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: May 2005
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Rather to my surprise I found several interesting stories in today’s SCMP. If this keeps happening I may have to start buying it again. The first one, already been noted by Simon, is that Hong Kong has the coldest offices in the world: A study by Polytechnic University showed that although 25 degrees was a…
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Spike over at Hongkie Town is complaining that he can no longer get a multiple-entry visa to go to China, and instead has to make do with a six-month dual-entry visa (costing near HK$1,000). That’s not very good! Six months ago when I last renewed my visa I complained about the cost, but now I…
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[I was quite sure I posted this on Monday, but it disappeared for some reason] The first series of the UK version of The Apprentice appears to have been highly successful, and here in Hong Kong we are already on to the third series of the Donald Trump original. In the first three weeks the…
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Simon got there first with some useful advice from today’s SCMP: Couples have been warned not to rush into sex because the hormones released during orgasm can blind people to the true value of their relationship. Patricia Love, a counsellor on love and marriage, said the effects of the hormones could make an "alcoholic with…
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Spam is annoying enough, but why is so much of it in German recently? By the way, sorry for the lack of posting over the last week or so. Very busy.
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Phil was on TV again yesterday night – this time it was Channel News Asia (from Singapore) and I suppose it was late enough not to scare too many children. Personally, I’m getting rather bored with all the hype about blogging. When magazines like Business Week start telling us that Blogs will change your business,…
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I have been having strange problems when viewing web pages recently, and it seems that the culprit is Mia‘s site. Confirmation comes from Madame Chiang, who seems to be having it worse than me – she gets "hellfire and havoc" (in IE and Firefox), my browser just behaves very sluggishly [I use SlimBrowser, which is…
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The tunnel story refuses to go away. Today’s SCMP reports that activists have a plan – to sue the government so that the private company that operates the Eastern Harbour Tunnel has to reduce the toll. Announcing their application for a judicial review yesterday, Wong Tai Sin District Councillor Andrew To Kwan-hang and taxi driver…
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Well, I’m still not quite sure whether the British General Election was as dull as it seemed – a national swing from Labour to Conservative of 3% was obviously not enough to change the government, but underneath that there were more interesting things going on. Mainly, as far as I could see, the unwinding of…
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This is from The Times e-paper, and it’s been there for at least four hours. If this is really an exact copy of what’s in the printed newspaper (which is what it’s claimed to be) then they’ve got big problems: BLAIR will return to Street for a record Labour term today, but sharply reduced majority,…
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