Khun Pong.

Many thanks for your post...

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-- Y'day., sunday 11 nov., (Martinmas, Armistice/Veterans' day.), and being unexpectedly unengaged I resolved to go-out and to have a look-at BIG C 'EXTRA.' in Amphoe Bang Bua Thong.
- NB.: In my copy of BANGKOK CITY ATLAS - ISBN.:9-789749-440780 - BIG C 'EXTRA.' is outside BANG YAI and just in BANG BUA THONG!

-- Dir'ns., from Si Lom rd.:
1. - Board 'bus. #177. from either SILOM COMPLEX SHOPPING PLAZA or from UNITED CENTRE, (NB. 'bus. going AWAY from Rama IV. rd.!);
2. - Fare & journey's time: 18.Bh., approx. 01.hr., 40.mins.; the journey's time may appear to be long but nigh on an hour was spent mainly on the WEST bank of the CHAO PHRAYA river getting to CENT'l. PINKLAO - after wch. the 'bus. progressed MORE rapidly.);
3. - Way-points:
3.1. - King Taksin Statue at WONGWIANYAI. - RHS.
3.2. - SC. PLAZA. - LHS.;
3.3. - BKK. 'BUS. TERMINAL. - LHS.;
3.4. - MRT's. construction. - coming-IN from the RHS., (this will be the 'PURPLE.' line - BANG YAI > NONTHABURI > RAT BURANA. TALAD BANG YAI stn. is under constr. roughly between the BIG C. SUPERSTORE & BIG C 'Extra.'.);
3.5. - INDEX LIVING MALL. - LHS.;
3.6. - BIG C SUPERSTORE/HOMEPRO. - RHS.;
3.7. - Vacant BIG KING. - LHS.;
3.8. - BIG C 'EXTRA.' - LHS., (the 'bus. will STOP by BIG KING; BIG C 'EXTRA.' is just a few MORE mins. walk after BIG KING.

-- ETA./ETD.: 13.30.-18.oo.hrs.
- Surprisingly BIG C 'EXTRA.' isn't all that run-down. It is on two floors with roof-top car-parking;
- I saw but one hawng nahm on each shopping floor; both are generally fairly clean and graffiti-free - janitresses are in attendance from time to time.
- I visited the GF. HN. four times during my visit, at no time was it really busy and certainly no-one displaying himself, even discreetly that I saw. V. few young men. The cubicles were quite busy; a few had small peep-holes in the partitions - little graffiti seen.

-- During my visit I crossed-over the OUTER RING RD., (there is a nearby pedestrian over-bridge.), to the BIG C S'STORE, wch. has two HN. - one of each shopping floor; both of wch. are clean, graffiti-free and not all that busy.

-- I did see a goodly number of young men, mostly in pairs or small gps. - but as to their ethnicity I am no judge.

-- For the return journey - having been shooed-away by the #134. bus's. conductress, it did not go to BTS. Mo Chit, as my BKK. 'BUS. GUIDE indicated - I caught a #177. all the way back to Si Lom rd.. As it ret'd. along Phahon Yothin rd. I could have de-bussed. at BTS./MRT. Mo Chit/Chatuchak and saved some time. The return journey passed-by CENTRAL PLAZA - LAT PHRAO > SIAM DISC'Y. CNTR. > MBK. > CHAMCHURI SQ. > DUSIT THANI HTL. > along Si Lom rd..

-- E&OE.. --

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Thank you, sextile.

You can always be be depended on to provide excrutiatingly detailed directions to places where it would seem there to be no reason to go.

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"...extrutiatingly detailed..." is one way to put it,,, 'painful' would be my choice of word.

But hey each to his own.

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-- Khun Xfun,
- Thank you for so tactfully drawing our Gentle Reader's notice to Icon's spelling. --

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He spelled it wrong; I didn't!

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So now the spelling police also.

Painful.

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The cruising police though are the real pain full.

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I think we all agree on the spelling of "painful", so let's stick with that one...

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Woops icon513 you left out one word...

I couldn't agree more. Thanks for the exploration Khun Sextile. I'll cross this off my list of places NOT to cruise.

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-- Icon,
- As above - 'excrutiating.' may be how you spell that particular word; but neither my copy of Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary - ISBN.: 0-600-00007-0. - nor I do. --

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Any similarity between English and American is purely co-incidental .....they make it up as they go along... (and have a strong aversion to including "u" in many of their words..)

We Aussies may be colonials - but we speak fair dinkum English mate !

(.. and on that subject , it's funny that when most Aussies use the term "fair dinkum mate" they don't realise they're speaking Cantonese. It goes back to the Aussie gold rush in the 19th centrury when Chinese workers flooded the Victorian gold fields. Some unscrupulous gwailoo buyers tried to cheat them by saying they'd only found fools gold, and the chinese diggers replied - no, this "ding -gum" meaning "real gold" or, now used to mean , the real thing. )

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