Ordinary Gweilo

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Month: Oct 2008

  • Five rip some DVDs

    When I first saw the books, I thought that it was simply a bit of clever marketing, but it turns out that they have updated the Famous Five for the new millenium with four new characters (Jo, Max, Allie & Dylan) who are supposed to be the children of George, Julian, Dick & Anne.  That…

  • The new Disney

    High School Musical 3 opened in Hong Kong on Friday.  Sadly, I wasn’t able to get to the cinema myself, but I am told that it’s doing good business. Sunday’s SCMP re-printed a Guardian article (Shake your money maker) about the phenomenon that is Disney Channel.  What’s interesting about the channel is that rather than…

  • Slimming Down

    The long-established electrical chain Tai Lin recently closed down, apparently a victim of the current financial crisis.  I’ve only bought one item there and I had to take it back again and get a refund, so I suppose that doesn’t really count.  Their stores always seemed much less crowded than Fortress and Broadway.  Ah, yes,…

  • More top predictions

    Paul Pong, the SCMP’s brilliant stock picker, has come up with a new prediction: Though the global economy looks gloomy, the stock market may rebound first. I predict the HSI will rebound to 25,000 next year, though that may sound unrealistic given the current sentiments. Unrealistic?  Of course not.  With Paul Pong’s record I’m sure…

  • Brown nosing

    Watching Cable TV news tonight is franky a bizarre experience.  Gordon Brown seems to be the hero of the day, and thus we get to see the highlights of his political life, including the time his best mate Tony Blair bought him an ice cream (I guess you had to be there…). Just a few…

  • Braun battery-operated toothbrushes are rubbish

    Surely Braun are having a laugh when they claim to offer a 2 year guarantee on their Oral B battery-operated toothbrushes .  In my experience they become hopelessly unreliable after only a few months of usage.  Yes, you can fiddle around with them and prolong their life for a few more weeks, but after that…

  • Top investment advice

    The Sunday Morning Post has been running a column on the back page that was supposed to offer investment advice.  It’s written by Paul Pong of Pegasus Fund Managers, and features a hypothetical portfolio of Hong Kong and China equities. Today they announced that the column is to cease because “the amount of trading in…

  • Higos

    I know nothing about typhoons, so can anyone explain why the Observatory think that this one is heading for Hong Kong?  Surely it could end up anywhere?