Monday, June 5, 2006

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And 1000! Durian

Thousand what?
thousand feet?
thousand leaves? Thousand
openings?
No,
Thousand visits! This number may seem insignificant to some, but the counter on my site (marked by the world map in the menu on the lower right) tells me that the bar was crossed thousand visitors. Canada, England, France, Japan, Singapore, thank you! Okay, back on Earth, thank you the few who follow my regular blog, because you know it's there for you ... Feel free to post a comment, it's always heartwarming.

Here are all hot topics to come to keep you Halen: Religion in Asia, the Singaporean cuisine, Koh Samet: a Thai island, Tioman Island: An Island Malay, and the vision of Singapore and Europe ... by Singapore.
In a week I'll be in Vietnam and Cambodia, two weeks in total for even more stories, photos, videos ...
short, my little blog has not finished delivering all his secrets!


Saturday, June 3, 2006

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Before you make a little review on Singapore cuisine, considered the culinary capital of Asia, let me introduce you to an exotic fruit that stirs more languages by the comments it inspired by chewing his flesh durian:
Durian is a fruit that looks straight out of prehistory with its spiny shell. This is not a very appetizing fruit first. Unfortunately, that includes his skin does not make it more attractive: the durian emits a strong odor, capable of delaying an aircraft . A very acrid odor that smells very far. The "game" for a time between the different apartments of students was a durian hide in a corner until the victim realizes it, which does not take much time!
Durian is eaten throughout Southeast Asia. It can be found in all the markets of Singapore, but it is forbidden to carry in the MRT subway to not annoy local citizens:

For even packaged in cellophane and with two plastic bags, durian expresses its character. The taste, when with him, is close to the onion. The first (And last) time that we tasted, we thought we ran into a bit rotten, so the smell was strong, the flesh soft and taste suspiciously.
But then you tell me, why is there a durian fruit as sold? Why do we even desserts and ice cream (imagine, ice with onion, brrrr!)? Well because behind all its aspects repugnant, durian hides a very subtle taste. Like many other flavors, durian requires prior education of the palate to appreciate it. I'm getting soft in his scent, maybe by the end of my stay I'll finish by Regout in a song!

Monday, May 29, 2006

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Parliamentary elections

Singapore is a democracy. The policy is very authoritarian, of course, but every four years, the people and parties have divergent power to speak. After it's too late, must await the next elections to be held in ... four years. And yes there is a kind of elections in Singapore, the parliamentary elections. Parliament is elected president, as the United States in some ways.

Voting is compulsory, abstention results in cancellation of voter lists. The voter may however be reinstated if his failure is justified or if he pays a fine. This

May 5, 2006, before the election, I was there. We felt a tension in the weeks progress. The opposition parties in the People's Action Party, the Papacy Singapore so to speak, began to organize for political campaigning. Ordinarily prohibited on the public, politicians have done their duty. Some are even too busy to renew facts malls in some neighborhoods, from shaking hands with citizens a little too early in the campaign to taste police.
But if the PAP does everything possible to limit the adverse political actions (even bring lawsuits against them), it is clear that finally leaving the field open for meetings, or more commonly called rally.
My greed pushes me to attend a rally. And as it is quite exceptional to hear the opposition, I am naturally interested in the recent rally. A member of the administration of my university told me to go to one the Worker's Party, one of two opposition parties vying to snatch a tentacle octopus. Jokingly, this person added, looking up "oops, no camera? Haha!" A French student immersed in psychosis advises me to attend, then having a tourist visa. In short, the tension is palpable, democracy seems to have its limits in Singapore and it does not look good to appear against the ruling party since independence.
I took the subway, after a few glasses of apple juice (to accompany the vodka is too expensive) neighbors, and I went to the stage indicated.


The stadium was packed. Applause, cheers and flags sparkled, the stage was vibrating more than during a World Cup match in Singapore unlikely. The speech was mostly Chinese, though some were in English. Arguments, and the symbol of a yellow hammer on a red flag impart color. Without being revolutionary, the party is challenging a lot of Singaporean politics. Singaporeans loosen up, express their frustrations in a city resembling more and more in Big Brother.
On my return in the subway, I was troubled. At the sight of a stadium full of people protesting, we were on the verge of unprecedented change on the island? The polls do not provide.
Indeed, the next evening, after counting the ballots on their side and emptied a few glasses of mine, the results were quite astonishing in their immutability: PAP retained its 82 seats, and the WP and the Singapore Democratic Alliance, which retain their respective single seat. But where four years ago the PAP won seats in more than 75%, he does earn more than 65%. Especially the youth, who also did not cure the political challenges that are emerging. Singapore, a golden prison, where some Europeans that we are bringing back an element of escape by our presence in their eyes.

