The madness that was..

Jusco's card member's day.

Seriously.


View of the madness from the first floor.


More madness.


Smack in the middle of madness.

*Click on picture to experience the full effect of the madness.

Abg had a briefing in KL this recent weekend. Initially we wanted to get there on the Friday, and leave on Sunday. However, I had just submitted my leave application for Thursday and Big Boss had approved. Kalau nak ubah, kena 'ghoyak semula' - which is, something I am not particularly looking forward to. So, in the end, we decided to drive to KL on my day off and drive back right after the briefing.

The night before leaving, I came across the ad for Jusco's card member's day, which was only going to be held at two Jusco stores - Wangsa Maju and one other (can't remember). and I naively thought, ah, working day meh, takkan la ramai org....BOY was I mistaken. Ma tells me she avoids Jusco's card member's day like the plague. Regardless of how giler the discounts are, the hassle of all the people, the lack of parking and queues to pay are just not worth it.

We arrived at about half two and since Ma (who also left Kelantan the same morning) haven't arrived, we thought we'd go and see what bargains we could grab. Belum apa2, I dah hairan tgk all these cars parked all over the place. and I mean, ALL OVER. Even on the grass of the divider okay. Right from the Wangsa Maju LRT station to the traffic light. Abg had to U-turn twice before managing to find a spot on the divider. There were RELA officers taking care of traffic flow and already a bunch of makciks were happily pushing trolleys of stuff out of the parking entrance.

Security checked for Jusco cards (I bet they were too hassled to check if the cards were this year's) and turun je escalator, BOOM, the full throes of women in a sale frenzy hit me.

Serious giler ok.

I tak tgk pun barang. I was more enthralled with watching the bargain hunters.

Some had trolleyfulls of clothes and bags and shoes and pillows and bedsheets. One nyonya had a trolleyful of only MamyPoko diapers - many came out pushing luggages (which were seriously cheap). Many had kids sleeping amidst the stuff they just bought and one even laid down blankets in the shopping trolley for his baby to lie down on and WITH HIS OTHER HAND, pushing ANOTHER trolley for stuff.

Berapa ramai la workers took the day off that day. Even weekends pun tak segiler nie tau. A makcik in the elevator jokingly said she spent the whole year's savings on that one day sale.

Dah la prices were cut down, in addition to that, for every RM100 you buy from the same dept, you get to redeem RM10 vouchers. Mana tak giler?

But Jusco again proves to me why it's so popular among KL-Selangor people. Even with the hundreds of shoppers, you barely had to wait 5 mins to pay. In fact, there were so many cashiers waiting (for your money) that you barely had to wait at all.

Abg got a pair of really nice sandals, a couple of shorts - I got an early birthday gift for sis Yaya and Shokubutsu was only RM4.99! Talk about great bargains.

Yang kelakarnya, we left after getting the 'essentials' and had to go back to the car cause our arms were aching from lugging the stuff (Naturel cooking oil was cheap and Ma wanted us to get fruits and veges) we bought (trolley pun habis) - and after we got into the car, Abg said, 'Kalau kita U-turn and ada parking, nak masuk lagi sekali tak?' Hahaha, tgk2 bila dah U-turn, parking was opened so kitorg pun joined the madness for the second time. Giler ke tak giler tu?

As much as I hate KL for it's constant hecticness, there's nothing like it for retail therapy.