Singapore

In a bit more than a month, the Southeast Asia SharePoint conference is coming back to Singapore. Last year, I wrote about Singapore in general with some useful tips. This year, I’ll also provide some information on where to go and what to do. Note: Also visit the official website by the Singapore Tourism Board. …

MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW November 8 & 9, 2011 Southeast SharePoint Conference www.sharepointconference.asia SINGAPORE Two days. Over 40 sessions from excellent speakers including internationally renowned SharePoint experts All for the Early bird price of $350.00! Why Attend? .     Best Practices from the last 18 months of SharePoint 2010 will be presented .     Get to see …

I will be presenting at the upcoming Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference (26/27 October 2010) here in Singapore. Here are the details of my session: Stories from the field – Experiences with two AsiaPacific-wide SharePoint Deployments A SharePoint implementation with a scope targeting multiple countries comes with several challenges. Various cultural differences and technological barriers have …

The Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference is coming to Singapore in October, and I thought I’d do a short writeup for any visitors that have never been to Singapore before to give them an idea what to expect here, how to get around, etc. Basics Singapore has a tropical climate. That means, all year long the …

I rarely visit Singapore’s busy shopping street, unless I have a reason to. Waiting for my girlfriend before dinner, I decided to sit down and drink something, watching cars on one side and people on the other side passing by, reminding me of how busy, active, lively, and fast-paced Singapore is. Mobile Blogging from here. …

It’s been quite some time since my last postings. In the mean time, I’ve been busy with settling in my new job, planning my project here, and starting with the implementation. In January and early March, I’ve been to Sydney for around 10 days each time. I had a very good time there, the colleagues …

Right now, there’s a book warehouse sale organised by Penguin Books at the Singapore Expo. I was hoping to get some good business books (I didn’t….), but didn’t even think about any IT books (which I got!). They had several very good books on various topics (Cisco related, Adobe related, Microsoft related, some Unix/Linux books, …

One great thing about Christmas time in Germany is the abundance of Christmas choclates and other sweet stuff. It just isn’t the same in Singapore, Germany’s got a huge variety. After I was buying some new pants for myself with my girlfriend, we were briefly walking around in that mall and went inside a Cold …

Living in Singapore now for quite some time, I started to think about things that I found a bit strange and/or confusing at first, as I didn’t know about them, or because they just were totally different from ‘back home in Germany’.  Over time, I got used to them, and I’d even go as far as saying that …

During dinner with friends, shortly after we (mixed group, guys & girls) talked about a woman and her physique (among the words to describe her was "flat-chested"). C: There’s actually also another meaning for ‘boobies’ [[confusion]] L: …like in… ‘booby-trap’? C: no, not as in ‘booby-trap’ J: I’m not going to go to google and …