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: Apr 2007
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One of the big stories in Hong Kong in the last week or so has been about mainland tourists being ripped-off in Hong Kong. Well, what do they expect? It’s a well-established tradition to take tourists to "special shops" that are specifically designed to part them from their money in return for over-priced merchandise, and…
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I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I didn’t hate this film anything like as much as I had expected. In part, I think it was because my expectations were very low. Not just because the TV series seems to be aimed at 6 year olds, but because the previous feature film (simply called…
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Chelsea drew 1-1 with Valencia. The SCMP headline writer seemed to think otherwise:
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You may have gathered that I have a love-hate relationship with the South China Morning Post. On the one hand, I am grateful to have an English language newpaper (and given the number of expats in Hong Kong and the overwhelming use of Chinese by the local population, that isn’t something we should take for…
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Sex and The Single Saucepan is a new blog about chocolate and stuff from "Em". I am not sure whether I have mentioned RConversation from Rebecca MacKinnon or Hong Blog. Oh, I just did…
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According to The Guardian, the BBC is to drop Benny Hill from its schedules in favour of something a bit more modern. This seems to mirror the changes made when BBC Prime (in Asia and other parts of the world) became BBC Entertainment. BBC America is to revamp its schedule to focus on contemporary UK programming including…
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Rather than wait for the BBC, Danny Baker has started his own podcast (it’s also available through iTunes). And, unlike the current BBC podcasts, it does includes some music, albeit a rather eccentric selection. So far he’s only done one of them , but says that he hopes to do it on a daily basis…
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