| | I remembered earlier just how many malls I went to in Jakarta last summer. I looked up a list of Indonesian malls, and while I don't remember the names exactly, I'm pretty sure I've covered a lot of the list for malls in Jakarta. Not to mention the mall I went to in Singapore, and the one in L.A. (but I'd been to several malls in L.A. many, many times...for twelve years, so they were nothing new). Oh-- and the several malls I went to in Thailand (if your ever in Bangkok, check out The Platinum Fashion Mall)! Bali was cool, because there were a lot more places to go and things to see. Jakarta was like, building, building, building, shack, building, car, car, car....And Malls galore. Very tall malls (they don't have space to build out, unlike our malls in the U.S., so they build up). Some of them are very nice and some are sort of...well...not so nice. It was interesting to see the malls in Southeast Asia too. The nicer malls in Indonesia were set up the way they are here, with one floor set up as food court. Most of the malls, Indonesia and in Thailand, were actually set up more like swap meets. There weren't signs over the stores. There were dividers in the middle of the rooms with more little shops. Not a lot of walking room in the individual stores, either. Interesting about the Platinum Mall in Bangkok was that it was very nice, but also set up in a similar fashion. Plus, in the food court, you had to put money on a little card, then go around, pick what you wanted to eat from one of the little food places (there was a KFC, and then everything else was just different varieties of noodles and soups) and hand over the card and they would take money off of it. I guess you would put more money on it if you lived there, but we didn't so we only put enough money on to buy us what we needed. When the card had no more money, you returned it or renewed it. You also had to buy your drinks (and dessert) at a separate stand. It was interesting. I also liked the parking decks in Singapore, but that's for another day...
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You know, if you don't surround a bull with a bunch of red to aggravate it, it's really just a male cow. Granted, it's got horns, but if you don't make it mad, what's it gonna do? Bulls have this reputation for being mean and stuff...but like, duh. If you purposefully provoke, yeah, it's gonna be angry. And it's got horns. So now you've just screwed yourself over. If you leave the animal alone, I think you'll be good, don't you?
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