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: Dec 2008
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Another fine piece of work from the sub-Standard: (updated on Wednesday as they did spot their errors, and even removed one of the random capital letters)
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Sometimes the price of books in Hong Kong is almost beyond belief: Jamie’s Ministry of Food Page One, Kowloon Tong HK$474 Cover Price £25.00 HK$292 Amazon.co.uk* (shipped to Hong Kong) £17.97 HK$210 Typical UK bookstore price £12.50 HK$146 £1 = HK$11.68 * Amazon price is £9.99, plus a delivery charge of £7.98 (£4.99 per shipment…
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There's always a worrying period after a vacancy occurs in the Premier League, when Graeme Souness is linked with the job. This is followed by sighs of relief when someone else (anyone else) is appointed. It was hard to see why Souness should be linked with the Blackburn job, having jumped ship last time around when…
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Danny Baker discovered the hard way that you can’t make money out of podcasts. His “All Day Breakfast Show” started off free but closed down only a few months after they started charging a fee. As far as I know, no-one else has tried to do the same thing since then. Of course, most podcasts…
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Once again the government seems to have made a mess of something that really shouldn't have be so difficult Two weeks ago, the fare structure for urban taxis was revised, making short journeys more expensive and longer journeys cheaper. However, the fares for New Territories taxis were left unchanged, whereas normally they are kept in…
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According to the SCMP, tonight on ATV World you can watch chef Heston Blumenthal cooking Chicken Tikka & Masala. Call me old fashioned, but I think it’s usually called “Chicken Tikka Masala”, and that is indeed how Heston Blumenthal describes it in the programme. As ever, it’s entertainingly bizarre – Heston heads off to Delhi…
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When I used to go on holiday to France, the Michelin Guide was essential reading – when you are somewhere unfamiliar you can't go far wrong choosing a restaurant from the Red Guide Find a place with a red R you are pretty much guaranteed good quality food at a reasonable price, and once you…
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Interesting article from The Guardian (We all go together when we go), based on Paul Krugman's new book about the current financial crisis: The shadow banking system is formed by financial institutions that aren't banks from a regulatory point of view but nonetheless perform banking functions. The system includes innovative financial products such as CDOs…
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It ought to be obvious to everyone by now that it simply isn't possible to stop audio and video content being freely distributed, and the challenge is how to generate revenue around that fact of modern-day life. Recently The Guardian reported on the Monty Python response (Now for something completely different): "For three years you…
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Ten years ago I probably knew nothing about Thailand. Five years later I felt I knew something. What did I know? Well, that King Bhumibol Adulyadej was admired and revered by the Thai people, and Thaksin Shinawatra was an effective prime minister – it so happens that my first visit to Thailand was during the…
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