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Old 21-01-2006, 16:36
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What happend with the mall in Patong?

There was a discussion about 6-8 months ago i believe about building a big mall in Patong, kinda like Central Festival. Or did i mix that up somewhere? Any updates on this?
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Old 21-01-2006, 16:40
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The usual TIT , money problems , so the building is nowhere near finished. When I was there at Christmas they seemed to have stopped all work on the site.
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Old 21-01-2006, 16:44
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The project is called Jungceylon. Understand there is some kind of dispute between the property owner and the developer. They're short of funds and one party wants to bring more investors in, the other party doesn't want to dilute his share but doesn't want to kick in any more money either. Its going through the courts now ....
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Old 21-01-2006, 17:08
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The project is called Jungceylon. Understand there is some kind of dispute between the property owner and the developer. They're short of funds and one party wants to bring more investors in, the other party doesn't want to dilute his share but doesn't want to kick in any more money either. Its going through the courts now ....

As a sidenote, does anyone know how they came up with the name "jungceylon" ?......l only found out the other day whilst sitting on the toilet.
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Old 21-01-2006, 17:16
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It was an historical (colonial) name for Phuket. I'm sure I've got it on one of the old maps I have stashed on my computer somewhere - if I can find it I'll post it up here.
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Old 21-01-2006, 17:20
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It is the old name for Phuket, Junkceylon givven by Portuguese and Chinese traders. Probably from Malaysian "Ujung Salang".
New name Phuket probably from Malaysian "Bukit".
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Old 21-01-2006, 17:26
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... and here it is. Extract is from a chart by Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 and is labelled Asia and its islands.
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And there was me thinking it meant "The Great Big White Elephant that will cost a fortune and Never Open".
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Old 21-01-2006, 17:39
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And there was me thinking it meant "The Great Big White Elephant that will cost a fortune and Never Open".

That's just the modern interpretation .... Glad I'm not one of those who were expecting to have their business open and recouping some of their investment through this high season.
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That's just the modern interpretation .... Glad I'm not one of those who were expecting to have their business open and recouping some of their investment through this high season.

Or the next high season!!!
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AND PROBABLY THE HIGH SEASON AFTER THAT ONE AS WELL......55555......IJ
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... and here it is. Extract is from a chart by Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782 and is labelled Asia and its islands.


I knew you'd been here a while DB but I didn't know you drew maps as well
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Old 21-01-2006, 20:22
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Easy! I'm not that bloody old!
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Easy! I'm not that bloody old!

C'mon , I heard you used to date a couple of really nice girls , they even erected a monument to them.
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Seems To Be A "hash" Thing Going On Here......555555...........ij
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C'mon , I heard you used to date a couple of really nice girls , they even erected a monument to them.

If I ever dated really nice girls, they'd probably erect a monument to me!
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Whenever I date a couple of sisters.. Theres always some erection going on..
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Somehow I knew that using the word "erect" in a post was going to generate a response. Bad boy Faulty!
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I see, i thought that maybe i had mixed it up with something else. I think that kind of mall in Patong would make a hell of alot of money, a little unfortunate for Central festival tho that would most likely lose ALOT of customers.
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Old 21-01-2006, 21:17
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Huge great big place that ran billions over budget (like 2.5 times its estimated cost so far) stopped 95% done becuase of pride and face..

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Soon it will be a business opportunity.....

Down on their face and short of funds....

Anybody????
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As a sidenote, does anyone know how they came up with the name "jungceylon" ?......l only found out the other day whilst sitting on the toilet.


Maby cosī there is alot of mosquitos there

jung = mosquito :
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Old 21-01-2006, 22:57
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If they opened the car park @ 20 Bhat/car they might just scrape together the missing 5% over the next decade!
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