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: Aug 2005
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Both fumier and Giles have tackled the recent problems experienced by British Airways, but in very different ways. Giles has come up with a proforma rant against the unions, whereas Fumier offers a rather more interesting analysis of BA’s commercial strategy of screwing its suppliers. I suspect Fumier has a point, and it’s worth reading…
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Spike over at Hongkie Town has an amusing story of the problems of trying to speak Cantonese. Not that it’s difficult to learn (though it is) but that most locals don’t expects a gweilo to be speaking it. So they are straining to understand what they think is English rather than listening to some imperfect…
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I may not be able to watch the cricket, but I can experience the same weather. On Friday they had rain at Old Trafford (rain in Manchester – well, there’s a surprise) at almost exactly the time that we had a thunderstorm in Hong Kong. Then on Saturday we had rain for most of the…
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What to do on a Sunday? Why not take the MTR to Disneyland? Nothing to do when you get there (because it’s not open yet), of course. Not that this seemed to deter anyone. At noon, trains from Sunny Bay to the theme park were full of people eager to see the new station. Many…
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As a postcript to what I wrote yesterday, it turns out that Now Broadband’s cricket channel actually wasn’t showing England vs. Australia. If I were a subscriber I think I might just be complaining about that baffling decision.
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I’m afraid that I refuse to pay whatever it is that they charge for the cricket channel that is available in Hong Kong, but if someone had offered me a pay-per-view deal for the England vs Australia test match I think it would have been worth whatever they wanted to charge. As it was, I…
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Oh, deep joy – Simon Patkin has a blog. More later. Via Hemlock. UPDATE: Simon thinks I am being sarcastic. Actually, I’m not – I think it’s a good thing to have people expressing different views in blogs. Now, if only he would allow comments perhaps we could have a real debate.
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In spite of years of watching Crown Court, Rumpole of the Bailey, LA Law, The Practice and Ally McBeal, I am not sure that I am an expert on matters legal. So the Kissel case has me rather puzzled. The defence case appears to be that Robert Kissel was – how can I put this…
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Continuing the food theme, I found this article from The Observer very interesting. I have long been aware of so-called "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" (headaches and worse after eating Chinese food) and the other concerns about monosodium glutamate, so I tend to avoid the stuff if possible. Perhaps without good reason: At the University of Western…
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