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: Jun 2005
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It’s those Chinese tourists in the Clarks factory outlet again: The Chinese were well-prepared. Armed with paper cutouts of their relatives’ feet, they leaped from their coaches and headed straight for the racks of shoes at the Clarks shop. "It was a bit of a frenzy," said a staff member at Bicester Village, a collection…
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The Economist reports (subscription required) that what Chinese visitors to the UK want most of all…is to go to factory outlets. And the first choice of of 2,000 door-to-door salespeople from Amway is…Clarks shoes: The trip took 700 of them to Bicester Village, a collection of designer-outlet stores near Oxford. Though many of the most…
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The Kissel case seems to be getting widespread coverage around the world: US banker murder case enthrals Hong Kong according to The Guardian. Well, I don’t find it all that entralling, but then I don’t live in the posh parts of Hong Kong island (where the Kissels lived) or work in a merchant bank. Regular…
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Last Saturday it was hot and sunny for the Dragon Boat festival. Then it started raining. This week’s thunderstorm warnings: Sunday 12 18:00 21:00 3 hours Monday 13 08:08 11:15 3 hours 13:25 15:30 2 hours Tuesday 14 12:55 midnight 11 hours Wednesday 15 07:50 23:55 16 hours Thursday16 06:15 16:30 10 hours Friday 17…
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Hey, look, another article about BitTorrent and UK Nova and all that Shaky type of stuff. It all sounds great: One site, UK Nova, specialises in providing TV programmes to those who can’t get them because they are outside the UK. It started as an informal way for a small gang of expat EastEnders addicts…
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Two strange tales from the hard shoulder of the digital superhighway. Firstly, I sent an email to a Hong Kong company (via their website) saying that I wanted to order something from them. A day later they called me back (on the phone) and promised to fax me a price list. Nothing arrived, and there…
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Fumier noted that I hadn’t had a cheese post for a while. True enough. I haven’t had many posts of any kind for the last few weeks, due to lack of time. Anyway, Cheese Slices (shown last week on TVB) was about the Cheese Festival in a place called Bra in Italy. It seems that…
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The most frustrating (and frankly rather puzzling) aspect of English language Hong Kong TV is not that we miss out on all the best shows, but that they are scheduled, publicised and presented so very badly. One example of inexplicable scheduling is that ATV are showing the 2nd series of The Restaurant at 8 pm…
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When English teams are successful in international competitions I usually have rather mixed feelings. I can’t help feeling a little patriotic pride that an English team has won (even if the coach and players are actually foreigners), but I also feel some resentment towards the big clubs with the money and the fair weather fans.…
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I liked this story from The Guardian. Someone took revenge on cable company NTL by changing the message on their automated phone system to something a little rude. The gentleman was charged with "making a grossly offensive message". Fortunately the magistrates decided that what he done was merely "offensive" and acquitted him. Telephone "help lines"…
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