Geek Heaven

Imagine 60 Frys Electronics stores, 50 Best Buy stores, 50 Apple stores and about 500 computer geeks in their parents' basements and their girlfriends (funny geeks in Asia are cool and have girlfriends).  Cram them all into 6 floors of a city block sized building - add plentiful food stalls, hundreds (seemingly) of ATMs - multiply it by a factor of 4 - make it REALLY noisy and insert every floodlight from every football stadium in the country - take a couple of tabs of LSD - spin yourself around about 30 times - you may at this point have an approximation of Panthip Plaza - IT City in Bangkok. Unbelievable. No idea why I had not visited before - I spent about 4 hours just looking around - amazing.  Every conceivable computer product, video product, video game and equipment etc.  Every peice of software (some of it maybe even legal copies) every possible DVD - probably very few of them legal copies and guys who leap out of random corners magically revealing porno DVDs (which are illegal here) out of their clothing to try to tempt you. If Gates and Jobs were to build Sodom and Gormorrah - this is it - fabulously anarchic and amazingly interesting.  I bought a cheap pair of sunglasses as I was leaving - cue ZZ Top.