White Cat Bar, Bangkok, is open

[Keithambrose]

6 hours ago, vinapu said:

Another point to support social media trustworthiness. 

You are right about people having different tastes so criticizing it laughing at at any bar offering is at best premature. On daily basis I see people dressed in stuff I never would, eating food looking awful and siting/walking with boys I'd never look at. And no doubt there are those who think the same about my choices. 

Variety is the spice of life!

[Keithambrose]

1 hour ago, spoon said:

So its wild cat, not white cat. Lol

Surely this is a differe place?

[Kiwi306]

1 hour ago, spoon said:

So its wild cat, not white cat. Lol

No, Wild Cat was a bar for men to ogle at women, but has since closed.

So White Cat, now in the same venue, needs to get its act together and at least change the signage before doing anything else.

[macaroni21]

I'm sure I am not the only person scratching my head as to why they're not keeping the Atlas name. I don't know the answer, but surely, after a year in business, there must be some goodwill and name recognition attached to it.

Maybe there's a trademark challenge from other similarly named entertainment businesses, or maybe it's just plain superstition after an unsuccessful year under that name.

 

[vinapu]

Whatever it is , I have news for you. Half an hour ago when dining in Foodland I spotted Arthur, Atlas manager , dining in another corner and who  also so recognized me. Upon shaking hands I got a confirmation that bar is opened indeed so expect some report between now and Christmas

[mauRICE]

47 minutes ago, macaroni21 said:

I'm sure I am not the only person scratching my head as to why they're not keeping the Atlas name. I don't know the answer, but surely, after a year in business, there must be some goodwill and name recognition attached to it.

There's a huge, upmarket "super club" by that name which opened in December last year in Huay Kwang, Bangkok.

[macaroni21]

Officially opened. Announced on Youtube. To @vinapu's face-to-face question, re-confirmed it is open. But signboard still not changed.

This reminds me of an experience from maybe 20 years back. I'm not saying that the story behind the White Cat (now more like Schrödinger's Cat) is like in my story... I am just reminded of that particular case, and maybe it's as good an opportunity as any to regale you with that story.

I was at the time attached to the Bangkok head office of a Thai company, consulting on a project. One day I was implored (more like expected/obliged) to fly up to Khon Kaen for a ceremony. I never knew why it was so important that I should go since whatever it was had nothing to do with the project I was working on with them. 

Anyway, go I did. It was the opening ceremony of their new distribution centre. But when the busload of dignitaries (of which I was supposed to be one) arrived at the site, it became quite obvious that the warehouse was not quite ready. The building looked complete from the outside, but once inside, it was totally bare. No shelving, no furniture in the warehouse office, no phone or data connection, though at least there was electricity and lights. No stock either except for one lonely pallet of goods in the centre of the vast empty floor. I vaguely remember that the company had not even begun to hire staff for the Khon Kaen depot. Nor had delivery vehicles been purchased for this site.

Monks came in soon after and a blessing ceremony was held. Apparently, the astrologer had fixed this day as the most auspicious day for the inauguration of the distribution centre. It might have been realistic if the building contractor had been on schedule, but clearly he was not.

Anyway, the auspicious date had to be kept, and so the warehouse was officially opened. And to"prove" that it had become operational, a pallet was trucked in all the way from another distribution centre (I vaguely remember it was Ubon but I could be wrong) to sit majestically in the new warehouse. After the monks' ceremony, that pallet was loaded onto a lorry and delivered to a customer, apparently also somewhere in the Ubon area, so basically the pallet was driven 300km to sit in the warehouse overnight, and then driven back the same 300km to a customer in the Ubon area -- this was whispered to me cheekily by another "dignitary" on the bus who knew more than I did about the distribution centre.

The long and short of it was that after that delivery was made "proving" that the distribution centre was open and operational, it must have fallen back into a phantom state for several months more before a second delivery was made from its doors.

That day I had to put on my best behaviour and was extremely diplomatic about everything I saw (or rather, everything I should be seeing, shelves, goods, staff, trucks, customer orders... but did not). I was so well behaved (most uncharacteristic of me) that I must have treated myself to an ice-cream once back in Bangkok.

I think some readers in the forum who have Thai boyfriends would understand the "logic" behind all this.