Oh. I wasn't talking about today. [Today's miserable.] The pictures were taken yesterday, after typhoon was gone. When I stepped out of my apartment building, on the way to work (left pic), I gasped at the magnificent colour that was displayed hight up. The typhoon that has just left HK was quite strange. First of all, her route was strange. She was initially heading northwesterly, but then suddenly decided to switch to straight north, which meant heading towards to HK. Then all of a sudden, when we were preparing to have the first typhoon 8 for the year, she has decided, once again, to change her direction and hit Shanwei instead. But thankful to typhoon Pearl, we have benefitted a couple of days with fresh air and clean sky. It's very rare to have such an opportunity in HK to see this azure in the sky. :P
And then on the bus, just before I got off the bus, I managed to get a picture of the monumental IFC 2 (right pic). Seriously, the way that it's standing doesn't look very good. J said that the picture looks as if it were taken in Thailand. Well, who knows? But I didn't mean that. In one way, it marks a new landmark for the city, but it has totally destroyed the skyline of the waterfront, and blocked out the beautiful green backdrop in the far back. When you expect a smooth graduation of elevating architecture from the waterfront to the Victoria Peak, all of a sudden (if you are looking at HK Island from Tsim Sha Tsui), you have this phallic skyscraper monster on the right. So long as people think that it'll do good for the city (finacially, image-wise, or whatever), it wouldn't be seen as an eyesore.lala~!
