In Hong Kong, there are lots of similar old buildings housing tens of thousands of families. More often than not, these "tenement buildings" as known here by the locals are built around the WWII. They have a history of their own and provided shelters for families running away from the communist conquest of China at first, then those starting to surf the booming economy and now new immigrants from Mainland China. As probably all old buildings of little extra values around the world, these buildings have become cheap places to rent or buy. But their new found potential of being bought out for urban renewal by the government have made them covetable to speculators that have the money to keep these buildings in stock for the government's handsome ransom at the right time. These buildings interest me for their pigeon-hole yet varied looks.
(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the
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