About the Talk of Town

Ooo yay.. SO it's the first post of February, supposedly still a winter up north, but hey, spring is less than a week away! And since everyone's in the mood to welcome the spring, I shall do some spring-y celebration up on my blog too.

Touched down safely way past midnight two days ago. Was wearing the first jeans ever in my entire life. Sis was shocked when we were on our way to the airport. Mum was surprised I'd get myself a pair since I told them over and over I never want to wear jeans! And bro was saying, I looked young! Holy... Ah well, things change. *sniggering*

Apparently, haven't been back for half a year, or so I think, there's no vast changes in the city, but there is indeed spring-y talk in the city. And by spring here, I meant the new shopping mall. Finally some decent mall in the city. YAY! It's called The Spring. I've read about the mall in some other blogs before, so I was really excited about it. Seriously! The pictures in the net gave some idea how it'd be like, and mum and bro kept on talking spring-y as well. So, with that, how would I not be looking forward to step into that place!

Anyway, I finally went spring-y last night with the family. Dad was pretty reluctant, considering it's 7.p., and that we're all pretty sure the place would be flock-ed up with residents of the city. But our persuasion made us all ended up in the big new whitish marble-y mall in 10 minutes. Not that crowded for sure. But definitely there's traffic. Ah well, our instincts are always right. Saw Lifecafez from afar. What a small world! *LMAO*

I wouldn't say the mall lived up to what I expected. But generally, I'd rate her a 6 of 10, with Pavillion being a 10. The area is big enough, but they should really consider having a 3rd floor and a 4th floor and get more designer shops here. *teeeheee* They don't really have a centre court or what not like those of Mid Valley or Pavillion where you could stage performances and such. But then again, we all presumed the management haven't thought about that. The area coverage, is odd. Not a rectangular. But rather a "Z" shape. Perpendicular I mean. The fountain is special, but the tiles.... Oh dear.... With that special fountain, they should seriously get something slightly more expensive then the cheap blue little 5x5 tiles! *LMAO* But hey hey, I'm not going to go all hoo-hah criticizing that place, since it's like, the first ever decent mall in the city, and the least I could do would give her an applouse right? Well, all I'm hoping for, population in the city would grow, and more developers would invest in the place and more MALLS. *LOL*

Yet, I know that hope would be pretty much too impossible. Youngsters like us are flying to the national capital, and very few would actually consider coming back once they're settled there, unless of course, they can't adapt to the "cultural shock" of moving from a little city to a large city. *LMAO* Yea yea, I too haven't considered of coming back... I'd suggest to my parents we keep the house we have here, and we'd make this city our holidays escapade. The air is very much cleaner than in KL, less traffic, more greeneries. *LOL*

Back to spring-y talk... There's finally... MPH! *cheshire-cat grin* Not that I'm all hooo-hah about MPH, but hey, finally there's some decent bookstore that sells English novels here. At the very least Bro won't beg to go to Kinokuniya and shop for books like mad everytime he's over there. And oooh, the first ever Manhattan Fish Market too! Kenny Rogers is attempting the 2nd time opening a branch in the city, the 1st by the river-side closed down after a couple of months. Anyways, I just hope the restaurants will still be running in half a year. It seriously is a tough job maintaining a restaurant like that over here. So...it's obvious Tony Roma's or Italianies are never ever going to make it over here in the near future... *LMAO*

So yeap. Home sweet home. Will definitely go all festive... oooh and the food too! :P Just that, I'm soooo not going to help out in the spring cleaning this year. Mum and dad pretty much cleaned up the house. Pity bro had to suffer the hardwork all alone too. *sniggering*