What Singapore can learn from Europe.

I’ve spent 2 years in Singapore, and go there for business once per quarter.

This city / country is amazing. In 45 years Singaporeans have been able to achieve tremendous development of their economy.

This has een possible thanks to good decisions, strong leadership, and a lot of work.

At the end, even if standard of living can be comparable between Europe and Singapore (living, housing, leisure, schools, …) huge differences exists espcially around politics, arts, inequalities.

These differences are  very difficult to describe without behing caricatural.

A colleague pointed to me  a very good article : What Singapore can learn from Europe by By Tommy Koh.

In this article , Mr Koh describe 4 areas of differences betweeen Europe and Singapore in which Singapore should learn from Europe :

1. Salary equity and minimum wage
2. Higher fertility
3. Embracing nature and sustainable development
4. Heritage, culture and the arts

If you want to know more, just read it, this is a very good article to understand differences between Singapore and Europe society.

 Photo Credit: Eustaquio Santimano via Compfight

My running report : February 2012

After my big failure last december at Singapore half marathon, I’m now training again to run another half-marathon in Annecy on April 15th.

January has been a recovery month, with not so high motivation, and I ran 5 times and 39km.
February was better. I ran 9 times for a total of 74 km.
It’s better compared to last month, but still not enough.

My objective is to run 3 times per week which is at least12 times per month…

I really appreciated running this month.

I did one of my best run ever on the snow. It has been a fantastic experience, alone in the woods, listening to good music.

March will be very important to come in good shape and by ready on april 15 th,.

It should be ok, because high motivation is back, and the weather is really better now with better temperatures.

My best photos : Jump in the swimming pool

I took this photo in Singapore.

I like the movement, the energy.

This post is part of a serie of posts in which I present my best photos. All of them have been taken by me. The quality is not professional of course, but I love them. You can find all the posts here.

My best photos : Bonsai in Singapore

I love bonsai trees.

I took this photo in Singapore’s Chinese Garden.

In this place there’re the best bonsais I’ve ever seen.

This post is part of a serie of posts in which I present my best photos. All of them have been taken by me. The quality is not professional of course, but I love them. You can find all the posts here.