When Pang Pang was 15, her family applied to move to Block G since they wanted to enjoy the comfort of an elevator instead of continuing to climb stairs. After they were rehoused in a flat facing the tram terminus, the rings of tram bells became a constant background sound. “They woke me up all the time. Trams began to run at 5 to 6 in the morning and didn’t stop until 1 to 2 after midnight. It bothered me a lot when I was a kid.” 

Talking about Tam Kung Festival that falls on the same day as the Buddha’s birthday, the only thing about the festival that Pang Pang would care about as a high school girl was the rest day that came with it. During the festival, she would often be woken up by the lion dance on the street at around 8 to 9. She watched the Kung Fu demonstrations from her bed unimpressed, only to realise later when she grew up how fortunate she was to have witnessed these culturally significant events. She also missed bus 85 operated by China Motor Bus Company. “Every time after toiling up the slope at Chai Wan Road and turning into A Kung Ngam Road, the bus driver was all hunched forward, turning the wheel as hard as possible.” For years, she relied on this bus service for her daily commute back home at Block G.

In 2021, St. Mark’s Primary School was closed permanently. Before the school’s closure, Pang Pang attended an alumni reunion where she was reunited with her former classmates who had gone their separate ways after graduation. Suddenly she felt as though they were queuing up to go home again and they chattered endlessly. “I wouldn’t have befriended so many classmates if I weren’t living in Ming Wah,” she said. Perhaps it can also be assumed that without these classmates, she wouldn’t have developed such a chatty personality as she has now. She also reconnected with the girl who shouted her name from the next block and they shared a good laugh about what happened all those years ago.