Simone Brunozzi

Mumbai night.
Magic.
I turn my eyes, and for half a second, there’s a lifetime there, a short movie with the essence of life.
And another one.
And another. And on, and on.
And your mind runs, wild. The energy has its own sound, an invisible color, a silent roar.

At the end of October I’ll be in Phuket, Thailand, for a few days of holidays with my better half.
Suggestions, links, etc, on things to do, people that you know, etc, are very welcome!
Thanks!

Angry Birds is an iPhone game, and few days ago the Android version came up… More than one million downloads on the first day only!
If you still think it’s just a game, read this.

Sunday in Singapore. I can finally relax a bit before another long trip, to India this time.
Last week of work has been quite hard, and long… And I wish I had more time to write, describe, take pics and share them with you… It’s a pity our life goes by and we cannot do much about it. Sometimes :)
I started reading “Creating a world without poverty“, by Muhammad Yunus, Nobel prize for peace. Seems interesting.

I love Chile.
Good luck, guys.
Suerte.

Almost true. Read this article, it takes a sad but almost true snapshot of the current situation in Italy for young and brilliant minds. Snippet: the solution is to escape abroad.

The last ten years Fredrik Härén inspired others to be more creative – now he needs your help.
He has been selected as one of five finalists to the Swedish Knowledge Prize.

If you think that his work of inspiring creativity is worth awarding then it’s time to vote for him!

It is fast and easy:
1) Go to www.kunskapspriset.se
2) Click RÖSTA/Vote under Fredrik Härén
3) Click NÄSTA/Next
4) Enter your email address the click NÄSTA/Next
5) Select your gender and age group then click NÄSTA/Next then you’re done!

In case he wins, the entire amount of €25,000 will go to his charity fund in helping develop a much needed children’s hospital in Coron, Palawan, Philippines.
Remember, Einstein said “Creativity is more important than knowledge – so let´s give a knowledge prize to a ambassador of creativity!

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I moved to Singapore in January 2010. It has been nine months now, and I can finally say that I know Singapore “a bit”.
Today, on “Today” free newspaper, they write an article called “Challenge for Singapore is to grow pool of entrepreneurs: MM Lee“.
Minister Mentor Lee is the founding father of Singapore.
And he’s right. It’s a challenge.
This is what he said during the Russia-Singapore Business Forum yesterday: “We’re largely Chinese and Indians. Both Chinese and Indians, the best go into Government, they don’t go into enterprise.”

I think he’s right, and I also think that this problem is easily fixable: give an INSTANT Visa to any graduate from selected Universities that requests it, or from any US/EU University, or from specific nationalities (EU/US/Iceland/Switzerland/Russia/Australia/New Zealand) to start with.
You might ask them to pay, say, 2,000 SGD (Singapore Dollars), or 5,000 SGD, if you think that too many people are going to apply. Or give it for free to the first 10,000 applicants.

That’s an easy way to increase the non-Indian and non-Chinese population, and bring more entrepreneurship in Singapore.
Otherwise, these people will look somewhere else, and go somewhere else.

Simple things work better.

As an off-topic, I’d also like to mention something else that MM Lee said, answering the question “Are you happy?”: “A person who’s happy all the time, I think won’t make much progress”.
Not true. I’ll explain in a longer post on happiness.

Amazing. I love Asia. Today, Saturday September 18th, I’m attending the BarCamp in Hong Kong, at PolyU (Polytechnic University), in Kowloon.
Superbly organized, tons of interesting people to meet!