Bird’s eye views

I like looking at things around me from high levels. From the top floor of Philip’s school, I can see long distant views.

The first photo shows the low houses that spread across Kowloon Tong. The orange-brown building is an American school. Before it is Waterloo Road (窩打老道) going north and upwards until it vanishes into the Lion Rock Tunnel. Some of our rich people live in these low houses. There are some new secondary schools built close to Kowloon Tong MTR Station (those white ones – a little to the right of the centre of the photo).

The second photo shows the low houses in the neighbourhood of Philip’s school. It shows Cambridge Road (劍橋道) and Lancashire Road (蘭開夏道). Cambridge and Lancashire are the names of places in England.

The small hill in the second and third photo used to be an important landmark with orange and white squares painted to guide planes to land on Kai Tak Airport. Whenever pilots see the patch of attractive squares, they will turn the planes towards the right and the latter will go on the right tracks.

The fourth photo shows the view towards the west of Philip’s school. The fore ground shows the Kowloon Tong Club. To be a member of this club, one has to pay a lot of money. There are tennis courts, restaurants and a number of function rooms inside. The East Rail trains are running one or two streets behind the club towards Kowloon Tong. Further away are Kowloon Tsai (九龍仔), Tai Hang Tung (大坑東) and Tai Hang Sai (大坑西). Then further seawards is Tai Kok Tsui (大角咀) where high-rise blocks such as Olympian City (奧海城), Island Harbour View (維港灣), Central Park (帝柏海灣), Park Avenue (柏景灣) are built forming almost like a “wall” fringing the west coast of Kowloon.