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: Nov 2004

  • Large colour photograph

    On Sunday, a man jumped to his death in Ap Lei Chau. It goes without saying that this was very sad, all the more so because he took his six year-old son with him. So, as you might expect, Hong Kong’s popular press treated this story with all the respect and dignity they could summon…

  • BBC Prime

    BBC Prime is finally going to be available in Hong Kong next month. The bad news is that it is initially going to air on PCCW’s Now Broadband TV (which I no longer have), and they are threatening to censor the programmes for the Asian market (this was in the Sunday Morning Post, so I…

  • Egg

    I kept half an eye on the election results during the day, but what could be more boring than every single State voting the same way as 4 years ago? There was some excitement this morning when Zogby called the election for John Kerry, but this looked more like wishful thinking than anything else (the…

  • Nice cup of tea

    I think I should make Ordinary Gweilo more like this. Some will tell you that it already is.

  • Platinum Visa

    You hold a British passport and you want to go to China for a day or two. How much will it cost you to get a single entry visa from China Travel Service? HK$500. Yes, five hundred Hong Kong Dollars (US$65). Perhaps I’m daft (or naive), but what benefit does a country derive from making…

  • Prices squeezed

    I think I have complained before about the vast array of ersatz fruit juice that litter the shelves of Hong Kong supermarkets. Brand names like ‘juicy’ and ‘fresh’ are used with reckless abandon even though the contents invariably include water, sugar and artificial flavouring and are made from concentrated juice. In this rather upside-down world,…