Kelvin cleaning up, at a random late night ping pong session on Orchard Road. Night life takes many forms at Orchard Road, mainly shopping and eating but also just strolling down the boulevard, and soaking up the bright lights, music and other shop displays that spill over onto the sidewalk. This next pic is taken around 11pm and it's still busy & note the Visitor Centre though shut is all lit up in the background.
shop houses converted into places to eat & night spots cheapish beer & karaoke as backgroundish Muzak.
there is always music! their words not mine ... experimental stuff with accordians guitars and sacred sounds from 2 zhai s in the aptly named " black hole" . good stuff makes me think of beaches and Floyd.
LOHAS or lifestyles of health & sustainability is a brand that promotes these things run on marketing principles. looks like they are having a lot of success - here is Adam Horler from the Asia Pacific branch talking at Singapore Management University about the Hong Kong MTR station that is called LOHAS park ... he makes the case for the pragmatic mainstreaming of the LOHAS brand as a symbol to change the priorities of big companies and consumers. it's a social conversation of course and the challenges to him are to prevent brand dilution and greenwash...my view...it's a good realistic step forward.
it's a particular habit in Asia to sit on the street in groups - mostly men and not on street furniture. the people here are just enjoying chatting outdoors on a balmy Sunday evening ...
Here people also make much better use of bananas than I do...it's not just the fruit you can eat and the leaves for plates, but the whole tree including the trunk and the fruit that are turned into soups and curries. Below you see the head of the flower and embryonic bananas which surrounds it. Each one starts a few leaves and a blob of honey you can eat these too except the stamen which is discarded and called a "theif" kallan in Tamil!