To go further:
policy by Singaporean wikipedia
Disneyland With The Death PENALITY (well the source!)
Blog on elections, political ideas
Blog on elections, media and links

Thursday, May 25, 2006

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Victory Virtual

A feeling of joy is felt in my apartment: we have finally opened an ADSL line! I will pass on the administrative difficulties as foreign students who made us wait so long ...

short, to celebrate a little video at Brother and Brother, proof that I can now add more content to my blog:

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Friday, May 19, 2006

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Bangkok

Singapore has taken advantage of its strategic position at the center of Southeast Asia. Due to failure of natural resources, it has developed human capital into a hub. Result, it is very easy to visit Singapore from neighboring countries. The cost of travel is ridiculous.
Low-cost airlines and the cost of living we have already set foot in Malaysia and Thailand border.

start chronologically. Our first trip was Thailand Bangkok with the inevitable, then a small island on the south coast paradise is, Koh Samet.

Bangkok

What a shock! It was nice to know that Singapore is one (if not) the most developed cities in the world, an exception in the middle of a still developing Asia, Bangkok is a city that still more chaotic.

Like many cities in developing countries, Bangkok is a city constantly under construction, with skyscrapers under construction supplanting the previous frames. As in China, the old neighborhoods of brick were crushed by these behemoths of concrete and iron. The forest of skyscrapers seems to take up where they want it, defying all logic Urban. Lost in all the jungle to graze lanes where cars, taxis, rickshaws and pedestrians, crashing these huge bars like a miracle. Of course, flying over the city expressways, but they are also congested as the rest. Thailand is developing at great speed, allowing investors with open arms, but Semple does not yet offer the necessary infrastructure for this change of era.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

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It about the feeling I have now, a little fog and completely barren of any writing. Sorry to all those whom I used to give news, hoping that my mood improves soon. There are days like this ...!

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

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Choice courses

I waited a bit before explaining exactly what I'm studying in Singapore. For good reason, that was my choice thus far not definitive. The information between the two business schools had not gone well and we had had before from a limited choice of courses. So after a week of classes I could swap a course and even take an extra, just to enjoy it. These are all third-year course. But I too feel again the same things every time, since my DUT my Bachelor, and my ESC ... If sometimes I discover nothing, it's always good to solidify the foundation!

Accounting Information System - Design & Control
From accounting Anglo-Saxon accounting software ... just a reminder

Published Financial Statements
is the course that I took over. How to read and prepare Balance Sheet and Profit and loss account. A repetition of my year at Portsmouth which is far from hurting me.


Company Law Company Law Singapore and internationally. Very informative!

Capital Markets and Financial Instruments
In pure finance, navigating between portfolio diversification and the cost of an investment. A classic!

International Business

From pure culture generally, Singapore sauce. Interesting.

Personnal Selling and Negotiation Skills
From marketing side sales force. Those who know me know that it's not really my cup of tea. But I think this course will enable me to better myself before any sale.

I'm 23 hours per week, with lecture halls and tutorials. If we add the hypothetical work to do after hours, my week is pretty busy with classes. This does not prevent me from leaving.

The next weekend is a weekend of three days, Friday being a holiday. Destination Tioman, an island paradise in Malaysia. Coming Soon to report!

Friday, May 5, 2006

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The program operates

Some time since I have not updated my blog. Yet many details, images and movies have accumulated and need only be brought online. Simply wifi network of the university is really not very accommodating. The connection is weak, often jumps, and blocks the upload of videos.
We (my roommates and I) we Acharnon yet to open an internet line (after literally battle for the phone line), and now it should no longer be a matter of days.

so I can finally develop many stories the rest of my stay in Tokyo, our trip to Thailand, Singapore parliamentary elections and other little surprises ...

soon!

Sunday, April 23, 2006

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Charm ... Some views of S'pore

I am seduced by Singapore. Someone said the island state as a "Disneyland with the death penalty," which is true more and more. Colonial style houses with these streets sparkling remember exactly the aisles of a major amusement park. In addition there are many places where very nice stroll, and Chinatown or Little India give very strong colors in the park.

In Singapore, or the sun is high or it rains. In both cases it is protected from the sky through streets covered by the reinforcement of buildings or through multiple gateways. So I have not yet had to cover myself with sunscreen. The police very present, it controls the outputs of nightclubs like highways. It seems that some are civilians. The feeling of security is very present and very pleasant. It is even more than Tokyo. Singapore has managed to maintain social peace, despite its cultural diversity. As for the various people who inhabit this island, the Chinese majority, hold the power of the City: The socio-professional categories most important to them. The Malays and Indians are generally worse off. Community spirit is very strong, and there is little (no?) Mixing between different communities. And equality of opportunity, a concept may be purely French, because of the cost of education or the importance of networks, is still not achieved.

