Saturday, June 25, 2011

Commerce on Geylang



Top Stainless Steel Industry double frontage (shop benches, display cabinets, ovens chained on the footpath). Palyul Nyingma Buddhist Association's red interior highly decorated next door, the shoes massed at the entry 9 pm on a Saturday belonging to the mainly young people visible over the floor. Beside Katong Dental Surgery; on the other side of which De Sheng Trading “Specialising in Car Aircon, Battery, Alternator, Starter, Wiring”. Sign out on the stand in front mounted on rusty truck wheel-hubs. The mechanics and tyre replacement lads work into the evening, footpath strewn with their tools and pieces. Finally, last in the snapshot of the row—it goes on and on—3 Wines Pte Ltd, where they had a tasting yesternight. Never before such a gathering witnessed in the area, the black of the dresses and their cut marking the women out from the more colored, ornamental night ladies who pass up and down on this commercial strip grouped in precisely this same way for three kilometers. 
         Geylang. The middle end. The Malay quarter down at the lower.

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