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: Jan 2010
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In the early 1980s, British politics briefly became exciting. There were a series of by-elections in which Social Democrat and Liberal candidates won some stunning victories, most notably Roy Jenkins in the distinctly unpromising Glasgow Hillhead constituency. He had earlier lost in Warrington, and there was certainly no guarantee that he would win at his…
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I used to think that airline alliances (and particularly code sharing) were just an evil trick played by the airlines. After all, who wants to book a flight on Cathay Pacific only to discover that the flight is actually operated by a “partner”. And when most of the flights on a particular route are operated…
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They print so many stupid letters in the SCMP, but this one is spectacular: Combine two MTR rail lines There has been much discussion (or rather negative feedback) from East Rail Line passengers after the West Rail Line was extended to Tsim Sha Tsui East while the East Rail Line now terminates at Hung Hom.…
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Time magazine has a story about Santander: The Most Boring Bank in the World. Except that it seems not to be so boring: Santander’s only stumble has been steering some of its private-banking clients into Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi machine through its Geneva-based Optimal hedge funds. It moved fast to make good, offering to repay 100%…
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Thursday’s SCMP had a strange story about the possibility of replacing Easter Monday with a new public holiday for Confucius's birthday. Hard to see that happening – we already have too many of these one day holidays on random days of the week, and Easter is the only Hong Kong holiday that is guaranteed to…
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Today’s SCMP has this brilliant observation about dead fish: Making specimen is a lengthy process – it took half a year to turn the largest gar into a suitable specimen. A well-prepared specimen can last 250 years and allow researchers to study its body structures in detail, Chong says. However, movements and behaviour of a…
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As I seem to be unable to write any posts of my own, I should perhaps direct readers to others who are able to produce some analysis of what is going on in Hong Kong. Mr Smog had something to say on the weird court case about Procurement by false pretences: In very brief summary…
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