Since 1904 in Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, the Founded, Hong Kong Tramways have always been the benchmark hallmark inspiration of the world leadingMTR Hong Kong Corporation, in which it transported countless two hundred passenger per daily, Seventy three Million per year averagely…. Within the Hong Kong Tramway route is the countless untold stories that transited ride throughout tramways system on Hong Kong Island …. The “Ding Ding” in which iconically called for the stopping signal bell that it makes to signal a stop onto to the various stops in between from west to east side of Hong Kong Island..
In recollecting those untold Tramways stories, in which is like a time machine that collect stories from memorable timeless moments in everyone lives whom travelled within with those historic furnishings also whom watched travelled away as it grew up with the evolution of changing Hong Kong… in which the Hong Kong Tramways have invited you to share your timeless memorable moments as you ride the Ding Ding’s in Ding Ding Diaries…
In Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Trams are iconic story tellers as they untold interconnecting countless stories from the past, present to the presently soon… Hong Kong Trams or known for their Iconic name Ding Dings is the sound of their braking signalling bell in which given its name.. Brandon Li an adventurer filmmaker pays a tribute to the Hong Kong Tramway engineers whom hand crafted made in Hong Kong with passion and precession whom laying down the foundations of that storytelling in carrying 200,000 passengers averagely per daily.. In which Brandon Li who visited the workshop, inspired by the incredible craftsman- engineers pays a tribute to the Iconic people behind the scenes in creating a story that takes shape like this..
This story takes us on tram number 151 route Sharp Street Depot, in which was the previous site of the tramway depot in relocated to Sai Wan Ho, then a waiting passenger strides in unfolds her story among countless as she journeys into among travelling from east to west side of Hong Kong Island to Tramways route to where you can find dried seafood ingredients on Des Voeux road…. Also watching hearing as she- you also journeys along the trams to watch the stories of life unfolds from the morning till night..
Taylor Swift follows me around, well whenever I walk, travelling around places that I know, adventuring her music does, her song often follows me around, in this case as I was walking out from the Peak tram into the Victoria Peak Mall- The Peak Galleria.. In which her music keeps following me all the way through the afternoon… As I walk onwards from the top from the Tram terminal… Is the entrance into The Peak Galleria Mall in which is situated on top of the summit that adjoins connecting towards the Peak Tower…
As I was walking out from the Tram terminal section into The Peak Tower shopping complexin which the first section that I’ve walking into is more a self-contained version of the tidy Temple Street Night markets- The Peak Markets in which the atmosphere almost felt the same with the real thing across the Victoria Harbour… As walking through the self-contained version of Temple Street also ladies market, from there within has the Official Souvenirs Boutique. , in finding the way out then finding away into the main lobby of the Peak Tower Mall, in which the mall was aerated with lots lighted window absorbing the outside views of surroundings views in from the views from all the distance views from Central beyond towards cityscape outlines of Tsim Sha Tsui as you could see the building through the enormous window building wall the two towers the IFC then the ICC extensively to the mountains of New Territories…..
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Making ways towards the outside towards the top of the building to it viewing platform in which the views are breath taking remarkable than viewing Auckland from the Sky tower, in which the more Organic One Tree Hill is the best choice with more of it natural surroundings.. the Victoria Peak Tower Mall offers in which best of both worlds of that in which the roof top platform- The Sky Terrace 428 overview in which 428 meters above sea level.. Adjacently down the building is in combination with it’s or it older oriental traditional modern Qing Dynasty Chinese pavilion counterpart …..
It takes a several flights off elevators in in reaching the many opens space layers of floors of shopping to get to the roof view platform… In which I could basically spend hours in taking with breath taking views encompassing all of Hong Kong, in which Given that I had an interesting Cannon camera I could take some interesting angled landscaping, street views.. From afar…..there are several features within the Victoria Peak Tower, like the Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, in which features many extreme detail wax works with various Hollywood and local mainland celebrities, also movie characters…
That Iconic Hong Kong view from that Iconic Nine Lions Pavilion with those modern Ming Dynasty garden pavilion elements that witnesses to untold stories..
