Oct 19 2010
I am not talking about being knocked down by a car or knocked-down prices but about a different thing entirely. Let me begin by telling you that going to Ikea, the Swedish furniture hypermart, at weekends is a crazy affair. We tried to avoid going there if possible. It’s really a mad place – a [...]
May 27 2010
It didn’t look like a radio at all. That’s my first impression when I saw it the day when Edmund and I dropped by at the second-hand goods shop in Burnie on 23 January. “It’s a flying saucer”, I thought. Edmund had picked it up from among the many different types of radios available. He [...]
Mar 26 2010
It was finally Saturday, January 23, the day that I had waited almost a week for. Edmund would be free today to bring me out to shop. We needed to buy some vegetables and groceries. We needed something else for the house. After being in Burnie for about a week, I had yet to visit [...]
Dec 02 2009
I received a surprise phone call at noon last Saturday from my sister-in-law Zun. Both she and my brother Haris were in town and they had a gift for me. As Phillip and I were going to KLCC to get a book for my son, we arranged to meet up with them there. I was [...]
Nov 24 2009
Whenever I see a ‘Jualan Stok Penghabisan’ or ‘Final Stock Sale’ banner prominently displayed in a shop, I would be tempted to drop in to have a ‘final look’. After dropping in to a few of such shops, I found that, more often than not, they were selling some out of date or old stuff [...]