Oct 11, 2008
Capoeira is the essence of fitness and balance. It's all about a fine harmony of flexibility, strength, control, speed, rhythm, playfulness and community sharing.
Look at these beautiful videos.
One the most aesthetic video I found so far:
Another one in the same fashion:
And an excellent extract of a movie featuring almighty Muay Thai expert Tony Jaa in a fight with almigthy gymnast and Capoeirista Lateef Crowder:
All apologies to the ladies, ...
Aug 23, 2008
Try Anjappar !
Anjappar is a restaurant chain that sells Chettinaad dishes. Chettinaad is a region of southern India very renowned for their local cuisine.
They have a stall at NUS (Prince George Park Residence), it was delicious. I rarely asked to shake the cook's hand but this time I did because great food deserves great appreciation. It was one of those dishes that just make you crazy at every ...
Aug 16, 2008
According to Abraham Maslow, human needs are to be sorted by priority into 5 levels, thus forming a pyramid. First, Maslow's official pyramid, followed by...a version adapted for Singapore :)
And...
Jul 18, 2008
Unbelievable but true, this is indeed a post about...yep: Toilets :)
The city of Paris faces a huge lack in the number of those public facilities. Anyone who has been to Paris knows that and it's one of the very few reasons why I hate Paris at times. Not only there is not enough but they are often barely clean, they charge, and they are closed at night. So ...
Jun 27, 2008
Although buying and reading books may not be listed in the favourite hobbies in Singapore (although shopping for books could be), you may need, at some point of time, to purchase a book.
Forget about Amazon, there is no Amazon Singapore, besides so far I found no Amazon website that accepts to do international shipping to Singapore.
If you're a student, or know people from a university, you may want ...
Jun 13, 2008
There is 3 mobile phone networks in Singapore, by order of popularity :
Singtel
Starhub
M1
They are said to be equivalent, I haven't really been through a serious study of their prices, I was at Starhub and paid on average 36 S$ per month for ton of sms and quite a lot of phone calls.
Networks here haven't yet started selling bulk sms and minutes to subcontractors unlike they did in France ...
Jun 11, 2008
Currently looking forward to start some business activity in Singapore, I was seriously wondering how that is done AS A FOREIGNER of Singapore. Briefly, you either start a "business" (French equivalent: EURL), with one person only, your income is taxed based on Income Tax, or your "company" (French equivalent: SARL), in which at least two people are needed and 1Euro is enough, tax being based on Company Tax.
Most ...
Jun 6, 2008
You may be French, European, American, or "Western", you're coming soon to Singapore, or you're here (already laaah) and you want to settle down and find a place to live in. I have been through this more than once and became an expert house-hunter in Singapore. Because of that, I get quite a number of requests regarding accommodation, which pushes me today to take 15 minutes and write ...
May 12, 2008
The first thing that shocked me a few weeks after my arrival in Singapore is how bureaucratic the whole system is. But to a certain extent that's fine when you come from a country like France.
The real problem is the lack of flexibility, or shall I go further and say creativity.
Typical example: Suppose you need to get something from a certain service. BE SURE that they will ...
Apr 26, 2008
Today I roughly compared the income and company tax in Singapore and in France.
France : Company Tax = 36% / Income Tax = 40% if you earn over 65K Euros / year.
Singapore : Company tax = 22% / Income Tax = 15% up to 60K Euros / year and the max is 20% if you earn more.
Consequence, as an individual entrepreuneur, you keep for yourself:
In France: (1-0.36)*(1-0.4) = ...