Super Chrissy

St. Kilda Beach in Melbourne trashed over Christmas by revellers, clean-up bill running into thousands of dollars. In the media photographs close counterparts of the dark faces commonly employed here keeping this famed republic on the equator famously squeaky clean. In Sydney it was a similar story, 16 tons deposited on Coogee Beach by a 10,000 strong congregation. Here in the Straits Times today there was another iteration again reported at Kuta in Bali, where the partygoers could be safely assumed to have a large proportion of Australians, difference being in this instance the clean-up turning into colourful theatre with Superhero costuming — Supermen, Batmen & Daddy Christmases all in festive spirits on the ends of the rakes. Garbage swept away to restore the site for NY partying, Disney, Warner Bros. and the others giving the affair gloss.
         In Geylang Serai we celebrated with ginger tea while receiving numerous greetings on the occasion, the matter of the Orthodox calendar mostly let pass.