Simone Brunozzi

A lot of things to do, some cold, sore throat, cough and things like that.
Therefore, I didn’t have time to post.
Hope you’ll forgive me :)

See ya Soon!

This is just for fun, of course, but today I earned my first award… Few people know the real story, of course!

I was expecting Singapore to be efficient, smart, lean. It is.
Yesterday I had my appointment at the Government offices to get my employment pass.
Appointment was at 10:30. I arrived at 10:20. A gentle lady welcomed me, brought me to one of the electronic kiosks, she bar-scanned my documents, the machine printed a number with my name on it; I sat down for a few minutes, and then my name was called. The very nice lady at the counter, Lisa, helped me with my stuff, had me sign just once, and everything was all set at 10:40. Impressive.

My passport-size pictures were not ok, since my glasses were covering part of my eye. I walked 20 meters on the same floor, get into the print office, get my new pictures in about 4 minutes, and came bank.
I exited the building at about 10:50.

I had another appointment at the bank (to setup a bank account), and it was smooth as well. I subscribed a phone contract with SingTel, where they give you 500 minutes, 500 sms, 12 GB of traffic per month, and a new iPhone 3Gs 32 GB, for the monthly price of about 98 S$ (Singapore dollars). Not bad.
Then I had lunch with some italian friends.
Yes, Singapore is efficient.
On sunday I took the subway, stopped at Bugis, bought some vegetables, and visited the japanese barber shop, where they did a perfect haircut for 10 S$, while I was reading SuperFreakonomics on my Kindle :)

Have a nice sunday, dear reader! Catch up with you soon :)

I am in Seattle, packing my things to leave towards… Singapore!
Yes, S’pore will be my new home for the next few years. I’ll be there working for Amazon as a Technology Evangelist for Asia-Pacific (APAC), the same role I had when I was in Europe.
Can’t wait :)

You know that I built the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in Second Life.
Right now, I’m not using it anymore, and I would like to sell it, or to rent it.
If you’re interested, please email me: simone dot brunozzi at gmail dot com.

My pictures from my recent holiday in Cuba. Enjoy :)

At DLD Conference in Munich. First picture here :)

Don’t you love, love, love this?
I did the interviews, and my friend Luca did the footage and the post-processing. Good job Luca!

Tribute to fiftypeopleonequestion in Rome from Luca Sartoni on Vimeo.

Well, I’ve just lived seven incredible months, with a great new job, new travels, new friends and such.
Life is great.

It is also worth noting that when you put a big change in your life, everything seems new and fresh, and you enjoy the simple things again.

I’ve loved visiting so many places in Europe, learning different habits from different people, nations, businesses.

I really hope to be able to transmit these feelings to you, in the future.

Happy (marry) Christmas!

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Example:

RT @italian_projects italians are P: friendly, nice, good-looking, N: badly organized, sometimes arrogant and invadent.

Thanks!