奶油咪咪的喵言貓語

Been trying to buy Xmas presents the past couple days. My god! There are people swarming everywhere! No wonder people say the Xmas holiday is a stressful time. First, cars are jamed up on the road just to get into the parking lot of the mall. Then if one is lucky to find a parking spot within 15 minutes before the circling around to look for one spot drives one insane and causes accident.

Getting up to the ground level proves to be also diffcult. It’s not hard to believe to see that long queues in front of cash registers in EVERY single stores. But it is not expected to even have to line up just to get on to escalator to go up or down one level. When I took off from work to just avoid the crowd yesterday, it proved that everybody has the exact same idea for last minute presents shopping that mall was still crowded like canned sardin. Besides all these, I can not find ideal presents because they are either overpriced when they are just made in China or they are no longer available. After walking around for 2 hours, I was frusted as hell that I could scream.

Metrotown had just undergone renovation that they have a beautiful resting area in the center bridging two complexes. There are lots of comfy sofa and water fountain streaming in the center, of which the trickling sound soothes one (from what we learned in Spain). The Xmas decoration you saw in the picture was taken from this central resting area. It is quite a blessing to have such area. The interesting sight is most of the people sitting down with lots of shopping bags are men (including Thomas ^^ can you spot him in the photo?). Anyway, the mall has unusually extended the hours until 11pm instead of 9pm to accomodate shoppers. I guess I will try back again. Hopefully, I will have better luck this time...