Amid all this population is ossified and lost a few Westerners. Probably Australia or New Zealand Tourism, businessmen crossing. Surely few residents. They inhabit the downtown hyper developed and more expensive than the periphery, in and out all spots, bars and worthy of Monaco. Places where wealth stinks more than it attracts with its excesses of debauchery and pride.

Past downtown, these are residential areas which are spaced by greenery. It feels no population pressure. Apart from the start and end of work, no heavy traffic. Architects of the city have made a perfect Sim City! In the periphery, the cost of living is ridiculous. Small shops replace shopping malls. If they look messy for a first approach, the lack of storage and lack of price, you really can find anything at record prices. For even as a stranger to all this environment, traders are helpful and honest. I expected to exist, as in China, a price for tourists and a price for the Chinese. It is not. We know that we must negotiate the electronics in Chinatown, but competition there is such a skillful negotiator West has the same chance that a native.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

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To show you what it is like Singapore, I'll start with a set of lives that have marked me, pell-mell:

It starts with some views of Singapore by day and night:


My business school: Some buildings that emerge above the roofs of a Buddhist temple:
... and more to come!

Monday, April 17, 2006

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Singapura

's it, I finally arrived in Singapore. I'm still in the administrative labyrinth to get my student card, open a bank account, having a mobile phone, internet line ... Even if I did just four months is very comfortable! So while I will not get internet at home, I will have great difficulties to put my blog updated. Yet I know that I still have quite a thing to reveal on Tokyo, and what about Singapore ...
If we send the fare on the jars of Nutella, the cost of living is ridiculous. We eat well for less than $ 5 S (divide by two to get the €), transport links are excellent and reasonable price (this is the first time that I take the subway, air-conditioned!), And what to say Electronics ... Waiting balances ranging up to 70%.
I'd rather not go into too much detail to describe you better Singapore by using photos and video. This is certainly a story of days so we obtain a internet access.

meantime, good luck!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

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Panorama Tokyo

Here are some pictures and videos of Tokyo, to put images on my previous text:


Tokyo saw the port View from the top of a skyscraper, other skyscrapers in the eye ...

A street near Shinjuku Station, among many other

borders the park Hamarikyu


A place among many other


Square facing the subway to Shibuya, legendary!

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

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Toyko

's a week since I arrived in Tokyo, and I leave next Friday. After repeated harassment and pressures more or less acceptable, I present Tokyo: Tokyo

is one of those marvels of humankind. One of these megacities where the constant excitement of the neon night replace the sun of the day. One of these monsters and hungry insomniac, where convinient stores stay open 24/24 and 7 / 7, where the biggest brands and glow spread over entire buildings, and where every neighborhood is a city full . Huge street out of sight, enclosed by skyscrapers decorated with advertisements of small alleys form the scar tissue of the densified to a climax. The teeming humanity there, work, eat, buy, sell, courses, live in the streets. So many people, so many stores covered by an anonymous crowd gave the impression that they have taken up residence.

Its population is a reflection of his city: A nest clean, organized, but exuberant: If adults are treated, and parent walk right costume or suits, asserting their children by drawing on styles as various unusual. If you meet a few women in kimono, it is more common to see real gothic rockers or characters straight out of anime.
Tokyo is in balance, as reflected in its architecture where the Shinto temples adjoin the buildings. Its inhabitants are constructed identity, in search of the limits of your outfit or makeup. Indeed, here is the most special city the world where we do not always speak English when wind Starbucks mochas green tea (too sweet), and where the alleys exude a fragrance of soba for all fast food. Japan is a sponge that soaks everything that the international scene has to offer, but it shows a liquid sweetened its ancestral values.


To learn more about Japan, I suggest you visit the blog of Jean-Louis who lives there since September 2005:
osakasei.blogspot.com
More photos Japan, the site of the last trip that I had done with him, still crafted by Jean-Louis
www.rivendell.dafun.com

Wednesday, April 5, 2006

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Even commercials ...

... but this time Japanese! And yes, there it is I just landed in Tokyo for ten days, short stop before Singapore. Well, I guess that for the first photos of Japan, you do not expect two poor advertising. But in my defense, I was exhausted the first day of the trip and the second he has not stopped raining, and I already knew Rhoppongi Hills, the famous shopping district. Promised for my next post you will receive a video and some photos.
But in the meantime, here:

First real billboard that I see in the Narita Express, I'm at the other end of the world, the place suddenly seems familiar ...

