Lets try this again. I just realised that somebody in the Philippines was reading this part of the blog. We may be able to give him or her and other potential LKY SPP students some 'soft help'.In the past 2 school committee meetings, all members of the school were invited to generate some sort of list, a survival kit list, which comprises any tips, hints and ways to help students and potential students prepare before joining the school. I emailed this to MPM2008 about a month ago but we have not been able to generate any. Let me just start that list, we might be able to go somewhere from here.
For International Night for Foreign Students - before leaving home country
- Consider bringing along to Singapore some national gifts;fabrics, mugs, fans, keychains or what have you, for gifts exchange.
- Take along your national flags to be displayed at that same night.
- Consider to bring ingredients of your home cooked food and prepare to cook, for country stalls.
- Musical instruments & CDs, documentary or tourism clips to be displayed.
- National dress to be worn.
- Most importantly, bring along your singing, dancing & acting talents.
What to Bring to Singapore in General
- If you like your movies on the go, on your ipod etc, rip copies of them from home into your hard drives. iTunes does not have Singapore as a registered country. Apparently it is due to the strict copyright laws.
- Voltage in Singapore is 220-240 V. So if you are from the lower voltage countries and want your items to work, bring along transformers and adapters. The electrical plugs are the three square pins.
- Your medical records and proof of jabs. They will turn useful, trust me.
Driving in Singapore (for foreign students)
- This guy gives reasonable (and negotiable) rates for renting cars, Jeff (+6592762662)
- This website is particularly useful as reference to road regulations, ERP and parking rates, road directory at onemotoring.com.sg.
- Bring along International Driving License if you can.
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