LawrenceChee Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 This will probably generate a lot of thoughts...unlike some in the community, I see a need for a shopping mall and enjoy them myself. I am not a shopholic and have little in terms of material possessions (total worth - 1 luggage full) and here are my top reasons why I enjoy a mall and think more should be built in CM at the pace the population is growing in this city - It provides free air con comfort during those hot season months - I enjoy banking, shopping for groceries and an ice cream at the same spot - It's the best place to people watch in the afternoons when you are bored and there is nothing on the agenda - It helps you practice self discipline...window shopping is the ultimate program - I like looking at gadgets and cellphones and the malls are packed with lots of them - I like reading banks literature and most shopping malls have tons of them all lined up at the same corner - Fast food joints & food courts for quick takeaways - I like looking at families buying gold...being Asian I understand the excitement factor of adding another goldie to the collection 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaoPo Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Good luck with your hobby What do you do for a living? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daoyai Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 This is an attempt at a humorous parody post right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeverSure Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I never noticed a single one of those things in a mall. Do they really have them? All I saw were some really pretty girls working behind some kind of counters or other. I'll have to take another look. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamCave Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I don't like the malls but will go to get what I need at home pro or the other stores in central mall or the mall nagwangwan. The wife does the same as u, I usually get a caffee yen and sit out side looking at the uni girls for my pass time until the wife is finished shopping , I just look at the menu never order . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Songhua Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Shop owners just loooove window shoppers who read the books then put them back on the shelf and drip ice-cream on the floor on the way out. Not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post elektrified Posted January 5, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2013 Good luck with your "hobby". Sounds terribly boring. Take a hike or visit a waterfall...and much healthier for you. I hate malls. My last 10 years in America I never entered a mall once (except maybe to enter the cinema). There are too many malls, mini malls, whatever...in C.M. already. Some should be bulldozed. Put in parks instead. Banks???? Who needs so many banks? More people should use Internet banking and stop wasting so much gas and polluting the air driving to "mini-mall banks" when they can do 90% of the banking at home. Free A/C? Families shopping together for gold? I have not seen that here. Thais buy gold mainly as investments. There's no family joy involved. It's all business. Please...less "fast food joints". 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ulysses G. Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 (edited) Malls are great for air-con and girl-watching opportunities as well as an ice cream fix every now and then. Kad Suab Kaew was great when it was the only mall in town and the attractive young women were all concentrated in one place. Edited January 5, 2013 by Ulysses G. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kurnell Posted January 5, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2013 Great place to sit and drink a coffee while the ladies walk by 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BookMan Posted January 5, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2013 Malls are great for air-con and girl-watching opportunities as well as an ice cream fix every now and then. Kad Suab Kaew was great when it was the only mall in town and the attrractive young women were all concentrated in one place. A man who understands the true purpose of shopping malls 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I like the food courts in shopping malls i don't know the area and I'm by myself. I can have a browse and decide what I want and the hygiene is generally okay The women, from shop assistants to shoppers, so many wonderful on the eye, and they love a chat...if they think I might buy something Like the OP I enjoy a window browse but I rarely buy much. (20%/30%/50% promotions in Thailand often seem to be the same price as before to me) Bakery shops. Usually a range and I can find a nice Pineapple pie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MESmith Posted January 5, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2013 Dave2, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to photograph some loverly shopping mall "eye candy". But the twist in the tail, is to capture, in the same frame, a middle aged or elderly gentleman nursing a coffee, with a strategically placed newspaper on his lap. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave2 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 (edited) re. Dave2, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to photograph some loverly shopping mall "eye candy". But the twist in the tail, is to capture, in the same frame, a middle aged or elderly gentleman nursing a coffee, with a strategically placed newspaper on his lap. the uni girls and the ice cream are easy but how on earth can i get myself : ) ... in the same frame ? dave2 ps .. where do dairy queen get all the little stunners that work there is there a village that breeds dairy queen girls ? .. just joshin : ) Edited January 5, 2013 by dave2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MESmith Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 the uni girls and the ice cream are easy but how on earth can i get myself : ) ... in the same frame ? dave2 Reflected in a shop window? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene123 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Thanks for the laughs, guys. I guess I'm not a REAL woman because I never liked shopping. I preferred being on a hike or skiing with my father. It was my sister who liked to shop, and still does. She lives in the heart of London with all the hoity-toity people. I only go to the mall to get my cellphone updated, and I have to admit that DTAC seems to hire only pretty, young women. I'm kind of jealous of their slim, trim figures. I have to force myself to stay away from Dairy Queen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainiain101 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I miss the 'cowboy' restaurant at airport plaza 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawrenceChee Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 I agree the girls in Thailand and Dairy Queen is insanely good eye candy...it's like stepford village :-) all slim and long hair and smiley.,..well most anyway .... As for hiking...done my share in my younger days and now I enjoy working out my fingers at fast paced routines to build up my resistance, muscle toning and such ...the remotes and keyboard are my fav instruments of