Did you think Germany is a highly developed and sophisticated country?

Compared with Singapore we are sort of Cavemen.

For example:
you all know these new gigantic lcd-monitors used for concerts and footballmatches in stadiums?

Imagine there are several of these all over the city showing ads and teasers to the people who are shopping, on their way to work and so on.
I don´t talk about two or three, I´m talking about one every houndred meter (specially on Orchard Road, the high-end shopping and hotel quarter).

You have the up to date cellphone?
Throw it away, people there have the newest...

I mean almost everything there is high tech, even the MRT (Mass Rapid Transport, their Underground) is the most modern all over the world and it´s amazing!

Oh You´re looking for nature?
Something what´s not manmade?

Go to Malaysia or Indonesia...

Even the beaches on Sentosa Island are manmade, Parks are similar to nature and beautifully handshaped.

I don´t say anything negative about all that!
It´s really amazing There and you should go there for a few days to experiece this beautiful city.
It´s about twice as big as Munich but there are living about 4.5 mio people (1.3 mio in Munich), so it´s very crowded.

There you can have cultural shocks several times a day:

Our hotel was quite near the centre, directly next to Orchard Rd with all the super modern Shopping MAlls where you can buy everything, where it´s loud and crowded like in New York.





Take a cab and go to Chinatown, it doesn´t take more than 10 minutes and costs about 2,50 €.
Suddenly there are no more skyscrapers but little houses, tiny roads, small chineese shops, markets and restaurants with tasty and original chineese food which is very tasty. Try the Chilie Crab!













Then take a cab and go to Little India.
3 MRT stations away from Chinatown.

Arrived there you really are in India!
Indian styled and painted houses, indian shops and markets, indian restaurans where more people eat with their fingers than with chopsticks or cutlery. This is easy to learn and when you once tried a fishhead curry, you dont want to eat european food any longer.



Then go to Sentosa ´s beaches, or to the Botanical Garden.







The whole world in one city - fantastic!

Also people over there are very nice!
In my opinion, they are more friendly than german people.

I found some new friends and i wanna visit them again.
I went to a Halloween Party with them in a stylish club and we had much fun.

- Big City Nights -



Thanks Fifi, Nana, also Beng, Dith, and all the others for all the great experiences!

Tanks also to Werner Janda and Renate Heldt who brought me there and to Morocco, Thanks to the great Team, Katinka, Dirk, Bernd and Jan for this great Job.


Hugs to the Guys, kisses to the ladies

Hope to see you all soon

Hi Friends and Family!

Our first Day was hard work but a pleasure!

It´s very humid and hot, as like in Sri Lanka.

Sky is very cloudy because people in Sumatra are burning down the Rain Forest for their plantations.

our first location was outside a museum,



the second was on a small part of ancient Singapore.



People here are destroying all the old buildings to create new skyscrapers made of steel and concrete.



Im my opinion, the old buildings are much more pretty than these tall and modern skyscrapers...

The team is still very good and we have much fun at work!



--> Specially for Johannes Felsch: Team´s greeting back. Rock the buisness!

More next time.

Yours,
Chris

Well friends, it really happened again.

The second time I got trouble with KLM/Airfrance.

You surely remember my adventure how I came to Marrakech...
No, this time it wasn´t that hard, but when I arrived at Munich Arport, my Flight to amsterdam had one hour delay!
So a friendly woman from KLM/Air France told me to go directly to the main bureau.

There I was told, that I have to completely change my flight to Singapore.

They gave me a flight vie Paris Charles de Gaulle, but I had to wait for about two hours for that...

So I took my mom who accompanied me, and had a few - imagine - vodka tonics with her. Just for relaxation! ;-)

Also the friendly man from Air France gave me a Buisness Class Lounge Ticket to wait for my flight (all beveages were totally free!!!).



So I came the second time in two weeks to Paris (well, only to the airport).


Finally i came to Singapore.

The flight was very long, about 12 hours.

It´s an amazing City/State with many skyscrapers, Malls and huge Shops.



The next days I´ll post more foto´s from the city.

The hotel is amazing! Kng size Bed, the courtains open with Radio control, we have DVD-Players in the rooms and a huge bathroom completely in marble. And naturally very expensive internet.

Al right my friends, now I´ts time to go to bed, tomorrow and the next week will be very exhausting and by the way, It´s half past eleven, not half past five here!

Well folks, I´m preparing my next journey.
I searched some info´s on the internet for you:









As you now know, it´s Singapore and I´m really looking forward to this journey.





We will have an excellent hotel to recreate from hard work.








We have to be very careful there because of their strict laws:

Smoking is forbidden almost everywhere,
throwing waste on the street (chewing gums, cigarette filters, paper, ...) will be punished very hard.
Cars may not be older than 10 years,
and so on.


But that´s why Singapore is a very clean state, you will not see any dirt on the streets.

It also is a very modern state with many new public transport systems.



Well, I´ll have a look on all the interesting things to inform you about whats up there.

See you,

Chris

Hi again.

After my strange starting and my exhausting first day we started work.

But first of all you should see the nice park of the hotel:



It was hard work and when you imagine that we had about 35° C, you maybe can understand what it´s all about.

We had to carry around much equipment, the access to most of the locations wasn´t easy. Sometimes we had helping hands but almost we had to carry all the stuff ourselves.







It was a very good experience and we had much fun at work and the team was cool and nice.



























Also the models have been cool, it was a pleasure to work with them.









The locations have been very special, from the Riads (big houses) in the Medina (the ancient part of the city), palace-like hotels, or the Kasbah, a kind of ancient fort of the Berbers, we also took photo´s in the desert (well, nearby the Kasbah, next to the street) or at the beach of a lake.

























Now you have small impressions of Marrakech and our work there.

Next week I´ll be in Singapore, that will be fun and lots of work again. And I´m gonna write a new story for you with all my adventures and experiences.

Hope to see you soon.

Budu Sarani

Hotel Le Méridien

Excellent Hotel with excellent service.

After a short break with thé à la methe I went to the Médina, the ancient city of Marrakech.



It´s quite hard there when you are allone, everyone wants to guide you to some special place – the shop of some friend, where you pay double the price than normal... well still a little cheaper than in good old Germany.

Sightseeing? No way - only shops, for textiles, glass and waterpipes, shoes and so on.









But without someone who knows the Médina, you are lost, it´s really chaotic with all the small streets crossing here and there, one bazar after another.
Funny and exhausting.



Now I´m recreating, tomorrow will be our first day of work.


See you later,
Chris

Hello Friends,

next week I´ll have a job in Marrakech.

I´m very curious about northern Africa, I´m really looking forward to this journey!

These pictures are from the internet, so you will know, what I´m talking about:







I´ll update this story soon...