A Day’s Outing In Celebration Of Wai Kit’s Birthday (Dec. 30, 2017)

Soh Ai and I on MRT train

December 30, 2017 is my eldest son Wai Kit’s 29^th birthday.  He suggested for us to make a trip by MRT to Mutiara Damansara to visit the newly renovated Popular Bookstore (he likes visiting bookshops) among other things.  I have already plans for the evening to have dinner at Balakong and watch movie at TGV Cheras Selatan after that.

As it was a Saturday and public area parking was free-of-charge, I decided to drive to Batu 11 Cheras, parked our car there before taking the MRT ride.

Soh Ai, Wai Kit and I left home at 10.30am to go to Batu 11 Cheras.  The traffic was very heavy and it took us more than an hour to reach the MRT station.

The MRT ride from Batu 11 Cheras began at 12.00pm, reaching Mutiara Damansara station at 12.55pm.  The fare for me as a senior citizen was RM2.10.

Batu 11 Cheras MRT station platform

Wai Kit met his primary school classmate on the train

Mutiara Damansara here we come

We walked to Ikano Power Centre where our first destination was Popular Bookstore.  I bought a book “图解二战全史” (中国华侨出版社), original price RM39.80, member’s price RM29.00.

The Street

The Curve

The Christmas festive mood still lingers on

Walking across to Ikano Power Centre (IPC)

Popular Bookstore at IPC

The book I bought for a revision of  WWII

At about 2.00pm, we had beef meat-balls, salmon and coffee at the food court of IKEA. There was a piano performance by a Korean pianist Yang I Deun on a rounded stage in the middle of the open area of The Curve Shopping Mall.  He played a variety of songs including the Chinese “The Moon Represents My Heart” and English “YMCA”.  Very splendid performance indeed!

Piano performance at The Curve

Korean pianist Yang I Deun 

As we moved on to eCurve after 3.30pm, there was another crowd-attracting show going on at the ground floor known as “The Greatest Showman Comes Alive”.  I actually planned to watch the latest movie “The Greatest Showman” starring Hugh Jackman at night and didn’t expect to see a “premiere show” in advance.  The stage circus show was great and we watched till the end.

The eCurve

Stage show of "The Greatest Showman Comes Alive"

Two short video clips of the proceeding are posted as follows:

We took a train from Mutiara Damansara MRT station at 4.10pm to reach Batu 11 Cheras at 5.00pm.  We reached home at 5.20pm.

Without having much rest, we left home again at 6.00pm for our dinner at Tien Xia Restaurant (attached to a temple) at Jalan Balakong.  This time Wai Kei followed us. The total cost of our dishes comprising stewed mutton (羊腩煲, RM25), egg-steamed clam (lala 水蒸蛋拉拉, RM22), pumpkin taufu (南瓜豆付, RM9) and bitter gourd tauge (苦瓜芽菜, RM9), rice and Chinese tea pot was RM 73.

Stewed mutton, very delicious but small in quantity

Egg-steamed clam (lala), also very yummy

Pumpkin taufu 

Bitter gourd tauge

After dinner, we proceeded to the opposite Aeon Shopping Mall of Cheras Selatan where we watched the 9.15pm movie of “The Greatest Snowman”.  I found this musical movie very entertaining offering many melodious songs and dazzling dances.

Movie show

What an eventful day it was on the second last day of the year 2017!