KJBishop.net » Thailand http://kjbishop.net K.J. Bishop's home on the web Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:11:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Ice rink for Bangkok http://kjbishop.net/2010/01/25/ice-rink-for-bangkok.html http://kjbishop.net/2010/01/25/ice-rink-for-bangkok.html#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:52:03 +0000 kjbishop http://kjbishop.net/?p=2446 Woo 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.

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