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Today I was going to visit the West Kowloon Bamboo Theatre (temporarily built theatre as part of the annual event tradition). I entered from the Kowloon MTR station side and hoped I could get there. It’s my first time coming to the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade. The entrance of it made me felt like I was entering a junkyard ship dock. It’s even worse as i walked a little further inside. The toilet are just way too temporary. I don’t want to comment anymore. It’s so irritating for me to type further. Fk this.
It started raining as I walked half way. I had to find a shelter, (no sight of the bamboo theatre within my reach) I got back to the MTR station and headed home instead.
For those who don’t know about this tip of the Kowloon peninsula of Hong Kong, you may read about this here (West Kowloon Cultural District Project). It has been delayed for nearly a decade now. And the government says, they should begin the 1st phrase of construction in 2015. I’m feel really powerless and wish to just smack our government in the face. What’s the hold up? Another site for major city development is our Former Hong Kong airport, Kai Tak located also in Kowloon. It’s also a wasteland since even earlier, let me google the exact date…loading…since 1998. That is 14 years of wasteland right beside our Victoria Harbor. 14 years of doing nothing while our fellow citizens are paying taxes for it. Rumor says, they’ll build another promenade….or to build housing, lets hope it’s not private housing. It’s still NOT ANNOUNCED YET. Failure.
All the photos were taken with Ricoh GRD IV – Bleach Bypass filter (Cool). I wanted to show the chilly weather of today just 8ºC, even colder with the wind chill. I got numb fingers.
Kowloon MTR Station – Tung Chung Line
Footbridge over the toll plaza of the west cross harbor tunnel
Cloudy, misty, foggy day. Couldn’t see the top of the ICC tower.
The crappy entrance that makes me want to go back home…
temporary toilet in a cargo container…i mean..there’s nothing wrong with the container..can you guys just make it look good..
I think the term ‘promenade’ for the government means ‘i-dont-know-what-to-do-with-it’.
What is this? A place for Graffiti.
bird formation over the victoria harbor sky. Thanks to the Ricoh adj scroll – I could quickly bump up my ISO to 160 and have a shutter speed of 1/330. Fast enough to freeze the motion above my head.
another what is this…an amphitheatre? BTW..historically nobody ever use amphitheater..correction..grannies and homeless people tend to sleep in public amphitheatre. A very loving government indeed…didn’t know that.
An abandoned KMB bus parking right there. Clearly there isn’t a bus stop in one or two mile radius. And yea,..a piece of low vegetation land surrounded by nets.
sorry for the ranting..many of our generation are seeing our government so powerless and branches are so separated. Councilors are tend to oppose the ideas (no matter good or bad), it just often got banned. There’s no progress, no concrete future project or even long term prospect can be seen up to this date.