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 2012
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Is the SCMP really so short of letters to publish that it can always find room for the incoherent ranting of Pierce Lam? This time he seems determined to make a more general point about a single incident in an under 12 football match. You won’t be surprised to hear that the player who committed…
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What is with people and their mobile phones? There was a crazy woman in the airport today, chattering away on her phone whilst trying to complete the normally unchallenging business of getting through the automated immigration channel. You might think that putting your thumb on the reader would be easy enough, but this half-wit put…
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I don’t know whether to laugh or scream when reading the nonsense some people write in letter to the SCMP. Cynthia Sze is one of the small group who are occupied on a full-time campaign to remind us of the horrors of Hong Kong’s colonial past. This is ever so slightly undermined by the hysterical…
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Oasis tried to convince us that it was the world’s first long-haul budget airline. It wasn’t, and it went bust. The one area where Oasis had a competitive product was Business Class. Substantially cheaper than its competitors, for a perfectly reasonable old-style seat and good service. Enter Hong Kong Airlines with a new service from…
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