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: May 2005
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For some reason, Ordinary Gweilo is mentioned in a list of Asian blogs in the online edition of the San Franciso Chronicle. Simon is also there, naturally, along with Mr Brown from Singapore, but I’m not quite sure what I’ve done to deserve this honour. I *never* check the log that Typepad provides of where…
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In Hong Kong the official standard is to use the UK style for dates (e.g. Christmas Day is 25/12/05), but American dates (e.g. 12/25/05) are widely used, and of course dates in Chinese are written in year/month/date format (Y 2005 M 12 D 25), so the short form of this (05/12/25) is also used sometimes. …
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The big non-event of today was the lack of problems at the Cross-Harbour Tunnel. There were widespread predictions of congestion as drivers responded to Sunday’s increase in tolls at the Eastern Harbour Crossing by changing their journeys. In fact, they seem to have responded by leaving their cars at home, so there were no major…
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