Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Month: Feb 2004
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Fumier, a Hong Kong lawyer, expresses surprise at being sent a copy of Hong Kong Lawyer magazine (and reports that he appears in one of the photographs published in the self-same magazine). Now you can call me stupid if you like, but I’d have thought that the publishers of that magazine had pretty much scored…
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This is an interesting and very positive view of Hong Kong, from the Toronto Star: “Here,” explains leading Hong Kong architect Rocco Yim, “the end product must contribute to the working of the city. The idea is to enable people to get from one part of the city to another, preferably through your project. A…
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Every now and then when I am going about my normal business in Hong Kong, I am approached by students armed with notebooks and voice recorders.They politely and hesitantly enquire whether they can ask me a few questions in English, to assist them with their studies. No, they don’t want to know my opinion on the importance of…
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I suppose that publishing this stuff makes me feel a certain obligation to read a reasonable selection of what my peers are writing.On a good day it gives me inspiration, but on a bad day I sometimes wonder what this is all about. It’s easy to conclude that we (Hong Kong bloggers) are a miserable bunch of foreigners always finding…
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Spotted today in Nathan Road – a rather large Chinese gentleman driving furiously round a corner in a Rolls Royce. Hardly the under-stated elegance that Mr Rolls and Mr Royce were striving to achieve when they started manufacturing motor cars…
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Spike is still trying to “add value” to the articles it reprints from The Spectator magazine. The current issue contains a piece about Will Self which will probably make little sense to most people in Hong Kong given that it is largely about how many magazines articles he writes and TV programmes he appears on:…
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I’m amazed that Ron posts this stuff, but it provides an amazing insight into the perils of doing business in China. Well worth reading!
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My sister is arriving in Hong Kong today (with two of her children) and will be staying for a week. This is her first visit to Hong Kong, and so I need to show her around, which probably means that I won’t have much chance to post to this blog for the next seven days.I was…
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Steve Jobs (wearing his Pixar hat) has announced that he has broken off talks about renewing his company’s deal with Disney, and according to The Economist this means that Disney will be able to make “Toy Story 3” itself. Anyone who has compared the Pixar films with other recent releases from Disney will realise that this is not a very…
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I have added Sweet Chariots to my list of Hong Kong blogs. A fellow Brit, and a colleague of Simon (whose blog persuaded me that if he could do it then I could). He’s obviously a rugby fan.My recent post about comments on blogs seemed to provoke surprisingly strong feelings, but one useful thing that came out of…
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