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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Year: 2026
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Walked past a large red bank which is undergoing renovation. The hoarding has a sign saying that it is closed (which is fairly obvious) and it lists the address of the nearest branch. Helpfully it includes the name of the shopping mall and the full street address. Well, no, it is literally on the floor…
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The new pricing for the JoyYou card comes into effect in April, and the local media have been making a big fuss about it. It’s very simple: if the fare is HK$10 or less, you will continue to pay HK$2 and the government will pay the rest to the transport operator. If it’s more than…
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Just had one of those mad things where a company calls me and then asks me to confirm how I spell my name. You called me! Why do I need to confirm anything? And how do I know that you are really who you say you are? What does it prove? Anyone could spell out…
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Interesting article, but…. ‘If you’re flushing the toilet with grey water, people should know’: how China turned rain into an asset In 1995 the Chinese Communist party (CCP) hosted China’s first modern-day national seminar of rainwater utilisation in Lanzhou, a dry northern city that abuts the Gobi desert. In the following decades, URWH started to…
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