4:15pm on tuesday afternoon… running back from the library, where I printed the flight tickets. At 4:20, the taxi would wait for me at Hall 12 Carpark. Then, all the stress of the last few days was gone, we were sitting in the cab, driving to Changi Airport. Read on…

Today, I discussed for a long time with Diana about cultural differences between Singapore and Switzerland… it was really interesting. There are a lot of topics where oppinions are somewhat diametral. One concept we stumbled upon is Power Distance: The acceptance of power and wealth (and their demonstrations) by lower-ranked people. Read on…

Un weekend plein de Singapour? Il semble que Jonas a oublié la grammaire française! Mais non, je veux simplement dire que j’ai découvert plein de choses intéressantes sur la culture Singapourienne. Lis la suite…

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Every computer user knows those fancy progress bars that we face day after day… whether half-transparent with rounded corners on stylish Macs, or minimalistic as the above one, the waiting time they indicate is one big constant of computers. They might get twice as fast every two years, but my Gigahertz-calculater still takes at least as much time to boot than the first PC I worked with, a 20MHz 386 machine running MS-DOS. At least as much.

Während sich die Schweiz am Schnee freut, hat hier in Singapore die Regenzeit begonnen… immer häufiger regnet es in Strömen. Gemäss Wikipedia beträgt die Regenmenge im November über 250 Milimeter, ein Viertel dessen, was es in der Schweiz pro Jahr regnet. Heute war das Timing besonders perfekt…

Parfois, la philosophie se cache derrière des formules… que penses-tu si tu vois, par exemple, le théorème de Wiener–Khinchin?

La densité spectrale de puissance est la transformée de Fourier de la fonction d’autocorrélation.

Thanks for all the feedback I got for my last newsmail and posts here on this blog! Somebody was asking me for a recipe for Nasi Lemak, so here are some hints…

Es sieht fast so aus, als nähme ich es nicht so genau mit meinen Blogversprechen. Nun, in einigen Teilen der Welt ist es immer noch Freitag… aber ich werde mich, weil die Nacht doch schon fortgeschritten ist, kurz fassen.

La distinction entre gratuit est libre n’a jamais été clair pour toi? En anglais, les deux sont traduis par free. Heureusement que le français nous offre plus de nuances. Voici un exemple pour clarifier ce que je veux dire:

A long time ago in a country far, far away from Singapore¹⁾, a young student called Jonas Wagner decided to start a blog. It was a time of travels, discoveries and changes; lots of interesting experiences merited to be covered. As the weeks went by, however, the frequency of posts dropped, the enthusiasm faded and the motivation diminished. Anxious wispers were heard: will this blog die?