The first half of the show tells stories of the residents' everyday-lives, showing their neighbourhood relationships and their love for the community.
The second half of the show presents the neighbours’ wished-for outcome from the government and the renewal policy. They wish that the tiger and the pilot (symbolizing the government and the officials) would listen to them and understand them, that they would stop to tearing down their community, and that the district would develop into a world famous and wonderful repair centre (something for which Sham Shui Po very well known).
An update on the project of inviting the Secretary for development to tea. The politician, Mrs Lam, has now written to say she is very busy, but she has sent a car around with staff to take photos of the location.
Here is another article from the newspaper Apple Daily from the 10th March 08. The reporters interview some of the residents about their life in Sham Shui Po.
And here is the latest article, from HKET, 20 March 08. This report documents one of the nights as the neighbours wait for Mrs Lam to come and join them for dinner. The reporter said that s/he was touched by the neighbours: how they prepared the food, how they practiced chatting with Mrs Lam, how they care for each other…[thanks to Marsha Lui for summarising and translating]
And finally, here are all the postcards telling the story of 18 shopkeepers and their families who have become the social core of the block under threat. The first one has been translated into English by fabulous Zoe Yuen in Shanghai.The postcards are written in Cantonese, recording the verbatim language of the shopkeepers. (Written text in Hong Kong is usually rendered in a formal 'written Chinese style' with a grammar and vocabulary that does not sound the way people speak).
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