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A look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. It truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth. Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile. To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744. The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated. Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind. Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything. Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage. A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections. The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park. I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at. Click for a decent docudrama on it...

This baby arrived 10 days ago, this is Noob version, 2nd batch (or V2 as some call it). All of small flaws that were present in the first batch are corrected on this one, it's pretty much perfect. It is definitely continuation of trend of top notch PAM reps that started last year. Nothing really to do on this watch, except to choose strap that suits you and put it on your wrist. New style rubber that comes with it is fantastic, but I currently wear in on rep Asso, and it works great for me, right balance of formal and sporty. So, enough talk, I'll let the pictures speak ... regards

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