A week of silk...

Upon reviewing the week, I realized a large portion of it revolved around Jim Thompson and his silk business. On Monday, I went shopping and bought 2 silk purses at Central World, then Tuesday was w/o any silk. Wednesday, I was at Jim Thompson's house and then went to the Jim Thompson store in Siam Paragon (another huge mall) with Maly so that she could buy a purse to match one of the ones I purchased on Monday & I bought a 3rd purse (only this one is not silk & can be used daily). Thursday Jessica and I came upon the Jim Thompson Cafe (w/a 4story store attached) in Sala Daeng and she bought my everyday purse. Apparently I have good taste. The only big JT store that I didn't make it to was the outlet on Soi93--oh well, I think I will survive. I think it may be a good thing that we don't have these stores in the US (and if we do, please don't tell me about them).

Night markets of Bangkok

Monday night, Chris, Jessica, Maly and I ventured to the PatPong night market full of knock-offs and apparently sex shows. As we walked down the crowded isles, we had a small, and sometimes large, laminated paper advertising "Pussy" and "show" listed as the price shoved into our faces. Our sexes did not matter these people were very aggressive, sometimes following us halfway down the isle. The best response of all was when Maly replied "no thank you, I have one" and kept walking. As far as the shopping goes, they had knock offs of all varieties and qualities with very high starting prices, intense bargaining skills were required & usually the vendor won--so we did not buy. I realized that if I ever wanted to start buying knock-offs, NYC Chinatown is as good a place as any.