Hong Kong Designer - Diary

Just a quick message guys! One of the most popular sections on Misohoni.com was the Best Blogs in Asia site, which listed Asian Blogs only and anyone could vote and choose their favourite blog.
Now the site has been revamped and moved to it’s own url: http://www.bestblogs.asia
Please update your bookmarks and feel free to contact me […]

“Sketchplanet.com is a new web service based around sketches. Taking some obvious cues from Flickr (e.g. tags, ability to comment etc) I’ve been developing an online sketching system (Originally from yongfook) where people can draw whatever they like, add titles, comments, tags, save favourites and more.You need to register for all the features (registration is […]

I read the news from the BBC web site daily, so today when I saw an advert for Finnair - I was quite surprised. I thought the BBC was wholly funded by British Taxpayers, so what’s up with adverts?
For those of you who are based in the UK and don’t know what I’m talking about…here’s […]

Spent the weekend in Taipei and it was amazing. Large open spaces, countryside, mountains and seemed less crowdy than in HK. Taipei also felt slightly Japanese, having seen loads of sushi bars and small Japanese style houses - I later learnt that Taiwan was ruled by Japan for over 50 years, so I guess the […]

I suppose I’ve become more aware of hygiene habits since I’ve come back to England. For example in HK you wouldn’t really eat a bag of crisps without washing your hands first. But over here you see people out and about stuffing their face and licking their fingers afterwards - yuk.
I guess another thing is […]

Back in 2003, it was the first time I was called “Gweilo” (A Chinese “racist” term for a white person).  I was trying to get a bargain for a basketball for a knock down price when he said the “Gwelio” word. Doesn’t bother me, got myself a cheap basketball in the end!
I also spent half the day […]

You’ve probably seen the picture flying around the Internet of a guy with parasites in his brain because the Sushi he ate wasn’t cooked properly.
Well, that hasn’t put me off! Nothing wrong with a bit of worm in head, so to celebrate I post a picture of me eating Soft Shell Crab from the famous […]

I was interested to read this BBC Article about hotels catering for the Sex Trade.
I’ve been to Zhuhai a few times and stayed in the hotels over there, and yes it’s true the hotels seem to be setup for sex. For example, in one hotel we stayed at there were stacks of condoms in the […]

I watched a Taiwan “real-life” programmme yesterday which secretly films partners who cheat and ended up shocked by the out-come. I’ve watched this weekly program a few times and although I don’t understand anything they are saying, I get a pretty good idea as to what’s going on (i.e. viewing the on screen punch-ups when […]

Actually this was my first Diary entry back in September 2003, so I thought I’d update it as I’ll be posting more often on the site.
The is my first entry into my Diary/Journal/Blog - what ever it’s called! My name’s Giles, another Brit living in Hong Kong - oh no!
I needed a change from my […]