Links to LNII Series

With a history of over 40 years, the LNII (Lower Ngau Tau Kwok Estate Phase II) is an weathered resettlement estate of the old days. It will remain a standing testimony to the way of life of the general public in Hong Kong before its demolition scheduled in mid-2009. To make way for the clearance scheduled for this summer, shops will be completely evacuated in April and all residential tenants will move out before some months afterwards. Before it goes into history books, photographers have flocked to the estate to take photographic records of it.

My LNII series were published in several instalments and the photos were taken by me with my GX200 during my two visits to the estate. I also did some research on the estate and the texts in the posts were written with reference to the information I managed to dig out. The links to all the instalments are appended below:

1) The Last Resettlement Estate (Introduction) 2) Living in Matchboxes (Years of Childhood) 3) Outlaw Territories (Problems in the Resettlement Estates) 4) Stores of Yore (Old Shops in LNII) 5) Shanghainese Barbershop (Barbershop in Rare Existence) 6) Mr Forgetful (Owner of an Old Grocer) 7) Daipaidong (Traditional Place for Cheap Eats) 8) Doors to the Past (Conclusions and Afterthoughts)

Some photos in preview:

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Comrades, Arise!

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New Low Prices

The window shopping some hours ago has almost provoked my AgIDS illness. Just in case you’re in Hong Kong or are coming here, and have the money to burn (All in HK$/ body only): GX200 = $3,280 GRD2 = $3,380 LX3 = $3,180 G10 = $3,280 Prices are available form a gear shop on the 1st floor of the Mongkok Computer Centre. Besides these new low prices, I found that Wing Shing Photo (55-57Sai Yeung Choi St., MK Tel: 2396 6886/ 91-95 Fa Yuen St., MK Tel: 2396 6885) is offering a Sony A700 + Carl Zeiss Lens package for HK$9,980 (hopefully, a bargain will make it some hundreds cheaper).

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