Singapore's one and only Orchard Road. A religious Mecca for the crass commercialism that seems to dominate the hearts and minds of many in it's consumer society. But it's also a fun place to walk around if you don't think too much about these kinds of things. Sometimes, it's the best place for street photography since people can be found in huge abundance. On the weekends when everyone is free with nothing to do, people crawl out from the woodwork and infest every square inch of Orchard Road. Now with the opening of that brilliant bookshop called "BORDERS", even nerds now line the pavements of Orchard Road, saturating its already vibrant colour. Singapore through a tourist's eyes as he walks along Orchard Road must seem to be made up of young teenagers, loiterers with nothing better to do, or the occasional Najip Ali-like weirdo.

The soul of Orchard Road beckons me every weekend and I am zombie like to its charms. Well perhaps not in that sense, as it the only place in Singapore that changes regularly enough to give each visit freshness, and unlike the mini shopping centres that have mysteriously sprung up over many parts of Singapore, Orchard Road allows plenty of leg-room. One can actually walk around here for a few hours and feel your legs become numb. Such is the magic of Orchard Road…. For me, it is a habit honed after many years of boredom. My initial discovery of this place with it's gaudy coloured street lights and similarly gaudy-dressed people has given way now to a tendency to blur these trappings in the background and concentrate on making the photographs that will explain this place. Ah! Such grandiose tendencies! Such divine thoughts! Such bullshit!

Maybe it's the well tread paths and the familiar setting. Maybe it’s the way that this place has nursed me in my adolescent playground. But I am still compelled to document this place with my words and a camera.