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: Apr 2013

  • Pay as you read

    Interesting piece from Gweipo about newspapers: Buy a newspaper – save a journalist? I've been subjected to a barrage of emails of late by the IHT.  And the Wall street journal.  And the NYT. [..] Why did I resist?  A few main reasons.  I just hate all that paper coming into the house – even…

  • Learning English?

    I think I may have noticed a theme to these “Dean Fung English” articles" in the Hong Kong Standard:

  • Cheese

    They had another one of those International Cheese Festivals at Hullett House in TST. The problem is that the cheese market is in a tiny room.  I had to wait in a queue before I was allowed in, but there were still too many people inside.  I did manage to try the only Scottish cheese…

  • Spotify – in Chinese, of course

    I’m obviously not paying attention, so I only found out from Spike that Spotify is now available in Hong Kong. There’s the usual pantomime with a default page that is only in Chinese, and no obvious way to change to English.  Google Chrome makes it easier by translating it (rather badly), otherwise you would be…

  • Warped

    Why is the SCMP still printing these tedious letters from Pierce Lam?  As well as attacking the ESF (yawn) he is now trying to defend the “designated schools” scheme:  Why officials should end ESF subsidy South China Morning Post | 2 April 2013 Simon Osborn rightly recognises that the English Schools Foundation’s "old policy" discriminates…