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: Jan 2006
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Considering the BBC’s vast library of TV programmes, it seems nothing short of bizarre that they should create an entertainment channel, call it ‘BBC Prime’ and then broadcast a load of old rubbish. Fortunately, things do seem to be changing. Tonight, they are showing ‘The Office’. Yes, I know it’s already been on TVB Pearl…
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I just knew this would happen. After being given 90 days credit for my pizza, I forgot to pay the bill when it eventually arrived. So the nice people at DBS charged me HK$150 "late fee" and HK$10 "finance charges". Yes, I know it’s my own stupid fault, but I can’t help wondering what kind…
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Another Hong Kong blog. Amusing enough, but they never last. Be gone in a few weeks. Trust me, I’m never wrong. UPDATE: Er, well, that’ll teach me – it seems that it’s already been around for 8 months. I was fooled by the hit counter on the front page showing just a few hundred hits.
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I remember when the main thing that worried the music industry was people naughtily making cassette tapes of some of their records and giving them to their friends. They came up with the idiotic slogan ‘Home Taping is Killing Music’ and, do you know, I think they really believed that this was true. Obviously technology…
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Put a Hong Kong person near a lift, and they will jab compulsively at the buttons. Outside the lift they will press the button to go up or down (probably both), even if someone has already pressed it. They even press the button when the light goes out because the lift door are about to…
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I had a look around the new CitySuper in Sha Tin. The space they are occupying is the upper floor of what was once a department store (Yaohan?). When that went bust, SHKP turned the lower level over to restaurants and the upper level to a weird assortment of outlets (a Wellcome supermarket, a couple…
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I love this type of self-delusional nonsense. Business Week is closing down its Asian and European editions, and has made 60 staff in Singapore redundant (SCMP via Asia Media). They say that they are getting increased traffic on their website, so there’s no need for a different regional editions of the printed magazine. The truth…
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Every since I first came to Hong Kong, my various jobs have required me to travel to China, almost invariably to Guangdong province. This is hardly unusual, and many Hong Kong people spend several days a week (sometimes the whole working week) across the border. I have to admit that the first few times I…
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There was (I think) a time when obituaries were written with great care so as not to cause offence. Not any more – this is from the Daily Telegraph (several months ago – I forgot about this and have just found it again): William Donaldson, who died on June 22 aged 70, was described by…
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It’s 2006 already. It hardly seems any time since we were all worrying about the disasters that awaited us when almost everything stopped working because of the Y2K problem, but we survived that and now we are half way through the decade without a name (no, you can’t call it the "noughties"). My new year…
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