Games and Stuff

Passionate greybeards giving directions from the sidelines to young lads on the green. Good dental work and grooming, hair-cuts and moisturizer, catwalk suits and overcoats accentuate the absurdity. Here at Geylang Serai the EPL, the Italian and the Spanish Leagues have their fans, but the great majority completely ignore the screen. The apparel rare among the youth; almost none of the football madness. Grass growing in the tropics has made things difficult at the billion dollar stadium built for the S-E Asian Games last year. Starchitects had done their darndest and the cheap foreign labour slaved tirelessly, yet still the grass refused to grow. (With the roof-cover even on the equator the lack of sunlight created problems.) Then on the other side the spectacular monsoonal rains—a couple of days ago at the old stadium a match needed to be abandoned after ten minutes. The Chinese have fallen prey to a minor degree; not the people who bow five times daily to the higher power. By the same logic too very much lesser victims these latter of a whole lotta other associated stuff and nonsense.