I dragged the beloved to The Gardens for jalan-jalan. Hes not much of a jalan jalan animal and window shopping simply kills the man. But I thought since The Gardens is some 5 minutes drive from home AND from work, it is kind of silly of me not to at least take a look at what it has got to offer. At the very least I should be able to say that I've been there.
Anyway, The Gardens is set to be another crowd puller, extending the sucess of its evil twin, not 5 minutes walk away. However, unlike its evil twin that attracts all and sundry, TG seems to exudes a touch of class' read that as 'expansive'.
Banana Republic, Adidas, Rolex, Robinson, Isetan and a host of other apparel related business; which was all well and good, but not really up my alley.
The toilet was still nice and clean..haha. Fixtures are automated dispensers and faucets, i can see problems down the road when the great unwashed masses starts to make a beeline..
Anyway, the beloved and I finally found some attraction at Rock Records. He found CD storage envelops that goes at 12 Malaysia sen each envelop which was a steal. He had budgeted it for 15 sen each. It came in a very nice casing too. So the beloved bought 2 of those to store his 500 pieces of DVD.
I got caught up in the jazz section. I found Astrud Gilberto sitting on the rack; so tempting as I have never seen this CD anywhere..not even at Towers Record (I only have Bebel Gilberto so far and that is in an audiophile CD). Then again, I have never tried hard at looking... I went on a test drive and fell in love. The AG cd cost soome RM42 and change. And then i thought of John Coltrane. Always read about it (Harry Bosch; Michael Connelly's hero listens to Coltrane) in the Harry Bosch series; listened to it on youtube but first time seeing the CD. I test drove the Coltrane/Stan Getz cd, but thought i needed a pure Coltrane to start off. So I got Coltrane's My Favourite Things. 
All the purchases (2 CDs and 2 CD storage) set me back some RM150 and change, and judging from the sounds from my player now..it is well worth it.
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Coltrane was born and raised a Christian, and was in touch with religion and spirituality from childhood. As a youth, he practiced music in a southern African-American church. In A Night in Tunisia: Imaginings of Africa in Jazz, Norman Weinstein notes the parallel between Coltrane's music and his experience in the southern church.
In 1957 Coltrane began to shift spiritual directions. Two years earlier, he had married Juanita Naima Grubb, a Muslim convert, (for whom he later wrote the piece Naima), and came into contact with Islam, an experience that may have led him to overcome his addictions to alcohol and heroin; it was a period of "spiritual awakening" that helped him return to the Jazz scene and eventually produce his greatest work. The journey took him through Islam. Bassist Donald Garrett told Coltrane, "You've got to go to the source to learn anything, and Sufism is one of the best sources there is."
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