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Marcus Kuhn  //  I'm a 25 year old business student from Switzerland and one of the co-founders of connex.io. I have an interest in both technology and business and try to connect those two worlds.

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Sep 9 / 9:33pm

Slight Rain ;-)

Our ride to University today was abit more adventurous than other times... and the reason for it was that it was raining like hell. I took a short video and a picture to show what its like when there is a thunderstorm here in Singapore...

I couldn't see anything beyond the windshield, I hope the driver could.

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Sep 7 / 7:58am

One day in Singapore - visiting SMU

So, today was a normal day and I decided to take quite a few pictures, especially because I was at SMU today for the first time. First I was great by a warm message in the MRT (Mass Rapid Transport, even though I think the rapid is quite an exaggeration ;-) But it is a very dense and reliable public transport system and that has to count for something).


and reminded that Singapore is a "fine" city, not in the picture is the fine for taking a Durian with you, but it probably is massive.

I then went to NTU to study a bit (yeah, sometimes I have to do that) and I had to do some research for my meeting at SMU at 3 p.m.. I already posted quite a few pictures of NTU and am only going to link to them from here (and also the one to the pictures of the School of Art, Design & Media) :-)
After getting some lunch I had to hurry to catch the bus which would bring me back to the Pioneer North MRT station, I had to go to the city. Even though its only 25km it took me more than an hour and reminded me of my way to High School [German: English, much less extensive version] back in the days. I had to ride that "train" ten times a week from Start to End, Zürich Stadelhofen to Esslingen. But back to my ride through Singapore.

I exited the MRT at City Hall at the hearth of Singapore. The first thing I saw was the Swissôtel the third highest hotel in the world and the tallest in the South of Asia. Its also the place where we celebrated Michel's birthday last Thursday.

I then continued on my path to Singapore's Management University SMU where I met with my debating team to start forming arguments for the debate on the 13th of October. And then I saw an amazing thing even though they don't have mountains here in Singapore (the highest elevation is called Bukit Timah but only 164 m high) they have a tunnel through one of those "hills" :-)

And to make it easier to climb the elevation of around 20 m there even are some escalators. They definitely would be useful to get up to the university of St. Gallen here in Singapore I chuckled a little



And then I arrived at SMU and I have to say the campus is amazing. Where NTU is large and extensive SMU is compact and very, very modern. One really can see that Singapore is heavily into education (one of the its defined pillars of growth) when looking at the SMU campus. Now just have alook at some of the pictures.






I then ended my day with some more commuting :-) The fun thing in the MRT is I can see from end to end no matter where I'm standing ;-)

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Sep 1 / 8:41am

Kuala Lumpur

                                               

So, we went to Kuala Lumpur this weekend and had a lot of fun. Above you can see the pictures I took, not quite a complete picture of our activities but a nice insight into what we did on Sunday and Monday.

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Jul 9 / 5:46pm

Canada

So I've been in Canada for a few days now and I feel somewhat obliged to update you what has happened :-) But I will keep it brief because I don't want to spend too much time writing and you probably don't want to waste too much time reading.

So on Friday last week I arrived in Calgary after a somewhat long journey (Zürich - Düsseldorf (2h layover), Düsseldorf - Vancouver (5h layover) and finally Vancouver - Calgary). Even though the journey was very long I arrived pretty relaxed, thanks to Seatguru I had very good seats on every plane and the sleeping on the flight might have helped a bit as well ;-)

In Calgary I met up with Philippe and Anja and I was allowed into their residence, a trailer. In the following three days we had quite a lot of fun and were mostly busy visiting the Calgary Stampede, the self-proclaimed, greatest outdoor show in the world (say it like Jeremy Clarkson). To get an impression of those three days I would suggest you have a look at the pictures attached. The video shows part of "The Big Show" which is shown at the end of every day at the Stampede and it was fun to watch.

                                         

Since Monday night I have been in Whistler and been Biking here and I have to say it is just fabulous, I'm enjoying myself and since the rain has stopped on Wednesday morning I haven't really stopped smiling. No pictures yet, but I will have some tomorrow or so.

Tomorrow, Friday I will be off to Singapore where I will arrive Sunday afternoon.
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