Category: Blogs
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Spike is back in Hong Kong, having been forced to retire from his job in the Philippines because of the local laws. Which was quite a surprise to him (and to most people, I guess) He had to go to the hospital: One of the Dumbest Things I’ve Ever Done I was surprised that a…
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Spike is living in Manila and all is not well: A Scam A Day Keeps The Philippines A Third World Country. I’ve been coming here since 1997. On my first trip, I remember seeing people in the street selling single cigarettes and single sticks of gum. I said to myself, “This is a poor country.”…
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I see that Fumier is back. If you want something to read, I suggest you try there. Not here.
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Some recent comments: So nice to study your perfect weblog on the spare time. Your write-up brings me different type of feeling about the literature. You have a good understanding of China! Deeply the Chinese people I admire you! Thank you for your love! We will be better in China You have a good understanding…
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I have been taken to task by Mr Spike for linking to his old site, and I can't deny that a review of my list of Hong Kong blogs was long overdue. It also turns out that Mr Hemlock has finally closed down his old site and moved to WordPress, and a few old favourites have stopped alogether. Oh,…
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Well, well. I see that Hemlock has fixed his RSS feed, a mere 3 or 4 years after it stopped working. I’m afraid that I can’t be bothered going to a website to read a blog, so I have been missing his words of wisdom for quite some time. Fumier’s RSS feed disappeared some time…
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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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I have been asked to mention HK Photo Competition, a new blog to publicize, well, a photo competition. Go take a look.
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Imagine my reaction upon reading Post Magazine in yesterday's Sunday Morning Post when I discovered that OrdinaryGweilo.com is one of the top 20 websites in Hong Kong. My delight was somewhat diminished by a couple of things. Firstly, that this list appears to have thrown together without very much research. One might almost say it…
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Tau Tiul Yat Bow has a very simple concept – take the top story from HK Headline News (a free Chinese language newspaper) and translate the headline into English. “Staff have no right to ask for alcohol test”職員 ( jig yuen ) = staff無權 ( mo queng ) = no right要求 ( yau qui )…
Ordinary Gweilo 