Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Bloggers You Really Should Check Out part 13

Anyone who’s been to the Borders in Wheelock Place in Singapore should know that it’s a rather cozy place, even if one is looking in from the outside. Piles of books, tall bookshelves, and carpeted floors, and lots of people sitting around reading.

Well, from the outside of Borders Times Square, the store looked more like a Popular bookstore than a Borders Singapore.

Sure, it LOOKS huge, and covers two floors, but the place just seems rather… soulless.

Shiny tiled floors, cheap-looking bookshelves (like the ones in most Popular bookstores) and lots of wide-open spaces BETWEEN the shelves. Biggest in the world it may be, but seriously, I think that’s based on only the AREA is encompasses, NOT the amount of books it has.

I’m not too sure about the selection of books (not having good enough eyes to be able to read the titles of the books while peering in from outside the store), but I’m not getting my hopes up, since the buyer allegedly used to work for Popular.

Eyeris expresses her his disappointment at the newly opened Borders Bookshop in Kuala Lumpur. This is totally different from the scenario that the 3-page story featured in Malaysian papers painted. She’s He’s totally dissed that instead of getting a Borders, they got a Popular bookstore instead!

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wei… caleb… eyeris is a GUY lah!!!!

eyeris sounds so feminine!!!

sigh… I guess my tactic of replacing the ‘I’ in ‘Iris’ with ‘eye’ for the cool factor STILL doesn’t deter people from thinking I’m female… sigh… :)

BTW, I seem to be one of the few who hated Borders KL. some peopel actually find it good. oh well. :)

i like starbucks in borders… means i can read for free and drink coffee for as long as possible. in my dictionary, that’s very very good… mph only allows us to buy the books first, then only walk in, and that’s not exactly very good for me.