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OrdinaryGweilo.com: Public Transport
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Everyday Life in Hong Kong. From the perspective of a Brit living in the New Territories (that's the bit up near China). July 22, 2016. Interesting article from the BBC about red minibuses in Hong Kong. Things I already knew: red minibuses don’t follow fixed routes, and are very dangerous. Things I learned from this: red minibuses first appeared in 1967; green minibuses started in 1980; the government wants to phase out red minibuses and replace them with the more regulated green version. July 12, 2016.
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Archives - OrdinaryGweilo.com
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Everyday Life in Hong Kong. From the perspective of a Brit living in the New Territories (that's the bit up near China). January February March April May June July August September October. Life in Hong Kong. Oasis Hong Kong Airlines. South China Morning Post. Gwulo: Old Hong Kong. Hong Kong not so goodAirport Express. Clickbait from SCMP.com. Modern life is rubbish. Changing trains (Hong Kong MTR). Pearl River Delta - Then and Now. LeTV or Now TV? On You want English? On You want English?
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OrdinaryGweilo.com: Music
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Everyday Life in Hong Kong. From the perspective of a Brit living in the New Territories (that's the bit up near China). December 19, 2015. Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. The Amadeus Centre, London W9. This is inspired by reading Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink. Elvis Costello’s recently published autobiography. Exactly a year after the Hammersmith Odeon gigs, where Elvis Costello was overweight, bearded and apparently angry, what a transformation. Everything about it was astonishing.&...
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OrdinaryGweilo.com: Chinese language
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Everyday Life in Hong Kong. From the perspective of a Brit living in the New Territories (that's the bit up near China). August 31, 2015. I was amused by this story in the Economist: Long live Cantopop. About the University of British Columbia (UBC) offering a course in Cantonese. I have been listening again to Naked Cantonese (RTHK Podcast), in which Cecilie Gamst Berg. The latter as current usage (however ‘wrong’ it may be). Yet the Economist persists with this nonsense in its story:. Life in Hong Kong.
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OrdinaryGweilo.com: Politics
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Everyday Life in Hong Kong. From the perspective of a Brit living in the New Territories (that's the bit up near China). May 08, 2015. 1992 and all that. Well, a strong sense of déjà vu for those of us old enough to remember the 1992 General Election. Then, as now, a significant number of people seem to have told the opinion pollsters that they intended to vote Labour (or Liberal Democrat), only to choose the Conservatives when they went to the Polling Station. 160; Or did the pollsters just get it wrong?
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All true, obviously - OrdinaryGweilo.com
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Everyday Life in Hong Kong. From the perspective of a Brit living in the New Territories (that's the bit up near China). Laquo; Closed shop. Spotify Connectjust because we can ». March 02, 2015. All true, obviously. Over the New Year holiday, CCTV-4 has been showing the full 48 hours of. Deng Xiaoping at History's Crossroads. The there’s the stilted dialogueand some of the scenes were totally fictitious. We see Thatcher having a cordial meeting with Ted Heath (in 1982? Posted at 10:23 PM in China. This ...
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OrdinaryGweilo.com: Current Affairs
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Everyday Life in Hong Kong. From the perspective of a Brit living in the New Territories (that's the bit up near China). May 08, 2015. 1992 and all that. Well, a strong sense of déjà vu for those of us old enough to remember the 1992 General Election. Then, as now, a significant number of people seem to have told the opinion pollsters that they intended to vote Labour (or Liberal Democrat), only to choose the Conservatives when they went to the Polling Station. 160; Or did the pollsters just get it wrong?
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Third world country - OrdinaryGweilo.com
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Everyday Life in Hong Kong. From the perspective of a Brit living in the New Territories (that's the bit up near China). Laquo; You want English? Spotify not scary good ». June 25, 2015. Spike is living in Manila and all is not well: A Scam A Day Keeps The Philippines A Third World Country. At the core this is still a desperately poor country and the biggest export here still seems to be people. Posted at 08:48 AM in Blogs. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed. The letters ...
