Well it was quite an intense week (two 24 hour journeys in 5 days is no joke!) but a nice little adventure. Very impressed with pretty much everything in Singapore. It’s incredibly clean and safe (although a bit odd that chewing gum is banned, it certainly seems to work!), food is fantastic and a few days of 30 degree heat was a welcome break from our winter weather.
Business wise the trip was a big success. Singaporeans seem to be great to do business with: very straight talking and very respectful of NDAs (when you sign an NDA in Singapore you are personally liable and its a criminal offense punished by jail time if you break it) and patents (our hosts told us on two seperate occasions that ‘we are not chinese’ in that regard, – meow!)
Didn’t get a chance to do much apart from work/eat/drink/etc. Took a stroll down Orchard Road but was a bit too jet lagged at the time to do much shopping (another national obsession in Sinagpore – as one of the people we met joked: ‘Singapore is the only shopping mall with a seat on the UN!’). Infinity pools do rock though – despite the fact that they are definitely finite! 