On the viewing platform there are various sides of looking at Hong Kong in which you’ll see the transition from the more serenity less to the intense populated side of Hong Kong Island in looking out in the scenic mountainous bays distance of Kellet- Telegraph- Pok Fu Lam’s Sandy Bay…
From viewing the other platform is The Victoria Peak Galleria, in which is closely adjacent of Peak Tower is another mall in which has a self-contained museum with various eateries, restaurants… from the outside there’s an older Trams. In which exhibits what the tram looks back in the older days, where walking inside even its converted with that minty white interior metical paint, into a visitor centre, in which as I enter inside the cabin in the train I could see some sense of history with the relics of mechanisms, installation gears of that era of that time..
looking from the the Lion Pavilion, looking at the all encompassing history that ever so writing untold stories of Hong Kong ……
As walking out from the minty white green line livery tram visitors centre, I noticed something down the walking tracks of Findlay Road, in which is something Iconic is call The Lion’s Pavilion.. In which has the hallmarks of a traditional Chinese Ming Dynasty modern Pavilion viewing platform in which… has nine unique styles hand crafted lions, none that look the same looking at different key points of Hong Kong. The lion Pavilion has an awesome viewing position that encompass the urban side of the island also looking towards the New territories mountain hills.. in which is elegantly structured with white marble or concrete with Ming Dynasty masonry works, the pavilion is painted with maroon red, not that type of maroon red purple that can found on the walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing…..
My next stop was back to Hong Kong Island in traveling back in first ferry by the time of getting back it was just walking back along the Tsim Sha Tsui Streets… in which was almost evening as I got back orthough.. Boat journey seeming this time was quicker than going towards Cheung Chau…. looking back at the same off the place where Police constable –Wong Tai Mui- Grace Chan adventured to with fellow actor Tony Hung whom plays an actualization of the Pirate King Cheung Po Tsai whom own, patrolled the South China Seas…..
As I disembark the ferry, from the First Ferry terminal in making way for the MTR for back towards Tsim Sha Tsui… in which did fully in Austin road terminal for some dinner in some off street restaurant for some wonton noddle soup….
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My next day was onwards towards using the Hong Kong Trams in going for some exploration, in which they call Ding Ding’s in which the sound of the Trams bells makes, Ding Dings is not just a Zygon detector or a device that sense the presents of weeping Angels temporal residues throughout time and space.. In which the Hong Kong Double Decker Trams was established as the very first modes of public transport of Hong Kong Island over 110 years ago in which was establish proposed in 1881 then installed land on tracks on 1904 with a first fleet of 26 carriage trams in which was mostly built in the United Kingdom…
The modern Iconic Hong Kong Tram network today operates in between west to east coast of Hong Kong through Central, Admiralty… in between those two points in runs between on route between Kennedy Town, Western Market, Happy Valley, North Point, and Shau Kei Wan in which some of those routes do overlap each another… in which that network is length wise is about thirteen Kilometres, of a total track length of thirty kilometers..
香港 #AlreadyTomorrowInHongKong- Adventuring without #TARDIS | Ding Dings – Hong Kong iconic Trams- Not just another word for a Zygon Detector…… Photographer @KevinJamesNg 2016
Going on the Double Decker Trams is relative easy, also it gives you a general unaided self-exploratory tour of Hong Kong Island to see the anthropologically feel of neighborhoods among the trams routes to see how place developed throughout urban- suburban designs also though sense of feel of the neighbourhood of people’s life as you look past by hand crafted window wooden frames…. Also its relative less expensive the simple ticket is relativity least three United States Dollars… In which you can payable in cash or by simply Octopus card by as you leave once on your chosen point of destinations…
As I was travelling on the tram in going westwards from taking the Central towards Kennedy town, alongside towards Sheung Wan, for some dry foods. In which Sheung Wan District has been noted for one of the best places of finding dried foods, along the western Des Voeux Road before Kennedy town..
