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Lucia wrote:
i hope many readers of your blog who had experience shopping in low yat would come out to let us know which shops are lansi, lousy, stupid, rude, cut-throat and so on. i intend to go to kl soon and intend to shop around low yat. don’t wanna run into some of these ‘no good’ shops.
So far I think ALL IT Hypermarket has good reputation. It has won some awards. The merchandise they carry are also quite up-to-date. Its business consultant, an Ang Moh, is very professional. I once bought a SIM card reader which turned out to be defective physical-wise and he arranged for an immediate exchange for a new one. Their employees are not likely to bullshit you if they are not certain of what you want.
The key to doing business with ALL IT is that you should also be ‘professional’ and not ‘unreasonable’. They will listen and take you seriously, refering you to their seniors promptly if they fail to deal with your problem. I like to chat with their staffs coz some of them really know their stuffs when compared to those Ah Bengs and Ah Lians working in the neighbourhood. For example, almost all the employees in that HP center next to them know testicles. You would wish you were there when I skinned one of their staffs alive in front of his manager and that the said managers almost went for the fire extinguisher if not calling for Bomba.
Currently, ALL IT is running some customer reward programme. For every 100 ringgit you spent, you’ll get one stamp. You can exchange your stamps for gifts. But it’s expiring end of this year. Nothing much, but at least they are trying.
Computer Electronics (CE), as I like to call it instead of IT (Information Technology), is a rapidly advancing field. The way ALL IT’s employees are able to keep up with the pace is rather outstanding.
Although they may lose to the undercuttings from their neighbours, overall they stood out quite prominently, reasonably as well as reputably. I won’t mind paying some extra few bucks when dealing with ALL IT.
ALL IT deserve some, if not all of its awards.
Sri Computer (?) is the second. It’s like the Petaling Street of CE. But the knowledge of their employees is rather limited. Their price is usually cheaper but you should really know what you are dealing with instead of letting them pull your nose in the wrong direction.
Personally, I go to ALL IT to shop for updated new stuffs and Sri Computer for spare parts.
As for the third, there is one shop on the ground floor that I want to recommend if you really want to have a screen protector laid on your precious PDA, gaming device (eg PSP), handphone etc. They will really ensure that you will receive the utmost care when laying down the protecting film. I once spent an entire 30 minutes for them to lift up every grain of dust from the screen of my PDA before they stick the screen protector… Only to end up with a small bubble appearing out of nowhere. They threw away the film immediately and repeated the whole process. I gave that young man a fifty ringgit tips.
And that day, when I walked away with my spanking new Garmin iQue 3600 and its emaculate screen protector, was one of the happiest days of my life.
PS : I am not related to any of the shops mentioned above. If you have a certain negative experience when dealing with any of the shops above, you may voice it here. But please be aware that I might not reflect your complaint directly to them. It’s up to them to find this post. If you have any suggestive comment, I would advice you to forward it to them yourself and let us all enjoy the benefit together.
As most KLites, if not Malaysians know, Lowyat Plaza is TEH PLACE in Malaysia if you are talking about IT market. There was, previously, Imbi Plaza. It’s still there but it’s going to be an IT museum soon.
There are two highly reputed shops in Lowyat. One is Sri Computer and the other one is All IT Hypermart. They are still reputable in my book.
Today, I’m going to rant about two other shops which are run by irresponsible scums if not conmen.
The first one is a watch shop at ground floor (Level G) near an entrance.
My Casio Protrek watch was running out of battery. As a result, I lost the electronic compass function. Out of convenience and a tight schedule, I dropped by the said shop to have the batteries changed.
Greeting me was a tall nerdy looking middle age uncle wearing spec. I told him I wanted the batteries changed and immediately he went to work.
I watched him opening the casing. It was rather crude. I cautioned him to be gentle.
After having the four batteries changed, it was time for him to tighten back the screws. It was then that my heart sank.
He was tightening the screws as if trying to force his dong into a hen. You could hear the screwdriver grinding like a powerdrill against the philip screws. I cautioned him to be gentle again before leaving the narrow workplace/room to make way for a fat auntie to have access to the cash register hidden around the corner.
Half a minute later, he emerged with my watch. I eyeballed the watch and noticed the cross shape on several screws have been raped. They have basically turned into diamond shape.
I asked him for a magnifying eyepiece and showed him the result of his work. He kept quiet.
I went ahead with 10 full minutes of stripping him off his ego, with pathetic defence from him saying that if the screws weren’t tight enough, the watch won’t be water resistant.
I challenged him to give me the screwdriver and I could show him how I loosen a screw on that watch and retighten it 10 times without raping the screw. He kept quiet.
Decided that I wouldn’t want him to run out to the street and crash himself against the tyres of an incoming lorry and thus his parents would do the same after his death, I asked him for the bill.
Forty ringgit.
