Far Away From Home

好日唔煮飯，一煮就出事。

話說本人咁岩有時間，就不如今晚簡簡單單煮返幾味。去家樂福買咗兩罐午餐肉，就叫我朋友準備下切下野，我就做最難嗰部份 ： 煮！

煮完喇，擺晒啲餸餸菜菜上檯，幾世無睇動畫，好，去片！

點知一咬落去塊午餐肉度，就賴野！依？唔通我又做錯野？唔係喎…罐頭都煮到咁難食，仲要煮到有煤氣味添；我邊有咁叻仔？

我問朋友：「喂，你聞下係咪有啲野？」

朋友聞下先跟住變臉：「我聞到有煤氣喎！」

嘩！啲野食又有野喇。唔知係巧合定係「極少數別有用心份子」既精心傑作？開埋另一罐 － 中國呀中國：

之前牛奶有三鹿，
家陣煤氣午餐肉，
祖國開餐勁中毒，
今次唔死算「負碌」。（「負碌」x 3）

又多多一款喇！咩牌子唔重要，反正都係你扮我我扮你……

咁下次食咩好呢？

In New York ten months ago, there was this freeze mob that started everything. A freeze mob is an activity when a large number of people agree to stop for a few minutes at some predetermined time at a highly trafficked area, and then resume their activities as if nothing happened.

What a city is capable of!

That is why I love living in a modern city. Cities were described as a cold place where we know none of our neighbourhood, when everyone is tasked to mechanize and automate their rigid smiles, and not without the most evil intention. Yet, without over-amplifying the extremities, and at the expense of some properties of a small society, we gain in more elements of a growing metropolis. Go to the old place sometime later, and you discover something that surprisingly blend well into the city. Go to a square and look at that large show you chanced upon, and how interesting things are running so well. Go out and get to know different people, and you might find someone with your interests after your own heart.

There are opportunities too, and if you want to do a freeze mob in Macau, you can! In Hong Kong, you can! In Shanghai, you can! If you want to do a mass dance, you can!

If you find a city too bored, maybe you have missed something out there?

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On 22 Nov 2008, a freeze mob in Shanghai happened while I was in Macau.

On 27 Nov 2008, a freeze mob in Macau happened while I am in Shanghai now.

I missed both of them! Damn! I want to join as well.

This post is for geeks.

Who wants to do it? Code the solution for the infamous Halting Problem for $300 ~ $1000. =)

( For humans : This problem has been proven to have no solution. So, this job is stupid. )

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Project Name
Bug Finder

Budget
$ 300-1000

Description
The purpose of this project is to create a debugger program. This program will take as input the source code another program, and will analyze that other program and determine if it will run to completion, or have an error, or go into an infinite loop.

To state that another way, given a function f and input x, determine if f(x) will halt.

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http://www.getacoder.com/projects/bug_finder_92913.html

You ask : With a day job, how can I travel and experience more?

As a day-job worker, I work in an office in general, and has to work extensively over-time occasionally, how could I sneak out?

It is not easy. My annual leaves are very limited. But since I really love travelling, there are still tricks to employ.

Try your neighborhood first

I have visited a few places over this year, but a few only - Beijing (北京), HangZhou (杭州), JiangXi (江西). Also playing in different places in and near Shanghai (上海), such as Yangcheng Lake (陽澄湖), ZhuJiaJiao(朱家角), and HuangShan(黃山). They are all close to Shanghai in some sense.

A weekend has two days

My trips were mostly done over the weekend, or plus a day more for HuangShan. It is exhausting, but you can also take a splurge.

Be efficient

I am only free in Beijing for a day and a night. But I made it to the SiMaTai (司馬台) section of Great Wall (萬里長城) and TianAnMen (天安門), and of course the food & beverage of WangFuJian (王府井) and HouHai (後海). I even have had theBeijing roast ducks! Yummy! Be efficient, and this goes the same for everything.

Go again

As you have guessed, one day and a night is not enough for Beijing. I didn’t make it into the Forbidden City (故宮) or see the raise of the China flag. Therefore, I will have to go to Beijing again.

Work during Travel

Seriously. We are in the Internet Age. Being based in Shanghai, I am now in Macau at my very own room connecting to my own desktop in office - working. Maybe you can find a job where you can work outside of office. Like Christine Gilbert said, travelling around the world does not mean quitting your job now. Of course, not all jobs work this way, but you can certainly try.

For some of us, we have only a few days to travel over the year. However, maybe the rest of you actually have a choice to sneak out.

折墮呀！唔講咁多喇，自己去睇去對比下！

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最近好忙，基本上都無寫無睇，搞到走晒啲好野！