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: Mar 2008
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Yesterday’s Post Magazine reprinted an article from The Guardian (Listen now, pay never) about “free” music: From the newspaper on the train to the magazine thrust in your hand as you leave the station, from the targeted ads that accompany your browsing to the ad breaks that punctuate your TV viewing, advertising-supported content is nothing…
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Stupid choices – the Rugby Sevens in high definition (on Jade HD), but with no English commentary, or with a fuzzy picture and an English commentary on Pearl. Why couldn’t TVB arrange for an English soundtrack to be available on Jade HD?
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When I lived in the UK, I used to enjoy eating in Chinese restaurants. Well, how was I to know that it wasn’t real Chinese food? By the same token, eating so-called "Western" food in Hong Kong is generally a fairly painful experience, as Chopped Onions reminds us: Order “French” onion soup, in a "western…
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Hong Kong's digital terrestrial TV isn't as bad as I had been led to believe. So what about Now TV HD? Well, it's not very good, I'm afraid to say. For a start, the choice of channels is very limited – HD versions of Discovery and National Geographic, something called Voom TV, and the sports…
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After the deaths of two young children from influenza in Hong Kong at the start of this month, the government instructed all primary schools and kindergartens to close. An over-reaction, obviously, but it was only a few days till most schools started their Easter holidays, so it didn’t do much harm. Since then there has…
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The government has given the go-ahead for the so-called "Sha Tin to Central Link". When this was first announced it was going to be a new railway line from Tai Wai (in Sha Tin district), via Hung Hom, to Central. You might not realize this from newspaper reports, but it has become two separate extensions…
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No scaremongering in the SCMP today (Flu fight recalls dark days of Sars), oh no: Health authorities announced a string of contingency measures yesterday to combat flu that recalled action taken during the Sars emergency five years ago. The measures, including shortened visiting hours in public hospitals, daily announcements of outbreaks and a public-education campaign,…
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There’s a full page ad for MusicXS in the SCMP today, so I thought I would check it out. It’s a music download service, but you can only listen to the music for as long as you maintain your subscription. For HK$56 per month you can listen on your PC. For HK$96 you can also…
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I am rather surprised by this, but I think I have to report that digital tv in Hong Kong isn’t as bad as some people have suggested. The digital channels have been allocated to TVB and ATV. TVB’s Jade HD is one of the two high-definition channels, and (no surprise here) it is basically a…
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