... but seeing this ad from Microsoft that we definitely say we are in another world!

Saturday, April 1, 2006

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Here is the latest advertising campaign SNCF for all who are missing. In the series "happily, we do not propose that the train" I enmène to:

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Return of fairyland audit

That, my internship is now over! The assessment is very positive, each week I had a different mission, the general service group to industrial SMEs through cultural associations ... brief overview of a broad landscape of French companies.
If there's one thing to remember in the world of auditing is that there are two kinds of listeners:
- humans who are attracted by a trade reasons, want to have a lot of diversity and take their work with pleasure. They eventually leave the profession disgusted. Their vision of the student: a nice new guy who deserves to learn as much.
- the bull dogs stressed and stressful from start to end of their mission, which will tell you that are not there to laugh and whose main preoccupation is their salary and their hierarchical position. They are here to win compared to others. Their vision of the Intern: A "troufion (j'enploie this term because it has already reached my ears, albeit ironic) formatted to point accounting for collections they care for the synthesis report.

But I think to understand what an audit firm is the best of approached with a healthy dose of humor. Attention, is the humor of listener reserved Explicit Lyrics!

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

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Aspirations and Repulsion

If I wanted to go and study in Singapore, it's for a multitude of reasons. Some purely personal, not on my person, will not be mentioned in this blog. However, I will dwell here on my motivations from France.

This pamphlet is in response to all the frustrations that have accumulated throughout the past months and exalted in this Tuesday, a day of national strike against a political direction. I will not drown me in a debate aporetic advocating or satire of New Contract hire. But I prefer to focus on the reaction of France.

My internship will end this week. So this is my last mission, and it's going to Marseille. I must admit I am a very happy, very happy that the internship will end up positively, and to release this pressure. But to see the subway and buses stuck in Marseille, to hear these protesters s'acclamer while I am immersed in my accounts, put myself into a rage.

I want to remind us what exactly the right to strike is the right to stop work and withhold his salary to express his disagreement with his employer. It is forbidden to strike for any other reason, including politics, the days of strikes are not reimbursed. Furthermore, saying that students are on strike is a misnomer. They have no employer against whom to rebel. At most, they protest by drying the course. Either. It's a way like another to express his discontent, to find a good reason not to study and be enrolled by student unions politicized, but a majority do not know how to distinguish between CSD and CNE or even worked.

But utilities paralyze the economy of the France, as students block access to colleges and universities to those who dissent, all for political ideas fully refuted or imposed, and that s 'anarchism appealing hardcore. The France, anarchist country, where chaos is established for any attempt to change.

dint give the image of France to a French country Right, we forgot that for these rights exist, it must first comply with homework. In the right to education I see a duty to consider, in the right to equality of opportunity I see the duty to work, the right to unemployment assistance I see the need to seek employment.

If of France is a country in the eyes of French law that gives the image of the France to the rest of the world? Riots in the cities, general strikes, we are the only developed country to face major social crises these current months. In the long term, what will be the repercussions of investment and tourism?

In the current climate, I am ashamed to be French.

Friday, March 17, 2006

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Domestic Policy

The PAP (People's Action Party) dominates parliament and the government without interruption since 1959. It was created in November 1954 by young Chinese graduates returning from Britain. His first priority is the calving of the colonial system, with support from Communist unions. He won his first electoral success in Singapore in 1959 (43 of 51 seats in Legislative Council), and then maintain it until now dominates the Parliament (with all the seats from 1968 to 1984).

embryonic Opposition remains divided and powerless. She has never held more than two seats in Parliament. If its members can speak at meetings, they were in fact no power to amend, and expressions of political opposition is banned outside the precinct. PAP aims to keep the opposition in the margins: ruinous trial against its officers, voting, benefit programs Real conditioned by the allegiance of voters to the PAP, early elections. The media are strictly monitored and self censoring, while unions have been disciplined since the 60s. In the mid-80s, the government responded to slowing growth in some efforts to improve the consultative nature of the regime, but the fact remains that the decision-making power remains in all areas in the hands of the PAP.

