Every day HK will be wrapping up and there will be no future postings. I have moved to London and will be starting a new blog related to my new location shortly.
I’d like to wish much success to the athletes from Hong Kong who will be competing in the Beijing Olympics this summer. My research [...]
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Every day HK – wrapping up
Posted in Uncategorized on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
economics, airplanes, and seinfeld
Posted in HK issues, Uncategorized, tagged airplanes, economics, economy, first class, seinfeld on October 6, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I was watching an old Seinfeld episode last week and it made me think of what is wrong with the new economy. It was the famous ‘airport episode’ which revolves around Jerry and Elaine trying to get on a flight but the only seats available are one in first class [...]
Take the pandas shopping….take them shopping
Posted in HK issues, Uncategorized, tagged HKTB, hong kong tourism board, james tien, karen mok, pandas on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Hong Kong Tourism Board has sent out an exciting press release recently entitled “Cross-Sector Support for 2007 HK Shopping Festival on 10th Anniversary of HKSAR“. I mean, wow! they sure know how to sell themselves, don’t they?
Well believe it or not… I managed to read through the many paragraphs describing exciting [...]
scmp: understanding world events through wikipedia
Posted in morning news on November 21, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I was really not intending to write so much on the SCMP, but lately it’s hard to avoid. On Friday there was a story on the Doha round restarting. At the bottom of the article, there was an explanation of the Doha round contained in a sidebar. What I found interesting was that the source [...]
scmp headline: you’re fired!
Posted in morning news on November 13, 2006 | 9 Comments »
Donald Trump is not the only one gaining notoriety for firing people. Mark Clifford, the editor-in-chief at the SCMP axed two senior editors on Friday, according to the Apple Daily and Ming Pao.
Mark stirred up some controversy in journalism circles and the blogosphere seven months ago when he unceremoniously sacked two of his top editors [...]
New Vision Festival: filling a void
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to the organisers of New Vision Arts Festival. Now in its third year, it has really come into its own by bringing a great range of innovative artists and performances to Hong Kong.
On Saturday night, we saw INSEN, a collaborative performance featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto. This is the calibre of entertainment that [...]
morning news: SCMP standards slipping?
Posted in morning news, tagged editorial standards, HK, hong kong, SCMP, standards, typos on September 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
