Aiks I feel sad sometimes when thnking about old JS. I used to hang out there maybe too much as a kid. I knew all the shopkeepers, even the glum looking fellas in Poh Kong or watatime. they never seem to have any customers but the outlets never shut down. lunch and sometimes dinner was usually at Jaya Noodle House - Ipoh Hor Fun was quite good.
My only video/VCD (now DVD) store was there, run by the two brothers, just by the car park lobby by starbucks. For the whole ten years plus, the bigger brother there kept his long hair. Always ignore the mamak fler selling movies by the staircase. They've moved to jaya 33 now so I'm still stacked high with DVDs.
then there was pineapple computers. their shop was so cluttered with barang-barang i wonder if they even knew what the had. I found a video card for my old 486 there about 3 years ago. amazing! and it workedd, too, but when the aauntie took it down from the TOP SHELF behind a stack of PC-AT casings, it was so dusty and dotted with cicak tahi, I was reluctant to pay for it! but since auntie gave me a price of rm30....take la. and it worked!
I'm interested in all aspects of demolition and bringing down old buildings, and this is my blog relating to the collapse of the old jaya supermarket. I find this case very interesting and am keeping track of developments as they happen.
About Me
- JMC Engineer
- Engineer by training! USed to work very closely with construction industry as subcon. Fascinated by the process of turning perfectly good buildings into rubble. call it a childhood obsession, I used to build then destroy lego towns and knock down other boys sandcastles on the beach!
1 comment:
hey JMC, my dad used to lepak there after school! jaya supermarket or JS as u call it was 'the' coolest place to hang out at that time apparently. during my childhood, i remember the toy store on the 3rd floor (i think) - kathy's toys or something like that. used to get treats from there when i was good. tee hee.
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