Multiple Passport Photos

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Originally Posted by frogblogger

Oneman, for the best part of six months when I first arrived, my total shopping experience consisted of 7-Elevens, the nearest laundry lady, and the Warorot market. Personally I hate malls - the constant gale of excessive air conditioning, the lighting, the Westernisation, the un-Thai-ness of it all. I was eventually dragged into the two main malls much against my will. Big C I've managed to avoid, although I had to go to Tesco's once to buy something on special offer for the house. Limping is about the largest store I can bear to spend more than 10 minutes in.

As for the necessities of expat life - all my necessities are easily found without going anywhere near the malls.

frogblogger,

I don't know how my original post segued from multiple visa photos to malls but I concur with you and your dislike of malls.

I suspect it was here in America that malls first appeared and they've morphed into a way of life for people who must be very bored with life. Where kids use to go out and play ball or whatever, now they hang out in malls and shopping centers and the rest of their time in front of a computer. When I go to the mall/shopping center it's to buy a new pair of pants or shoes or socks. I HATE to shop so I'm in and gone - hopefully with my purchase so I do not have to repeat at shop #2. The older I get the less I want.

The only place I've ever enjoyed shopping was at Ocean Terminal in Kong Kong at the foot of Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side. That is an incredible treat where one can [if one chooses] fabulous jewelry, fur coats including sable and ermine, breathtaking cloisonne and ivory carvings and exotic merchandise from mostly China. Even there I'm usually just a voyeur and not a buyer.

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