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	<title>Damian Beresford &#187; Singapore</title>
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		<title>Reflections on Singapore..</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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&#8217;s incredibly clean and safe (although a bit odd that chewing gum is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum_ban_in_Singapore" target="_blank">banned</a>, it certainly seems to work!), food is fantastic and a few days of 30 degree heat was a welcome break from our winter weather.</p>
<p>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 &#8216;we are not chinese&#8217; in that regard, &#8211; meow!)</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t get a chance to do much apart from work/eat/drink/etc. Took a stroll down <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard_Road" target="_blank">Orchard Road</a> but was a bit too jet lagged at the time to do much shopping (another national obsession in Sinagpore &#8211; as one of the people we met joked: &#8216;Singapore is the only shopping mall with a seat on the UN!&#8217;). <a href="http://www.fullertonhotel.com/recreation/fitness.html" target="_blank">Infinity pools</a> do rock though &#8211; despite the fact that they are definitely finite! <img src='http://www.damianberesford.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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