We popped out to Arab Street in the late afternoon, after I got back from the third shift of Friday Prayers. (How odd that sounds, yet how routine it has become!)
We went with a purpose, and I mean something more than the statutory cup of tea and curry puffs. It was our intention to visit Wardah Books to obtain a newly released CD from the estimable Ramli Sarip since Noi read about it being on sale there.
In the event, Wardah turned out to be closed by the time we got there, I suppose because of a lack of the usual business at that time of day. But we were able to sit and slurp at the Kampong Glam Café, and enjoy looking out at the rain which poured fairly steadily. In fact, the dark clouds over our heads made the scene distinctly autumnal in quality, most suitable for the first day of October - though the cosy tropical warmth seemed to contradict the gentle melancholy of it all. Ray Davies's wonderful Autumn Almanac sprang to mind - and I'm glad it did.
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