Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writiing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Category: Rants
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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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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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Most annoying mobile phone feature? Some clever person at Blackberry decided that the best way to handle a low battery would be….to terminate your phone call without any prior warning. Not even a minute or two to scramble for a charger, oh no. We have to preserve the battery so you can, er, read your…
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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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Surely Braun are having a laugh when they claim to offer a 2 year guarantee on their Oral B battery-operated toothbrushes . In my experience they become hopelessly unreliable after only a few months of usage. Yes, you can fiddle around with them and prolong their life for a few more weeks, but after that…
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Recently I bought a bottle of Snapple Iced Lemon Tea, thinking that it really was natural (as stated on the label). Then I read the ingredients. The second item (after water) is High Fructose Corn Syrup, the ingredient which is widely blamed for making the population of the United States so obese. From Wikipedia: The…
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HSBC are now promoting their electronic statement service to replace the paper version sent through the mail. Good idea, poor execution. Why does it have to be so difficult? They send you an email, with a link to a webpage. You then have to sign in using a different password to the one you have…
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When I was at school, I remember a classmate getting told off by the teacher for his picture of life a few hundred years ago because it included captions saying “Ye Olde Shoppes’ or some similar bit of Middle English whimsy. So I was amused to see that there is a new shopping arcade in…
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I've had a credit card with them for years. I still have the Samsonite luggage they gave me as an introductory gift. But I am getting seriously annoyed with them. A while back they persuaded me to upgrade to a Platinum card. I only had to pay half of the normal fee for the first…
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About a week ago, I came across a strange story about a pair of twins getting married. I think it first surfaced on the BBC website (Parted-at-birth twins ‘married’) – where the use of inverted commas around the last word indicated that it was not a verified fact. This all seemed a bit too much…
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