Fucking charity.
Not even a simple ’sorry’!
Luckily my Protrek is not the titanium version or I’ll be showing you the picture of his undescended testis here, post mortem.
So I went ahead shopping for a notebook for my dad to play with, during which many Ah Lians got raped and many Ah Bengs got castrated thinking that they could con or outsmart an IT veteran.
MYR 2,670 for a Centrino M 1.6GHz, 512 RAM, 14″ 1280×768 display, 60GB SATA, built-in CMOS VGA cam, 3 years warranty of parts and labour, inclusive of WinXP Home, throwing in a cheap security cable and optical mouse seems a good bargain.
Dad went ahead for the deal while I was checking out some portable headphone/earphone amplifier.
Afterwhich we were on our way back when I noticed this on the security lock slot…
It’s obviously a used unit! Probably a demo unit!!!
I called the shop immediately.
They asked me to bring the unit back.
As usual, the Ah Beng said his boss is out of the country and will be back next month. And that he didn’t realise it was a used unit.
Not even a simple ’sorry’!
Obviously they think that by replacing the unit, they have erased their mistake. ;) But little do they know that they have planted another stronger evidence.
A colleague of mine happened to pass by when I was carving another hole on that Ah Beng’s backside and expressed his disgust against the matter. We reminded the Ah Beng that I’m a blogger with at least a million hits a month.
You should have seen the face of that Ah Beng. It looked like one of his many fathers died and he is not sure if that’s his blood father.
I shall wait for an apology from the boss, giving him a month’s time before I expose the name of his shop on the internet. Hopefully he would have the courage to come out from his rat hole instead of closing his shop for good.
Watch this space.
I still remember during my schooling years. One day our Bahasa Malaysia teacher taught us the word ‘berdikari’. She said it actually stands for ‘berdiri di atas kaki sendiri’, meaning ’standing on your own feet’.
But today…
Murid-murid : “Selamat pagi cikgu!”
Cikgu : “Selamat pagi murid-murid. Sila duduk. Hari ini cikgu nak mengajar satu perkataan yang penting. Perkataan ini ialah…” *proceed to write on blackboard ‘berdikari’* “Murid-murid cuba baca perkataan ini.”
Murid-murid : “B-E-R ber, D-I di, K-A ka, R-I ri… BERDIKARI.”
Cikgu : “Bagus! Ada siapakah yang boleh terangkan maksud perkataan ini?”
Abdullah : “Ia bermaksud ‘berdiri di atas kaki sendiri’.”
Cikgu : “Salah!”
Abdullah : “Tetapi bapa saya mengajar saya ‘berdikari’ maksud ‘berdiri di atas kaki sendiri’, cikgu.”
Cikgu : “Adakah bapa kamu sanggup berdikari, Abdullah?”
Abdullah : “Err… Err…”
Cikgu : “Ada siapa nak cuba lagi?”
Ah Meng : “Saya, cikgu!”
Cikgu : “Ya, Ah Meng?”
Ah Meng : “Ia bermaksud ‘berdiri di atas mangkuk orang lain’, cikgu.”
Cikgu : “Betul! Betul! Betul sekali! Mari bagi tepukan!”
Murid-murid : *tepuk tepuk tepuk*
Cikgu : “Tepuk lagi!”
Murid-murid : *tepuk tepuk tepuk*
Cikgu : “Tepuk lagi!”
Murid-murid : “Tangan sakitlah, cikgu.”
Cikgu : “Okay! Cukup.”
Murid-murid : “Abdullah menangislah, cikgu.”
Cikgu : “Biar dia tenangkan fikiran.”
Murid-murid : “Tetapi cikgu dia sedang panjat KLCC cuba nak lompat!”
Cikgu : “Biar dia lompat lah! Kami tengok wayang.”
The Snark : “Nanti cikgu! Kami kena panggil Malaysia Book of Records cikgu, untuk terjunan bunuh diri yang tertinggi di Malaysia!”
PS : What you are doing today, is going to go down in history, to be laughed upon by future generations from the rest of the world. Are you going to let your children suffer the same fate as you? Disagree? Read this.
Came across a video clip on rojaks. Since some people are complaining that youtube is either slow or not loading, I’ll put a copy on this server.
It has been brought to my attention that some religious fanatics have made a police report against a company for displaying symbol of a ‘cross’ on their products.
But sadly, they missed out this,
Warning! You are entering a forbidden area, please turn back.
and this,
Thanks to WALSKI69.
And THIS!!!
Thanks to Wingz!
It’s time for you to understand why you have been ‘marginalized’. Blame yourselves, not the rest of the world. Sensitivity is one thing. Hypersensitivity can lead to auto-immune diseases.
Prerequisites:
Exporting Google Earth’s waypoints to Garmin iQue 3600.
Exporting tracks from Garmin iQue 3600 to Google Earth.