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: Jun 2007
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What is the point of an HR department? Answers on the back of a postage stamp, please. I think I have been incredibly fortunate in my career (if you can call it that). Only once have I been employed by a company that actually had an HR department, and as luck would have it they…
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Phiz is having a few problems getting some sort of visa to live in the UK: Went to British Consulate today to apply for visa as Returning Resident. Gave them letter from work showing that I have worked for them since 1994, have been on secondment since 1999, and am now returning to the UK…
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What does it mean? How can anyone be “Motivated by trees and fish”. Aren’t there some words missing from that sentence? Anyway, here’s the letter in full from today’s SCMP, and a small prize for someone who can tell me what it means: Motivated by trees and fish I wish to reply to a number…
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Hong Kong will finally have Digital Terrestrial TV later this year (The Standard). As usual in Hong Kong this is being carved up by the existing duopoly of TVB & ATV rather than introducing any new competition. If TV viewers wish to watch programs in digital format, all they have to do is add a…
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Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. I just watched the final ever episode of The Apprentice. How could it go so wrong? Well, just for starters there were too many gimmicks, they “fixed” things that weren’t broken, and they ended up making it into just another reality show. There was not much wrong with having a “final 2” and giving each of them an…
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Living in Hong Kong seems to have some interesting stuff from a Filipino perspective, such as this: Reasons why you should get a Filipina domestic helper Filipina domestic helpers can be ideal house helpers for Hong Kong people. They have children back in the Philippines. Which means: They know how to properly take care of…
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What is it with people who design websites? The SCMP website has been re-designed, and of course it looks better, but… One of the better features of the old SCMP site was ‘Today’s Stories’, a single (simple) page with all the stories in that day’s paper. You could even go back over the last 7…
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