Inside the hangar-like halls, the air is thick with burningincense, the pungent odours of durian fruit and fresh herbs, and the rubbery, plastic smell of a thousand useless trinkets.
It was, I mean, that song just reminds me of Saturday mornings, cleaning up, getting laundry ready, making my bed, incenseburning, house smelling fresh, sunshine through the window.
Half the Olympic program, on the other hand, was given over to religious ritual: processions, hymn-singing, incense-burning, gory animal sacrifice and strange incantations by exotically attired priests.