Ice rink for Bangkok
Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 4:52 pmWoo hoo! Just heard one of the big shopping malls near us is building an ice rink. There’s a rink at a mall further away, but it’s a tiny wee thing. The promoters of the new one are calling it, in advance, “the world’s most exciting ice rink”, which could mean all sorts of things — tunnels, ramps, stairs — trapdoors that open randomly in the ice and drop you into boiling oil and acid — roving zambonis armed with razor-sharp rotating blades, chainsaws, flame throwers, tactical nukes, etc. — but what I hope it means is that whatever else it may be, it’ll be a full size rink. I used to be a pretty keen skater when I was a teen, and it would be great to have a local place to skate properly. Of course, a rink the size of a bedsitter with a couple of hundred people on it could be exciting in its own way…
It’s supposed to open in September.
January 26th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Wow! Which mall? There was a fun little ‘outdoors’ (actually in-a-tent) ice rink outside Central World over the holidays but I think it’s gone now. This sounds promising!
(Hii, by the way. Am a fan of The Etched City and a fellow Bangkoker and have not said hi before due to silly internet shyness)
January 26th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
I have never been ice skating in my whole life. Considering my physical prowess, I imagine the scene might be highly entertaining, but any onlookers would be almost as likely to incur grievous injury as I would.
January 27th, 2010 at 7:34 am
Tori — Siam Discovery! I saw the one outside Central World, but I didn’t go to it… I found more info, apparently the new one’s going to be Olympic size. And there’s going to be a Madame Tussaud’s in the same redevelopment.
Laurie — it’s actually hard to get injured just skating around (though unfortunately it’s easy to be an entertaining spectacle!), but with your spine I don’t know if there would be extra risks. I once fell on my butt and had paralysed legs for a couple of hours.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:34 am
Oh ice skating. I hail from a frosty climb (in my opinion semi-polar) and ice skating was something I did a fair bit of as a kid, though I’ve never been super good at it. Mostly I just went in circles continuously, gradually gaining speed till I lost control and hit a wall.
The only ice skating injury I’ve ever had (aside from bruised pride) was a nasty, nasty blister. That was when I found out that your skates must fit tightly or you will pay tremenously.
Interestingly enough, my college has been trying to have an ice rink since the beginning of January, but an inopportune rise in temperature turned it into an ankle deep pool.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Ohh, blisters. I was pretty good at getting them, too. Maybe my skates were too big!
“Mostly I just went in circles continuously, gradually gaining speed till I lost control and hit a wall.” — that sounds like a metaphor for so many things in life, it’s scary.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:16 am
I guess Siam Discovery is trying to save itself, existing next to Paragon and all. A skating rink with trapdoors would definitely win me over. By the way, what the hell is a “rink?” Do you think it’s a bastardization of “ring?”
February 17th, 2010 at 5:48 am
At least it’s a cool (har har) way to attempt self-rescue, rather than just another bunch of Italian designer outlets. Rink etymology. I never thought about that before!