The long walk to Harvey Norman
Most times, I usually know what I’m doing. This afternoon was not one of them.
I’d gone to my sister’s after visiting mother and sending my brother to meet his taxi for the airport. I was hoping there’d still be lunch left, but I couldn’t even get into the house. There was no parking for my car - not inside the house compound and not anywhere outside the gate. Yes, there was a space almost near the top of the road but I was too lazy to walk that far. Just as well, too, cuz soon after I got home, it started to pour.
A while later, I thought why not HN as there was a gadget I wanted to check out there. So I got into the car, and within minutes drove myself into the thick of a jam headed for One Utama. What was I thinking of when I thought of going to HN on a Sunday afternoon one weekend before Christmas? But I was stuck in it, and couldn’t turn back, so what could I do but sit it out and crawl it through? Must’ve been a good 15 minutes or more before I cleared that part of Bandar Utama and was finally headed towards Ikano Power Centre.
More cars on the main road, many of them signalling their intention to turn into Mutiara Damansara towards another crazy shopping area - that of Ikano / IKEA, The Curve and Tesco. I thought about the parking situation and knew there would likely not be any available in any of the three. So where did I go? Burger King across the road from Tesco, almost at the other end of where HN is located in Ikano.
After a hearty lunch at BK, I started on the long walk to HN - across the road to Tesco, through the Tesco car park, in and out of Tesco, short walk to The Curve, past Borders (was tempted to go in but didn’t), down the corridor, left turn, past Secret Recipe and Starbucks, out into the open and cross the road to IKEA. Once inside IKEA, I walked into Ikano, took the escalator to the first floor and finally arrived at HN.
HN was crowded, too, with its 2nd anniversary celebration sale that included a selected range of items on offer at just 2% of their retail prices. Most of the items on the info poster at the entrance had the “Sold Out” sticker stuck across their box - I shudder at the thought of the probable mayhem when each item was announced as available for sale at their appointed time. Fortunately, none of that happened when I was there.
So I made my way to the gadget counter, and saw the item I’m thinking of getting. Unfortunately, there was no offer on this item at HN; instead, it sported the same price as indicated on the official web site. Oh well …
All that walk for nothing? Not really. I went down to Cold Storage and got the sweets my niece had asked for. She’d recently started on a regime of a bitter Chinese herbal concoction that she is able to drink with the help of a sweet. Not any sweet, but Fox’s, specifically Fox’s Crystal Clear Fruits. There was plenty of that at Cold Storage so I stocked up on her behalf.
So my long walk to Harvey Norman was not in vain after all.
