What’s going on at the SCMP? Lately, I have spotted more typos and errors than usual. But while those kind of mistakes are forgivable and usually forgettable, I can’t forgive the editors for the headlines I have been reading lately.
In Friday’s paper (Sept 29) the story on yet another senior official in Shanghai being implicated [...]
Archive for September, 2006
morning news: SCMP standards slipping?
Posted in morning news, tagged HK, hong kong, SCMP, editorial standards, typos, standards on September 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
daily rant: HK Observatory
Posted in daily rant on September 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Today the HK Observatory again did what they do best: they screwed up. I knew the weather warranted a Signal 3, and a red red rainstorm warning at exactly 7:50am. I knew this because I could barely see through the windshield of my car as I drove my kids to school. The roadsides were flooded.
At [...]
job search chronicles: show me the money
Posted in job search chronicles, tagged HK, hong kong, job search, publishing, salaries on September 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Since finishing my master’s degree, I have been on the job hunt. And although my degree has opened a lot of doors, it has done little in the way of getting me an increase in salary over my pre-degree jobs.
In the last couple of months, I have applied for 6 jobs. Out of those [...]
morning news: star ferry
Posted in morning news on September 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Now that the moving of the Star Ferry is a done deal, I swore I wouldn’t make any comments on it. But in the lead-up to the opening of the new Star Ferry, the press (at least in English) has been criticising the move and predicting the decline of one of Hong Kong’s most loved [...]
restuarant encounters: the brunch club
Posted in restaurant encounters on September 10, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Today, Neil and I had to head over to Soho to visit our tenant and check out a problem in the flat. Two-thirds of our offspring are now at an age where they can be left at home, with a chain of command decided by age, so we told them we’d be back in about [...]
daily journal: bel air and babies
Posted in daily journals on September 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, Neil (aka ’spouse) and I went down to Bel Air (phase 3) to visit our friends who have, in recent months, done two things which top the list of ‘lifestyle-altering events’: they bought a flat and had a baby.
Bel Air reminds me somewhat of the Land of Mordor from Lord of the Rings. [...]
family life: school camp
Posted in family life, tagged camping, HK, hong kong, school on September 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
My daughter (10) came home from school last week with a letter about their Year 6 camp on Lantau Island. School camp is a great event, I still remember my school camp: campfires, jumping in lakes, sleeping bags. For us Canadians, camping is sacrosanct: a means of character-building.
Apparently in HK, camping means something else entirely. [...]
daily rant: the most hated phone in HK
Posted in daily rant, random stuff on September 8, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I’m not a cell-phone connoisseur. For me the only reason to change phones is either loss, theft, total breakdown, or failure to resuscitate after falling in toilet.
As a result, I have only changed phones a few times since getting my first Nokia in 1997.
After someone stole my second, trendrier Nokia, I couldn’t stomach the huge [...]
morning news: the smoking debate
Posted in HK issues, morning news on September 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This morning on Backchat, the issue being discussed was whether smoking in public places like beaches and parks should be illegal. I’m a non-smoker, and I confess that I secretly support the ban of smoking in restaurants, but even I think this is ludicrous.
While the government appears to be doing nothing whatsoever about emission controls [...]
welcome to my world
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2006 | 1 Comment »
and what kind of world is that, you might ask? One that revolves around any issues that come up in an average day in Hong Kong. From politics to parking, culture to kids, I hope to share with you an overall view of HK life.
