Published on Tuesday 13th of May, 2008 .
I arrived in Hong Kong safely.
I’ve got blisters on my feet from walking around the city all day, and going up and down way too many steps. I went to the zoological and botanical gardens. Pretty cool.
I haven’t got much time here, so I’m not really bothering to plan it too much. I’d just be frustrated with what I can’t fit in.
People still smoke indoors some places here, which just occurred to me because the guy next to me is.. Cough cough..
The building I’m staying in is very old and shabby. I really like it. The bottom few floors smell like burnt and/or boiled cabbage. I’m on the 17th though so it’s just quite and cosy. For the price I’m paying I’m impressed. The location is great.
It’s right next to a train station (underground) and just down the road to all the ferries. I took one to HK central and got lost. It’s mostly lots of shiny bank buildings and stuff.
Tsim sha tsui is far dirtier, so lots of bars and shops. It’s weird it’s seems to be the thing to do here to go shopping for trendy clothes late at night. All the clothes shops are full and busy till 10 or so.
No photos yet, gotta get them developed.
Published on Wednesday 7th of May, 2008 .
The K2 theme has been updated to wordpress 2.5. So I’m back to a pretty theme again.
Published on Wednesday 7th of May, 2008 .
Today is my last day at the bank. Hooray!
It’s been an interesting 3 months. I’ve learnt heaps, programming in C#, Java and C++. Wearing a shirt every day and trying to get to work by 9am every day. I think I actually did some useful stuff too.
We ended up running out of time on the most interesting project though. We had one month to implement it, while trying to understand the maths at the same time. I can’t really go into the details, but it had to calculate millions of numbers and hopefully come up with a good result. It ‘converged’ under certain circumstances, but we felt there was a problem with the underlying maths. We couldn’t seem to optimize the solution at all. That’s pretty vague and all, but we did some hard stuff, it didn’t quite work, but it was worth the try anyway. They’ll probably tweak it after I’m gone so that’s good.
Published on Monday 5th of May, 2008 .
I turned the job here down. Instead I’m starting an internship in London.
Published on Saturday 26th of April, 2008 .
I updated to the newest wordpress. There’s a lot to like about it. A huge step forward. The K2 theme isn’t compatible yet, so I’ve switched back to the default theme till it is.
Published on Saturday 26th of April, 2008 .
I’m heading off on a trip soon. I’ve finally bought tickets.
I’m going to Hong Kong, London, Paris and Tokyo. I was going to go to New York as well, but I don’t have enough money. I leave in about 2 weeks. So much to organize.. Eek..
I might even have some things to blog about while on the road.
Oh yeah, in related news. My current internship ends around the same time, they offered me a full time job as a junior programmer. Mostly C++ in a unix enviroment. I’m squeezing this trip in before I start. Yay!
