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: Mar 2009
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Last year I pointed out that TVB were not providing an English language commentary for the Rugby Sevens on Jade HD, even though there is an dual language option. Well, it was exactly the same again this year – if you wanted English commentary you had to watch Pearl with its grainy pictures. Well done,…
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Continuing my occasional series on Hong Kong’s least loved companies, now it’s the turn of PCCW, or more specifically Netvigator. Or, to be precise, the complete nonsense that it is their interactive phone menu system. I wanted to find out more about their 30 mb/s fibre broadband. Their website give a phone number and says…
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Here in Hong Kong we have had the hilarious Edison Chen saga, in which we have had to face up to the horrible reality that pop stars have sex with each other. No, really they do – and apparently some of them take drugs. This is obviously just too shocking for many in Hong Kong,…
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A few weeks ago, HSBC announced that it was changing the conversion rate for Asia Miles, so now you need 15 reward points to get 1 Asia Mile (rather than 12:1, so it’s 25% worse). Compared to other cards that is very mean indeed – some cards give double or triple points, whilst others have…
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Hilariously, Tim Hamlett seems to have filled a whole column in today’s SCMP by writing about the road that runs outside his window: A veteran journalist and Baptist University academic, Tim looks at the issues facing the city. Sui Wo Road has its origins at a small roundabout in the smoky industrial heart of Fo…
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