Merdeka Day

31st August 2004

My family and I spent our "Dedeka Day" (this is Madihah's way of saying Merdeka day) shopping for a vacuum cleaner. We went to Ikano Power Center at Mutiara Damansara. Oh my gosh! The place was jammed packed with people. We had to wait for almost half an hour to get a parking space.

We went to Harvey Norman and checked out the Vacuum Cleaner section. There's varieties of vacuum cleaners for us to choose. Haha... my hubby and I can't decide which one to choose. Initially, we planned to buy a wet and dry vacuum for our house. This is due to lots of dust in our house...hehehe Secondly, my two daughters are easily infected by cough and flu and this will lead to lots of phelgm. That's why we want to minimise this.

After much discussion with hubby, we decided to buy sort of a 3 in 1 wet and dry vacuum plus air purifier. This is a way bit expensive but hey... we still have to buy this later. So why don't we buy it now and not stuck up with a vaccum cleaner and air purifier which will cramp up our small house.

Since this is "Mega Sale Carnival", we managed to get a discount and a free gift of "Delonghi Toaster" worth RM100 plus. I'm happy with the free gift because I don't have a toaster at home but this toaster is "canggih" one. It has this "defrost" function. Just look at the price. If I was given a choice, I'm not wasting that much money to buy it. Now, let's go make my garlic bread. Hmmm.. yummy!!

While at Harvey Norman, I met my ex-colleague at Petronas which I have not met for the last 10 years. I saw Asfa and her son and went to talk to her. It was such a surprise and I'm happy that she still remember me. Asfa, you still look the same.

After paying for our purchase, we went straight home as my little girl Hannah was feeling restless and gave a loud wail. We have to go home as I didn't bring along her formula and we didn't want to be the center of attention.

I need to go back to Ikano Power Center again some other time as I have not explored yet the place. Only managed to go to Ikea once a few months back.