Category: Life in Hong Kong
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From scmp.com Doctors make mistakes on maths tests because they are exhausted?
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I was amused by this story in the Economist: Long live Cantopop – about the University of British Columbia (UBC) offering a course in Cantonese. I have been listening again to Naked Cantonese (RTHK Podcast), in which Cecilie Gamst Berg tries to teach us to speak like Hong Kong people. One of the many tricks…
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There’s not too much wrong with Hong Kong International Airport. Apart from the North Satellite Concourse, that is. It was opened more than 5 years ago (for smaller planes such as the Airbus A320 / A321), and yet the only way to get there (or back) is by taking a shuttle bus across the apron….…
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The SCMP reports that Page One in Causeway Bay has closed (Bookshop at end of last chapter in Times Square), though it seems possible that it may re-open if space can be found. So not really the end of the last chapter, then. The one in TST moved recently and became a “concept store”. At…
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Thank a lot, Cable TV, I really wanted to see the latest ISIS beheading video. It’s not available on other media outlets (who have this strange idea that showing these videos only gives ISIS more publicity), and no need to search for it on the old Interweb thingy. Just exactly what I wanted to watch…
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It’s bad enough receiving unsolicited sales calls on my mobile (though I find that either ignoring them until they hang up, or saying “Hello, who’s calling?” usually work quite well), but I get seriously annoyed when my bank keeps calling to sell me stuff. Yes, “my bank”. I have had an account (and a credit…
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Mike Rowse seems to be a rare dose of common sense on the opinion pages of the SCMP, and today his subject is the craziness that descends on the city when there’s a bit of rain and some strong winds: T8 typhoon signal is no holiday Joy at time off thanks to weather is misguided…
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I sometimes get WhatsApp message that have been sent to hundreds of different Hong Kong phone numbers. It appears that these are sent so that when they get a response they know that the phone number is active. Cue even more annoying junk sales calls. I did a Google search but I can’t find any…
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Google Play now offer e-books in Hong Kong (from Tech in Asia). That’s the good news. The bad news is that I can’t find a way to get it to display books in English only, so it’s a frustrating experience. As ever, not all titles are available, and whereas Amazon has a reasonable idea what…
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Buy an iPhone, iPad, or iPod in Hong Kong and you will pay no more than the US price – so they are cheaper here because Hong Kong has no sales tax. But try to buy a Nexus 7 and you will pay 20% more, because they are all “parallel imports”. English books are usually…
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