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: Sep 2009
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Top notch customer service once again. I bought a new phone with a new data plan. You might think that the new plan should take effect immediately, but for some doubtless very good reason they decided it should only happen at the start of the next billing period. OK then, whatever, I'm just the customer,…
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The SCMP sometimes manages to find interesting stories for the Sunday edition. Not often, but it does happen. Today they report the strange tale of a man trapped in Hong Kong because he hasn’t paid his tax: Bill Heywood, a plumbing and piping contractor, was stopped at Hong Kong International Airport last September when he…
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Being English, my afternoon is not complete without cucumber sandwiches and a nice cup of tea. I was horrified, yes horrified, to discover that afternoon tea in the over-priced cafe at the Landmark includes a Sui Mei topped with abalone. What's that all about, then?
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Earlier in the year we had the spectacle of people being placed in quarantine for 7 days if they had been on the same plane as someone who had H1N1. Then all primary schools were closed for the summer break several weeks early. Where I live we had a solemn announcement that there was a…
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Well, well. I see that Hemlock has fixed his RSS feed, a mere 3 or 4 years after it stopped working. I’m afraid that I can’t be bothered going to a website to read a blog, so I have been missing his words of wisdom for quite some time. Fumier’s RSS feed disappeared some time…
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What’s up with the SCMP business section today? It only has 6 pages, several of which are share prices.
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Someone added a comment to my post about Cable TV’s HD service asking where Spanish football is available this season (on TV in Hong Kong, that is). The answer seems to be that it isn’t, which seems odd given the amount of money Barcelona and Real Madrid have spent. So what is available? Based on…
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