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: Apr 2009
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I finally got round to reviewing my list of Hong Kong blogs, and I've pruned a few that have either disappeared or not been updated for several months. I also re-instated one old favourite that went missing but which seems to be back, back, back.
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Saturday’s SCMP had a short news story quoting Chief Secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen as saying that he would like “to see no more roaming charges when people travel between Hong Kong and Guangdong.” Well, wouldn’t we all? However, it’s probably not going to happen: An industry source reacted strongly to Mr Tang’s suggestion, saying: “Telecom…
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Surely one of the stories of this football season must be the amazing ascent of AFC Wimbledon. The club was founded less than 7 years ago by fans of Wimbledon FC when their team became MK Dons and moved to faraway Milton Keynes. They started out in the 9th tier of English football, and have now…
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I found this article in The Guardian about Air Asia X, another allegedly budget long-haul airline: 'This is budget travel. We demand to suffer'. Ryan, a 33-year-old electrician standing behind me in the queue, is moving to Melbourne with his girlfriend to start a new life. "I tried to book as soon as I heard about…
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BBC Sport RSS feed: League to discuss two-tier plan Chairmen will discuss a plan put forward by Bolton’s Phil Gartside to have a two division Premier League including Celtic and Rangers. click on the link and it takes you to this page: League dismiss two-tier proposals Celtic and Rangers could play Old Firm matches in…
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Today’s Sunday Morning Post has a large photograph of a supermarket shelf, to illustrate the fact that all the price labels are yellow. Yes, really. Short history lesson. Until a couple of years ago, ParknShop (for it is them) used to have mainly white labels, reserving yellow for special prices. Except that “special” would include…
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I often find myself watching EPL games not really knowing which team I want to win. So recently I have taken to supporting (strictly on a match-by-match basis) whoever scores higher on the Football Sanity Index. There are many factors involved, but the main ones are the recent history of hiring and firing managers, transfer policy,…
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Supermarkets in Hong Kong are constantly trying to trick their customers with bogus discounts. It's not exactly news, but yesterday's Consumer Council report provides confirmation of something that most people in Hong Kong must have noticed. I think we're all used to those ridiculous yellow labels in ParknShop that advertise so-called "discounts" that bear no…
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Well, I visited the computer fair in Mega Box (Unfair competition) and what a horrendous experience that was. They claim to run a shuttle bus from Kowloon Bay MTR station, but it actually leaves from the far-end of the Telford Plaza mall, and of course there was a long queue, so it probably would have…
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Today’s SCMP reports that computer retailers don’t like competition: Computer shops protest at cut-price festivals Computer retailers switched off the lights at their shops yesterday to voice their anger against cut-price computer festivals they say are ruining their business. Up to 300 shops at seven malls, including Golden Computer Centre, Golden Computer Arcade, Wan Chai…
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