My daughter loves everything K-pop and Hallyu. Including Running Man.
I used to watch Running Man, too, but have stopped for some time now. I still think its one of the funniest show on television, better than anything American or Hong Kong TV has done (çŽé–€äººç³»åˆ— can really learn a lot of things from them). But lately, the episodes have become over-produced, and the humour forced. I particular don’t like the heavily-themed episodes, and how they like to unnecessarily play up the romance between guests and the stars.
But, anyway, it is still funny and a great concept.
So I was thinking to get a Running Man T-shirt for my daughter for her birthday. Preferably one with the tear-off name tag at the back (you need to understand the show to understand this concept).
Some searching online led me to a few fan-run websites and FB pages, but they seem rather disorganized and in some cases, dodgy. So I kept putting it off until last week when it was too late. So I asked around and someone recommended I try looking around either Berjaya Times Square or Sungei Wang Plaza (why does it have to be THESE two places?). Rather than wandering around in the mess of SWP or the cavernous Ah Lian maze of BTS, I did even more google searches and came up with a shop name.
So one day I drove down to SWP and found this.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t open yet. The little sign hanging on the door said I had 90 minutes to wait.
So I went for lunch, waited around, went to check out art books at Basheer (they had none).
Opening time came, still not open. I walked in the bookstore next door and asked the shopkeeper. This is what she said, “Sometimes they open at 11 plus, sometimes at 2.30pm. Puasa month, sometimes they don’t even open. Yesterday, they opened at 2.30pm, a customer screamed at them coz she was waiting for hours. Better you call their number hanging at the door.”
I hadn’t even notice the number. I called but no response. I decided to go off, I can’t afford to sit around all day.
when I almost reached the ground floor, I decided to go back up again to check one last time (its not like I come to SWP every day). Lo and behold it was open!
Anyway, the store is well stocked if K-pop is your thing. They sell a wide variety of useful and useless stuff – tees, books, videos, keychains, mugs, car stickers, even mousepads with pictures of your favourite K-pop star. Who uses mousepads anymore?
they had a good selection of Running Man tees, testament to the shows popularity here. I settled for these two. Jae-Suk looks too cute in the black tee.
Fighting!!