1.- From reading one of these fictional spy/counter-spy paperbacks - apologies, I forget its title, now - I gather that a way to defeat bugging by microphones is to run one's electric shaver.

2.- - The paucity of postings about BKK. should give one an idea about this LOW season; right now BKK. is quiet, too;
- In SILOM COMPLEX SHOPPING PLAZA one hears the usual & similar laments from both our Thai & young men and from farangs: 'Nitnoi ... .'.
- My Elderly, Frequently-visiting & Am. Friend, who stays regularly in the SURIWONGE HOTEL, has given me to u'stand. that for an avg. night the hotel is lucky to see as many as 15 guests.
- It's100%. for sure that when I visit the BAVANA 24HR. REST'T. & CAFE for my usual sundays' & mondays' b'fasts., say around 09.hrs., we're lucky to see even half-a-dozen others right now; no wonder that the staff there aren't looking too happy.
- A visiting acquaintance from Australia went to the TELEPHONE BAR -Silom 4. - last night, (22 jul.), and remarked on how empty it was for a friday night - even for a LOW season.

-- But YES - 'fun.' is available always for the diligent seeker! ;-)
- But, as my Enthusiastic & Am. Friend likes to remark: 'It's a crap shoot.'; thus, to obviate any disappointments, I shall refrain from suggesting any particular haunts, but instead choose to refer to 'All of the usual places', (depending, of course, upon one's own preferences), most of wch. have been well-documented in this and in other TH. threads.
- "Bonne chance et bonne chasse."!
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I had heard that Silom Complex was closing for renovations. Any update on that?

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-- As may have been written earlier in one thread or another, a lady acquaintance who manages one of the shops in SCSP. has told me that it will CLOSE in november 2011 for maybe 6+months for refurbishing etc. etc.; rumor, from another & non-shop-keeping source, suggests that the refurbished SCSP. will be MORE like MBK..
- She will be moving her shop to THANIYA TOWER, as it's been noised abroad that after the RE-OPENING rents will be INCREASED by anything UP to 100%.!
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I thought that meant the management was sending all the freelancers for a face lift and liposuction

hopefully the freelancers will not also be increasing the "rent" by 100% after re-opening!

bkkguy

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