On The Run

So i’m slowly starting to sort my apartment out, to be fair its been left unattended for way to long, mainly due to not having much time, more so to do with laziness i guess. The pic above is of our hallway entrance, yeah theres a few shoes there i know, although they’re not all mine i might add (you dont even want to look in some of the wardrobes!!) but yeah, something needs to be done!..

Anyways, it could be worse, the pic above is of the infamous old Kowloon walled city, it was located outside Hong Kong, China during British rule. Originally a former watchpost to protect the area against pirates, it was occupied by Japan during World War II and subsequently taken over by squatters after Japan surrendered. Neither Britain nor China wanted resposibility for it, so it became its own lawless city. Its population flourished for decades, with residents building corridors above street level, which was clogged with rubbish. The buildings grew so tall that sunlight couldnt reach the bottom levels, the entire city was lit by flourescent lights. It was a place where brothels, casinos, opium dens, cocaine parlors and food courts serving dog meat and secret factories ran unmolested by authorities. In 1993 it was torn down after a mutual decision by British and Chinese authorities, who had finally grown tired and wary of the unsanitary, anarchic city and its out of control population… makes my cramp space look like an empty carpark =]