Month: Apr 2005
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I was slightly puzzled by this story from Associated Press on The Guardian website, headlined Next Hong Kong Leader to Serve Five Years. The story, of course says "two years rather than five". Fumier has a long and sensible post complaining that the SCMP and Standard have misrepresented the Law Society’s position on whether the…
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Damn Mr Neil Buchanan and his wretched Art Attack program with its attractive and "easy to make" models of tropical islands and fantasy castles and diaries with pictures of parrots of them. I’ve had to buy your book and subscribe to the Disney Channel and even try to make the model of a tropical island…
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I was half-watching a few minutes of a quiz show on ABC Asia-Pacific this week, and one of the categories was "English Queens". The question was "which of the following tracks was not on Yellow Brick Road? Candle in the Wind, Bennie & the Jets and Daniel". Hmmm…
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This week The Observer had a piece about the problems of parking in the UK: Already eight in ten cars driving through urban streets are not heading to a destination, but instead are manned by drivers roaming in search of somewhere to park, according to research released by the RAC last week. I’m not sure…
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More Hong Kong blogs that other people have come across. By a strange coincidence, all four bloggers seem to be female, and two are teachers. New Territories is from a teacher at the Chinese University near Sha Tin. Appears to be an American. Pulled in many directions Thoughts of a kindergarten teacher in Hong Kong,…
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Richard Branson’s Quest for the Best is quite the strangest thing I’ve watched on TV since, er, well, whenever I last watched a light entertainment show on TVB Jade. The idea is that a group of people are competing for a job. Richard Branson’s job as President of Virgin. Well, if you believe that, you’ll…
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Email is bad for you. A new UK study, reported in Friday’s Guardian, comes to this unsurprising conclusion: Respondents’ minds were all over the place as they faced new questions and challenges every time an email dropped into their inbox. Productivity at work was damaged and the effect on staff who could not resist trying…
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Apparently Fumier is a fan of the light entertainment show on TVB Jade on Sunday nights (sorry, I don’t know its name). The most bizarre segment is some sort of quiz, wherein the penalty for a wrong answer is that your chair is sent flying backwards, a folding umbrella is thrown at you, and then…
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It’s tempting fate to write this, I know, but has George* thrown in the towel? The site doesn’t seem to have been updated for several weeks. The funny thing is that this seems to coincide with the absence of the comments from the army of people who find Ordinary Gweilo very boring. I wonder if…
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Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football This is a frustrating book. Unfortunately Tom Bower’s previous experience as an investigative journalist isn’t enough to overcome his lack of knowledge about professional football. He has built his reputation writing about a series of famous people, and has usually managed to uncover information that…
Ordinary Gweilo 