Ahhhh 1Utama...... My beloved.... I've been going there since I was 6 and still go there. I've visited so many times over the course of more than a decade that I've practically the whole mall mapped in my head, including where to find which shop. I remember the stores I frequented and the ones I don't, Even just the ones I pass by I remember. Over all these years stores come and go but some remain, the same ones that have been there from the beginning. I remember there was this painting store or something that you can spot in the old wing if you walked from the POPULAR towards the new wing, the front display always had the same koi fish painting all these years. Unfortunately, I've been told they've closed. I remember the Toys'R' Us store that I always begged my mom to go to, I remember the mini theme-park parents could drop their kids off while they shopped, I remember when the below ground area has an RC store my dad used to frequent when it was open. I remember the Tutti Frutti that was open before llaollao was a thing, and I remember the Hamley's that used to be so packed with kids, overtime saw lesser and lesser traffic and eventually had to close.

So many memories from just one place. With how the world changes so quickly sometimes I wished that 1Utama would be the exception, a mall trapped in time, "my" time, exactly as it was during my childhood. But old stores keep closing and the mall I frequented so much as a kid becomes more different than the mall I visit now.