3 Ginger Snaps

This thought has run through my head many times since we arrived in Asia. There are no limits here. The culture is Asia seems to be to try anything once, to innovate and reinvent constantly, and to celebrate the diversity that life has to offer through enthusiastic participation whenever possible. 

Today, Hil took the kids here:

This is a picture of them exiting the indoor play ground to beat all indoor playgrounds after no less than 6.5hours of solid play. They were a very happy hot mess. The place is called Kidzania and it is a role play environment where kids do jobs, earn money, pay bills, and pretend at being an adult. My 3 loved it and if anyone has an idea as to where to raise a swift $30 million then Hil wants to open one with you in Toronto. It’ll go gangbusters!

Hil took the kids for the day because I has some errands to run – we had encountered a tech issue that needed to be remedied and because Bangkok has one of the biggest tech malls in all of Asia this seemed to be the place for it. It took me all day to resolve the issue but resolve I did. Bangkok is steaming hot and – fortunately for me my pursuit took me through a number of very fancy and very well cooled malls. Along the way I saw some astonishing stuff. Take, for example the string of car dealerships I saw on the 4th floor of one mall. I could choose from Rolls Royce, Porsche, BMW, MacLaren, Ferrari, Land Rover or this Lambourghini that cost $28 million. 

I also encountered a mid day black tie tribute to the recently deceased king. There were many people handcrafting paper flowers and a three piece jazz band. It was swanky. 

I thought I had hit the peak of my discoveries when I discovered this:

If you are asking yourself: are those baby octopi on a grill in a mall food court? Then the answer is yes. 

But then I realized that what I had really been looking for all day was this. Take note Greg Gulyas, this is the retirement project you were born for. These people were lined up 30 deep waiting to pay $5 for 2 slices of….. cheese toast!

Not sure you will be able to pull this off at the Gravenhurst farmers market – but maybe there is a project somewhere east of Kahshe Lake that is waiting for your expertise.