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: Sep 2004
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Yes, I know this is a bit of a taboo subject, so if you are easily offended please don’t read any further. Look, here’s the thing – a little bit of rain never did anyone any harm. The human body is cunningly designed to be water-resistant (otherwise taking a bath or a shower would be…
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TVB Pearl are showing “The Office” Christmas Special just after midnight on Friday, but of course, no details are available on the TVB website or in the Sunday paper. What’s that all about, then? As it happens, I recently managed to watch it on a plane, and I have no doubt that I’ll buy it…
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This story had me puzzled. More than 100,000 foreign nationals work as maids in Hong Kong, and most of them are from the Philippines. But for how long? The labor ministry in Hong Kong says there were 155,470 Filipina maids in Hong Kong in 2001 but only 123,189 in 2003. At the same time there…
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Ah, the football management merry-go-round. The season is only a few weeks old, and already three Premiership clubs are changing managers. I have some sympathy for football club chairmen because I’m sure that it is a very challenging role, but you have to wonder whether it makes their job any easy to leave the manager…
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Cathy Holcombe, writing in the current issue of Spike, highlights a pharmacy in Central that is apparently famous for offering controlled medicines without a prescription. She also reports that it’s cheaper than Watsons. I am sure that’s right – I have briefly touched on the subject of Hong Kong pharmacies, and at the time I…
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Well, the Olympics seem to have finished. It wasn’t easy, but I managed to avoid most of it. I wasn’t really paying attention, but it seems that the thing was actually quite successful in spite of all the gloom and doom that we heard for the months and years leading up to it. Construction may…
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Last night, Simon had his baby headwetting in Lan Kwai Fong, and the cream* of Hong Kong’s blogging community turned up to join the celebrations. We started in Stormy Weather, Phil dragged us into Bulldog’s and after I left they went on somewhere else. The beer and champagne flowed freely, and there must be a…
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