3036189273 Li Mei Yiu Belinda

  As I walked through the ManWah building area, the handwritten traditional sign with white as the base colour and bright red handwriting caught my attention. As a mainlander studying in Hong Kong, I browsed through travel guides about Hong Kong, and many tourists would use such signboards as a travel postcard of Hong Kong and its famous street scenes. However, with the development of technology, fewer and fewer shops choose to use such signboards, and there are more newer types of signboards that are so simple that they only have the name of the shop.

Description: I choose MTR passage as a representation to show ‘fast city’. It reveals overall a down atmosphere in the fast city, with the crowds pushing and squeezing together in the underground railway station.  The air is heavy, so as people. People are rushing into different directions, like the tangled wires without any orders. “The crowd is as dense as the stars in the sky, but the stars are also as distant as the crowds”. In the fast-paced city, people don’t really know each other, even themselves.