Travelling & Living: First Time To Apliu Street

You must be laughing when you saw the title of this entry. Yes, it is my first time to Apliu Street, but everyone has his first time, even if it is a place not so difficult to get to.

Years I have heard of this place, never had I found the urge to pay a visit, until recently I began to search for  a Geiger metre online just to discover the unbelievably ridiculous price tags people set on ebay, I decided to give Apliu Street a go, since it is famous for all sorts of ridiculously rare-slash-cheap devices. (As to why I wanted to get a Geiger metre, please read the previous entries on Medical & News: What Causes Cancer? -- Part 1 & Medical & News: What Causes Cancer? -- Part 2)

Back to Apliu Street, I created a photography day on Facebook and invited a few guys to join. And to me, it was an amazing little trip. I give you -- 14 Wonders of Apliu Street!

14 Wonders of Apliu Street

First, I have never seen so many saws and power drills laid out on the ground.

Saws and power drills

Second, I had never seen a roadside store that will display the products as messy as the photo below.

Messy display of products

Third, I had no idea that Apliu Street sells fishing rod, since it is nowhere near the sea (except the sea water in the public toilet)

Fishing rods for sale

Fourth, even laboratory tech equipments such as oscilloscopes can be found acting as table legs.

Oscilloscopes on the floor acting as table legs.

Fifth, poorly-kept old vinyl records are sold regardless of weather.

Old Vinyl Records

Sixth, expensive LED bulbs and stripes are sold, forcing me to revert to shopping LEDs on Taobao.

expensive LED stripes are sold 

Seventh, useless remote controls actually has a value!!!! I will remember to sell mine next time.

Old remote controls for all devices

Eighth, look up and you'll see the unique old Hong Kong architecture -- Tong Lau.

Round-corner Tong Lau

Nineth, clean pans and woks that no one would buy are sold.

Woks and pans carefully spaced out

Tenth, dusty tripods that I wouldn't touch are displayed.

Tripods and more tripods

Eleventh, I was surprised to see someone actually collects circuit boards in order to find the right part to fix faulty VHS/CD players.

Circuit boards (broken or whole)

Twelveth, I can definitely buy super magnets here if I need to! I tried to pull out one of them out from the stack, I couldn't!!!!!! $6 a piece.

Super strong magnets

Thirteenth, Yashica twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera, Rollei Mercury II, Voigtländer COMPUR folding camera can be found there!!!!

Yashica Twin-lens reflex camera!!!! Made in Hong Kong

Rollei Mercury II (made in 1945) Half-frame 35mm non-rangefinder

Voigtländer COMPUR folding camera

Fourteenth, lots of people needed help on filling tax forms???

Tax, tax, tax!!!!!

You see, walking around Apliu Street can also be beneficial! I learn a lot of terms, what about you?

Vocabulary:

oscilloscope

vinyl record

Tong Lau

twin-lens reflex camera (TLR)

folding camera

Resources:

Medical & News: What Causes Cancer? -- Part 1 @ Locky's English Playground

http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2011/08/medical-news-what-causes-cancer.html

Medical & News: What Causes Cancer? -- Part 2 @ Locky's English Playground

http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2011/08/medical-news-what-causes-cancer-part-2.html

Living: Lamps & LED @ Taobao  @ Locky's English Playground

http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-lamps-led-taobao.html

Oscilloscope @ Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope

Vinyl Record @ Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_record

Tong Lau @ Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_Lau

Twin-lens reflex camera  @ Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin-lens_reflex_camera

Folding Camera  @ Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera#Folding_camera

Ollinger's Camera Collection 

http://www.jollinger.com/photo/cam-coll/cameras/35mm_nonslr/12901_MercuryII.html