As travelling in one, during that time even though viewing the neighbourhood also it’s people’s lives outside the hand crafted window wooden frames anthropologically, as well you can see that within inside the passengers whom boarded it from the rear door and exiting in the front of the tram…. As I boarded the tram it’s basically a living museum on the go, as I could see the historically relics that are still installed analogue, like the gears, the dials, the foot pressed bell, that became so Iconic that rang Ding, Ding signalling its way the once wooden bench chair seats are now replace with retrofitted plastic vacuum form ones that looks like it’s dated back from the 1970’s.. From those days, Hong Kong Trams comes in all forms of advertising liveries… in which makes them distinguishing individualistic from the rest also in brightens up the neighbourhood as they go…
“What ….It’s only in between 2.80 to 3.40 Hong Kong Dollars on the Star Ferry between Tsim Sha Tsui to Central.. Awesome…!”
Having watching out for the Star Ferry terminal signs in which are written in Traditional Chinese also in English, in which most of the Street signs in Hong Kong with moderately modestly display with black fonts with a with background………. Then Finding the terminal in which departs towards Central on Hong Kong Island is walking towards to right hand side of the center corridor in which is noticeable with the tea shop, with the cute various Chinese traditional teapots… in which nearby before then the “Discover Hong Kong” was helpful in getting the right maps, also getting to reconnect with the place…. One thing I did notice is to best to ask a lot of questions, in which I did… in reconnecting with the place..
Having walking up the flight of those nostalgic, those very nostalgic stairs in which leads towards the terminal waiting room… looking onwards to the thinking back… to another exit gateway below… Seeing, thinking of the couple whom meet up at that faithful night, Ruby and Josh walking towards the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade, catching up from all those years from a point in Lan Kwai Fong, on how he was inspired by her of going in writing his novel, then also as she found herself adventuring in becoming an expat, in finding herself, working in Hong Kong as a Chief Designer for toys.. Walking towards with that Grown up ever so changing city neonic city landscape…
As I watching that Gateway as they left those two behind, it was morning thinking, inspiring of those two.. as I walked up that terminal, seeing the place aged transitioning from my childhood years slightly fresh with those bold whites, hospital mint greens, towards the late 1989’s where the place is noticeable worn, then now walking back retracing those steps, seeming finding that sense of nostalgic aroma, back reconnecting.. as in the distance there’s something new, an Octopus entry terminal, with the harbor watery smell from a busy Victoria harbor.. Looking at one of the iconic views through the Deco style window picture framing individual of each view of Hong Kong Island, from the eastern towards the western side of the Island… With those plastic well-kept form sixty chairs like they been there seventies…
香港 #AlreadyTomorowInHongKong – Adventuring without a blue box-TARDIS| The Star Ferry- Photographer @KevinJamesNg
As I approached, the semi-circular room terminal, as I sat down on those retro plastic seats, awaiting for my passage for the ferry ride towards Victoria Harbour, in which, I then later onwards standing up, to examining recollecting, reconnecting of looking back.. That terminal room, looking at the through the deco style window frames, as the picture ever so constantly changes timelessly… As the harbor waves hit the Tsim Sha Tsui pier arithmetically rhythmically… Looking at the late morning city cape of Hong Kong island, thinking back at Ruby and Josh what have they been doing together before they reconnected, Thinking of that Ruby just finished of doing work at her office as well Josh, just taking a break on his novel writing. While taking the island view in while photographing the view through the windows..
As I turn from looking at the rectangle timeless pictured frames that painted Hong Kong Island ever-changing of Hong Kong Island to a view of looking down at the terminal, north wise to east thinking of also of someone as well, of the same Ruby coloured name.
As I turn backwards to the view of Hong Kong, frame by window frame, in that semi-circular waiting room looking ahead as the inbound ferry starts to berth of loading the passengers from Victoria Harbour, noticing that the place haven’t changed since, only with, with a few slight modifications along the way with some well maintain structures, paint work with TVB broadcasting news with insider TV in the background on that flat screen panel TV.. Still retaining that nostalgic feel all those years ago…
As the gates terminal gates open up to board on the ferry, I look back to where Ruby and Josh, also towards walking down to the plank entering on board the ferry, then finding that seating with those old school sitting benches along the either side of the ferry, then looking at where Ruby was standing with Josh Catching up all those years.. Then onwards to Victoria Harbour…
