I presume you mean “Orchard Road”, the premium shopping street in Singapore?
Shops galore are found both below and above ground:
We have underfloor heating fired by a furnace using either heating oil or wood of which we have plenty. The thermostats are kept at 18 C (64.4F) otherwise we find it is too hot.
We have friends with a large number of solar panels and a heat pump heating the water for the underfloor heating. The heat pump is set to operate during the day and the concrete slab stores enough heat to keep the temperature very comfortable throughout.
In our case running the furnace 4 to 5 hours a day keeps the 100 tonnes of concrete up to temperature.
I like it because it is completely silent and no drafts.
The shops on Orchard Road are devoid of anything that attracts my interest like tractors, fishing gear and small craft. I feel that I have all the clothes I need for the rest of my existence, a view not shared by my wife, and hence the problem. A trip down Orchard Road can leave me poorer and I still don’t get anything to eat.
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Yes it has been a lot of changes along Orchard Rd. since the 1960s and 1970s when you had Orchard Road Carpark Market (Glutton Square) just across from Cold Storage:
The carpark transformed into Glutton’s Square, a pop-up hawker centre at night.
Photo via National Archives of Singapore.
It shut down in 1978 and some of the hawkers moved to Newton Circus Hawker Centre and Cuppage Food Centre.
PS> There were no hypocrisy about the Car Park Market, so we are in the wrong thread here, If we want to continue this line of reminisens we better move to the a more appropriate thread.
correct it’s been a long time since i was there. still have my fake Rolex it in runs fine.
when i get the battery replaced, I always amused at the jeweler’s face when he tells me it not real
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Ah, A Lolex, perhaps a nice Partok Phillip for your lady.
Oh yes, memories of Hong Kong’s Golden Department Store. Best place to buy fake Rolex and pirated software!
Also smiles about the watchmaker saying “Sorry, this is not a Rolex but the band is excellent!”
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For which election?
Elections in the US are held on Tuesdays…yesterday’s was a special legislative ballot that included the district where the DJT’s underground lair is located
So I think we all would accept that Trump was working (at the White House perhaps) and was legitimately absent from his local polling place rather than acting hypocritically as suggested.
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Depends on your definition of Hypocrisy I presume.
Here is one definition:
A situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say at another time.
Source:
Maybe it is different in “upside-down” land? 
This probably doesn’t meet the “official criteria” to be called hypocrisy, but it is not far from.
Making fun of people dying in a war, no matter their nationality, race or religion, is at best hypocritical.
Especially in a war that you have started without a good reason, understanding of the consequences and without a plan for how to end it.
In Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing
Service members and families who lost loved ones say the Trump team’s memes and jokes trivialize combat and sacrifice. Trump aides say the backlash sends views soaring.
(Emma Kumer/The Washington Post; iStock)
Source: https://wapo.st/4bvzfyu (Gift article, no paywall)
How low can you fall!!!
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Might depend on your idea of working also. Nevertheless, the important thing is mail-in voting is great, and makes voting accessible for many who are away from their poll places. Including about 2.8 million eligible voters who live overseas.
Only about 4-7% of these people bother to vote. Just wait until I get this bunch riled up and organized.
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Yes, that is why our neo-fascist regime is so desperate to eliminate it.
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Cheating much easier. Remember videos of drop boxes being stuffed with all the votes of a single person. Loads and loads of them. Those people strongly believed in the power of postal voting … why vote once when you can vote by the car load?
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Remember 2000 mules? 
or the biggest resurrection ever in the history?
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Just helped you to get the fact right.
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The argument against mail in voting is laughable. I have voted mail in and it is not that easy to cheat. First off after you vote and seal the envelope there is no way to tell who you voted for without opening the envelope. Then at the post office sorting there is not time to grab them and sort out the ones voting against the candidate. Also if you are going to “dump” a bunch of ballots, you have to collect them some how and you can’t print them up too early because of changes. Also to organize a national mail in voting fraud would take more manpower and organizing than D-Day. Trump uses voter mail in fraud without understanding how it works, and the Dunning-Kruger effect lets him get away with it because people think they know how it works.
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