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: Apr 2004
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Funniest sight of the week – elderly stout gentleman being lowered slowly into a Chinese submarine by two minders. Possibly not a good idea.
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Hey look, I can do dull as well as the next man (see story below) Since Simon is away in China and not posting this type of stuff, I think I need to fill the gap. So, can anyone explain this phenomenon? Quite often, by around 5 o’clock I have nearly finished the things I…
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I know I’ll get into trouble for writing this, but I don’t think I really care. I periodically check Hong Kong’s most boring website to see whether they have managed to write anything even mildly interesting (no), and whether they have got over their obsession with blogging (apparently they haven’t). I couldn’t believe my eyes…
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Interesting piece in the paper on Sunday by Tim Noonan, who is convinced that Cable TV will drop ESPN and Star Sports this summer, now that they have exclusive rights to the English Premiership. He’s probably right, but I find it very strange – normally cable TV companies want to have as many channels as…
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It almost goes without saying that The Sopranos is one of the best things on TV. You can argue that it isn’t as good as it was, but then what is? The impressive thing is that the show’s creator David Chase seems to have a clear idea of the show’s progression – season one was about Tony Soprano…
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I can’t be the only person to have noticed that a fairly well-known brand from the UK is now available in Hong Kong – Wall’s Ice Cream. The story behind this turns out to be slightly stranger than I had expected. Mountain Cream is a familiar name in Hong Kong. What I hadn’t realized was…
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According to The Economist: America has made discouraging comments about [Mr Wiranto’s] candidacy—but no Indonesian court has tried him for any wrongdoing, let alone convicted him. Golkar’s leaders, apparently, considered Mr Wiranto’s chequered career less of a liability than the corruption scandals dogging his rival, Akbar Tandjung. Wouldn’t that be interfering in another country’s election?…
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This story has been widely reported in the UK. It’s about a journalist who got a job in a prison and took some photographs. He was charged under the 1952 Prison Act, with conveying a digital camera into the jail and conveying the camera and “digital information” – the photographs – out again. The trial…
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Go into any supermarket and you will find products labelled as “xx% Fat Free”. Fair enough, and I can understand 99% fat free, or 97% fat free, but I have great difficulty with products that claim to be “90% fat free”. That’s 10% fat, and I very much doubt that you’d be able to get…
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Startling new research reported by RTHK: Obese children are more likely to suffer heart attacks and strokes earlier in their adult life. That’s according to a Chinese University study comparing the health of normal and overweight youngsters. The head of the research team, Professor Woo Kam-sang, said the results revealed a huge difference. However, he…
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