Now packing the last bits of my stuff. I was really trying to stick to the most essential stuff only, but the suitcase grew up to 17 kilograms... I'll have to scrap something.
There's a couple of things that I'm a little concerned about, but nothing devastating really.
First of all I just hope I have all the documents with me and have successfully filled in all the web-forms. I don't know how am I supposed to get to Singapore without a visa in my hand, but at least I have applied for it and paid the fees, so maybe it's OK.
Before entering Singapore, however, I may have some trouble at Hong kong due to the same reason. I don't have a visa to HK either because I'm just switching to a connecting flight. But it's a different airline and the baggage will not be transferred automatically, so I will have to enter the baggage claim area which might be outside the international zone. Well, at least I have plenty of time to fight it through at the HK airport.
The biggest surprise will be the accommodation at the NTU campus area. I really have no idea at all how brilliant or how horrible is the dormitory. But I do have a pretty strong gut feeling that there won't be air-conditioning in the rooms. And that might a kind of an.. insuperable obstacle. If this is the case, I'll probably have to look for off-campus accommodation, and that is surely significantly more expensive. Or I'll just buy a portable AC.
Besides of those issues, everything else seems to be going fine. I even had time to go the gym this evening.
I exported the NTU area map from Street directory and saved it as a one large PNG file. Then I put the image on my iPhone (with scp, you can't do it through iTunes), so I can browse the map off-line with any PNG viewer such as iFile. It works great.
BTW, it won't work if you convert it to a jpeg and then use iTunes to upload in on the phone. It would be rendered into horribly bad quality.
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