Let's Go Shopping!!!

Today, we started our first business activities with had a journey to the Padang Besar and Jitra to find all the things for our Hari Raya Dedication. This our journey is in fasting month. So, it quit hard and tiring to us. At the 12pm,our journey had started from UUM to Padang Besar. We set out on the 40 minutes drive from UUM to Padang Besar.


The journey to Padang Besar was a mind-releasing experience as we passed by kilometers of green sugar cane and paddy fields, all yielding under the magnificent blue and unpolluted Perlis sky with huge, puffy clouds lazily floating by.

Padang Besaq is how the locals would call Padang Besar. The Malay spoken in northern Malaysia, such as in Penang, Kedah and Perlis, is unique in that all words ending with the letter "r" is replaced by a nasalized "q". This huge marketplace which houses all sorts of items for sale such as clothes, watches, shoes, hats, bags, food items and most excitingly (for me, at least), cheap toys! Most of the clothes carry brand names such as Levis, Body Glove, and Adidas, while the men and women's watches sport well-known names such as Gucci, Rolex and Tissot, all at unbelievable low prices ! At the Padang Besar we had buy teddy bear. Before buy the bear, we was walking around the building to survey the price o teddy bear. And at last we found the shop that offer the lowers price and we feel so happy.

But, before one leaves Padang Besar, one is subjected to pass through police inspections. The police will usually check for rice smuggled in ridiculous amounts from Thailand by folks who are trying to sell them in Malaysia and skip on paying taxes for bringing in the goods. So if you're one of those people who engage in such smuggling activities, watch out, the police are going to so bite your sorry ass. After finished bought the teddy bear, we proceed to go to Jitra to buy kad raya, cookies and brooch. Had many shop we go at Jitra, to survey and low price of the things. Alhamdullilah, we had found one shop that offered a low price for the thing that we want. After that, we also decided to 'Berbuka Puasa' at Jitra. And, at 9.00 pm, we arrived at UUM.