North Point Estate, perspective drawing of a typical flat

Seeing this is really cool, thanks 'aagg'!!

My family moved to North Point Estate around 1970 when I was two years old, and we lived there until 1980 when we emigrated to the US. Seeing this floorplan brings back lots and lots of memories!! Let's see what I remember:

1. My sisters and I would chase each other round and round the flat endlessly, starting from the living area to one door leading to the balcony, then through the other door back into the flat. That was highly entertaining :)
2. The unit was under 600 sq ft. There was a real wall (not on floorplan) that bisected one of the two bedrooms, turning this 2-bedroom flat into a 3-bedroom flat. The wall is where the curtain is (10 o'clock position in floorplan)
3. The eight of us shared the 3 bedrooms like this: mom, dad & little sister in the big bedroom, the other bedroom next to balcony had a bunk bed where my sister & aunt slept on top and my grandmother slept on bottom. The tiny bedroom had another bunk bed where I slept on top and my grandfather slept on the bottom
4. You can't tell from the floorplan, but the kitchen had its own mini balcony with a drain. My grandfather cooked most meals, and he used it as his personal garbage disposal. If I had to pee while someone else was in the bathroom, my family would let me pee into the drain!
5. The bathroom had a sitting WC. When I visited relatives in other estates with squatting toilets, I thought they were so ghetto! lol!!! It was small and didn't have space for a bathtub
6. No hot water boiler in the 1970s. When we wanted to bathe, we would boil water in a kettle in the kitchen, bring it to the bathroom and dump the water into a plastic tub, add cold water, then bathe
7. That little space next to the front door & next to the pillar was perfect for a refrigerator. Everyone parked their fridges in that space
8. Our flat was in the West Block. The bedroom windows faced the harbor and had a partial view of the Kai Tak airport. I was young & dumb and didn't know that was a 10-million dollar view!
9. The corridor was brightly lit because there were gaps between the flats. My friends and I would play soccer in the corridor with homemade soccer balls: take a plastic bag from that morning's food shopping from the market, stuff newspaper into it, put 4 to 6 rubber bands around it, make it as round as possible, then play ball! The ball would last 20-30 minutes before we had to re-do the rubber bands :)

Again, thanks for the memories. I've going to show this to my sisters right away!!