This morning i had an opportunity to go to Serikin with the wife and my eldest son Azri and his friends who came over to visit him while on holidays.
Serikin??? It always evoke a vision of a chaotic place, with run of the mill cheap Indonesian products being sold at very ramshackle stalls.
Also not forgetting always being pursued by persistent salesmen selling turtle eggs!!!
Well the last time i was visiting Serikin few years back and indeed it was a great delight to see the place now mushrooming into a very successful, free Enterprise border post market place.
It was full of day trippers looking for cheap bargains.
I remembered before Serikin was THE PLACE, everyone talks about another border outpost Tebedu.Now hardly anyone goes to Tebedu, the reason being obvious i believe. In their haste to "upgrade and control" the place, the Government has made Tebedu indeed an inconvenience place for all and sundry to do their dilly dally weekend shopping.
Serikin??? Indeed it has flourished ,amidst its chaotic and sometimes illogical manner of organising the stalls and parking space.
Like all entrepreneurial outlets one finds unique selling propositions.
I saw one that offers leeches ..yes leeches for rm5 one can get a leech to suck blood off your foot!!!!
What did i end up buying? Nothing differs from any of those trinkets that normally ends up in my shopping bag whenever i dragged myself to such a market place. A Puma long shirt(for RM20 not bad..), a Puma cap and a pouch for my new hand phone(will not tell you its brand but it takes good pictures though)
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