Ordinary Gweilo

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Month: Sep 2008

  • Never trust exit polls

    It’s quite amusing to read this morning’s newspapers with their predictions of doom for the pan-democrats in the Legislative Council elections.  The Standard went with “Disaster Hits Democrats”, and the SCMP changed their headline during the night from “Turnout rocks pan-democrats” to “Turnout rocks Liberals, democrats”.  Well, half right. In fact it was the Liberal…

  • Vote Vote Vote

    The Legco elections take place today, and I have to admit that I’m having trouble taking them seriously. The first problem is that we are not electing a government – oh no, that isn’t the way things work here. That leads directly to the second problem – politics in Hong Kong is more about posturing…

  • A few ideas I jotted down whilst waiting for the bus

    A glorious rag-bag of policies from one of the candidates who isn’t going to win a seat in Legco on Sunday.  I love the sheer randomness of the policies – some good, some bad (cancelling petrol tax), and some just a bit baffling (what exactly is the current toilet ratio?). ilet 

  • It was only a matter of time

    Well, well.  The BBC are reporting that Keegan and Newcastle part company, which must be the the least surprising football news of the year.  The only surprise would be that he lasted a full eight months. Back in January I said (Mad): This really is the gift that keeps on giving… I thought Newcastle's board…

  • Hong Kong TV

    These days we have a huge choice of channels in Hong Kong (mainly thanks to Now TV), but how is anyone supposed to know what is on them all?  In my opinion, the SCMP does a fairly poor job of keeping viewers up to date with what is on, and you can’t even rely on…