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: Jul 2004
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Shaky is in the UK for a few days, and seems to have the same rather ambivalent feelings about being there that I do. There’s more to watch on TV, people speak a language you understand, working hours are shorter, the weather is good (er, hang on…). However: then there’s the news. It’s full of…
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The first programme in the Boss Swap series (shown second by ATV) was less dramatic, but almost equally pointless. The story so far seems to be that people get very upset when you suggest that you should change the way you run your business, though it clearly makes things more difficult when they deliberately choose…
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I was amused when Liam Fitzpatrick managed to fill a couple of pages of Spike magazine with the gripping story of his long association with ‘Bottoms Up’ in TST and the terribly sad news that they have closed the place down. Incredibly, he managed to recycle this material for a special double issue of Time…
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Fat people stuffing their faces in an all-you-can-eat buffet. Score bonus points for groups of fat people eating together.
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According to Time magazine, the budget airline business in Asia is fairly cut-throat: Udom Tantiprasongchai, chief executive of Orient Thai Airlines routinely employs a team in his office to go on the Internet and buy up as many of the cheapest tickets on AirAsia flights as they can get, often spending more than $3,500 a…
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I found this disclaimer on a packet of sea salt: “This salt does not supply Iodide, a necessary nutrient”. Two questions arise from this: Does salt naturally contain iodide? No Do most people in Hong Kong need extra iodide? No Iodide is added to most salt that you buy, and has been for a very…
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In the UK, if you are celebrating something (a birthday, a wedding, leaving the company, David Beckham scoring a penalty, Tony Blair being found to have done nothing wrong after all), it is traditional to buy cakes. In Hong Kong, we have snacks. French toast, chicken wings, hot dogs, all sorts of junk. Plus drinks.…
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Business Week recently had an article about football club finances (Can Football Be Saved?). Interesting subject, but it hardly inspires confidence when they talk about the British Premier League and describe the UEFA Champions League as a post-season tournament.
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ATV World are showing the Channel 4 series “Boss Swap” that was aired in the UK at the start of this year. As with “Wife Swap” (not yet shown in Hong Kong), the concept is to find two quite different people and get them to swap lives for a short time. As the name implies,…
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When Yeoh Eng-kiong resigned from the government, I expressed doubts about the logic of this. I will freely admit that I did this without having reading any of the reports into last years SARS outbreak, basing my argument on the general principle that it is a bad idea for people to resign simply in order…
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