{"id":647,"date":"2006-06-08T02:42:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T02:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2006-06-08T02:42:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T02:42:05","slug":"berjaya-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Berjaya Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, who does not remember crossing the road from Berjaya Times Square to&#8230; the rest of Bintang Walk?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there&#8217;s the monorail bridge, but who&#8217;d walk up there?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d cross the road, braving the <s>speeding<\/s> jammed up cars.<\/p>\n<p>Then they built fences in the middle, under the monorail.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was always a hole; in front of Imbi Plaza, there was a gap between a pillar and fence, where we&#8217;d see people professionally walk sideways through and continue their mad dash. A slightly bigger gap could be found down the road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/btsc1.jpg\"><br \/>\nAll this changed, however, when I suppose, one day the big guys at Berjaya built another pedestrian bridge.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/btsc2.jpg\"><br \/>\nAwesomeness. Perfect to attract the crowds were escalators, and it led right into Berjaya Times Square where the elevators were. It was even air-conditioned! There were iron curtains, to signify shoplots. Smart business decision, this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/btsc3.jpg\"><br \/>\nNow this is for people who have been tormented by <b>York<\/b> ceiling-mounted air-conditioning units. If you&#8217;ve ever froze in an office, you&#8217;d look up and see a York. In fact, you&#8217;d only see York as far as ceiling air-cond units went. Heck, you could probably smell York. So when I saw this, <b>a different brand<\/b>, I was overjoyed. It also smelt different, and very nice. Very nice and fresh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, who does not remember crossing the road from Berjaya Times Square to&#8230; the rest of Bintang Walk? Sure, there&#8217;s the monorail bridge, but who&#8217;d walk up there? We&#8217;d cross the road, braving the speeding jammed up cars. Then they built fences in the middle, under the monorail. Of course, there was always a hole; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-travelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}