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: Aug 2005
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From the CitySuper website, about their new store in, er, Sha Tin: The heaven for cheese-lover! We carry the widest selection of cheese types and products in town, may they from France, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Japan. You name it! OK, I name it: Stilton, Cheddar, Lancashire, Cheshire… And I understand French…
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What is that possesses people to spend an entire bus or MTR journey talking loudly into their phones? The Inquirer offers an explanation (old but good): MANY SAD FOLK who use mobile phones in public, are faking their conversations to make themselves seem important. According a Rutgers University Center for Mobile Communications Studies report, a…
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It’s obvious, really. Rather than labouring through August to churn out posts every day (well, er, some days), I should announce that I have produced a "double issue" and take the next week off. Just like most* weekly news and business magazines. Notice the creative use of the word "double". Not the dull old meaning…
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Faintly f’kd is a blog which seems to have been set up mainly to have a rant about Hong Kong Cable TV. A worthy subject, but I’m not sure whether it can sustain a blog for very long.
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Another splendid letter from the always enjoyable letter column in the SCMP, where one of the great issues of the day is whether it is necessary to clear your table after eating in McDonalds: When I go to a restaurant, I always have a waiter or waitress serve me – that is, a man or…
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Is there a more scary sight in a Hong Kong supermarket than a crowd of middle-aged women carefully selecting oranges from the display? They pick them all up, inspect them and then choose the ones they want. The rest are rejects. I’ve no idea what’s wrong with them, but there’s something wrong with them. Obviously,…
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Book by Roald Dahl, film by Tim Burton, starring role for Johnny Depp. Couldn’t go wrong with that combination, could they. Could they? They don’t.
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In spite of everything, cinemas are still around – though they now pack eight screens into the space previously occupied by one, which makes it a rather less impressive experience. There are many advantages of watching a DVD, and one is that you can choose the language (both for the dialogue and the subtitles). Similarly,…
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An intriguing quote from a union official, as reported in The Guardian: John Nolan, national leader of Amicus, said the use of the vegetables was a totally unacceptable way of getting staff to perform. "It is demeaning to staff and it is demoralising to staff and it does not send a good message to customers…
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I don’t think I’ll ever understand TVB. They are showing the fifth series of The Sopranos at midnight on Wednesdays. Which would make sense if it would enable them to show it in its original form, rather than the bowdlerized version that they have previously been showing at around 10.30 pm. Indeed, other HBO shows…
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