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Hong Kong Blogs Review
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Hemlock's Diary.
* Top blog
Hemlock's Diary is the best of all Hong Kong blogs. Hemlock knows Hong Kong like the back of his hand. He is keenly observant, and uncommonly unpompous for a Brit. His blog is witty, entertaining, and informative, all rolled into one, even occasional ...
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Lesley in Hong Kong.
* Recommended
Through Lesley's eyes you'll see Hong Kong's soft and green side(what's left of it) in a different light. This blogger is a British expat who has been living in Sai Kung(a district of HK) with her family for five years and loving it. The photos in this site are ...
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Hong Kong Diaries.
* Top blog
According to this blog's description for itself, it is modeled after Alistair Cooke's famed radio program, "Letter from America". This blogger aims high, but like most of us, he lacks Mr. Cooke's grace and flair for the English language. That being said, it doesn't ...
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Fragments.
* Recommended
In one of her entries, this British expat blogger wrote: "What do the Chinese think of us? Yes, we're all fat, pie-eating, drunken bastards. Aren't we?" That answer is quite extraordinary to Sham-Shui-Po Boy; it's rare to find an expat who has even the slightest ...
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Clear the Air.
* Top blog
CLEAR THE AIR, strictly speaking, is not a blog; however, it does have a news blog within its website. The ever increasing air pollution problem in Hong Kong these days has become a crucial public health issue that threatens not only Hong Kong's ...
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Sun Bin.
* Top blog
This is the best bi-lingual Hong Kong/China/business blog. This native blogger, Sun Bin, whose blog bears his name, is equally articulate in both Chinese and English. This blogger writes like a well-educated individual; he looks at the political, economical and ...
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An Aussie in Hong Kong. 河國榮
* Recommended
If you don't know who this fellow is, you must have been living under a rock in HK, or a hermit who doesn't watch HK movies or local TV. This blogger's name is Gregory Rivers; his Chinese name is 河國榮, "河" means "river". He's a HK movie ...
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Splinter of the Minds Eye.
* Recommended
This expat blogger called the snobbish and racist attitudes still prevalent in HK's British expat community today, an embarrassment. He enjoys living and working here in HK, it's an improvement from what life had to offer him back home in England ....
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Ordinary Gweilo.
* Recommended
In many ways, Ordinary Gweilo is very ordinary. This blogger, Chris, writes about ordinary things in his not so extraordinary life living in New Territories --- shopping; complaints about the price of this and that; how to save money on this and that ...
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Mr. Jam.
Mr. Jam writes like a tabloid reporter and is not shy about constantly promoting himself as a Hong Kong literary figure. For someone who does not share our language, culture, and not to mention our literature, he has made some outlandish ...
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Joyceyland.
* Top blog
Joyce is a competent journalist. She can explain some complicated political or economics issues in just a few of her sentences --- no non-sense but not totally void of humour. And she can paint a relatively clear picture of the comings and goings of HK with ease ...
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Living in Hong Kong.
* Top blog
You don't have to be Catholic, affiliated with the Filipino community in Hong Kong, or in the computer field to be interested in Elmer's blog. He writes in short, crisp, and concise sentences. His blog is enjoyable and breezy to read. It's refreshing to ...
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The Searchlight of Insight.
* Recommended
Tess' Little Pieces.
* Recommended
If it's true that in life it's the little things that
count the most, then these two blogs count a great deal. One of
these two blogs is kept by a Canadian expat, the
other by his wife. Judging by their writing, the
husband is a bit formal, though not stuffy, and the wife ...
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Amy in a Crazy Hong Kong.
* Recommended
This blogger, like Sham-Shui-Po Boy, is writing her
blog in their second language. Amy may think Hong Kong
is somewhat "crazy", but she also sees it as a land of
opportunity. She's a financial/business journalist
from the mainland and has been working for ...
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Hong Kong Blog.
* Avoid, not a HK blog
This blog is called HK BLOG but it has nothing about the everyday-life of Hong Kong in it; its name is a misnomer. HK BLOG is all about macro-economics and big-time geo-politics. Sham-Shui-Po Boy has a feeling this blogger enjoys seeing his name and ...
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The Valley.
This is a blog by a happy and content expat who lives
in Happy Valley. Most of the things he writes about
are centered around where he lives, some are about his
short trips to HK's neighbouring cities, Macau and
Shenzhen, and the entries contain ...
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Glutter.
A review by Tuen-Mun Girl and Wong-Chuk-Hang Boy is pending.
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Chinese blood; Irish heart.
* Recommended
This Irish born HK blogger is not afraid to speak his mind and he has a lot of fire in his belly, whether it's on politics or controversial HK public issues. And he has a gift of gab. Perhaps, all that comes from his Irish side. At times, the tone of his writing is ...
