Category: Blogs
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For some reason, Ordinary Gweilo is mentioned in a list of Asian blogs in the online edition of the San Franciso Chronicle. Simon is also there, naturally, along with Mr Brown from Singapore, but I’m not quite sure what I’ve done to deserve this honour. I *never* check the log that Typepad provides of where…
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More Hong Kong blogs that other people have come across. By a strange coincidence, all four bloggers seem to be female, and two are teachers. New Territories is from a teacher at the Chinese University near Sha Tin. Appears to be an American. Pulled in many directions Thoughts of a kindergarten teacher in Hong Kong,…
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It’s tempting fate to write this, I know, but has George* thrown in the towel? The site doesn’t seem to have been updated for several weeks. The funny thing is that this seems to coincide with the absence of the comments from the army of people who find Ordinary Gweilo very boring. I wonder if…
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I notice that Cha Xiu Bao was mentioned on the food pages of this week’s Sunday Morning Post magazine. Yes, that’s the new-improved-but-somehow-exactly-the-same-as-before Sunday magazine. I’d have to agree with Susan Jung that it’s a good blog, and it’s worth a look if you are interested in food (in Hong Kong and elsewhere).
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Via Fumier, another Hong Kong blog, The Solbourne Identity, from a Malaysian living here. The author cheerfully admits that his is a boring, personal blog, so that’s fair enough. More entertainingly, David Webb has some fun at the expense of property developers worrying that they have exhausted the supply of nouns and are now reduced…
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Run for your lives…it’s a baby blog. Not just one baby, but three one year-olds (triplets) and a 3 year-old. From Pok Fu Lam over on the fairly posh side, just to prove that all human life is here. seems to type without using the shift key as far as I can see, and mainly…
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Simon has done a fairly effective job of demolishing Hong Kong Phooey’s latest rant, on the subject of foreign domestic helpers (FDHs). As Simon says, Mr Phooey makes some good points, but the problem is the way that he presents them in his posts. If he had written a short ‘rant’ of 2–3 paragraphs about…
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[This list is now very out-of-date and most of the links don't work] Anson Mak Batgung.com Maybe not strictly a blog, but some interesting musings on life in Hong Kong by two expats married to local ladies. Big White Guy Is it a blog? Not sure. A Canadian photographer and writer living in the New…
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One of the more puzzling aspects of doing this blog is that I can write a long article and get zero response, whilst sometimes a short piece dashed off in a few minutes can provoke a lively debate. The short piece I wrote about Hong Kong Phooey’s Hong Kong Blog (see below) falls into the…
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A few months ago, Fumier and myself were berated by NTSCMP for some fairly harmless comments about the way people walk in Hong Kong. The headline was something like "Is it time for Fumier and Ordinary Gweilo to leave Hong Kong?". Now someone has produced a whole blog whining about the horrible behaviour of Chinese…
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