Sale And The City

It’s time to bring out the purses and wallets and those plastic cards y’all as the Great Malaysia Sale is here again! It kicked off on 5 July and the sale will last until 1 September 2008! I had set my sight on some Handbags And Gladrags (because we know a girl can’t have too many handbags or too many clothes) but alas, the very bag I wanted was already sold out when I went to KLCC on Friday. Even the stores at Pavilion and Starhill no longer stock it when I checked on Saturday (there are only two boutiques with stores at KLCC, Pavilion and Starhill so go figure). So I am now lamenting the opportunity cost (or rather loss) of a missed bargain. Dang it! So frustrated was I that I was about to wander around BB aimlessly that Saturday afternoon - until Akak called to inform she would be dropping by micasa later that evening.

I did instead buy two pairs of footwear - because a girl can never have too many shoes and because I have shoe fetish - and other pieces of clothing.

So, get your purses and grab the bargains before they run out and you suffer the same fate as me. This is a community announcement to all shopaholics.

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Apart from the shopping activity on Saturday which came with the benefit of ‘mall walking’ (good exercise everyone, seriously!), I went for a morning walk on Sunday Morning. Had to drag myself out of bed - yes, I can be undisciplined as you all probably already know by now - and had to push myself up the slopes and hilly terrain. I am sooo unfit, I am ashamed to admit. And so it was me puffing and panting all the way up those hills; strangely but thankfully enough, there were only a handful of people on their morning walk/jog yesterday so there were not many to witness me in that state.

Heck, it was more of a stroll in the city than a brisk walk in the city. I must be more disciplined after this and walk a lot longer and further than I did yesterday.

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There was an extraordinarily massive traffic jam in downtown KL this morning and as a result, I was royally late for work. To top it, I had two RM50 notes and some small notes - which would have sufficed had I not been in the cab double the time it usually takes me to ride to work. The cabbie understandably didn’t have small change hence I was forced to run up to the lobby and borrow money from one of the security people manning the lobby – costing me a few more precious minutes.

I think the bad crawl was due to roads leading to the Parliament being cordoned off. I’m all for public speech and freedom to express dissatisfaction and I’m sure all protests would be done peacefully anyway (it’s just the police who resort to brutal methods and tactics). Hence I don’t understand why the police have to respond by installing roadblocks and intimidating tactics (and ‘congratulations’ to the Government for utilising public money by mobilising the men in uniform in this pointless exercise) when no demonstration was even planned. I can see fire-trucks from my office here - to supposedly douse the dissidents, I’m sure. Don’t understand why this is so especially when a fellow blogger told me that in his years abroad, the local police and the authorities actually guided and escorted the marchers. But then again, the protesters always do their march on Sundays.

Yes, it was a stuck-in-the-city morning alright. Oh and I understand there were roadblocks too since Friday evening and we did experience one on Saturday evening too. Wonder if I can sue the Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security for causing me delay, grief and panic attack, not to mention lost productivity?

Enough of that, I need to look for alternative Handbags And Gladrags and shoes to cheer me up.