After opened the big door, this was the first street view of Kowloon.
Well, I'm managed to log in to Second Life, and I'm looking for Kowloon, and yeah, I reached there just by teleporting... so simple... When I first came to this place, I felt surprise cause I can't imagine they can create such an environment in Second Life. It really has a feeling of night street, the only thing is, it was empty all the time. It would be better if there was crowded.
When I was walking on this street, the thing I felt weird is, why they putting "Panda Bear" in a lot of design, such as the items sell in a shop, or the painting on the wall, which looks funny for me. I never been in the real Kowloon, so I don't know whether there were a lot of panda bear design stuffs there (just kidding).
Compared to other Hong Kong night street where I went about 15 years ago, it has some similar style, especially the design of the signboard, I never seen these kind of environment in Malaysia, even Petaling Street didn't look much like this environment. For me, this place is like a combination of 1960s and modern environment in Hong Kong, because the sign boards gave me a feeling that I'm still at 1990~2000s, but the environment, especially the wall of the buildings, the design of the street looks, are very much like what I watched in a drama or movie.
An indoor environment in Kowloon. This seems like a normal environment but it played china style background music, and this environment didn't look so "old" for me.
Well, this picture, with a street road sign, very much like an old backstreet, with some papers (probably notice or advertisement) pasted on the old wall, with ambient sound (dog barking), give me a feeling that I'm in a movie... much like a gangster movie or ghost movie because it looked like something is gonna come out in front of you.... and yeah, this environment is very much like an old movie, which I always seen in old movies.
This was an old style Hong Kong's food stall, very similar with the one I often watched in a Hong Kong drama or movie, but I think this kind of food stall still existed in Hong Kong, perhaps Malaysia have some places like this too.
This is a restaurant, also in old style environment, same as the food stall I mentioned just now, looks like I am at 1960s ~ 1970s Hong Kong street.
What I was experiencing so far when I'm at this place in Second Life, it actually gave me that I'm in this place, it didn't looks like I'm playing game, it's more like I am watching a movie. The position of the street sign boards, backstreet design, and building design, are all very old. I can always see these environment in the movie which has their time set at about 1970s~1990s, and this place has a lot of ambient sound which I can feel myself are in this environment, I looked for some pictures of real Kowloon on internet.
Maybe this is a modern picture of Kowloon, but the sign board can actually show how similar the real Kowloon and the one in Second Life.
This look more like an old street, if Second Life can have this much of people would make it looks much better :)
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