Simple Solutions for Simple Problems

I went for dinner at Sunway Pyramid 2 on the weekend and noticed a couple of neat things they have implemented in the new wing to make your shopping experience a little bit easier.

You ever get frustrated looking for a parking space? Ever wonder if driving round and round on the same floor is pointless since there aren’t any parking spaces left on that floor anyway?

Well check out these simple solutions to those simple problems.

When you get into the basement car park at Sunway Pyramid you’ll notice alot of these signs with red numbers and green arrows located all around the floor. They point you in the direction of empty parking spaces and tell you how many are available in that direction.

But wait it gets better.

When was the last time you thought you saw an empty parking spot and gleefully drive at full speed towards it? But when you get there what do you see? A bloody Kancil/ Kelisa/ Some other small car you couldn’t see from a distance!

To combat the fiendish conspiracy of Kancil owners in car parks, Sunway pyramid have implemented a system where at a glance you’ll be able to tell if the parking lot is empty or taken. If you notice in the picture, there are red lights above all the parking spots.

When the light is red, the spot is taken.

But when the light is green? Congratulations! You’ve won yourself a parking spot!

Cool huh?

But wait there’s even more still.

If you’re like me, you are never able to remember where you parked your car. No matter how hard you try, you will always go to the wrong area on the way back to your car.

Check out the sign above stuck on most of the pillars in the Sunway Pyramid car park. It reads “Snap the pillar number to remember your parking spot.”

That’s such a simple solution that it should be common sense. But until I read that sign, I never thought about it.

Once out of the car park, these giant screens will show you every floor of the shopping mall, where you are as well as a listing of all the shops/ restaurants in their different categories.

It’s quite alot of information to read but at least you have it all at one glance, unlike some other shopping malls, where they show you the information 1 floor at a time.

What’s more… the screen will turn into a giant advert every once and a while. Nifty huh?

Remember my last post on entrepreneurship in Malaysia? Well hoping that I could get some more information about the subject from a local context, I paid a visit to popular bookstore (still in Sunway Pyramid 2) and what did I find?

These 2 books. Now how relevant is this to local entrepreneurs? (Although I found it dumb they labeled these 2 books under entrepreneurs, I know people do buy them, because my cousin bought himself the first book before he flew off to India to start work.)

And the last nifty solution? You see that cardboard piece around the take-away Starbucks cup Sue Ann is holding?

Well it prevents your hands from getting burnt by the heat of the liquid and is a mini advert as well.

So don’t over-complicate things. In the end, simple is the way to go.