With our new office located at Plaza Pantai where the kerinchi station is, it is fun to be able to hop onto the light rail transit and stay connected with so many places. Earlier in the week, I took the putra lrt to meet my friends for dinner at Nikko Hotel. The idea to park and ride made a lot of sense since we live just a few minutes from there. But I got to the kerinchi station at 9.40pm and waited quite long for the train. It's like 3 to 4 trains had passed going the other way before our train arrived and it was an old short carriage train. So it was strange to have to get onto a full carriage at that hour. When a seat became available and I sat down, claustrophobia hit me and I had to distract myself looking at things to occupy me on the phone. I don't know why the train was so crowded at that hour and why there couldn't be more frequent trains and why there wasn't a longer carriage like the trains going going the other way.
Today, my husband and I thought it would be interesting to hop on the lrt for coffee midmorning since we missed our breakfast. But we got tied up with work and didn't get to leave the office till 11.30am. I was getting quite hungry. So instead of stopping at bangsar lrt station to have kopi-o at old town coffee, we decided to continue to the next station and get off at klsentral to check out Sooka since I've not been to Sooka. The train arrived quite quickly, it was a nice new long carriage one, i think about 5 car carriage. It was refreshingly cool in the train after waiting at the station platform which was quite warm. And very quickly we were at Sooka which was just a short walk from klsentral along a covered path although the clear roofing material hardly shielded any heat. Could we grow some bougainvilla over the clear roof? Sooka was surprisingly pleasant. Nice coffee places and a lot of places to 'sembang' or to while away time. We opted for chicken rice mainly cos we wanted to see if it is nice and we can 'ta pau' lunch for the kids. It was quite nice. But we decided on burger king mainly cos it is easier to carry on the train back.
After wondering around klsentral, we got to main lobby to the train stations but found ktm stations on both ends. There, ktm is very well marked and has clear signs on when the next trains are for each line. Where is putra lrt station? I guess we were looking out for the old putra logo but couldn't find it. Then we saw right next to ktm station is the rapidkl station. We had forgotten the trains are now called rapidkl. As we got on to the escalator to go up to the platform, we couldn't help but noticed that the escalator had a creaking sound. Where's maintenance? I think with the high usage, more maintenance is probably required for the escalators to work smoothly. The airconditioning at the station was also not working well and it gets a bit uncomfortable with our work attire. Would be nicer if the airconditioning is more effective. Not sure if the design of the building is partly to blame.
And then the train arrived and voila we were back at Plaza Pantai, and back at work in no time at all. It's a nice change not to have the hassle of driving through traffic and looking for car park. Which is the main reason why I had not checked out Sooka all this while. Hmm, where should we next go for our lunch on our next train ride? Further upmarket to klcc or go the other way towards paramount?
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