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Tom Wood.
It's not hard to figure out this blog is aimed to impress its intended audience. This blogger writes in long winding sentences, in a round about way, never directly to the point. He likes to use big fancy words when plain and simple ones are more ...
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Learning Cantonese.
* Top blog
Never mind about learning Cantonese, this blogger can teach her readers a thing or two about writing(in English). She is eloquent; some entries in her blog read like literature. It took Sham-Shui-Po Boy some time to go through her blog and find out ...
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Gweipo.
* Recommended
This is a blog by a thinking expat lady. She is broad-minded and well-traveled, having lived in nine cities in 14 years. In her blog, she mostly writes about her day-to-day life in HK with her two young children and the wrongs of the world at large ...
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Beneath the Peak.
* Top blog
This blogger has sharp eyes and possibly quick typing hands. Reading his blog is like reading some quick pithy notes taken from a class. The comments on his daily life and international business, social or political issues, big or small, are written with ...
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Simon World.
* Top blog
SIMON is one of the best-known bloggers based in Hong Kong. He has a wife and three kids, not to mention what seems to be a demanding, high-paying investment job. It's amazing he can find free time to churn out so much quality contents in his blog. This Australian blogger writes ...
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Dread... ful.
This blog was sent to Sham-Shui-Po Boy with a short note that had no explanation, he'd presume the blogger would like to see him review her blog here on Hong Kong Blogs Review. Here he shall oblige:
This blogger is a local girl/woman(self-claimed), but ...
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One Photo a Day.
* Top blog
Not many actual words are in this blog, but it speaks volumes through an artful and gorgeous photo everyday. Sham-Shui-Po Boy cannot find words to describe adequately how beautiful these photos are. The starry-eye Sham-Shui-Po Boy says ...
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Flagrant Harbour.
It seems this blog is frequented by a Lan-Kwai-Fong crowd, the bar hoppers and pub dwellers. The entries and responses are full of inside jokes and wisecracks. This beer-party of a blog is inhabited by a bunch of not exactly high-minded and deep ...
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Batgung.
* Recommended
This blog has two co-bloggers. After you read some entries in this blog, you'd come away to feel these two British expat bloggers are some sensible, level-headed and affable people. If you're moving to Hong Kong, especially with your family and kids in tow ...
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Daai Tou Laam.
Daai Tou Laam means "big tummy" in Cantonese. This American expat blogger might be referring to his own middle-age physical appearance. Judging by his outlook and taste in music, he could have been a "flower child" of the 1960s. He has a passion for ...
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Ang Tuk.
* Personal favourite
What more can one ask for in a blog? This Hong Kong blog is about a beautiful princess and it is full of joy and love. Sham-Shui-Po Boy says, read this blog; this blog is one of his personal favourites --- the cutie in the photos is ...
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Sailinghome.
* Recommended
This blog has a certain charm. The blogger, Nick, regularly makes light-hearted comments about the news and interesting articles that appeared on newspapers in England or elsewhere. He writes unmistakably like a Brit and his sense of humour is ...
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EastSouthWestNorth.
* Recommended
While some bloggers(the shock-value type) have too much personality, but essentially say nothing meaningful in their blogs, this blog,
EAST-SOUTH-WEST-NORTH, is the opposite. It has no
personality but delivers illuminating contents. This
is a a bi-lingual ...
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Hong Kong or Bust.
* Top blog
The name of this blog is misleading; it has an identity problem. At one time, the name was catchy and fitting, now it's ill-suited. Its name, HONG KONG OR BUST, has such an American ring to it and suggests that a non-hongkonger is writing this blog; but ...
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Big White Guy.
It is often the case that a white man married to a Hong Kong woman would automatically fancy himself as some sort of expert on Hong Kong. Big White Guy is no exception. He's a self-styled Hong Kong culture expert
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Happy in Hong Kong.
* Recommended
HAPPY IN HONG KONG is a blog by a happy young couple happily living and teaching in HK. As they stated in their blog, they did encounter things that they found difficult to adjust to at the beginning; so far it seems nothing has affected their ...
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Fumier, Nude King, Piece of Mind, See Lai, Shaky Kaiser, et al.
*Hong Kong Blogs Review does NOT provide links to pornographic, distasteful, or racist sites.
Of course not all of the blogs that ended up in the
bottom of the barrel here are exactly the same --- none of
them are completely alike. In some ways, they're quite
different from each other. They're on this list
because they all have enough ...
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More reviews are coming here at Hong Kong Blogs Review.
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Latest comment from Sham-Shui-Po Boy:
June 16, 2008:
I'm taking a sabbatical from reviewing hk blogs for a few months to do some works for the forthcoming election. No, fear not, I'm not a candidate running for office.
