1848 March 15 in Sinagpore

As always I can start the entry excusing ourselves from writing, but honestly we are very busy nowadays.
Mike with is fairly new job (started 7 Feb), every single night he is spending hours and hours with preparation. The school diligently follows a very strictly planned agenda regarding the teaching materials, but it has gigantic gaps which have to be filled up by the teacher… in this case by Mike.
Myself… I started a new project with the Singaporean Intercontinental hotel chain, I literary moved into their headquarter, which is 5 min walk from our flat (I love it). Out tiny team, 2 consultants and business analyst, is asked to help to re-design the marketing structure of the Asian company starting from Korea till New Zealand. No traveling is required which is a pity! : )
Anyhow that makes us run around all day long, 12h workdays aren’t to unfamiliar for us, unfortunately. On the weekends we try to ignore the computer and just focus on resting.



Kokarda – this symbol was used during the freedom fights and it was the symbol of desired freedom and represented the aim of the local patriots. Consequently we wear this badge on 15th March for one day, at least while you were in school. Nowadays unfortunately a political trend / party I’d say abused this badge as it was given a new meaning. The “silently shouting” sign of a political opinion … a bit sad.


Last night was a breeze, we had our national holiday in Hungary, as a memory of the 1848 freedom fights. This occasion gave a great excuse to the Hungarian Embassy to embrace all the expat Hungarians living in Singapore to gather, spend a great night together, enjoying Hungarian wines (specially imported for the party), finger food and the company of compatriots.
The night was absolutely great, actually a lot better than I expected, obeying to the dress code everybody was really elegant. Mike was shining with his Hungarian as it is still hard to believe for Hungarians that there such human being like Mike who was born to be American but focused his energy to learn this honestly very difficult language!
Me, who is not a big fan of nationalism I felt that last night it was good to be a bit Hungarian again.