pain ! Work as a consultant for the travel business and most Asian airlines have nice stewardess too ! Miss Airport Plaza ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikey Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Malls are great for air-con and girl-watching opportunities as well as an ice cream fix every now and then. Kad Suab Kaew was great when it was the only mall in town and the attractive young women were all concentrated in one place. Well, with at least 3 new malls being built does this mean that the eye-candy will be severely diluted as it will be spread out over multiple venues? dam_n. BTW, the "cowboy bar" that used to be on the top flooor of AP is now "Western House" on the 1001 between the SuperHighway and Ruam Chok and the owner has thankfully kept his policy of staffing it with hottie cowgirls. Cheers, Pikey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthedarkside Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 5 off topic exchanges between members have been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene123 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 5 off topic exchanges between members have been removed. Sorry about that, darkside. I shouldn't let myself get baited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thakkar Posted January 5, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2013 Mall miscellany and mall etiquette. Listen up, plebs! The recycled air and exclusively artificial lighting cannot be good for you. Taking notice of, and admiring beautiful people (whether male, female or transgender - to each their own) is healthy, entertaining and not unusual. Plopping oneself at food courts for a session of lecherous ogling is creepy. Stop it! To all the people playing with the display iPads who also pick their noses with the same finger, Stop It! If you squeeze something in the supermarket, buy it. What part of "ten items or less" do you not understand? Sending your partner to get a few more items after the cashier has rung up your cart contents is cock-blocking the rest of us in line. Stop it! Do not try and re-fold the clothes you've unfolded. Please leave that to the experts. Please. Pro tip: the expiry date is sometimes at the bottom of the container. Do not hang out in the kids' area unless you're watching your own kids. Free food-tasting counters are not places to pick up girls; there are serious actual food tasters waiting in line. Phone conversations in toilet stalls have an amplifying effect. If you must have a conversation, please at least make it interesting. Flush, check, please flush again when necessary, before leaving the toilet. The beer ladies are just waitresses trying to make an honest living. They are not easy sluts. They deserve a generous tip just for enduring the ogling and ludicrous high heels. Get out of Mrs T's way when she spots a bargain. 'People watching' isn't anywhere near as interesting or intellectually stimulating as every guide book ever written make it out to be. Smile at the food court cleaners; acknowledge their existence. Escalator on and off ramps are not meeting /waiting places. Finally: my lovely daughters are mall rats. When they allow it, I go with them. Unbeknown to them, I carry around printed stickers saying "dirty old man" to stick on the backs of anyone I see ogling at them. You have been warned, Dave! T 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinnieTheKhwai Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Shop owners just loooove window shoppers who read the books then put them back on the shelf and drip ice-cream on the floor on the way out. Not. I was waiting for an indication on why / how that could be the OP's problem, but didn't see it. I agree the girls in Thailand and Dairy Queen is insanely good eye candy... Surely you're all confused with Swensen's ? That's the chain with staff sweeter than their product. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naboo Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 (edited) Swenson's girls are no way old enough you dirty old men! How they find so many staff who look 13 I don't know. Edited January 5, 2013 by naboo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancid Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I think most members would agree that one of the most stimulating aspects of life in Thailand is to hang out at shopping malls for the free a/c amd to do their banking. Has the OP considered therapy, electroshock immediately springs to mind with more invasive measures as an aferthought. Mind you the OP does fit in well with the locals I suppose, we have all seem the queues going into Airport Plaza on the weekends, Hopefully this is not my future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I agree the girls in Thailand and Dairy Queen is insanely good eye candy...it's like stepford village :-) all slim and long hair and smiley.,..well most anyway .... Aren't they still at school? They look very young to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elektrified Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I agree the girls in Thailand and Dairy Queen is insanely good eye candy...it's like stepford village :-) all slim and long hair and smiley.,..well most anyway .... Aren't they still at school? They look very young to me. Yeah, that's a little weird of a post. They look to be about 16 years old. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffreyMcCollum Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 A few new malls are open since you were here last and a few more Mega malls on the way as you know. Even some changes at Airport plaza for you to see on your return Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
15Peter20 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 (edited) I agree the girls in Thailand and Dairy Queen is insanely good eye candy...it's like stepford village :-) all slim and long hair and smiley.,..well most anyway .... Aren't they still at school? They look very young to me. Yeah, that's a little weird of a post. They look to be about 16 years old. I remember asking my wife about how Dairy Queen can employ seemingly under-aged staff, but she reckons they are relatively mature women (twenties plus) who are just made to look 13 because of franchise rules about having to have pony tails etc. Don't know if its true though. Edited January 5, 2013 by 15Peter20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elektrified Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 (edited) I agree the girls in Thailand and Dairy Queen is insanely good eye candy...it's like stepford village :-) all slim and long hair and smiley.,..well most anyway .... Aren't they still at school? They look very young to me. Yeah, that's a little weird of a post. They look to be about 16 years old. I remember asking my wife about how Dairy Queen can employ seemingly under-aged staff, but she reckons they are relatively mature women (twenties plus) who are just made to look 13 because of franchise rules about having to have pony tails etc. Don't know if its true though. I don't think so but I could wrong. I honestly don't think those girls are 20's plus. Also I believe the legal employment age in Thailand is 15 years. The g/f's cousin was working at a large company when she was 15, taxes taken out, etc. Edited January 5, 2013 by elektrified Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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