Ordinary Gweilo
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Month: Sep 2004
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Tonight is Mid-Autumn Festival. As an antidote to the curmudgeonly Fumier, I feel I must point out that it is actually a happy time of year, especially for children. Where we live there is a fair amount of open space, and at Mid-Autumn festival hundreds of children gather here (with their parents and/or helpers) to…
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Following on from the debate about the voting system in Hong Kong, David Webb has done some detailed research and come up with an interesting analysis of how different systems might have produced different results. However, as we know, this system was put in place precisely to produce the results that is has done. He…
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From today’s SCMP (subscription required): The chief executive of the Premier League has defended Cable TV’s coverage of the English game, declaring the switch from satellite broadcaster ESPN/Star a triumph. "It’s a big success story. A dedicated channel is all you can ask for if you’re running a sports competition," said Scudamore. "It’s great to…
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TVB has been advertising ‘Shrek’ for some time. Fair enough, it’s a good family film and it did very well at the box office. So, what time did they show it? Early evening so kids could watch it? No, it was in that well-known family viewing timeslot of 9.30 – 11.30 in the evening. What’s…
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The list is stolen from The Sun, itemising the so-called “50 worst decisions ever” dreamed up for a Sky TV show on this subject presented by, er, Angus Deayton. The comments are mine. As you might expect, it’s an odd list with some eccentric choices. 1. Jeweller Gerald Ratner committing commercial suicide by saying a…
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It’s the time of year for mooncakes in Hong Kong. Mid-Autumn Festival is next week, and now everyone is exchanging mooncakes. When I first came to Hong Kong, I was puzzled to see posters advertising what looked like pork pies. They couldn’t be, could they? No, they couldn’t. As I found out when I was…
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Some time back, Cable TV used to re-broadcast the four local terrestrial TV channels. Then they stopped doing so, presumably because they didn’t have any spare capacity. Now they have converted their network to digital and have vast capacity, and recently they started carrying the channels (TVB Pearl & Jade and ATV World & Home)…
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I guess we’re all familiar with the way that newspapers in Europe and North America report the success of China in various sectors. The Guardian has a very strange story about recycling in China. The headline is “The UK’s new rubbish dump: China“, which gives you a flavour of the piece. Commercially, the logic seems…
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Phil mentioned this strange story on Friday, and BWG has followed up today. In brief, a Canadian teacher was arrested after being accused of leaving a taxi without paying. The taxi driver and two KCRC staff pursued him from University station to Fo Tan station, where he was apparently ejected from the train by a…
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It would appear that the Philippine government is somewhat concerned about the reduction in numbers of Filipina domestic helpers and the simultaneous increase in the number of Indonesians starting contracts in Hong Kong, at least judging by the number of news stories on this subject recently. I commented on a rather muddled report on this…
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