places that pop into one’s mind would be KL, Singapore or even Bangkok. Kuching would be no where in the map for shopping.

Basically, there are only roughly 8 shopping centres in Kuching alone. Believe me they are not Mid-valley mega mall or 1-Utama in KL or Vivo City in Singapore. Some of the shopping centres are really crappy which in my opinion needs a major face-lift. Currently for me I usually shop at Tun Jugah or Riverside Shopping complex and at times Sarawak Plaza. These are the 3 shopping centres that I rate as “shoppable” place. Meaning, I can get at least something decent from there.

As for electronic gadgets, I would go to Saberkas. Saberkas is something like the IT centre in Kuching. You can find a lot of good deals for electronic gadgets in there. You can call it the “Low Yat Plaza of Kuching” or “Funan IT Mall of Kuching”, whichever you like to call it.

Over the years, Kuchingites has been craving for new, trendier, hippie, stylish, and bigger malls. Thus, that is one of the major reasons why the people down here fly over to KL, or Singapore to shop. But these days, due to the exchange rate, most people opted for KL, since we share the same currency. This resulted in? Well, bigger market for KL and that is why in KL you can see major expansion of older malls, like 1-Utama and Sunway Pyramid. Not only that, new bigger malls like Bejaya Time Square and more recently, The Garden and Pavillion KL.

Over in Kota Kinabalu, or locally known as KK, they too are in a Mall building frenzy. Within this year, they have a few mega malls being built around the city. These are not just small malls, big ones, at least 200 over retail outlets inside. The biggest being 1-Borneo which is roughly the size of Mid-Valley Mega Mall in KL. The hyper mall has over 600 retail outlets. It makes me wonder though, with a population of roughly 400,000-500,000 people and a metropolitan area of 900,000(which I doubt is correct) can sustain so many of the mega malls currently being built there. In all seriousness, Kuching itself, not the metropolitan area; we already have well over 600,000 people. But, our shopping centres are like crap ass. We don’t have this mega mall building craze down here.

Even though, developers down here in Kuching are not into the mega mall building craze, we are not left out in building bigger and nicer malls. Well, I am not sure is it correct to state that we are not in a Mall or shopping centre building craze, but in these 2 years a few new malls are being constructed. One of them being the highlight of this post, but I will go on to that later.

We roughly have, 6 new malls coming up. 3 of those being big ones. Another few under proposal or planning.

The first to open amongst them would be Boulevard Lifestyle Shopping Mall. They proudly claimed themselves as being the biggest lifestyle mall in Sarawak. This in my very honest opinion would be a very wrong statement currently.

Night View

the crappy signboard

Before I move on, a brief introduction about Boulevard. Boulevard is own by a timber tycoon down here in Sarawak. They already have a Boulevard Mall in Miri which I heard is smaller than its sister mall down here in Kuching. I also heard that the Boulevard Kuching is much more “posh” than the one in Miri. As I quoted “I HEARD”, so any mistake or error in the above statement I made, I am sorry.

Sushi King is open in Boulevard now!

When Boulevard Kuching first open, the Mall was partially completed it was still dusty and a lot of the shops are still not open. Majority of the retail space has been taken up by Boulevard hypermarket and Departmental Store. The rest of the retail outlets would be Guardian, Kenny Roasters, Pizza Hut, KFC, Sushi King, Popular Bookstore, to name a few.

Sushi King!!

too many people... =.=

As they claimed they are the biggest, but if you walked inside the mall, you would feel like it is just like Riverside or Sarawak Plaza in the city centre. In all honesty, it took me, say 15 minutes to complete walking the whole mall and already I am feeling bored with it.

World of cartoons, second branch in Kuching

To me, the mall in a way disappointed me. Why the mall bores me is that most of the shop inside sells women’s apparel. Even the shop that sells shoes is for women. I mean I would rather hang out in Sarawak Plaza for I can get more guy stuff there. For Boulevard the only few shops that I can go would be Sushi King, Guardian, Pizza Hut, Converse, Popular, and the Gent’s section for the Boulevard departmental store which is not very appealing to me. Minus off the food outlets that I mentioned I can only visit 2-4 shops in the entire mall. Now that is real boring!

its either kids or ladies apparel....sighs

3rd Popular book store in Kuching

Part of the Mall

I would only go there, when I feel bored and really nothing better to do. But now, I am waiting for another mall to open in Kuching. That is the Spring. It is Kuching largest 2-storey mall. With 150 retail outlets, a gourmet supermarket, an excellent food court. the Spring Mall seems far more promising than Boulevard. I’ve passed there a few times and the interior of the Mall is way nicer than that of Boulevard. The shops they offer are far more attractive. They even have Kenny Rogers Roasters and Sushi King, Starbucks Coffee, Secret Recipe, Manhattan Fish Market and lots more. Another plus side, Spring is so much nearer to my house and thank god for that. *winks*

In another 3 more days and Spring would be officially open. I will cover Spring a bit later.

Back to work now.