GOING ECONO IN SINGAPORE
Jun. 18th, 2010 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogReporting from Singapore somewhere above Bencoolen Street.
It’s been a long week, made longer by the usual punishing deadlines, eight o’clock wake-up calls and endless PowerPoint presentations about telephones. Staying in a hotel with (1) no World Cup games in the rooms, (2) a beverage cooler instead of a mini-fridge and (3) a hard wood desk chair that screws up my entire pelvic girdle if I sit on it more than half an hour at a time hasn’t helped.
But the Internet is free, and there’s two convenience stores and a really nice soup-noodles restaurant downstairs, so who am I to be critical? Besides, I comfort myself by thinking of all the money the company is saving by putting me up here.
As for the telephones, I haven’t seen a whole lot of interesting tech on the show floor, apart from an odd augmented-reality marketing app for Adidas stores (this one, actually). But I did almost meet the guy who invented Skype.
Anyway, I’m sorry I haven’t been able to bring you much in the way of travelogue entertainment. I haven’t even had a chance to take any decent photos for you. Here’s all I have right now.
It’s crappy, I know, but I’ve been telling myself the blurs give it a kind of kinetic vibrancy.
If you can’t tell, it’s a belly dancing act I spotted my first night here at Albert Mall. The picture doesn’t do it justice – it was pretty cool, especially the part where she brought out the shamadan.
I’ve got some time tomorrow, so hopefully I can make it up to you. There’s several cool temples outside my window right now. You will dig them.
Dancing in the streets,
This is dF
It’s been a long week, made longer by the usual punishing deadlines, eight o’clock wake-up calls and endless PowerPoint presentations about telephones. Staying in a hotel with (1) no World Cup games in the rooms, (2) a beverage cooler instead of a mini-fridge and (3) a hard wood desk chair that screws up my entire pelvic girdle if I sit on it more than half an hour at a time hasn’t helped.
But the Internet is free, and there’s two convenience stores and a really nice soup-noodles restaurant downstairs, so who am I to be critical? Besides, I comfort myself by thinking of all the money the company is saving by putting me up here.
As for the telephones, I haven’t seen a whole lot of interesting tech on the show floor, apart from an odd augmented-reality marketing app for Adidas stores (this one, actually). But I did almost meet the guy who invented Skype.
Anyway, I’m sorry I haven’t been able to bring you much in the way of travelogue entertainment. I haven’t even had a chance to take any decent photos for you. Here’s all I have right now.
It’s crappy, I know, but I’ve been telling myself the blurs give it a kind of kinetic vibrancy.
If you can’t tell, it’s a belly dancing act I spotted my first night here at Albert Mall. The picture doesn’t do it justice – it was pretty cool, especially the part where she brought out the shamadan.
I’ve got some time tomorrow, so hopefully I can make it up to you. There’s several cool temples outside my window right now. You will dig them.
Dancing in the streets,
This is dF
