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New Sogo


During the Chinese New Year holidays, there wasn't much to do, so we went to the newly opened Sogo in the city centre.

The building looked very modern, and I was quite impressesed with the design on the exterior with it soothing turquoise colours.

The new Sogo is only across the road from the old one, which is still opened for business. But if you want the high quality, designer label things, I suggest you go to the new one to fulfil your shopping requirements.



I was even more surprised to find a small Japanese garden on one of the floor in this new shopping mall. They certainly spend a lot of money on this building.



Amelie as usual was running around in the new place and exploring its different corners. She evern tried to get into the Japanese garden, which was out of bounds. I think the Japanese garden was a Feng-Shui thing. I didnt think the owners would be impressed if Amelie went into the garden and disturbed their cosmic balance!




There many things there amongst the expensive designer wear. The ones I noticed was a big Giant bicycle centre, with their display of the latest bicycle models, with the cheapest model starting at NTD$10,000. There was also a really big Sony Centre and right in the centre was a 55-inch Sony Bravia flatscreen television with the last incarnation of Ridge Racer for the Playstation3. Could I resist the temptation? Hell no! I saw the sales guy with the wireless controller and stood next to him until he handed it over for me to try in its full 55-inch HDMI glory! I was so into the game, I forgot to take a picture of myself...dammit.



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