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: Mar 2005
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The letters to the editor published by the SCMP continue to be a source of some amusement to me. Rather too many of the letters are just tedious complaints about matters of little importance. For example, Friday’s special souvenir "Yes, he really has resigned" issue had one correspondent complaining about the moneychangers at the airport.…
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Via Fumier, another Hong Kong blog, The Solbourne Identity, from a Malaysian living here. The author cheerfully admits that his is a boring, personal blog, so that’s fair enough. More entertainingly, David Webb has some fun at the expense of property developers worrying that they have exhausted the supply of nouns and are now reduced…
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I have to admit that I am fascinated by maps – well, some maps. So from Metafilter via Shaky, some interesting London public transport maps. Firstly, a geographically accurate London Underground map (rather than the classic Harry Beck diagram with straight lines), and secondly, (Mayor of London) Ken Livingstone’s ambitious plans for a much bigger network of underground, overground, light rail and trams by 2016, though unfortunately most of…
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Sorry, I’m a bit busy right now. Normal service will be resumed shortly.
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Letter of the week from today’s SCMP, echoing my own thoughts: I fail to understand why you continue to publish letters from Pierce Lam on the English Schools Foundation. In the past six weeks, since I first noticed his letters about the ESF, you have published at least five from him. The content of each…
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Run for your lives…it’s a baby blog. Not just one baby, but three one year-olds (triplets) and a 3 year-old. From Pok Fu Lam over on the fairly posh side, just to prove that all human life is here. seems to type without using the shift key as far as I can see, and mainly…
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A few weeks ago, Shaky mentioned liveplasma, which is a rather clever website that tries to graphically illustrate connections between bands (and now films as well). The idea being that if you like Massive Attack, you will like Portishead, Tricky and Thievery Corporation. I do already like the first two, but the third one is…
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An amusing story from Shaky about trying to buy a phone in Fortress and being offered to a dummy phone to evaluate: The Geeky Kaiser: “I’d like to try out a real one, I want to try out the operating system.” Salesman: “What? It just has a normal system. Same as all phones.” Shaky was…
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I wrote this yesterday, but never got round to posting it. Now it seems that Tung Chee Hwa is indeed about to resign as Chief Executive of the HKSAR, for "health reasons" (namely that everyone in Hong Kong is sick of him), as predicted in yesterday’s FT. It’s amusing to see the different interpretations that…
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Simon has noticed a story in The Standard about another clever scheme to fleece tourists. Apparently some enterprising businessmen have set up a mall in lovely downtown Kowloon Bay specifically for mainland tourists, and called it the “Hong Kong Tourist (Duty Free) Shopping Mall”. Nothing is left to chance, and mainland tourists are brought to…
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