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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.