Mr Lee Kuan Yew , current Minister of State (Minister Mentor), Prime Minister 1959-1990, was born September 16, 1923 in Singapore of a family affluent Chinese and has been the architect of his country's economic success. After graduating at Cambridge he became a lawyer in 1951 and started in politics in advising unions on the left. He was elected to Parliament in 1955 under the banner of the PAP, which will be the Secretary General until 1992. Taking advantage of the 1959 elections, Mr Lee Kuan Yew became, at age 36, Prime Minister, and will remain unabated until 1990, in a very authoritarian style. Inheriting an island ruined by the Japanese occupation, without natural resources, depending entirely on its neighbors for its supply it will in less than 30 years one of the largest ports, a prosperous city rooted in the heart of international trade. It now occupies third place in government, is dedicated to international issues and travel a lot. Its longevity, its political success, its depth of view, give it a stature well respected "wise man of Asia".

Parliament , unicameral, comprises 93 members. Eighty-three members are elected for 5 years is elected in a round in 9 districts and party list (4-6 seats) in 14 others. Topping the list wins all seats, and each list must contain at least one candidate from the minority (Indian or Malay). The remaining ten seats, called "off-riding", are assigned to one opposition candidate who obtained the highest score, the other nine, for 2 years, eminent personalities from the "civil society".

Prime Minister is the Chief Executive. Mr Goh Chok Tong, in place since 1990, left office in August 2004 to Mr Lee Hsien Long, Deputy Prime Minister and son of Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Access to government functions is very streamlined, and marked by professionalism. Holders occupy first positions of second minister or secretary of state, before accessing the full ministerial duties. The President of the Republic , elected for 6 years since 1993, occupies a purely honorary.

The judiciary, independent in principle, is actually controlled by the executive. Capital punishment (by hanging) is in effect and mandatory for certain crimes, including drug trafficking or illegal possession of weapons. With 340 applications between 1991 and 2000, Singapore has one of the highest rates of executions Official per capita in the world.

source: France diplomacy

Censorship

Although a democracy, Singapore remains an authoritarian country where dissent against the government in place is prohibited. The video available on the following site is a report censored by the government. It traces the actions of an opponent of the PAP, the politician Chee Soon Juan, and the pressures to which it was submitted. He was imprisoned twice for fighting against the regime in place in the city state. The censors declared it "a film of party politics," and was withdrawn in April 2005 Film Festival Singapore International after the director was threatened two years imprisonment if the film was screened. Directed by Martyn See, "Singapore Rebel " was selected in several film festivals for Human Rights. Martyn See is now under police investigation by the Singaporean police for the "making of" Singapore Rebel .

source: Singabloodypore

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Location

I confess I did not know exactly where Singapore was when I knew I was leaving in exchange ...

Evil is now fixed:
the extreme southeast of the Malay Peninsula, the Republic of Singapore is strategically located at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca, which borders Malaysia to the north and south Sumatra. Its area of 682.7 km ² island is divided between a main of about 42 km (east-west) about 23 km (north-south) and sixty islets.
Separated from Malaysia through the Straits of Johor, barely a mile wide, it is connected to the mainland by a dike road and rail, the "Causeway", and a bridge at Tuas. South, the Strait separates Singapore from the Indonesian archipelago Riau.
The highlight of the island, Timah Peak is 165 meters above sea level

The population density is highest in the world (almost 6400/km ²) after Monaco (16200/km ² ). The population numbers about 4.5 million people. As a reminder, France has 60 million inhabitants. Between 1990 and 2000, the total non-resident (foreign nationals living in Singapore for at least a year) almost doubled from 10 to 19% while the share of permanent residents is 7.2%.

The three main languages are Mandarin (35%), English (23%) and Malay (14%). Malay is the national language as a symbolic (used for the national anthem). The ruling party, however, preferred to promote the use of English as the language uniting communities and foreign trade. More recently, instead of Mandarin has been strengthened in education and public display.

If you see this flag, it is not that of an Islamic country but Singapore (when I can I find the explanation).



The climate is equatorial, hot and humid all year with a season of heavy rains November to February. The frequent violent storms show.
The average annual temperature of 24 amounts to 34 °. There is virtually no seasonal variation or difference of temperature between day and night.


source (among others): worldatlas.com

Sunday, March 5, 2006

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Before you go ...

So a quick overview of my current situation:
student in business school, I get to go on academic exchange in Singapore from mid-April to mid-August.
Why Singapore? A little dream, a little luck, a bit of randomness ... I wanted to go in Asia, in a place where the West meets Asia. Hong Kong came under my nose, but Singapore has offered to me after some English tests, notes and an acceptable CV everything clean.
Singapore, an island, one city, one country. A bit like Monaco in Europe.
I start to dream, but it is clear that for now I'm stuck in Marseille for a period of statutory auditors in one of the Big 4 audit.

Before leaving, any good foreigner should know up things about the country in which he moved. I will also develop all aspects of Singapore Exterior throughout my research themes themes.