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: May 2004
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A phone call this morning from my mobile phone company informing me my 1 year subscription for unlimited GPRS expires this month, and from June the price will be increased from HK$38 per month to HK$168 per month. Yeah, right. Oh, but if I want to commit to another 6 months they will offer the…
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A small piece of advice for anyone who calls me up trying to sell me something over the phone. Gweilo names are not the same as Chinese names and it certainly gets things off to a bad start when you don’t understand that. This is particularly bad coming from a bank that has been dealing…
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We all tend to complain about Hong Kong TV, but you have to admit that TVB does have a reasonably good record when it comes to popular US shows. Usually we have to wait months (or sometimes years) to see them, but not always – TVB Pearl started showing “The Apprentice” on Saturday nights before…
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Some song lyrics about life in England from this week’s Sunday Times (subscription required): I give a little muscle and I spend a little cash But all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash – Cool for Cats by Squeeze Rent a flat above a shop, Cut your hair and get a job Smoke some…
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Shaky seems to caught asiaxpat.com creating fake referrals to his site (if you don’t understand this and wish to do so, follow the link from Shaky’s post for an explanation). You may recall that this is the very same website that starting sending Phil spam emails within hours of getting his email address. These guys…
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Yes TV have decided to abandon their Pay TV venture in Hong Kong. Hardly surprising given the obstacles they faced. They were obliged to pay HK$198 to PCCW for each customer who used their service, decoder boxes cost them US$100, and they had the usual difficulties getting access to buildings. End result – not many…
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If I ever get tired of writing about why Harbour Fest was a bad idea and similar nonsense, I think I could quite happily carry on writing stuff about life in Hong Kong, even at the risk of being attacked by morons who think that this means that I don’t like it here and should…
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Our new friend Fat Phil from Expat@Large seems surprised that he has come across the same taxi driver for a second time in 6 years when there are so many taxis here. Yes there are, but the drivers tend to stick to particular areas so it’s not that unlikely, especially over that period of time.…
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The Harbour Fest controversy rumbles on. Yesterday Simon, Phil, Conrad and Giles all had a go at this following the publication of an official report on the subject, and now here I am, late as usual! My view is that there was no need for Harbour Fest, the government should never have got involved, and…
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I have given up buying the SCMP every day, but I do normally buy it at weekends (to read with my dim sum) and on Tuesdays for Technology Post. I’m not sure why I bother, really, because it seems to consist mainly of obscure stories of doubtful relevance that they have obtained from news agencies…
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