Jaya Supermarket closes down, Jaya One opens up.

So. On the other day I paid Jaya Supermarket one last visit before the entire complex closes down on the seventh of February. It's probably my most-visited retail complex in my life. There was a time when it had Marks & Spencer! I mostly wanted to buy several cans of these 'exotic' sodas which I have not seen anywhere else, not even at Village Grocer.

Once I got to Cold Storage, I got a little sad looking at empty shelves. It looked like the place was looted. Fresh items was no longer in stock, along with some biscuits, boxed fruit juices, instant noodles.

There were some stuff that were on sale like canned food, junk food, tea and old Christmas stock. I bought a bag of potato skins for RM 3.

Ah, no more grocery-shopping in Section 14. Of course, I can always go visit Jaya Grocer but I'd have to cross the busy Jalan Semangat to get there, using an overhead bridge, so it's a little inconvenient.

On the very same day, I visited Jaya One, a newly-opened commercial centre [the one where PJ Live Arts are going to be at]. It's not a hundred percent complete, but some cafes and restaurants are flooded with mostly students from the TAR college next door.

There are Starbucks [they just have to be all over the place, don't they?], Secret Recipe, Overseas, Jaya Noodle House and Duck King among these blocks.

How do you like its architecture so far? It's an ideal place to open some Scandinavian home accessories shop, or a niche bookstore and stationers. But what that is more likely to appear are boring boutiques that go by the name of 'Pretty Fairy Collections' and Kian furniture.