Tuen-Mun Girl and Wong-Chuk-Hang Boy will take over my place for the time being; they will write the reviews for a while. However, I'll continue to be responsible for the maintenance of this website and act as your editor for Hong Kong Blogs Review. I, as the guardian of English in this site, will make sure the language is used properly and given its due respect, as if it were our own.
Some things may change in some ways, but I can assure you, it's all for the better.
深水埗仔, the editor
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Nothing is guaranteed except Tuen-Mun Girl and Wong-Chuk-Hang Boy's honest opinions. Submit your blog or any other HK blog for review at:
Hong Kong Blogs Review
tuen-mun-girl@hong-kong-blogs-review.com
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 or those who are unfamiliar with the Big Lychee, Sham Shui Po is a district of Hong Kong. Sham-Shui-Po Boy was practically born and raised on the sidewalk of Hoi Tan Street, a street in the district where his ex-girlfriend still works at her family's business, and the nearby famous Apliu Street was part of his boyhood playground. His god-grandmother in her youth was a vegetable hawker at the Sham Shui Po street market.
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Hong Kong Blogs Review is coded, designed and written by Sham-Shui-Po Boy. He is solely responsible for his foolishness and its contents, excluding the live feeds, outside links and those contributions are obviously not by him. Some Chinese characters in some parts of this website require Chinese Language Encoding for viewing. This site is programmed for Internet Explorer browser to take advantage of the features that other browsers do not have; for best results, it should be viewed with such.
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Hong Kong is Sham-Shui-Po Boy's home where he was born and his forebears were buried and lately have been cremated. He judges his guests on this land not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their individual character, deeds, behavior, and by their words; as he'd like to be judged if he's at their home.
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Right or wrong or somewhere in between, the view expressed here is Sham-Shui-Po Boy's, from his humble perch where he was reared. If you like what you read, please make a generous donation to a HK charity of your choice.
In this magnificent city we live in, there are many people who are less fortunate than we are; some are destitute and infirm, and live not far from us. Sham-Shui-Po Boy says, you'll feel great about yourself if you give generously.
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Contact: ssp@hong-kong-blogs-review.com
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Handsome Boy
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English Spoken Here(Sort Of)
Last week, Hong Kong's main English-language paper ran a story on the declining pass rates of senior high school English exams, which have hit a 12-year low, even if they are still in the region of 75%. It considered this news important enough for a front-page lead.
Whenever evidence has emerged of the declining use of English in Hong Kong since the end of British rule, there have been plenty of people -- wealthy, Anglophone expatriates mostly -- unable to deal with the fact. Around the breakfast tables of Southside homes, on the decks of weekend pleasure cruisers, they will say, condescendingly, that if the Hong Kong Chinese lose the ability to speak English well, Hong Kong will lose its "international competitiveness" and become -- the horror! -- "just another Chinese city". I'm sure the last Romans had similar attitudes, as they watched the ragged hordes swarm through the gates uttering barbarous vernaculars (or, in our case, Cantonese and Mandarin).
Don't misunderstand me. I love the English language, I make my living by writing it. I'm not criticizing it as a language. But any attempt to interpret its declining use in Hong Kong as a sign of cultural, social or economic decay is plainly insulting.
Does anyone say that Tokyo's future is gravely imperiled because few Japanese speak English? Are Bangkok or Seoul living in some sort of irreversible isolation because the locals aren't walking around quoting Byron and Keats?
Hong Kong people are tired of speaking English. To many here, it has simply been the colonizer's language and they greet its declining importance with unrestrained joy. Being a mercantile sort of place, Hong Kong will continue to speak enough English for the purposes of foreign trade, but why should it speak more? And besides, most trade these days is carried out with China.
After 150-odd years of colonial rule, Anglophones are unhappy with the fact that they can no longer use English to address the shop assistant, the electrician, the caddy or whichever menial it is, and expect to be understood in every case. Only they can't decently complain about a thing like that. So instead, they complain about Hong Kong's declining "international competitiveness", when what they really should be doing is signing up for Chinese classes.
The above is posted by Liam Fitzpatrick, a senior writer of
® magazine(time-blog.com)
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
- George Gordon Byron
Tuen-Mun Girl says, John Keats is next.
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Hong Kong Blogs Review is a stand-alone, non-profit and non-commercial website. This site does not accept any form of advertisements; none is to be found within its web pages.
The operational cost for maintaining this site is minute since the programming and technical works are done in-house by this site's reviewers; they all are university educated, degreed, and certified software engineers. Coding a website from scratch is not what they do for their day jobs -- they normally do some far more strange and challenging things at work with the computer than writing website programs.
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In his own hand, this website is coded with HTML, CSS, PHP and Java Scripts by Sham-Shui-Po Boy
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English Version VII -- PHP Edition IV -- All Rights Reserved -- © Copyright All Contents -- 2007
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