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Clubbing in Little India

Most locals and tourists have no idea that there is something like “clubbing in Little India ” ( district of Singapore where most of the Indias live). Why is that? well, it is a completely different world compared to the “main, offical” part of the city. Not quite as safe and clean and “elegant shopping mall style” as the Singapore, that most people know. But, it does not mean, one should not visit this part of the town … as it turned out, it can be A LOT OF FUN — EXOTIC FUN so there is this club, Taal, that we visited yesterday. Matthias, our friend, who is absolutely devoted to discovering the most pure local places that Singapore has to offer, took us there.
It was already after midnight, and there was hardly anybody in the streets (apart from some Indian guys, sleeping peacefully in the streets after an exhausting day…). As we finally reached the club, it seemed to be the only “party” place in the area. Matthias has already mentioned, that Taal is veeeery “local” (meaning: no other german interns partying there ) and, as we found out very soon, he was right.
We were defenitely the only european faces in this bar, that played exotic indian live music, and all other guests (men only with 1 or 2 exceptions), kept staring at us at the beginning. But after a while they seemed to have accepted and even enioyed our presence.

They invited us to join them on the dancefloor and we accepted the invitation. The nice gentleman , who appreared to be the local showman started even playing some European music after a while, which made us feel almost like in old, good Stuttgart club well, maybe not quite, but after all, that was not why we decided to go clubbing in Singaporian Little India, did we?

Watch the movie we made on the Nokia 6230 – Bad quality but you will get a feeling of how it was at least Taal Club Dancing – Germans gone wild in little India

Chinese New Year Light-up & Singapore River Hongbao

Chinese New Year Light-up Our trip at Chinese New Years Eve started with a taxi ride to little Chinatown. We arrived at the entrance to Chinatown and it was so crowded we couldn’t believe our eyes. More than you have ever seen on any jumble sale in Germany … For the Chinese the new year will be the year of the Dog and Chinatown was transformed into a colourful playground which showcases all the animals

in the Chinese zodiac signs, and especially signs of the the Dog. The funniest thing I’ve seen on the huge market was the waxed ducks, I took some pictures of them, just check out the pictures section.Singapore River Hongbao The second stop that night was in front of the Esplanades (cultural centre) where there was a big firework at midnight. We were standing with hundreds of chinese waiting for the firework and drinking our warm 7-11 beer, which actually was better than buying a beer at one of the stalls there for 10S$. The firework was really good, check out the pictures!

Arrival at Changi Airport, Singapore

Finally it’s done! I arrived at Changi airport yesterday (Thursday 26.Jan) at 6 o’clock local time. Everything was going very smooth, just the 26 hours journey was really exhausting. On my way from Frankfurt to Singapore I had my first stop-over in Dubai. Really exciting if you have never been to the middle east.

From Dubai to Singapore there was another stop in Colombo, Sri Lanka. As far as I could see from the plane, Sri Lanka will definitely be worth a vacation.

The arrival at Changi Airport in Singapore is well organized. I had to fill out the tourist-visa form (I will get my working permit as soon as I start working after chinese new year) and just hand it over with my passport. The very friendly guy asked if I intend to work in singapore and let me through. From there I walked straight to the luggage line and lucky as is was, I saw my luggage. So it took just 10 minutes to leave the airport, where Agnieszka was already waiting for me.

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Today is the last day of work before the Chinese New Year Holiday starts here. There will be 5 days off…counting the Weekend ofcourse so everybody is really excited … and me especially because today is also the day when Patric is coming !

apart from that…there is more and more sun in Singapore, it looks like we can slowly prepare ourselves for visiting the beach more often it’s amazing..I work on the 29th floor the city looks so much different with some sun…it’s been grey and uninviting the first weeks i have been here.

lets enjoy this beautiful day then !

Still in Germany: Project Team Wins MHP-Award for Meetingpoint software

Our project team (Andreas Wachendorfer, Michael Moser, Patric Bölstler) won the MHP-award this term.It is awarded each term by Mieschke Hofmann und Partner (MHP) for the best finalpresentation and the best softwareproject.

Some information in german about the award:

Vergabe des Preises “Partnerschaft für die Zukunft” durch Mieschke Hofmann und Partner – Gesellschaft für Management- und IT-Beratung mbh

Die Mieschke Hofmann und Partner Gesellschaft für Management- und IT-Beratung mbh vergibt zusammen mit den Studiengängen Wirtschaftsinformatik der Fachhochschule Reutlingen, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, einen Sach- bzw. Geldpreis für die erfolgreiche Durchführung eines studentisches Hoschulprojektes.

Mieschke Hofmann und Partner tritt dabei als Spnsonsor auf und vergibt den Preis am Ende jedes 8. Fachsemesters im Diplomstudiengang (bzw. 3. Fachsemester des Master Aufbaustudiengangs) anlässlich der Abschlussfeier.

Die Höhe des ausgeschriebenen Preises beträgt:

€ 1500.-

und wird an die Studenten des Siegerprojektes zu gleichen Teilen vergeben.

For more information click here.

We are very happy to win this award and would like to thank our Professor Dr. rer. nat. Ammann for his support!